Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25

ENE 4100 - Energy Engineering Senior Design I


This course follows the project management course to provide a comprehensive, capstone, senior design experience for energy engineering majors. Course includes studies of the design process in the context of the design and evaluation of a solution to an energy systems related problem or need.

Requisites: ET 3300, (ISE 4490 or ETM 3830), ME 4350, and Sr. only
Credit Hours: 4
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing, Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to apply project management tools for planning, prioritizing, and scheduling tasks in a design project.
  • Students will be able to select an appropriate decision making process and implement that process to make a defensible engineering decision.
  • Students will be able to find, evaluate, and use resources to learn independently.
  • Students will be able to generate and evaluate numerous creative and feasible alternative solutions to an engineering problem.
  • Students will be able to use appropriate modeling and analysis for solving problems involving energy systems.
  • Students will be able to work effectively on project teams in both member and leader roles.
  • Students will be able to promote safety and health in all aspects of an engineering project.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate engineering competencies, including workplace effectiveness competencies.
  • Students will be able to connect experience to knowledge, make connections across disciplines, apply knowledge/skills to new situations, communicate learning, and self-reflect on learning.
  • Students will be able to deliver a purposeful and organized presentation for a specific audience using unbiased language, credible evidence, and appropriate non-verbal communications.
  • Students will be able to evaluate and apply relevant engineering codes and standards.


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