MECH458 GRADUATION DESIGN PROJECT
| Course Code: | 3650458 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (0.00 - 6.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Mechanical Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
To construct and design a complex system, process, device or product to meet the desired result by applying modern design methods.
To use modern techniques, technologies and tools needed for engineering practice.
To show awareness of professional and ethical responsibility.
To show awareness of entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainable development and business life practices such as project management, risk management, and change management.
Course Content
This course acquaints students with all the phases of the design process through a term project with a final report and oral presentation.
Course Learning Outcomes
Ability to design a complex system, process, device or product under realistic constraints and conditions, in such a way as to meet the desired result;
Ability to apply modern design methods.
Ability to devise, select, and use modern techniques and tools needed for engineering practice; ability to employ information technologies effectively.
Awareness of professional and ethical responsibility.
Information about business life practices such as project management, risk management, and change management.
Awareness of entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable development.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Ability to establish the relationship between mathematics, basic sciences and engineering sciences with engineering applications | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Ability to find and interpret information | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Ability to follow the literature and technology related to his/her topic of interest | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Recognition of the need to keep oneself up to date in his/her profession | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Possession of written and oral communication skills | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Ability to conduct team work (within the discipline, inter-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary) | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Ability to produce original solutions | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Use of scientific methodology in approaching and producing solutions to engineering problems and needs | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Openness to all that is new | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Ability to conduct experiments | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Ability to do engineering design | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Awareness of engineering ethics, knowledge and adoption of its fundamental elements | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Ability to take societal, environmental and economic considerations into account in professional activities | ✔ | |||
| 14 | Possession of pioneering and leadership characteristics in areas related to the profession | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution