This is the final design course for the major in environmental engineering. It exposes cadets to the complete design experience including project management, work scheduling, and development of plans and specifications. The course centers on a senior design project that requires the employment of concepts in engineering design to produce a 35% product for an actual customer. Working in teams, cadets examine projects through the feasibility and concept design phases to evolve and develop concepts that are not only technically feasible, but economically, socially, and politically acceptable. The evaluation of alternatives employs trade-off analysis and the use of multi-attribute decision models. The final product includes a formal oral briefing and a written feasibility study. In addition to project management, course lectures cover engineering ethics, engineering economics, and topical coverage of fundamental engineering topics relevant to the problems under study. The course concludes with a field data, collection exercise where cadets develop collection protocols and logistical requirements and then execute the data collection plan and results analysis.
Lessons
40 @ 55 min (0.000 Att/wk)
Labs
12 @ 55 min
Special requirements
Two design problems. STANDING AS A FIRST CLASS CADET REQUIRED FOR ENROLLMENT.
