ME 2011 Introduction to Engineering - Fall 2021
Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
09/05/2022: This website is no longer in use, and was replaced by the ME 2011 Canvas site
Welcome to Introduction to Engineering, a core course for beginning students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. The purpose of this course is to provide beginning students with an introduction to the art, practice and excitement of mechanical engineering. Design projects are used as vehicles to understand the practice of mechanical engineering. Students learn the fundamentals of visual, oral and written communication, a core set of computer-aided engineering tools, prototyping basics, and other essential skills for successful, practicing engineers. Every student invents, builds and demonstrates a computer-controlled robot that "does something useful" where the definition of "useful" is up to the student.