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ME-4016: 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-4015

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 179

Average GPA: 3.70 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 65.98%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Richard M Goff201286.1%11.5%2.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.808
Charles F Reinholtz200669.5%22.9%7.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.608
Shashank Priya201282.3%13.8%3.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.728
Robin S Ott202373.0%24.9%1.9%0.1%0.1%0.0%3.668
Kevin B Kochersberger201561.9%36.5%1.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.589
Staff Sole202485.7%12.6%0.6%0.6%0.3%0.0%3.811
Spakovsky Michael R Von201073.8%22.6%3.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.704
Uri Vandsburger201057.5%41.0%1.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.607
Dennis W Hong201274.6%24.6%0.0%0.8%0.0%0.0%3.7122
Harry H Robertshaw200660.0%40.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.541
Hampton C Gabler200871.5%28.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.782
Mary E Kasarda2007100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Jan Helge Bohn201235.9%57.6%6.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.306
Alfred L Wicks2011100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.963
Saied Taheri201285.8%14.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.815
Eugene F Brown2011100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Robert H Sturges200583.3%0.0%16.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.671
Martin E Johnson201050.4%45.3%4.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.415
Pavlos P Vlachos201150.9%35.7%7.8%5.6%0.0%0.0%3.376
Mark A Pierson201294.7%3.3%0.0%2.0%0.0%0.0%3.885
Kenneth S Ball2009100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.992
Christopher R Fuller201263.6%34.2%2.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.544
Donald J Leo200671.4%28.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.671
Foster A Agblevor201092.8%7.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.912
Christopher B Williams201280.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.712
Javid Bayandor2012100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.003
Alan A Kornhauser201285.0%15.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.864
Mehdi Ahmadian200892.5%7.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.934
Alexander Leonessa201294.1%5.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.835
Michael J Roan2010100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Srinath Ekkad200994.8%0.0%0.0%5.3%0.0%0.0%3.822
Staff Thole2005100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.971
Gordon Kirk201296.3%3.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.916
Daniel J Inman200863.6%36.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.611
Elaine P Scott200675.0%20.9%0.0%0.0%4.2%0.0%3.652
Walter F O'brien201277.6%17.3%5.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.706
Robert L West201294.1%4.4%1.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.884
Stefan M Duma201191.7%8.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.904
Samantha C Prins200582.6%17.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.801
Michael W Ellis200557.1%42.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.531
Andrew J Kurdila2011100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Craig A Woolsey2006100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Janis P Terpenny2008100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.851
Douglas J Nelson201249.6%41.1%7.8%1.6%0.0%0.0%3.358
Olga Pierrakos200782.6%17.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.701

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