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Mar 13, 2025
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IDS 3901 - Interdisciplinary Design2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course is a junior-level interdisciplinary design experience. Students form multidisciplinary teams to create preliminary design concepts that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare. Students also consider global, cultural, social, societal, environmental, ethical, and economic factors in their design. The team members work together to provide leadership within a collaborative and inclusive environment where they establish the goals of the project, plan tasks, and meet project objectives. This course focuses on developing preliminary design tasks and objectives. Students collaborate to create a needs assessment based on a real-world problem that require multiple disciplines to solve. Knowledge and skills learned in previous program-specific coursework will be integrated into this course. Students must effectively communicate their design intentions to stakeholders throughout the semester as well as during the culminating design presentations at the end of the semester. The preliminary design concepts developed in this course may become the catalyst for future capstone design projects. This course meets the following Raider Core CLO requirement: Integrate Learning. (prereq: junior standing)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Utilize and reinforce the students’ foundational knowledge of their specialty areas
- Compare and contrast reasonable solutions and decide on the optimal solution
- Enhance presentation and communication skills, building on the student’s basic skills learned from prior coursework
- Generate and facilitate work relationships with faculty and fellow students akin to those found in industry
- Recognize and explore knowledge gaps
- Collaborate effectively in a multidisciplinary, team-based environment
- Synthesize and transfer learning across new contexts to address complex problems
- Explain the MSOE Mindset and how it applies to interdisciplinary design
Prerequisites by Topic
- Foundational knowledge in the student’s specialty area
Course Topics
- Leading and collaborating in a diverse team
- Understanding needs and motivations of various stakeholders
- Developing and implementing a needs assessment
- Understanding design considerations and factors
- Understanding design requirements
- Integrating elements of sustainable design
- Fundamentals of engineering and non-engineering (e.g., industrial) design processes
- Understanding of the reflection and continuous improvement process
- Establishing goals, planning tasks, and meeting objectives
- Budgeting, estimating, scheduling, and project management skills
- Understanding of fundamental presentation considerations
Coordinator
Dr. DeAnna Leitzke
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