Exploring sea, space, & earth: fundamentals of engineering design

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

Exploration provides an exciting theme for student immersion and investigation of the sea, space and earth. This introduction to engineering subject uses a combination of project based active and experiential learning, with the explicit goals of fostering passion, excitement and creativity. The class will introduce core engineering themes, principles, and modes of thinking. Topics include: historical reflection, societal impact, fundamental principles, system uncertainties, teamwork, ethics, communications, engineering abstractions, constraints and boundaries. Rather than classic problem sets and exams, student teams complete space/earth/ocean exploration-based hands-on design project with weekly milestones. Specialized learning modules enable teams to focus on knowledge required to complete their projects, such as machine elements, electronics, software, acoustics, aero/hydrostatics, aero/hydrodynamics, structures, design process, visualization and communication. This is a CI course that will satisfy the pace requirement: Students must pass one CI by the end of the first year, and two CI subjects by the end of the second year.

Total

Total

After completing 2.00AJ/16.00AJ, students will be able to:

After completing 2.00AJ/16.00AJ, students will be able to:

4.1 Written research paper
4.2 Oral presentation, format, and content
4.3 Multiple design concepts (PDR)
4.4 Final design concept (CDR)
4.5 Drawings (PDR-schematics and multiview, CDR-scale drawings)
4.6 Calculate engineering parameters (mass, structures, duration, propulsion, electronics)
4.7 Prepare a term-long schedule and management plan
4.8 Specify any other additional needs

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