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. Comprehensive team design projects. Compensatory time is given for design. Shigley, Mechanical Engineering Design , 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978.