EE 391: Engineering Design

Course Description

Preparatory course for EENG 491 Senior Design Project. Fundamentals of the engineering design process fundamentals: project requirements analysis and specification, system design, detailed design, testing and written and oral presentations. Project management: tasks, schedules, budget, critical items and fall back options. Ethics and professionalism.

Textbook

• J.E. Salt and R. Rothery, Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers, Wiley

Alternative Textbook

• R. Ford, and C. Coulston, Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers, McGraw-Hill

Additional References

• T. Brown, How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Change by Design, Harper Business

• D. Packard, The HP Way. How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company, Harper Business

• A. Grove, High Output Management, Vintage Books

• M. Morris, MGT 650 Entrepreneurship in Science and Technology - Lecture Notes, University of Hawaii, Spring 2002

• G. Moore, Crossing the Chasm, Collins Business Essentials

• Harvard Business Essentials, Managing Projects large and Small, Harvard Business School Press

Grading

Assignments

(Late work will not be accepted)

• Homework: 20%

• Project #1: 30%

• Project #2: 50%