INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING DESIGN II (IE 202)

PROJECT BASED DESIGN COURSE

Course Description

The IE-202 course allows freshmen students to gain professional hands-on engineering design experience through a well-planned project based active learning course. The students will practice conceptual design, procedures of mock-up tests, detailed design, thorough planning and management, manufacturing, inspection, testing and evaluation. The designed artifact, design report, design logbook and final oral presentation prepared by the students will reflect in the whole course objectives as a 15-week engineering design practice. This will give students a background of practical engineering design before joining their selected engineering programs.

Course Outcomes (CLOs)

By completion of this course, the students should be able, when they face an unstructured (open ended) problem, to:

1.     Define the problem, identify customer needs, and transform the needs into design requirements.

2.     Access information from a variety of sources, and critically evaluate their quality, validity and accuracy.

3.     Plan an effective design strategy with manageable subtasks and timelines.

4.     Develop and compare alternative solutions to select a baseline design.

5.     Consider realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, manufacturability, and sustainability.

6.     Integrate prior knowledge of science and mathematics with engineering principles, heuristics and modeling techniques to formulate unstructured engineering problems.

7.     Effectively use modern engineering tools to carry on design and performance calculations.

8.     Evaluate the baseline design and argue suitable improvements and changes.

9.     Work in a student team to Build, test, and evaluate a working prototype of the designed artifact.

10.   Document the design procedure, communicate design details and express thoughts clearly and concisely, both orally and written.

11.   Demonstrate the ability to achieve objectives using independent, well organized, and regularly reported multidisciplinary team management techniques.