Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identifies problem and constraints including health and safety risks, applicable standards, economic, environmental, cultural and societal considerations.
2. Identifies key technical or scientific problems critical to achieving the design.
3. Develops detailed specifications and metrics incorporating performance requirements, constraints, assumptions, and other stated and unstated factors from all stakeholders relevant to the specific application.
4. Creates processes for solving these problems including the selection and application of suitable models and an assessment of the validity of results.
5. Uses an appropriate process to apply knowledge, ingenuity and judgement for creating and assessing design options to select an optimal design. The outcome is a feasible design.
6. Selects appropriate resources, techniques, tools and processes to realize the design.
7. Critically evaluates trade-offs among goals, criteria, functional requirements, constraints, etc.,with logical well reasoned and defensible arguments (may include tools such as; Pros/Cons, WEM, QFD, etc.).
8. Demonstrates capacity for initiative and technical or team leadership while respecting others' roles.
9. Writes and revises documents using appropriate discipline-specific conventions and vocabulary.
10. Uses graphics to explain, interpret, and assess information.
11. Write supported statements and conclusions using precise and concise language.
12. Uses appropriate referencing to cite previous work.
13. Customizing to the Audience, Telling the story, Displaying key information, Delivering the presentation.
14. Demonstrates punctuality, responsibility and appropriate communication etiquette.
15. Clearly defines all important design milestones appropriate to the project.
16. Clearly defines and articulates a feasible work plan including estimated hours of work and identifies reporting deliverables appropriate to the project.
17. Demonstrates an understanding of intellectual property, copyright, and fair use of copyrighted materials and research data.
18. Gather appropriate information, categorize it, and determine the economic attractiveness of an engineering project using the appropriate tools, such as; Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, Net Present Cost.
19. Provides a well-reasoned estimation of the benefits and costs of the project.
20. Identifies and critically evaluates relevant information regardless of format using self- determined criteria based on experience, inquiry, and the identified literature.