Interdisciplinary Design

Catalog description

This course is a junior-level interdisciplinary design experience. Students form multidisciplinary teams to create preliminary design concepts that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare. Students also consider global, cultural, social, societal, environmental, ethical, and economic factors in their design. The team members work together to provide leadership within a collaborative and inclusive environment where they establish the goals of the project, plan tasks, and meet project objectives. This course focuses on developing preliminary design tasks and objectives. Students collaborate to create a needs assessment based on a real-world problem that require multiple disciplines to solve. Knowledge and skills learned in previous program-specific coursework will be integrated into this course. Students must effectively communicate their design intentions to stakeholders throughout the semester as well as during the culminating design presentations at the end of the semester. The preliminary design concepts developed in this course may become the catalyst for future capstone design projects.