ENG 491

Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

The course objective is to provide a disciplined, multi-department project design experience. Teams work on projects with team objectives that have an overall (or major phase) completion date at the end of the semester. Students participate in engineering activities with individual as well as team responsibilities. The projects involve project specification through a proposal, analyses of cost and other tradeoffs among alternative designs, design review, fabrication and assembly, functional and environmental testing, and demonstrations (as applicable). Presentations are made and reports are given at the end of each semester. Lecture-lab format.

Prerequisite: Senior standing; 1 to 4 undergraduate hours. May be repeated once.