EGT 470 - PLTW-Engineering Design and Development

Prerequisites:
EGT 400
CAREER AND TECHNICAL CREDIT TYPE
3 credit(s)

An engineering research course in which students work in teams to research, design and construct a solution to an open-ended engineering problem. Students apply principles developed in the four preceding courses and are guided by a community mentor. They must present progress reports, submit a final written report and defend their solutions to a panel of outside reviewers at the end of the school year.

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Create documentation to support a design process and results.

2. Summarize research findings in visual and verbal form.

3. Appraise current and past products to inform the creation of a problem statement.

4. Summarize and critique the most relevant content of research and patents.

5. Develop and use a decision matrix to choose a problem statement.

6. Identify and describe specific criteria for and constraints to the design of a product.

7. Write a clear, complete, and concise design specification.

8. Generate and document multiple potential solutions to a problem.

9. Develop a decision matrix to compare and rank potential solutions.

10. Sketch and annotate ideas and details while designing a prototype and use scientific, mathematical, and engineering concepts to design a prototype.