Rensselaer has offered a novel elective course, the Science of Information Technology (ScIT), for the past four Spring semesters.  Students from all disciplines have completed the course, with the vast majority of them demonstrating both enjoyment and learning.  ScIT covers a wide range of physics topics, blending traditionally-covered topics like capacitance with topics like quantum-mechanical tunneling that are often omitted from traditional physics courses.  The course is structured around four facets of how Information Systems work:  Information Transfer, Information Storage, Information Processing, and Future Information Technologies.  We have received support from the NSF to convert our course materials into a form useful by other institutions, with plans to have the Information Transfer module available by the time of the conference.  This talk will demonstrate the available materials and provide results of both formative and summative evaluations of student learning and attitude.
 
 

RPI work supported in part by NSF CCLI Program under grant DUE-0089399