First-Year Engineering Design is an introductory course that exposes all engineering freshmen (except for Computer Engineering and Computer Science majors) to design processes and decision making in both individual and team projects. Students also get hands-on experience with engineering communication methods, such as graphics, presentation, and reports. To achieve such goals, all EDSGN 100 classes will have at least two major team design projects, one of which will be the same for all classes for competition purposes. This special project is usually sponsored by an engineering company, and one team will be chosen from each class to compete in the final symposium. The winners of the awards are chosen from the company’s engineers. For Spring 2016, the competing project was to redesign one in five products of Lockheed Martin (LM) for higher productivity and additive manufacturing (DP2). Our team was chosen to represent the class and won the Best Design Process Award of Spring 2016. Please refer to the links below for our projects.
Project 1. Design a replacement bridge for PennDOT
Project 2. Redesign the heat exchanger for Circuit Card Assembly board for LM spacecraft computers for Additive Manufacturing