Course Description:

In this multidisciplinary section, students learn how engineers combine a passion to improve people’s quality of life with the skills needed to do so effectively.  This course centers the engineering design process – the “heart” of engineering – in a manner that assumes no specialized knowledge and is largely applicable to most engineering disciplines.  Key aspects of the course include:

• • The major stages of the engineering design process (from problem definition, through ideation, prototyping and evaluation)

  • Additional considerations increasingly critical to engineering (sustainability, accessibility, intellectual property)

  • Relevant principles and skills for written and oral communication

Term Project: 

Developing a first-generation prototype, applying class concepts to experience the nuances of real situations and cultivate the judgment for open-ended tasks

Labs:

Virtual modeling (CAD) and engineering simulation (CAE) activities