ENGR 183EWEngineering and Society
Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course 181EW, 182EW, 185EW, or 188EW. Limited to sophomore/junior/senior engineering students. Professional and ethical considerations in practice of engineering. Impact of technology on society and on development of moral and ethical values. Contemporary environmental, biological, legal, and other issues created by new technologies. Emphasis on research and writing within engineering environments. Writing and revision of about 20 pages total, including two individual technical essays and one team-written research report. Readings address technical issues and writing form. Satisfies engineering writing requirement.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: English Composition 3, 3D, 3DS, 3E, or 3SL.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.55 · from text- · "ENGCOMP 3DS" is not in this catalog version
- · "ENGCOMP 3SL" is not in this catalog version
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "English Composition 3, 3D, 3DS, 3E, or 3SL" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ENGR 183EW
- ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
- ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing
- ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Students
- ENGCOMP 3DEnglish Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
- ENGCOMP 3EEnglish Composition, Rhetoric, and Language For Engineers
3 direct requisites. Showing 10 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ENGR 183EW
- COM SCI 130Software Engineering
- COM SCI 263ALanguage and Thought
- COM SCI 265AMachine Learning
- COM SCI 263CAnimats-Based Modeling
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 4 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.