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MS&E 203

Building and Evaluating AI Products

UNITS:3
GRADING:Letter or Credit/No Credit
LEVEL:Graduate
GER:—

A project-based course on building AI products and agents end-to-end. Students build a real product over the quarter, justifying AI fit, navigating latency, quality, and cost trade-offs, and rigorously evaluating their own system. The course moves from an individual mechanics phase into a team build, ending in a Demo Day. Enrolled students complete a self-paced pre-course module covering git basics, AI coding tool fluency (Cursor, Claude Code, or Antigravity), eval framework basics, and API setup. Designed primarily for upper-division undergraduates and master's students, with target majors including MS&E, CS, Symbolic Systems, and EE; open to all Stanford students. Enrollment is capped at MS&E 12 teams of 4 students (MS&E 48 students total).

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1 Term
Seminar 1Open
ID: 27903
0 / 48 enrolled
DAYS:Wednesday
TIME:3:30 PM – 6:20 PM
LOCATION:Hewlett Teaching Center 103
INSTRUCTOR:
Udell, Madeleine
3units

MS&E 203: Building and Evaluating AI Products

3 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit

A project-based course on building AI products and agents end-to-end. Students build a real product over the quarter, justifying AI fit, navigating latency, quality, and cost trade-offs, and rigorously evaluating their own system. The course moves from an individual mechanics phase into a team build, ending in a Demo Day. Enrolled students complete a self-paced pre-course module covering git basics, AI coding tool fluency (Cursor, Claude Code, or Antigravity), eval framework basics, and API setup. Designed primarily for upper-division undergraduates and master's students, with target majors including MS&E, CS, Symbolic Systems, and EE; open to all Stanford students. Enrollment is capped at 12 teams of 4 students (48 students total).

Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.

Autumn 2026 sections

  • Seminar — Wednesday 3:30 PM – 6:20 PM — Hewlett Teaching Center 103 — Udell, Madeleine (Graduate)

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