EPOM 403 and EPOM 409 form a two semester design
sequence. In EPOM 403 lectures, class discussions, group projects,
and carefully orchestrated exercises concentrate
on engineering processes, design, prototyping, development, and
analysis that can be applied in all aspects of engineering. Topics
such as safety, ethics, intellectual property, product liability,
environmental issues, and public policy are considered in relation
to the design experience. The second part of this sequence is
a program capstone activity that uses a multidisciplinary team
project to develop the skills needed to define a market opportunity,
identify design objectives, select from among available concepts,
and implement production all within the context of an open-ended
business opportunity within "virtual" company.
Sample examples of projects include:
- A cardiac rehabilitation exercise device
with remote monitoring and control developed for a bicycle company
- An automatic pill dispensing and monitoring
device developed for a pharmaceutical company.
