MechE Senior Design is a year-long project experience where students utilize the knowledge gained from their previous engineering coursework. Students work in small teams on impactful contemporary projects that can be design or research related. Typical project topic areas are aerospace, manufacturing, energy technologies, design competitions from government or professional societies and projects sponsored by academic or commercial organizations. Senior Design is often used to satisfy the experiential requirement for engineering “concentrations”.
As part of the project experience senior design also covers other aspects of the engineering profession. Topics such as professional ethics of engineering, teamwork, oral and written communication all are important attributes of the professional engineer.
