Engineering Design and Development (PLTW)

N1303749 Engineering Design and Development (Project Lead the Way)

Recommended Grade Levels: 11-12

Prerequisite: Introduction to Engineering Design (PLTW)

Credit: 1

Description: Engineering Design and Development is the capstone course in the PLTW high school engineering program. It is an open-ended engineering research course in which students design and develop an original solution to a well-defined and justified open-ended problem by applying an engineering design process. Students perform research to select, define, and justify a problem. After carefully defining the design requirements and creating multiple solutions, students select an approach, create, and test the solution prototype. Students present and defend their solution to an outside panel. While progressing through the engineering design process, students work closely with experts and continually hone their organizational, communication and interpersonal skills, and their creative and problem solving abilities.