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ME-3024: Engineering Design and Economics

Description: Engineering design process; project management; product planning; customer needs, specifications, and Quality Function Deployment (QFD); benchmarking and intellectual property; concept generation, screening, scoring, and selection; design for assembly, product architecture, economic, and ethical considerations; concept testing. Written and oral communications of engineering design; computer aided design. Team-based term project with prototype fabrication of mechanical assembly manipulated by a microcontroller. For Pathways Advanced Discourse credit, must complete combination of ME 3024, ME 3034, and ME 4015-4016.

Pathways: 1A Discourse Advanced, 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 3 credits

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 55

Average GPA: 2.71 (rounds to B-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 10.88%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.12%

Edward D Boes20237.2%39.5%39.3%14.0%0.0%0.0%2.452
Ry Long202126.4%50.2%18.1%4.8%0.4%0.0%2.979
Richard L Clark202428.6%43.6%24.9%2.3%0.3%0.2%2.9517
Jie Chen20247.1%45.3%38.2%7.1%0.0%2.4%2.511
Jan Helge Bohn202412.3%35.4%35.8%12.2%1.8%2.5%2.4219
Dewey D Spangler202422.3%40.3%31.4%6.0%0.0%0.0%2.761
Prasenjit Ghorai202310.8%44.9%30.8%8.7%2.8%1.9%2.554
Shivakumar Ranganathan202014.5%63.6%20.0%1.8%0.0%0.0%2.892

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2020Fall 2020Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Fall 2024Term050% W