Major Design Experience MDE ECE 48054806 Unique Opportunity
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Major Design Experience (MDE), ECE 4805/4806 Unique Opportunity This is unique opportunity to develop real-life business and professional skills, be coached/ mentored by seasoned corporate executives, and gain a valuable competitive advantage when interviewing and when you start your career. 2019 Corporate Sponsors: The goal of this class is to provide students a “real-life” industry experience in their senior year. Student teams work with sponsors, who are the customers. With advice from subject matter experts, they complete a meaningful engineering project. This project is managed exactly as if the students were just hired by a company and placed on an engineering team.
Major Design Experience (MDE) Course Objective: Provide students an “industry-like” experience that includes technical, business, and professional skill development
Major Design Experience (MDE) “Model” –Team Based Customer • Provides Project Guidance • Conducts Project Reviews Instructor • Class coordination/logistics • Professional Development • Individual and Team Mentor/Coach • Student Assignment/Grades • Equity • • • Student Team Generates project plan Design/Build/Test Communicate/Report • Subject Matter Expert Provides technical guidance to student team as required for project success Result: Simulates Work Environment in Academic Setting 3
Major Design Experience (MDE) Recent Projects Examples 4
Major Design Experience (MDE) Learning Objectives • Identify and explain the business contract process for engineering project acquisition. • Design a solution to a sizeable hardware, or hardware based software problem. • Implement the design solution and verify the performance against the design constraints. • Develop schedules, budgets, project control methods and documents Organize and write design documents and project reports Organize and make technical presentations that describe a design. • Work electively in a team environment on a real-world project, interfacing with external stakeholders. 5
