UCC/UGC/ECCC
Proposal for New Course
Please attach proposed Syllabus in approved university format.
1. Course subject and number: ME 286
2. Units:
See upper and lower division undergraduate course definitions.
3. College:
CEFNS
4. Academic Unit:
3
Mechanical Engineering
5. Student Learning Outcomes of the new course. (Resources & Examples for Developing Course Learning
Outcomes)
Objective Group 1: Engineering design as a process: (LO a,d,g)
1. Explain the differences between original, parametric and redesign types of design.
2. Apply a reverse engineering process to motivate a redesign.
3. Determine how to construct a design team, based on personality and skills information, to
increase its odds of success.
Objective Group 2: Problem/project clarification and specification: (LO a,d,g)
4. Gather and categorize customer needs to clarify a design problem.
5. Determine the functionality of an existing product or system.
6. Derive the engineering specifications from customer needs and product functionality.
Objective Group 3: Functional decomposition and concept generation: (LO a,d,e,g)
7. Model the functionality of a product or system as a means to decompose the problem.
8. Propose solution principles that solve a given product functionality.
9. Apply search techniques, including creativity stimulants, to find solution principles.
10. Combine partial solutions to create overall concept variants to solve the design problem.
Objective Group 4: Preliminary design tools and concept selection: (LO a,d,g)
11. Derive system models of concept variants to predict their performance.
12. Assess the utility of concept variants through a screening process.
13. Select a single concept to prototype.
Objective Group 5: Embodiment design: (LO a,d,e,g,j,k)
14. Apply product architecture techniques to create product layouts.
15. Critique product designs based on design for X strategies.
16. Improve a design concept using design for X strategies and guidelines.
6. Justification for new course, including how the course contributes to degree program outcomes,
or other university requirements / student learning outcomes. (Resources, Examples & Tools for Developing
Effective Program Student Learning Outcomes).
Effective Fall 2012
In order to become a successful, marketable graduate in the mechanical engineering
department, a student should be proficient in all engineering design processes. This ME
version of the 286 series expands on knowledge presented during EGR 286, with a larger
emphasis on mechanical components. Many of the methodologies learned during the ME 286
course are specific to mechanical engineering in order to produce more efficient designers in
the field. The course is split into three projects with unique focuses. Project 1 is a reverse
engineering exercise focused on analyzing current mechanical products to determine how
component interactions effect the performance of the product. Project 2 requires students to
develop concepts for mechanical assistive devices, culminating in a solid model of their final
solution. The final project requires teams to prototype and test mechanical devices that will
compete at the end of the project.
7. Effective BEGINNING of what term and year?
See effective dates calendar.
Fall 2015
8. Long course title: ENGINEERING DESIGN: THE PROCESS
(max 100 characters including spaces)
9. Short course title: ENGINEERING DESIGN: PROCESS
(max. 30 characters including spaces)
10. Catalog course description (max. 60 words, excluding requisites):
The process of engineering design, mechanisms and controls, teamwork and project
management, written and oral communications. This course is intended for Mechanical
Engineering majors only.
11. Will this course be part of any plan (major, minor or certificate) or sub plan (emphasis)?
Yes
If yes, include the appropriate plan proposal.
Mechanical Engineering; B.S.E.
No
12. Does this course duplicate content of existing courses?
Yes
No
If yes, list the courses with duplicate material. If the duplication is greater than 20%, explain why
NAU should establish this course.
EGR 286, but this course will no longer be used to satisfy requirements for any of the
engineering programs and the new courses will be discipline specific: XX 286.
13. Will this course impact any other academic unit’s enrollment or plan(s)?
Yes
No
If yes, describe the impact. If applicable, include evidence of notification to and/or response from
each impacted academic unit
See attached notification to EGR
14. Grading option:
Letter grade
Pass/Fail
Both
15. Co-convened with:
14a. UGC approval date*:
(For example: ESE 450 and ESE 550) See co-convening policy.
*Must be approved by UGC before UCC submission, and both course syllabi must be presented.
Effective Fall 2012
16. Cross-listed with:
(For example: ES 450 and DIS 450) See cross listing policy.
Please submit a single cross-listed syllabus that will be used for all cross-listed courses.
17. May course be repeated for additional units?
16a. If yes, maximum units allowed?
16b. If yes, may course be repeated for additional units in the same term?
Yes
No
Yes
No
MAT 136, EGR 186, ME 180, and
18. Prerequisites:
CS 122 with grades of C or better.
If prerequisites, include the rationale for the prerequisites.
A basic background in the fields of mathematics, programming, engineering design, and
computer-aided drafting are required in order to be successful in the ME 286 course. Future
sections of the course will include projects that require basic programming of electromechanical systems. Furthermore, basic engineering calculations and solid modeling are
performed during several of the mechanical engineering team projects during the semester.
The material covered in EGR 186 is expanded upon throughout ME 286 and further into EGR
386 and ME 476C/486C.
19. Co requisites:
If co requisites, include the rationale for the co requisites.
20. Does this course include combined lecture and lab components?
Yes
If yes, include the units specific to each component in the course description above.
No
21. Names of the current faculty qualified to teach this course:
22. Classes scheduled before the regular term begins and/or after the regular term ends may require
additional action. Review “see description” and “see impacts” for “Classes Starting/Ending
Outside Regular Term” under the heading “Forms”
http://nau.edu/Registrar/Faculty-Resources/Schedule-of-Classes-Maintenance/.
Do you anticipate this course will be scheduled outside the regular term?
Yes
No
23. Is this course being proposed for Liberal Studies designation?
If yes, include a Liberal Studies proposal and syllabus with this proposal.
Yes
No
24. Is this course being proposed for Diversity designation?
If yes, include a Diversity proposal and syllabus with this proposal.
Yes
No
Answer 22-23 for UCC/ECCC only:
FLAGSTAFF MOUNTAIN CAMPUS
Effective Fall 2012
Scott Galland
Reviewed by Curriculum Process Associate
1/15/2015
Date
Approvals:
Department Chair/Unit Head (if appropriate)
Date
Chair of college curriculum committee
Date
Dean of college
Date
For Committee use only:
UCC/UGC Approval
Date
Approved as submitted:
Yes
No
Approved as modified:
Yes
No
EXTENDED CAMPUSES
Reviewed by Curriculum Process Associate
Date
Approvals:
Academic Unit Head
Date
Division Curriculum Committee (Yuma, Yavapai, or Personalized Learning)
Date
Division Administrator in Extended Campuses (Yuma, Yavapai, or Personalized
Learning)
Date
Faculty Chair of Extended Campuses Curriculum Committee (Yuma, Yavapai, or
Personalized Learning)
Date
Chief Academic Officer; Extended Campuses (or Designee)
Date
Effective Fall 2012
Approved as submitted:
Yes
No
Approved as modified:
Yes
No
From: Stuart S Galland
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 4:32 PM
To: Bryan Elliot Cooperrider
Subject: ME 286
Hi Bryan,
This is to notify you that the Mechanical Engineering Department is proposing to replace EGR 286 with a new, discipline specific
course; ME 286.
Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this proposal.
Thanks!
Scott Galland
Curriculum Process Associate
Office of Curriculum, Learning Design, and Academic Assessment
928-523-1753
928-699-9147 (cell)
scott.galland@nau.edu
Effective Fall 2012
NAU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCES
Mechanical Engineering Department
ME 286 — Engineering Design: The Process
Fall 2015
General
Information
3 lecture hours per week, 3 1-hour lectures
Room 118 in Engineering (Bldg. 69)
Dr. Sarah Oman, Engineering room 208 (928-523-0468)
Office hours: MWF 10:00-11:00 and Mondays 2:30-3:30pm
email: sarah.oman@nau.edu
Prerequisites
MAT 136, EGR 186, ME 180, and CS 122. Must have earned a grade of C or
better in all prerequisite courses.
If you have not completed the prerequisites for a course as stated in the
academic catalog, you may be administratively dropped from the course
before the twenty-first day of the term. Do not rely on your instructor to drop
you from the courses that you want to drop. You are responsible for
changing your own course schedule.
Course
Description
This course elaborates on the process of engineering design, mechanisms
and controls, teamwork and project management, and written and oral
communications. Emphasis is placed on mechanical engineering
methodologies that train students to become efficient designers. The course
is split into three team projects: reverse engineer a current, mechanical
product; design a solution to a mechanical device and solid model it (with
complete drawings and 3D views); and prototype and test mechanical
devices to compete against fellow students.
Student
Learning
Expectations
Objective Group 1: Engineering design as a process: (LO a,d,g)
1. Explain the differences between original, parametric and redesign types of
design.
2. Apply a reverse engineering process to motivate a redesign.
3. Determine how to construct a design team, based on personality and skills
information, to increase its odds of success.
Objective Group 2: Problem/project clarification and specification: (LO
a,d,g)
4. Gather and categorize customer needs to clarify a design problem.
Effective Fall 2012
5. Determine the functionality of an existing product or system.
6. Derive the engineering specifications from customer needs and product
functionality.
Objective Group 3: Functional decomposition and concept generation:
(LO a,d,e,g)
7. Model the functionality of a product or system as a means to decompose
the problem.
8. Propose solution principles that solve a given product functionality.
9. Apply search techniques, including creativity stimulants, to find solution
principles.
10. Combine partial solutions to create overall concept variants to solve the
design problem.
Objective Group 4: Preliminary design tools and concept selection: (LO
a,d,g)
11. Derive system models of concept variants to predict their performance.
12. Assess the utility of concept variants through a screening process.
13. Select a single concept to prototype.
Objective Group 5: Embodiment design: (LO a,d,e,g,j,k)
14. Apply product architecture techniques to create product layouts.
15. Critique product designs based on design for X strategies.
16. Improve a design concept using design for X strategies and guidelines.
* LO’s are ME Learning Outcomes, see
http://nau.edu/CEFNS/Engineering/Mechanical/Degrees-Programs/.
Course
Structure
Projects.
There are no exams in this course. Instead, the bulk of your grade will be
based on three projects. Grades for the design projects will be assigned on
a group basis, unless otherwise specified. Project grades are split into
Project Reports and Project Presentations that include Design Show
Displays. Each Friday of the course is dedicated to lab time, where teams
can work together and the instructor can meet with each team one-on-one.
Peer evaluations of your team members will be required for each project.
These peer evaluations, along with instructor observations, will be used to
assess individual participation in the group projects and will influence design
project grades and final grades. Late Projects will incur a 50% penalty off the
score.
Homework and Design notebooks.
Homeworks will be assigned throughout the semester, in the form of team
memos. Each Design Project will have two team memos assigned, due on
the appointed date at the beginning of class. Late memos incur a 30%
penalty off the score.
Furthermore, each student is responsible for maintaining a design notebook
throughout the course to document all team meetings, homework progress,
and class notes. There will be weekly notebook checks in Friday labs.
Text
Effective Fall 2012
There is no text assigned to this course; however, reading assignments may
be assigned each week, which must be completed by the appointed class
date.
Course
Outline
Week
Due
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Lecture Topics
Assignments
Intro to Design, Effective Teams, Gantt Charts
Team Product
Customer Needs, Hypothesized Functional Modeling
Disassembly, Report Writing Skills
Memo 1
Assembly Models, Actual Functional Modeling
Quality Function Deployment
Memo 2
Original Design introduction
Report & Display
Concept Generation
Bio-Inspired Design, Concept Evalution
Memo 3
Concept Selection (Pugh Chart, Decision matrix)
Robust Decisions, Systems modeling
Memo 4
Embodiment steps introduction
Report & Display
Prototyping, proof of concept
Alpha and Beta Prototypes
Memo 5
Optimization, DFM, DFA
Tolerances, Review
Memo 6
Final Report and Competition
Report & Display
This course outline is tentative and likely to change over the course of the
semester.
Assessment
of Student
Learning
Outcomes
Methods of Assessment: Homework assignments, individual notebooks, team
memos, project reports, project presentations, peer evaluations, instructor
assessment
Grading
Your semester grade will be calculated as follows:
Design Projects:
Reverse Engineering
25%
Conceptual Design
25%
Embodiment Design
25%
Design Notebook
15%
Participation (Class/Groupwork)
10%
Total
100%
Timeline for Assessment: Individual notebooks may be checked weekly
during the Friday lab sections. Individual homework assignments may be
assigned as the instructor sees fit with ample warning and at least one week
to complete the assignment. Team memo, project report, and presentation
deadlines are clearly stated in the Course Outline. Should any deadline
change, students will be given ample warning to accommodate the change in
schedule. Peer evaluations will be used to determine individual contribution
during group work. Furthermore, individual contribution to teamwork will also
be assessed in class by the instructor.
Grades will approximately follow the standard 90% A, 80% B, 70% C, 60%
D, <60% F scale.
It is expected that your work will be neat, readable, and in order. If it is not,
you may not receive partial credit for your work. See also the following file for
information on the mechanical engineering grading criteria:
Effective Fall 2012
http://nau.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic/CEFNS/Engineering/Mechanical/For
ms/ME_Grading_Criteria.pdf
Attendance
As stated in the Class Attendance policy in the NAU General Catalog,
students are expected to assume the responsibility for regular class
attendance. When absence is unavoidable, students should report the
reason to the instructor and assume the responsibility for any work they miss.
Instructors are under no obligation to make special arrangements for students
who have been absent unless the student has an institutional excuse.
Furthermore, more than Students are expected to attend every class session
and make-up all missed work because of legitimate absences. Unexcused or
unexplained absences will automatically lower a student's grade if they
exceed 3 per semester in a 3-credit hour course.
NAU Policies
You can find additional important NAU academic policies at the links below.
Please take a few minutes to review and become familiar with them.
See http://nau.edu/OCLDAA/_Forms/UCC/SyllabusPolicyStmts2-2014/ for
policies on:
 Safe Environment Policy
 Students With Disabilities
 Academic Contact Hour Policy
 Academic Integrity
 Research Integrity
 Sensitive Course Materials
 Classroom Disruption Policy
See http://nau.edu/LEADS-Center/Textbook-Loan-Program/ for information
on the new Emergency Textbook Loan Program.
Drop/add dates
The last day to add a class without a petition and a $25 late add fee is
September 4th. The last day to drop a course without a “W” on transcript is
also September 4th. The last day to withdraw (W on the transcript) is
October 24. You can find additional information about drop/add deadlines at
the following link for the Office of the Registrar’s enrollment calendar
website:
http://nau.edu/Registrar/Important-Dates/Fall/
Effective Fall 2012
Effective Fall 2012