MSEI 512 - Product Engineering

Unit(s): 2

Product Engineering is aimed at giving non-technical business students the ability to understand how engineers think, approach and solve problems, and ultimately, view the world around them. With these skills in hand, students will be able to better collaborate with, manage, and lead engineers throughout their careers.

To deliver on these learning objectives, this course is divided into three interrelated modules:

Module 1 will develop student’s “mental flexibility”-or the ability to understand their own worldviews, compare and contrast it with others, and switch between various worldviews in real time.

Module 2 will introduce students to engineering disciplines such as aerodynamics and electronics. Students will learn a few basic principles and equations in each field, which will then be applied through engineering problems to develop understanding.

Module 3 will give students experience working on an actual engineering project, in which they will be grouped into teams and responsible for designing and building their own remote-controlled airplanes. They will draw upon their technical knowledge from Module 2 to determine their own specs, weigh the tradeoffs between different designs, and implement their design in a final-flying-outcome. The course will culminate in a final exam that will be a flight competition amongst all the teams that are taking this course during the semester.

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