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ENGE-4736: Interdisciplinary Design Capstone

Description: Team-oriented, open-ended, interdisciplinary design projects focused on industrially relevant problems. A specific, complex engineering design problem taken from problem definition to product implementation and validation. 4735: Focus on problem identification, development of customer needs, project management, solution validation and selection, solution design, engineering teamwork, documentation and communication. 4736: Focus on design implementation, design validation, ethical and societal impacts of engineering design, communication and teamwork. Students majoring in Material Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering must meet prerequisite and corequisite requirements for their respective in-major capstone courses.

Pathways: 1A Discourse Advanced, 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENGE-4735

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: (MSE-4055 for MSE majors) or (ISE-4404 for ISE majors.)

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 2

Average GPA: 3.87 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 79.29%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.61%

Marie C Paretti202496.4%2.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%1.2%3.941
David T Gray202386.7%7.8%5.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.801

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