ME 462: Capstone Design (4 cr.)
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Outcomes: After completion of the course, the students are expected to be able to:

  1. Understand and describe the design process. [g]

  2. Identify design tasks and their objectives. [e]

  3. Establish a project schedule and work plan, and aware of project management techniques. [c1, g, d]

  4. Develop design specifications by completion of a house of quality. [c1, f]

  5. Generate design ideas based on functional decomposition. [c1]

  6. Evaluate the ideas based on customer requirements. [e, k3]

  7. Creatively generate product designs. [a, c1]

  8. The completeness of the design including the consideration on cost, safety, environmental, and societal impacts. [h]

  9. Validate the final design through simulation and/or building a working prototype or model. [b]

  10. Give technical presentations in the forms of weekly progress report, project proposal, final design report, and oral presentation. [g]

  11. Document the design activities and outcomes through product development file, drawings, meeting minutes, and personal design notebook. [g, i]

  12. Work as team player and demonstrate his/her participation through a personal design notebook. [d]

  13. Work effectively in a multidisciplinary project team [d]

  14. Aware of life long learning and ethical aspects from seminar speakers given during the design course [i]

Note: The letters within the brackets indicate the general program outcomes of mechanical engineering. See: ME Program Outcomes.