The Mechanical Engineering Program offers between 15-20 client based design projects each year. Students work as a design team with other cadets receiving guidance from a faculty mentor. All projects contain a mix of engineering design and analysis applied toward a practical and relevant problem of current interest. Many projects have an external industrial sponsor. Design teams are required to develop a set of design specifications, conceptualize solutions, and perform a design of the product.
Many projects require a functional prototype be constructed.
One full-semester design project. Compensatory time is provided for design. Shigley, Mechanical Engineering Design , 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978. The goals of this course are to provide students with a relevant and realistic design experience which integrates engineering design methodology with engineering topics covered throughout the program. Secondary, the course seeks to simulate the design environment that a young design engineer experiences.