MITES - Engineering Design

The MITES Engineering Design elective course teaches students a creative design process, based on the scientific method, with lectures and the creation, engineering, and manufacture of a remote-controlled machine. Students learn to identify problems and create, develop, and select the best strategies using fundamental principles, appropriate analysis, and experimentation. Students then divide their best concept into modules and develop the critical modules first. The class is based off of MIT's 2.007 competition, which is normally taken by mechanical engineering sophomores over a semester. Recent years have seen the students making increasing use of Arduino microcontrollers and various sensors to program autonomous behavior in their robots.