ESC491 MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING SYSTEM DESIGN
| Course Code: | 3830491 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 7.0 |
| Department: | Engineering Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Enable students to
- Analyze complex real life problems
- Design and implement appropriate solutions.
Course Content
ESC 491 is an engineering elective course that targets the learning and application of principal concepts of project management, design and modelling of a complex engineering system by a team of multidisciplinary senior engineering students. This course will be the first of a two course sequence where each high-level project description will be defined and offered by a group of lectures from at least to different engineering programs. Project supervision will be co-owned by faculty members from engineering programs, and can also be contributed by faculty members from disciplines outside engineering.
Course Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course, student should be able to:
- Apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering to design a system to meet the requirements specified through a high level project description that has multidisciplinary-interdisciplinary elements related to contemporary issues;
- Apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering to analyze a component or system by identifying, formulating and solving engineering problems;
- Design a complete solution to a real life engineering problem;
- Function effectively within multidisciplinary teams, through successful oral and written communication with the team members and supervisors;
- Apply/improve project and time management skills;
- Understand the ethics and legal issues of research and product design and development;
- Perform critical analysis of requirements with customer oriented thinking;
- Conduct literature review;
- Perform synthesis of a detailed system specification from a provided high level problem definition;
- Practice a modular parallelized approach to complete a system design with integration of theory from a wide range of engineering courses and development of different types of engineering modules;
- Conduct tests for verification-evaluation of system modules and full system design using various approaches including analytical models, high level emulators, and simulations in Computer Aided Design (CAD) environment; and carry out documentation of all engineering design activities.