This course is a prototype run of a new 2-unit freshman design
seminar. Students will be helping design the course, as well
whatever projects we take on. The current goal is to have small
teams (2–4 students) design low-cost lab equipment suitable
for hobbyists or home school, middle school, or high school science labs.
A major goal of the course is to get students thinking like
engineers: asking questions like "How can we make something that
does this?", "What are the constraints on the design?", "Will this
part do what we want?", "How much would it cost to do that?"