Companies provide this proof with procedures. In addition to proof of a quality system, procedures are used for training, standardizing a job, record keeping, and continuously improving a process. This course teaches students how to write and manage effective procedures. The course focuses on developing the technical and workplace tools an engineer will use to write the procedure. Highlights of the course include a field trip and guest speakers from industry.
Work is under joint supervision of faculty and industrial mentors.
Written report required. Admission is by exception registration only through the associate dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Students must have been accepted by an industrial organization and a faculty mentor prior to registration. Open to pre-senior year students in any of the engineering majors. Courses designated SYS are jointly offered by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering.