Engineering Design
A Bachelor of Science in Engineering Design
An engineering design degree opens the door to various positions in industry and graduate school. Your experience with client-focused design, prototyping, and professional skills will allow you to contribute to companies in any phase of the design process: identification of stakeholder needs, concept generation, feasibility studies, risk analysis, detail design, manufacturing, testing, validation, maintenance, and product lifecycle analysis.
Facilities and Resources
Hands-on learning and prototyping is a key component of engineering design. Engineering design students use prototyping technology in design studios developed to encourage creativity and communication with all stakeholders. Students routinely use tools from a variety of on-campus shops after appropriate instruction.
Laboratories
Design studios include laboratory equipment for design, prototyping, and testing. Students use current technologies to bring their ideas to life. Students also work with external clients starting in their first quarter on campus.
Engineering Design
Engineering design is a human-centered endeavor that grew out of investigations of creativity. While design is an integral part of all engineering fields, design methodology gained more attention during the 1980s as global competition demanded higher quality design and system complexity increased. The role of the designer is to create a system, process, product, or service based on stakeholder needs while considering social, environmental, economic, and safety requirements. The designer must have both a mindset and skillset for improving the impact of design on society. The mindset requires the vision and drive necessary to create value. The skillset includes the tools and techniques critical to realize the design.
The Engineering Design major prepares students by giving them repeated, intensive design experiences with real clients. From the first quarter to the senior year, students participate in authentic design experiences and practice professional skills. The first year gives students a broad understanding of modeling systems across disciplines and repeated practice in prototyping solutions for clients. Students plan their electives and prepare for their practicum as they continue deeper in the design process. Students are required to gain practical experience in the design process. In their third year, the curriculum is structured to allow study-work abroad, internships, and/ or cooperative work experiences. In their fourth year, students complete a year-long, multidisciplinary capstone design experience.
After completion of this curriculum, students will be prepared to enter the engineering profession or advanced study. A student may also use this academic background as a stepping stone to a position in management, administration, or some other non-engineering field.
Engineering Design Mission Statement
Engineering Design employs repeated, immersive design experiences to cultivate students who
- Embrace the ambiguity of design
- Select design processes from multiple disciplines as appropriate to the project
- Tackle projects with gusto
- Commit to professional and ethical responsibilities while remembering global, social, economic, and environmental considerations
- Communicate respectfully and effectively
- Create collaborative and inclusive teams
Electives
Engineering Design students have 20 credit-hours of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts electives.
Engineering Design students have 8 credit-hours of free electives.
Engineering Design students have 28 credit-hours for technical electives. Students should use these credits to gain in-depth knowledge of a specific technical area. With careful planning, students may use these technical electives to obtain a minor or concentration in an area of interest.
Technical electives must consist of:
- At least 12 credit hours of Engineering Design electives. These courses begin with an ENGD prefix and must be 300 level or higher.
- 16 credit hours of computer science, engineering, or engineering management with an EMGT E prefix. At least eight credit hours must be 300 level or higher.
- Not include any named required courses
Practicum Courses
All Engineering Design students must take three practicum courses. Enrollment in a practicum course requires professional employment such as an internship or co-op. Professional employment must average a minimum of 25 hours per week of work and have a duration of at least eight weeks. Professional employment must include some aspects of the design process such as commercialization, conceptual design, manufacturing, modeling, process improvement, product design, product improvement, quality methods, testing, or design validation. Each practicum course requires students to reflect on connections between their ongoing employment experience and studio experience, a companion course, or the program’s student learning outcomes. See the practicum course descriptions (ENGD 321 , ENGD 322 , and ENGD 323 ) for more details.
Below is a sample plan of study that illustrates one way to achieve the program requirements. Any given student's plan of study may differ based on a variety of factors (e.g., advanced credit, placement exams, adding a minor). Enrolled students will work with their academic advisor; utilize the degree audit/planner to create a specific plan of study.
| Freshman | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | |
| ENGD 100 | Design & Communication Studio | 8 |
| MA 111 | Calculus I | 5 |
| RHIT 100 | Foundations for Rose-Hulman Success | 1 |
| PH 111 | Physics I | 4 |
| PH 111L | Physics I Lab | 0 |
| Hours | 18 | |
| Winter | ||
| ENGD 110 | Static Analysis, Testing, and Sociotechnical Thinking | 6 |
| MA 112 | Calculus II | 5 |
| ENGD 112 | DC Circuits | 2 |
| ENGD 113 | Software Development Principles I | 2 |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring | ||
| ENGD 120 | Integrating Electrical, Software, and Societal Systems | 6 |
| MA 113 | Calculus III | 5 |
| ENGD 150 | Independent Design Project | 2 |
| BE 132 | Systems Accounting and Modeling II | 3 |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Sophomore | ||
| Fall | ||
| ENGD 260 | Product Design Studio | 8 |
| BE 211 | Circuits, Sensors, and Measurements | 3 |
| MA 223 | Engineering Statistics | 4 |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Winter | ||
| ENGD 240 | User-Experience Design Studio | 6 |
| MA 221 | Matrix Algebra & Differential Equations I | 4 |
| EM 204 | Statics & Mechanics of Materials II | 4 |
| Hours | 14 | |
| Spring | ||
| ENGD 250 | Human Computer Interfaces Studio | 6 |
| ENGD 270 | Application of Engineering Ethics | 2 |
| MA 222 | Matrix Algebra & Differential Equations II | 4 |
| Elective | 4 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Summer | ||
| ENGD 321 | Practicum 1 | 1 |
| Hours | 1 | |
| Junior | ||
| Fall | ||
| CHEM 111 | General Chemistry I | 3 |
| CHEM 111L | General Chemistry I Lab | 1 |
| BIO with lab | 4 | |
| Elective | 4 | |
| HSSA Elective | 4 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Winter | ||
| PH 112 | Physics II | 4 |
| PH 112L | Physics II Lab | 0 |
| ENGD 271 | Vertically Integrated Proj II | 2 |
| Elective | 4 | |
| Elective | 4 | |
| HSSA Elective | 4 | |
| Hours | 18 | |
| Spring | ||
| ENGD 322 | Practicum 2 | 1 |
| Elective | 4 | |
| Hours | 5 | |
| Summer | ||
| ENGD 323 | Practicum 3 | 1 |
| Hours | 1 | |
| Senior | ||
| Fall | ||
| MDS 410 | Multidisciplinary Capstone I | 4 |
| Elective | 4 | |
| Elective | 4 | |
| HSSA Elective | 4 | |
| HUM H230 | Engineering Design Social Capstone | 2 |
| Hours | 18 | |
| Winter | ||
| MDS 420 | Multidisciplinary Capstone II | 4 |
| Elective | 4 | |
| HSSA Elective | 4 | |
| MA/SCI Math/Science Elective | 4 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Spring | ||
| MDS 430 | Multidisciplinary Capstone III | 4 |
| Elective | 4 | |
| HSSA Elective | 4 | |
| MA/SCI Math/Science Elective | 4 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Total Hours | 185 | |
Students who want to take a foreign language may postpone these courses and graduate on time with careful scheduling.
Engineering Design Program Educational Objectives
In support of our mission and based on the needs of our constituents, alumni from our program are expected to attain:
- Ethically-minded solutions to open-ended problems using engineering and/or design principles
- Recognition as skilled, innovative engineers and/or designers
- Meaningful, collaborative work
- Active involvement in professional & personal development
- Contributions to society locally, nationally, or globally
- Recognition as facilitators of multidisciplinary teams
Student Outcomes
Attainment of these outcomes prepares graduates to enter the professional practice of engineering.
- an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
- an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
- an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
- an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
- an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
- an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgement to draw conclusions
- an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies
The engineering design program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org, under the commission's General Criteria and Program Criteria with no applicable program criteria.