This document provides an overview of the proposed Engineering Design courses at IIT Jodhpur. The courses aim to train engineers to solve complex societal challenges by developing attributes like creative thinking, flexibility, problem-solving abilities, and skill in handling unconventional engineering problems. The first course, Engineering Design I, will focus on conceptual design and analysis, while the second course, Engineering Design II, will focus on realizing conceptual designs into working prototypes. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams on design problems over the academic year. The courses aim to make students motivated learners and help them think like engineers from their first year.

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Engineering Design I and II
Introduction and Course Plan
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• Energy, food and water, housing, mobility, security,
environment, and health are societal challenges of the 21st
century
• It will become even more acute as the world population
exceeds 9 billion.
• The demands for sustainable development will require
redefined and innovative engineering talent and leadership.
• These reasons build up a clear case for training engineers who
would be able to solve the above problems
Rationale : Global Societal Challenges
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These engineers are expected to have the following attributes
• Capable of Creative Thinking
• Flexibility to understand and manage rapidly evolving
technologies;
• Ability to identify, define as well as solve problems;
• Proficiency in theory and applications
• Skill for handling out-of-the box engineering challenges
Attributes of Modern Engineers
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• A simple effort to address this concern can be: to engage first-
year students in understanding and designing conceptual
solutions for complex techno-social problems like, “food
security”, ”climate change”, “energy crisis”, “health for all”,
etc.
• Students are more motivated to learn—and thus engage in the
behaviors that lead to learning—when they see value in what
they are being asked to do.
• Introducing them to the “big picture” of engineering in the
first year and to “thinking like an engineer” can be motivating
on several levels, including helping to show the relevance of
the concurrent fundamental science and math courses they
are taking.
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• Second, beyond learning the necessary technical aspects of
engineering, students must learn intellectual skills, including
the approaches engineers take as they engage in problem
solving and design.
• Design projects in the first year get students into teams early
(replicating “real world” engineering) and connect them with
faculty members for Engineering, Sciences and Humanites .
• Design projects that focus on the social impact of engineering
work may enable students to understand social context of
engineering.
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• To focus more heavily conceptual design methods and less on
discipline-specific artifacts,
• Teach that design is open-ended (hence several teams working
independently and in parallel on the same project);
• Solve numerous engineering challenges beyond domains of
traditional disciplines with Science and Humanities as an integral
component
• Learn to thinks and work like engineers by introducing skills like
structuring ill-structured problems, decomposing problems,
identifying parameters and constraints, working in teams, etc.
Course Objectives
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• Create avenues for making students continuously engaged in
these intellectual processes throughout the curriculum—not
just in their final year
• Provide continual integrative experiences to help students to
expand and deepen their “internal knowledge structure” of
the discipline which will aid their eventual retrieval and use.
• Expose them with Social context of engineering as an integral
part of this process to help in understanding how the
technology is shaped by the social and how much the
technology can reshape the social.
Course Objectives
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• The course will be required to opt a pedagogy that is beyond
the regular class room teaching.
• All B.Tech. Studnted have been divided into 12 groups. With
each group containing ~40 students.
• Within a A group two/three faculty members one from
engineering and one/two from
science/humanities/management background would mentor 5
students’ Team.
• An interdisciplinary team of eight students would work on a
design problem throughout the year.
Course Organization
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• 2 faculty members allocated 5 groups and each
group contains ~7-8 students
Course Organization
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Faculty involvement Groups 1-3 Groups 4-6
1st hour Interaction Working on Problem
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• Encourage students to discuss and work collectively in sub groups.
• Interact with students group regularly and through discussion help
them in identifying problem and to evolve design thinking.
• Emphasize on factors such as: novelty, social context , extent of
improvement, acceptability among all stakeholders, technical
feasibility, ease of implementation, etc. during the course.
• Mentor may allocate Research Scholars/M.Tech./M.Sc. Students
• Mentors may refer to other faculty member as required
The role of the mentors
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Some of the questions that can be discussed during the
brainstorming sessions are:
• What is the problem which needs to be addressed by a sub
group?
• How is the problem important from social context?
• What methodology will be followed towards solution of the
problem at hand?
• What is the solution proposed? How does it work?
• How is your solution different or better than pre-existing
alternatives?
Some questions to be raised
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• The course will be run across two semesters.
• The first semester will emphasize on conceptual design and
analysis of engineering problems and develop the ability to
visualize the solution
• The second semester would focus on realization of conceptual
design to a working prototype. The detailed course content is
given next.
Course Schedule
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Course Content: Engineering Design I
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Title Engineering Design I Number OAN1XX0
Department All Departments L-T-P [C] 0–0–2 [1]
Offered for B.Tech. 1st Year (All branches) Type Compulsory
Prerequisite Nil
Objectives
1. To design and analysis of engineering problems and develop the ability to visualize the solution.
Learning Outcomes
1. Approach to solve unstructured engineering design problems.
Contents
Engineering Design: Problem Definition, Background research, Identifying Performance Specifications,
Ideation, Analysis of Design, Selection, Graphical Realization, Animation, Case studies on design
conceptualization
Self Learning Material
1. https://www.edx.org/course/design-thinking-for-leading-and-learning-0
2. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/engineering-systems-division/esd-051j-engineering-innovation-and-
design-fall-2012/
3. https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=design%20thinking
4. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-810-engineering-design-and-rapid-
prototyping-january-iap-2007/
5. http://techpedia.in
6. http://rutag.iitd.ac.in/rutag/

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Problem Definition
(2 classes)
Background
research and
Constraint
Identification
(2 classes)
Ideation
(2 classes)
Validation of Ideas
(2 classes)
Design Visualization
(2 classes)
Selection of Design
(1 class)
Presentation of
Design
(1 Class)
Final report and
making of Video of
model
Engineering Design I: Milestones
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Course Content: Engineering Design
II
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Title Engineering Design II Number OAN1XX0
Department All Departments L-T-P [C] 0–0–2 [1]
Offered for B.Tech. 1st Year (All branches) Type Compulsory
Prerequisite Nil
Objectives
1. Understand to realizes conceptual design to a working prototype
Learning Outcomes
1. Develop insight to realize an engineering product
Contents
Product Realization: Selection of Materials, Modelling and Simulation, Dimensioning and Tolerance,
Prototyping, Prototype Refinement, Integrating mechanical and electrical elements, controller
integration and programming, Case studies on design realization
Self Learning Material
1. https://www.edx.org/course/design-thinking-for-leading-and-learning-0
2. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/engineering-systems-division/esd-051j-engineering-innovation-
and-design-fall-2012/
3. https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=design%20thinking
4. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-810-engineering-design-and-
rapid-prototyping-january-iap-2007/
5. http://techpedia.in
6. http://rutag.iitd.ac.in/rutag/

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Analysis of design
(2 classes)
Modelling and
Simulation
(2 classes)
Case studies on
product realization
(1 class)
Dimensioning and
Selection of
material
(1 classes)
Prototyping
(2 classes)
Prototype
refinement
(1 classes)
Integrating
Electrical and
Mechanical
Elements
(1 class)
Programming
(1 Class)
Final Presentation
(1 class)
Video making and
uploading on
Google Classoroom
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Evaluation component would be as follows:
• Class-wise continuous evaluation: 60% (Group contribution 30%, Individual
contribution 30%)
Final presentation: 30% (Group contribution 15%, Individual contribution 15%). Each
group will be required to submit a report not exceeding 10-page before evaluation in
line with milestone shared.
Group contribution marks will be give only to students present during the discussion.
• Report submission and Video creation (Engineering Design II only): 10%
• [Each student will also submit one page report on his/her contribution which
will also be added as annexures ]
(Below also find a link to videos of some interesting projects done at IIT Delhi for a
similar course for reference. http://web.iitd.ac.in/~pvmrao/mcp_101_course.htm.
Similar videos are required to be created.)
• Both video and report to be submitted in Google classroom as assignments.
Evaluation Policy
1. Overall Evaluation of students will be out of Total 100 marks, and a student needs to
score 40 marks to pass the course (S grade)
2. Students getting less than 40 marks will be awarded X grade, and will be required to
spend time in summer for the course
3. Incomplete evaluation will lead to I grade.
4. Please avoid giving similar marks to all students or all marks in a narrow zone.
5. U grade if student never attended the course
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Engineering Design I
• Classes will begin on 08 Dec 2021.
• Classes will continue till 25 Feb 2022
• Report Submission: 06 Mar 2022
• Date of Evaluation: 07 Mar 2022.
• Submission of final marks and grade by 09 Mar 2022 in this sheet.
Engineering Design II
• Classes will begin on 23 March 2022
• Classes will continue till 17 Jun 2022
• Video and Report Submission: 25 Jun 2022
• Date of Evaluation: 26 Jun 2022.
• Submission of final marks by 28 Jun 2022 in this sheet.
Course Timeline
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1. Motivation (1 page)
2. Problem statement
3. Background research (2 pages)
4. Ideation and Proposed solutions (2 pages)
5. Evaluation based on Decision matrix and the elements for
comparison (1 page)
6. Final solution and Progress made so far (to be pursued
during the course) (2 pages)
7. Contribution of each group member (half page)
8. Work to be done in the coming semester (half page)
Note: Each student will also submit one page report on
his/her contribution which will also be added as annexures
to the main report
Presentation/Report Template (ED1)
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1. Motivation and summary of work done in ED1 (1 page)
2. Work Description of ED2
3. Analysis of Design (2 pages)
4. Modelling and simulation (2 pages)
5. Dimensioning and material selection (1 page)
6. Prototyping and refinement (2 pages)
7. Integrating Electrical and Mechanical Elements(1 page)
8. Demonstration of the final design (1 page)
9. Contribution of each group member (half page)
Note: Each student will also submit one page report on
his/her contribution which will also be added as annexures
to the main report
Presentation/Report Template (ED-II)
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Please refer the following for purchase and reimbursement of consumables for making proof of
concept prototype for Engineering Design II course:
1) Each student team may be allowed to spend up to Rs. 7,000/- for proof of concept prototype development
only after approval from the Faculty mentor.
2) Budget will be only for consumable items.
3) Students need to be clearly instructed that reimbursement will be done against the GST bill only. Either
computer-generated or signed.
4) The amount will be allocated to the office of academics.
5) A student may be designated from each group for handling account matters.
6) The student will first take the approval of purchase from faculty mentors, then will purchase the items under
the guidance of the Faculty Mentor and subsequently apply for reimbursement with the help of the faculty
mentor.
7) All purchases will be done following the Institute purchase procedure. Purchases would be through GEM
wherever applicable. Any Non GEM purchases should be done with proper justification as per institute
guidelines or only after getting a GEM non-availability certificate through the office of respective departments.
8) Faculty mentor will Arrange to fill up Form A4 (Accounts) with the help of TAs/students, sign all bills and the
form and forward them to the office of academics for reimbursement. Also attached GEM non-availability
certificate if applicable
9) Purchase for ED II can be initiated post 01 April 2022, bills will be Settled by 31st July 2022.
Purchase Procedure for Prototype building
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