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There are basically two kinds of project-based design courses at Stanford and elsewhere.
In the first kind, the instructor chooses the project, for pedagogical reasons, and every team works on the same project. Examples of such courses at Stanford include our Smart Product Design sequence, Integrated Design Manufacturing and Marketing (joint
These courses are very popular. A competitive spirit develops between the teams and the students work very hard (sometimes to the detriment of their other classes). These courses have some of the highest teaching evaluations in the School of Engineering.
The second kind of course includes ME210/310 (about which I will say more), the Design for Manufacturability course taught by Prof. Kos Ishii, and a special 4th quarter option for the Smart Products course. In these courses, each team works on a different