Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Program

Multidisciplinary Design

Watch the video from Spring, 2009!

The Design and engineering of complex systems such as a zero-emission vehicle or an unmanned aircraft requires a team of engineers with different backgrounds. The new ISU multidisciplinary engineering design program provides hands-on design-build-test project experiences to students across the Engineering college. The program currently consists of a two-semester team-oriented multidisciplinary senior design sequence. You will work together with students from other disciplines to solve a major engineering challenge, while interacting with engineers from industry.

Projects may originate from industrial sponsorship, national competitions, and student ideas. Most projects will proceed for two semesters, with close guidance and supervision from of a faculty advisor and an industrial client. The project will proceed from conceptual design through build, test, and performance evaluation.

In the first semester, Engr 466, each team will develop a project plan for client review, and then proceed with system modeling, prototyping, and design. The second semester focuses on building and testing of a full scale prototype. Each semester ends with presentation of your project to your client and our industrial review panel.

This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Lockheed Martin Foundation