Senior Schedule​

​First Semester​

Senior Design I

• Through a team project concept, mechanical engineering principles are applied to conceive, develop, and design products and processes. Students join a consulting design team that beginswork on a professional level design project. The course also explores basic design topics of constraints, tradeoffs, patents, intellectual property and ethics.

Sticky Innovation: Exploring the Problem of the Bees Through Engineering and Art

• Students will practice science and arts based research approaches to consider the environmental consequences of the disappearance of bees through multiple modes of instruction, reflection and presentation--developing innovative habits of the mind.

Wood Crafts I

• Make a set of beautiful oval Shaker boxes. Oval boxes continue to be the most popular product the Shakers ever offered to the outside world. Originally the boxes were produced for their practicality because nesting boxes inside each other required little storage space. They have become collector's items for their simple beauty. Other craft items undertaken are Shaker carrier and trays. The beginner and experienced wood worker are both welcome.

Financial Economics for Engineers

• This course is designed to educate engineering students on the fundamentals of finance, particularly those necessary to effectively evaluate the financial merits of capital budgeting projects.  To develop this skill set, we start with concepts such as the time value of money, interpreting financial information and statements, and understanding and measuring risk.  We then use these basic tools to learn to forecast cash flows and to incorporate risk in determining the net present value of various projects.  Finally, the course covers all of the required body of knowledge in the engineering certification exams.

Experimental Meathods in Engineering

• A combination lecture and lab course with topics selected to reinforce learning in Mechanics and Dynamics of Materials and Structures, heat transfer, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. The lectures provide opportunities for students to review and develop analysis and data reduction techniques. Experimentation includes use of performance tests, transducer applications, statistical analysis, automated data acquisition, and vibration testing. The student's understandinggained from this course will be evaluated by testsand composition of well-written lab reports

Intro into Advanced Manufacturing Processes

• This course addresses advanced manufacturing processes and how they relate to mechanical design: machining and technology, composites, ceramics; material selection; material behavior and material processing; conventional machining; non-conventional machining; welding and brazing; engineering considerations as they relate to manufacturing, including tolerancing. Key conceptswill be illustrated through a number of case studies.

Wood Crafts I

• Analysis of linear networks, AC and DC electric circuits that involve multiple independent sources, using Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws, Thevenin's and Norton's theorems, and the maximum power transfer theorem. Also explored, is the steady state and transient behavior of capacitors and inductors. Applications to mechanical measurements.

Second Semester

Proposed sechedule:
Senior Design II
Mechanical Engineering Elective
Social and Ethical Issues Elective
Honors Elective
Wood Turning II
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