Course Meeting Times
Lectures: 2 hours / session, 2 sessions / week
Description
Learn to produce great designs, be a more effective engineer, and communicate with high emotional and intellectual impact. This project based course gives students the ability to understand, contextualize, and analyze engineering designs and systems. By learning and applying design thinking, students will more effectively solve problems in any domain. Lectures focus on teaching a tested, iterative design process as well as techniques to sharpen creative analysis. Guest lectures from all disciplines illustrate different approaches to design thinking. This course develops students' skills to conceive, organize, lead, implement, and evaluate successful projects in any engineering discipline. Additionally, students learn how to give compelling in-person presentations. Open to all majors, all years.
This course is the core requirement in the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program.
Recommended Reading
Kotelly, Blade. The Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003. ISBN: 9780321154927. [Preview with Google Books]
Grading Policy
| ACTIVITIES | PERCENTAGES |
|---|---|
| Pop Quizzes | 10% |
| Homework | 25% |
| Projects | 55% |
| Attendance, Participation | 10% |
Calendar
| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| Module 1: Principles of Design (1–10) | ||
| 1 | Introduction | HW1 out |
| 2 | 10 Step Design Process; Dieter Rams | HW2 out; HW1 due |
| 3 | Research; Stakeholder Analysis | HW3 out |
| 4 | Articulating Design | HW4 out; HW2 and HW3 due |
| 5 | Psychology | |
| 6 | Usability | HW5 out; HW4 due |
| 7 | Dialogue Systems Technology (Siri+) | HW6 out; HW5 due |
| 8 | Dialogue System Design (Questions/Feedbacks) | HW7 out; HW6 due |
| 9 | Dialogue System Design 2 | HW8 out; HW7 due |
| 10 | Branding | HW9 out; HW8 due |
| Module 2: Design is Everywhere (11–18) | ||
| 11 | Creativity | HW10 out; HW9 due |
| 12 | Project Management | HW10 due |
| 13 | Guest Lecture | |
| 14 | Presentation Skills | |
| 15 | Group Project Success | |
| 16 | Innovation and Ethics; Build a Company | |
| 17 | Individual Presentations | |
| 18 | Individual Presentations (cont.) | |
| Module 3: Group Project/Interdisciplinary Design (19–27) | ||
| 19 | Buy or Build; Process Improvement | |
| 20 | Group Project Review Session | |
| 21 | Helvetica | |
| 22 | Guest Lecture | |
| 23 | Guest Lecture/Work-Class | |
| 24 | Guest Lecture (cont.) | |
| 25 | Guest Lecture/Work-Class (cont.) | |
| 26 | Group Project Preso. | |
| 27 | Group Project Preso. (cont.) | |