This course is designed to be the culmination of the Purdue degree experience for all undergraduate students in Agricultural and Biological Engineering.
This is designed primarily as a “Lean Startup” course that will require students to engage in extensive customer discovery efforts as well as other research tasks aimed at developing a feasible new venture proposal.
MENG/BENG 404 is a design-based course where students work with physician mentors from the Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) to address unmet clinical needs. Working in teams, students conceptualize, design, and build functional prototypes of their solutions over the course of the term.
This course discusses a broad range of topics related to entering industry including classical and applied ethics, corporate structure, patents, leadership and creativity.
A student should demonstrate mastery of the (i) principles of modern rapid-prototyping of electrophysical devices, (ii) the principles of design, fabrication, testing, and iteration within the context of an application domain, (iii) be proficient in building, measuring, and evaluating prototype performance, and (iv) professionally disseminating the results.
Significant project integrating the design content of previous courses and incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints. Written report must document all aspects of the design process: reliability, safety, economics, ethics. Repeatable unlimited times.