Credit Hours: 3Provides in-depth study of systematic design processes, methods and tools, applied to novel design and reverse engineering. Covers contemporary research-based design theories. Includes research methods for studying design as a scientific discourse (user studies, protocol studies and case studies). Requires engineering design term projects. Recommended: Background equivalent to MEE 3090 Design of Machine Elements, MEE 3091 Theory of Machines and MEE 4194 Mechanical Engineering Design 2