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Engineering - ENGR 490

Senior Design Project I

• Students are told what the professors’ expectations are for the course, i.e., find a project, preferably in a local plant, and prepare a project proposal by the end of the semester as part of a multidiscipline team.
• Each student presents a five-minute PowerPoint presentation of his (her) background focusing on particular strengths that he (she) could bring to a project.
• How to prepare and pass the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam
• Presentation by an official of the state Professional Engineer organization (LAPELS) outlining the an engineer’s need to become a registered Professional Engineer (PE)
• Presentation by Director of Career Services at McNeese focusing on job search, resume preparation and interviewing for a job
• Fundamentals of technical oral presentations
• Fundamentals of technical written communications
• Fundamentals of project management
• Fundamentals of proposal preparation
• Elements of design
• Organize Project teams based on need for each discipline and the amount of work involved
• Project teams and faculty visit company sponsors
• Each team makes a 15-minute PowerPoint  presentation of their proposal