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: 50
Average GPA: 2.71 (B)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 11.26%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.14%
| Richard L Clark | 2024 | 30.2% | 42.4% | 24.5% | 2.2% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 2.97 | 15 |
| Jan Helge Bohn | 2023 | 12.3% | 35.0% | 36.1% | 12.3% | 1.8% | 2.5% | 2.41 | 18 |
| Prasenjit Ghorai | 2023 | 10.8% | 44.9% | 30.8% | 8.7% | 2.8% | 1.9% | 2.55 | 4 |
| Ry Long | 2021 | 26.4% | 50.2% | 18.1% | 4.8% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 2.97 | 9 |
| Shivakumar Ranganathan | 2020 | 14.5% | 63.6% | 20.0% | 1.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.89 | 2 |
| Edward D Boes | 2023 | 7.2% | 39.5% | 39.3% | 14.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.45 | 2 |