ENGR 231. Engineering Design I: Product Design and Development

Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 012265 Grading Basis GRD

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. Prerequisite(s): MATH 235 and a minimum grade of “C-” in ENGR 112 . Engineering majors only. Corequisite(s): PHYS 240 .