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ENG 491 SAE - Automotive Design Projects

Last offered Fall 2023

Official Description

Disciplined, multi-department, team-structured project design experience with an overall (or major phase) end-of-term completion date. Projects involve design specification through a proposal, analyses of cost and other tradeoffs among alternative designs, design review, fabrication and assembly, functional and environmental testing, and demonstrations (as applicable). Reports and presentations at the end of each term. Individual engineering activities as well as team responsibilities. Course Information: 1 to 4 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. Senior standing required. May be repeated. Credit toward the degree is determined by the student's major department. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

Section Description

Advance work on SAE Formula Car. This course is the first in the design series. The second semester ENG 491 470 is in the spring and counts for ME students as senior design credit.
TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Automotive Design ProjectsSAE51964LBD31600 - 1750 M  2035 Campus Instructional Facility Michael L Philpott