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 Boes | 2023 | 7.2% | 39.5% | 39.3% | 14.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.45 | 2 |
| Ry Long | 2021 | 26.4% | 50.2% | 18.1% | 4.8% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 2.97 | 9 |
| Richard L Clark | 2024 | 28.6% | 43.6% | 24.9% | 2.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 2.95 | 17 |
| Jie Chen | 2024 | 7.1% | 45.3% | 38.2% | 7.1% | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2.51 | 1 |
| Jan Helge Bohn | 2024 | 12.3% | 35.4% | 35.8% | 12.2% | 1.8% | 2.5% | 2.42 | 19 |
| Dewey D Spangler | 2024 | 22.3% | 40.3% | 31.4% | 6.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.76 | 1 |
| Prasenjit Ghorai | 2023 | 10.8% | 44.9% | 30.8% | 8.7% | 2.8% | 1.9% | 2.55 | 4 |
| Shivakumar Ranganathan | 2020 | 14.5% | 63.6% | 20.0% | 1.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.89 | 2 |