ENGR 4412/4422 - 2007-2008
Senior Engineering Design I & II

What every future engineer needs to know about Engineering Design for the Real World!



INTRODUCTION

WELCOME Welcome to ENGR 4412/4422, or (as I prefer to call it) "Real World Engineering 1 and 2 for Future Engineers". I am not kidding. If I do my job, after these courses you should come away with the feeling that what was done prepared you for as a job as an engineer. 
DESCRIPTION The purpose the Senior Engineering Design course sequence is to immerse senior engineering physics and biomedical engineering students in the design process through work on a team chosen to solve a real problem.  While there will be a few formal lectures, the following topics will be demonstrated through practical example:
  • Design process: Objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation.
  • Design constraints: Safety, economic factors, reliability, aesthetics, ethics and societal impact.

The Senior Design Engineering Design course is NOT a paper exercise.  All problems must have a significant design component, must require knowledge from the students’ disciplines to complete, and usually require actually building or fabricating a device, apparatus, system, process, etc.   The students are allowed to seek help from any and all sources and are encouraged to consider multiple designs before selecting and pursuing an approach. 

MEETING TIME
T 1:00-3:50, Howell Hall 110.
CONTACTING
INSTRUCTOR
My email address is wwilson@ucok.edu.  You can telephone me at my office at 974-5470. My telephone has voice mail, but I am not very good at checking it regularly so it is probably better to contact me by email which I do check regularly

My official office hours: MWF, 2:00-2:50 PM and T, 10:00-10:50 PM in my office (Howell Hall 221H). Other times by mutual arrangement (email or telephone to arrange).

Official hours are as listed above, but I am usually around from 9-4 each day during the week whenever I am not teaching class or at other scheduled meetings. Please feel free to come by any time especially if you want to talk about physics or school. I would ask you, however, to avoid the hour just before I teach a class if at all possible. Take your chances and drop by unannounced or telephone or email to arrange.
Materials and Forms
The official course syllabus is given here.

Projects for the Senior Design course must be approved by an advisor and by the Senior Design Coordinators of the student team members' programs.  The criteria for approval are described in the Project Guidelines document.

The Read Me First document provides an overview of the senior design courses, and general information to orient students to design project procedures.

To start a project each student must complete and have all the appropriate signatures on the Project Initiation form.

The various phase of the project require Project Sponser signatures and approvals on the Project Approval form.

The format and content of both the Design Proposal Report and the the Final Project Report are given in the Report Elements document.

A weekly report is required of all students in the course using the Weekly Report form.

All supplies and equipment purchases for Project must be requested using the Project Purchase Request form. 

An Excel Template for making a Gantt Chart is provided as a starting point:  Excel Gantt Chart Template.

Some general guidelines for posters are given in the Poster Guidelines document.  Some sample poster templates that can be used as a starting point for poster development:  Poster Template #1, Poster Template #2, Poster Template #3, Poster Template #4, Poster Template #5. Poster Template #6.
ADA STATEMENT The University of Central Oklahoma complies with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Students with disabilities who need special accommodations must contact the assistant director of Disability Support Services, Kim Fields, in room 309 of the Nigh University Center, (405) 974-2549. It is the students responsibility to contact the instructor as soon as possible after the DSS has verified the need for accommodations to ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.
STUDENT INFO SHEET The UCO administration is now requiring the following attachment to all course syllabi. It can also be obtained online at

© 2005 Weldon J. Wilson • wwilson@ucok.edu
Last modified: 2005-05-25