ME 72 Engineering Design Laboratory and Competition At the beginning of the term, the students are given a design task, a "bag of junk", and 20 weeks to design and fabricate a device. Each participant, working as part of a term of two, must design, prototype, fabricate, assemble, test, debug, and tune a device to compete against pairs of classmates' devices. The course concludes with a competition that is one of the biggest events at Caltech and draws not only the Caltech community, but individuals and news media from outside campus. It is covered each year by the Pasadena Star News, has been written up by the Los Angeles Times, and occasionally receives national television coverage.
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ME 72 Engineering Design Laboratory is a two-term project based course in which teams of students design, fabricate, analyze, test, and operate an electromechanical device to compete against devices designed by other student teams. The class lectures and the projects stress the integration of mechanical design, sensing, engineering analysis, and computation to solve problems in engineering system design.
