ENGR 0717 - FOUNDATIONS OF ENGINEERING DESIGN: EXPLORING INNOVATIONS ACROSS DISCIPLINES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This is an honors introductory course that offers an interdisciplinary exploration of engineering innovations, design, technology, and scientific phenomena. In the initial part of the course students will engage in hands-on workshops that require them to think critically about engineering designs and describe their mechanisms using science and engineering principles. They will also learn how to investigate, identify, frame, and validate both design problems and value propositions by communicating with multiple audiences and using entrepreneurship frameworks that screen for scalable innovations. In the latter part of the course, teams of students will develop the foundational skills and creativity necessary for engineering problem-solving by collaborating to tackle real-world challenges using design thinking, iterative prototyping, and the engineering design process. Students will appreciate the significance of their design decisions as they simultaneously consider multiple design factors (cost, quality, safety, societal impact and sustainability etc.) and weigh their tradeoffs. With an emphasis on personal and professional development, students will be given multiple opportunities throughout the course to apply principles from Happiness and Human Flourishing to design purpose-driven lives that help them to become more emotionally intelligent, intrinsically motivated, service-oriented, mature and dependable people. By the end of the course, students will have developed a robust understanding of engineering design, innovation, and themselves.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0711; CREQ: ENGR 0082

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