DESCRIPTION
Engineering Design
Intended Audience
Grades 11-12 (Foundations of Technology highly recommended,
as well as Algebra II, Physics and one advanced technology
education course)
Course Overview
Engineering Design will offer students the opportunity to
understand and apply knowledge and skills required to create
and transform ideas and concepts into a product that satisfies
specific customer requirements. Students will experience design
engineering in the creation, synthesis, iteration, and presentation
of design solutions. Students will coordinate and interact
in authentic ways to produce the form, fit, and function documentation
with appropriate models to completely define a product. This
course will maintain a focus on how engineers apply their
creativity, resourcefulness, mathematical, scientific, and
technical knowledge and skills in the creation or refinement
of technological products/systems. A key approach will be
the employment of a sophisticated, sequential, and iterative
design and development process to solve authentic engineering
tasks/problems.
Students will be challenged to participate as members of engineering
teams within a typical business organization. Independent
and group work will be reflective of authentic engineering
projects found in the designed world. Student performance
within this structure will be assessed in numerous and diverse
ways. It is important to note that measurement of student
performance will be reflective of actual professional engineering
evaluative processes currently used in this career field.
Both independent and collaborative work will be carefully
analyzed as students perform within an authentic engineering
enterprise environment.
The following major ‘topics’ or ‘chapters’
will be included to organize instruction of appropriate standards
and benchmarks and reflect contemporary engineering industry
practices:
• Principles of Design
• Engineering Resources
• Engineering Design Process
• Project Management
Course Length
36 weeks
Connections
This course is intended for highly focused students who have
indicated an interest in a career in engineering. Students
will require a sound background in algebra or higher in mathematics
and a strong background in basic physics. Students should
have also completed at least two previous courses offered
as part of the Engineering byDesign™ high school Program
of Study. One of these courses must be ‘Foundations
of Technology.’ It is also recommended that students
understand orthographic theory and basic schematic preparation
using CADD techniques/software. This knowledge and skill is
the key communication tool in all engineering fields. This
is a capstone course offering students the opportunity to
fully understand how engineers and technologists accomplish
their work.
This course is part of the Engineering byDesign™ Standards-based
Program, and represents a capstone course. The ‘Foundations
of Technology’ course should be completed successfully
before students participate in ‘Engineering Design.’
This course would include mostly high school juniors and seniors
who do intend to continue their education in mathematics,
sciences, or engineering at the post-secondary level, especially
a four-five year baccalaureate degree.
