Only a small part is the stuff you learn in a classroom. The purpose of the Design Clinic is to give you some experience in team-work, mentor you through the systems analysis process, and help you make something useful and real. The Professor in charge is Stan Weiss, although other faculty may be involved. Industrial sponsors provide real-world problems for you to solve as part of a team.
Sponsors expect concrete help rather than theoretical analysis.
Requirements and specifications in terms of performance, constraints, customer priorities, cost, and quality. Critique of cases. Failure modes, reliability analysis, cost analysis, project scheduling. Lectures in the second quarter are adapted to issues that arise in the course of project performance. Often they use case study format, with the cases being the real projects being performed.