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ENGR 115: Design the Tech Challenge (ENGR 215)

Students work with Tech Museum of San Jose staff to design the Tech Challenge, a yearly engineering competition for 6-12th grade students. Brainstorming, field trips to the museum, prototyping, coaching, and presentations to the Tech Challenge advisory board. See at http://techchallenge.thetech.org. May be repeated for credit.

| Repeatable for credit

ENGR 192: Engineering Public Service Project

Volunteer work on a public service project with a technical engineering component. Project requires a faculty sponsor and a community partner such as a nonprofit organization, school, or individual. Required report. See http://soe.stanford.edu/publicservice. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

| Repeatable for credit

ENGR 206: Control System Design

Design and construction of a control system and working plant. Topics include: linearity, actuator saturation, sensor placement, controller and model order; linearization by differential actuation and sensing; analog op-amp circuit implementation. Emphasis is on qualitative aspects of analysis and synthesis, generation of candidate design, and engineering tradeoffs in system selection. Large team-based project. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: 105.

ENGR 207A: Linear Control Systems I

Introduction to control of discrete-time linear systems. State-space models. Controllability and observability. The linear quadratic regulator. Prerequisite: 105 or 205.

ENGR 213: Solar Decathlon

Open to all engineering majors. Project studio for all work related to the Solar Decathlon 2013 competition. Each student will develop a personal work plan for the quarter with his or her advisor and perform multidisciplinary collaboration on designing systems for the home or pre-construction planning. Work may continue through the summer as a paid internship, as well as through the next academic year. For more information about the team and the competition, please visit solardecathlon.stanford.edu

ENGR 213B: Solar Decathlon 2015 (ENGR 113B)

Open to all majors. Seminar / Lab format course facilitates the student-led administration, conception, development, and execution of the Solar Decathlon 2015 competition entry sponsored by the US Department of Energy. (http://www.solardecathlon.gov/) Students shall learn best practices in creating design teams to address multi-disciplinary design problems. Students shall work both as individuals and in teams across multiple Stanford SD2015 phases of project management, research, fundraising, design, engineering, contracting, construction administration, and competitive testing in Irvine CA.

| Repeatable 4 times (up to 8 units total)

ENGR 213C: Solar Decathlon 2015 (ENGR 113C)

Open to all majors. Seminar / Lab format course facilitates the student-led administration, conception, development, and execution of the Solar Decathlon 2015 competition entry sponsored by the US Department of Energy. (http://www.solardecathlon.gov/) Students shall learn best practices in creating design teams to address multi-disciplinary design problems. Students shall work both as individuals and in teams across multiple Stanford SD2015 phases of project management, research, fundraising, design, engineering, contracting, construction administration, and competitive testing in Irvine CA.

| Repeatable 4 times (up to 12 units total)

ENGR 213D: SOLAR DECATHLON 2015 (ENGR 113D)

Open to all majors. Seminar / Lab format course facilitates the student-led administration, conception, development, and execution of the Solar Decathlon 2015 competition entry sponsored by the US Department of Energy. (http://www.solardecathlon.gov/) Students shall learn best practices in creating design teams to address multi-disciplinary design problems. Students shall work both as individuals and in teams across multiple Stanford SD2015 phases of project management, research, fundraising, design, engineering, contracting, construction administration, and competitive testing in Irvine CA.