Introduction to Engineering Design

Ann Saterbak is Professor of the Practice in Biomedical Engineering and Director of the First-Year Engineering Program at Duke University. Since joining Duke in June 2017, she launched the new Engineering Design and Communication course. In this course, first-year students work in teams to solve community-based, client-driven problems and build physical prototypes. Prior to Duke, she taught at Rice University, where she was on the faculty since 1999. Saterbak is the lead author of the textbook Bioengineering Fundamentals. At Rice and Duke, Saterbak’s outstanding teaching has been recognized through five school- and university-wide teaching awards. For her contribution to education within biomedical engineering, she was elected Fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Society of Engineering Education. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Biomedical Engineering Education.Matthew Wettergreen is the Director of the Global Medical Innovation Master of Bioengineering program at Rice University. He is also an Associate Teaching Professor at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen at Rice where he teaches engineering design and prototyping. Based on a deep interest in curriculum that builds capacity for student development in maker spaces, he has co-created materials and delivered workshops to establish international engineering design programs. Wettergreen is the faculty mentor for Rice’s Design for America chapter, for which he has been awarded the Hudspeth Award for excellence in student club mentoring. For his contributions to the development of the design curriculum at Rice, he received the Teaching Award for Excellence in Inquiry-Based Learning. His design work has been featured in NASA Tech Briefs, the Wall Street Journal, Make Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, and Texas Monthly.

• Acknowledgments.- Step 0: Introduction to the Engineering Design Process.- Step 1: Clarify Team Assignment.- Step 2: Understand the Problem and Context.- Step 3: Define Design Criteria.- Step 4: Brainstorm Solution Options.- Step 5: Evaluate Solutions.- Step 6: Prototype Solution.- Step 7: Test Solution.- Step 8: Finalize a Solution.- Appendix A: Using this Workbook.- Appendix B: Teaming.- Appendix C: Communication.- Appendix D: Project Planning.- Authors’ Biographies.