Engineering Design I: Product Design and Development

Catalog description

This project-based course provides students with an overview of the engineering design process with a focus on product development. Topics include understanding and detailing customer requirements, exploring the engineering solution space, down-selecting conceptual design solutions and developing low-fidelity prototypes. Additional topics include force analysis and equilibrium in the context of an interdisciplinary project experience. This course includes significant team and project-based components and provides opportunities to build interpersonal communication skills that lead to effective problem solving, idea generation, design embodiment and decision making. Students are permitted a maximum of two attempts for this course in consideration for full admission to the Engineering major (excluding final letter grades of W, WP, and WF).