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ME-4015: Engineering Design and Project

Description: Team oriented, open-ended, multi-disciplinary design projects focused on industrially relevant problems. A specific, complex engineering design problem taken from problem definition to product realization and testing. Emphasis on documenting and reporting technical work. Making informed judgments which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. 4015: Problem identification, including consideration of public health and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors and constraints; idea generation and concept selection; application of design, test, and analysis tools developed in previous courses; ethical and professional responsibilities; verification and validation; communication and working in teams. 4016: Project management; working on teams, analysis and optimization, fabrication and testing, and communicating technical ideas. 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

Prerequisites: ME-3024 and ME-3034 and ME-3414 and ME-3534 and ME-3524 and ME-4005 and ME-3624 and (ME-3304 or MSE-2034)

Required By: ME-4016, ME-4454

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 167

Average GPA: 3.68 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 64.20%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Douglas J Nelson201155.2%40.4%3.0%0.6%0.8%0.0%3.467
Charles F Reinholtz200571.6%26.2%2.2%0.0%0.1%0.0%3.635
Shashank Priya201177.8%22.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.758
Kevin B Kochersberger201655.8%42.3%1.0%0.4%0.5%0.1%3.4914
Robin S Ott202272.8%25.8%1.3%0.0%0.1%0.0%3.666
Richard L Clark202383.8%14.0%1.9%0.3%0.0%0.0%3.781
Mary E Kasarda200680.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.681
Martin E Johnson200927.8%69.5%2.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.296
Kenneth S Ball2009100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.993
Alfred L Wicks2010100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.923
Eugene F Brown2010100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Pavlos P Vlachos201039.3%58.7%2.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.355
Harry H Robertshaw200583.3%16.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.831
Dennis W Hong201174.3%25.1%0.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.7121
Mark A Pierson201190.0%10.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.865
Foster A Agblevor200985.7%14.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.772
Jan Helge Bohn201126.0%56.7%17.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.146
Gordon Kirk201184.0%16.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.796
Christopher R Fuller201150.0%47.5%2.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.464
Stefan M Duma201094.5%5.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.854
Hampton C Gabler2007100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.002
Alexander Leonessa2011100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.975
Spakovsky Michael R Von200968.8%26.5%0.0%0.0%4.8%0.0%3.493
Saied Taheri201186.7%12.2%1.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.855
Christopher B Williams201195.0%5.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.882
Alan A Kornhauser201184.7%15.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.804
Michael J Roan2009100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.931
Walter F O'brien201174.9%23.7%0.0%1.4%0.0%0.0%3.696
Srinath Ekkad200889.5%7.9%2.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.712
Uri Vandsburger200974.0%26.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.645
Janis P Terpenny2007100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.911
Daniel J Inman2007100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.971
Javid Bayandor201185.2%14.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.833
Robert L West201177.9%22.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.754
Mehdi Ahmadian200798.4%1.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.943
Richard M Goff201186.5%12.3%1.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.837
Olga Pierrakos200669.6%30.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.641
Donald J Leo200585.7%14.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.811
Craig A Woolsey200566.7%22.2%11.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.591
Elaine P Scott200561.5%38.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.681

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