Introduction to Engineering & Design
1631/1632 INTRO: ENGINEERING & DESIGN
Full Year Grades 9 – 12
Minimum Prerequisites: approval of program director.
Required for all Engineering students, elective for other students with approval of the program director. Designed for 9th or 10th grade students, the major focus of Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) is the design process and its application. Through hands-on projects, students apply engineering standards and document their work. Students use industry standard 2D modeling software to help them design solutions to solve proposed problems, document their work using an engineer’s notebook, and communicate solutions to peers and members of the professional community.