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ME 170: Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Units: 3

Design project must be selected and approved; project feasibility study and outline of the design project is completed; design methodology, optimization, product reliability and liability, economics, use of ASME codes. A final presentation is given at the end of the semester.

Course Details
Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

Laboratory included
Normal Letter Grade only

GE Requirements
  • Upper Division: Culminating Experience
  • Intellectual Experience: Scientific Method
  • Intellectual Experience: Global Awareness
  • Intellectual Experience: Sustainability
  • Intellectual Experience: Ethics

Requisites and Restrictions
Prerequisite Courses: ME 120 and ENGR 135 and ME 137
Instructor Permission Required: No


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