Senior Design Elective

The senior design elective must be taken during the senior year.  There are three ways to fulfill the senior design requirement:

1. Through a formal 3-credit class from the list of "design courses", taken along with one credit of MAE 4291.   
2. Through a student team, taken as at least 3 units of MAE 4291.
3. Through an individual project with a faculty member, taken as at least 3 units of MAE 4291 

The senior design requirement can be satisfied with a designated 3-credit approved M&AE senior design elective course, e.g, MAE 4000, 4020, 4040, 4140, 4230, 4250, 4700, or 4860 in addition to one corresponding MAE 1-credit MAE 4291.  This requirement may also be fulfilled by enrolling in an independent research, project or team endeavor as MAE 4291 for a minimum of 3 credits. 

How To Enroll

Cover Sheet for Senior Design Projects

Instructions for submitting your senior design report and paperwork:

                   *Senior Design Report – Turn in to faculty project advisor.

                   *Written Responses to the Senior Design Report Cover Sheet – Turn in to faculty project advisor as appendix to design report.

                   *Design Report Cover Sheet – Sign and attach to your responses to the questions on the

                   *Senior Design Report Cover Sheet.   Turn in to Faculty project advisor for signature.

                   *COPY of signed Design Report Cover Sheet – Turn in to 108 Upson. 

                     Important - No additional design report material needs to be on file in 108 Upson except the signed Design Report Cover Sheet.

Senior Design Elective Designated Courses:

MAE4000 Components and Systems; Engineering in a Social Context (offered Fall 2009) MAE4020 Wind Power (offered Fall 2009) MAE4040 Materials Selection for Clean Mechanical Designs (offered alternate years, next offered Spring 2011) MAE4140 Mechanics of Lightweight Vehicles (offered alternate years, first offered Fall 2009) MAE4230 Intermediate Fluid Dynamics (offered Spring) MAE4250 FSAE Design Option (offered Fall and Spring) MAE4291 Supervised Senior Design Experience (offered Fall and Spring) MAE4700 Finite Element Analysis for Mechanical and Aerospace Design (Fall) MAE4860 Automotive Engineering Design (Spring)