Students were given the assignment of creating a solar hot water heater. Pictured here are one group's models during testing. This duplication proves reproducibility. (Image courtesy of Jonathan Abbott, Lilian Guevara, Nolan Essigmann. Used with permission.)
Instructor(s)
David Custer
Elizabeth A. Page
MIT Course Number
21W.732 / ES.21W732
As Taught In
Fall 2010
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course introduces writing, graphics, meetings, oral presentation, collaboration, and design as tools for product development. The communication instruction is embedded in design projects that require students to work in teams to conceive, design, prototype and evaluate energy related products. The communication instruction focuses on the communication tasks that are integral to this design process, ranging, across design notebooks, email communications, informal oral presentations, meeting etiquette, literature searches, white papers reports, and formal presentations. In addition to the assignments specific to product development, a few assignments, especially reading and reflection, will address the cultural situation of engineers and engineering in the world at large.
Acknowledgment
The instructors would like to thank Prof. Alex Slocum and Mark Graham for their contributions to this course.