Engineering Vision Grant Submittal Founded in 2003, the Graduate Program in Product-Architecture and Engineering at Stevens is a pioneering interdisciplinary design program integrating the study of mechanical engineering, architecture and computer science with advanced production methodologies and emerging materials. Comprised of Mechanical Engineers, Industrial Designers, Architects, Mathematicians and Computer Scientists, the program overcomes longstanding deficiencies in design education by creating a distinctive fusion of design culture, technology and research. The curriculum focuses on intense and creative collaborations between designers, engineers, scientists and manufacturers through applied research on real projects with the most progressive design and engineering offices in New York City, Los Angeles and London. This upstart graduate degree program, which resides in Stevens’ Mechanical Engineering Department, offers a two-year, 30 credit Masters Degree in Product-Architecture and Engineering as well as a 12 credit Graduate Certificate in Product-Architecture and Engineering. The curriculum; a sequential assemblage of technical content, research and collaborative design projects, culminates with a final design thesis. Quite often, the intellectual content of the thesis work forms the basis for subsequent and continued collaboration with established design and engineering firms. Subsequently, prospective graduates of this program have entered these practices at far more advanced levels than those coming from extremely reputable MArch and MEng programs as their abilities and interdisciplinary exposure more poignantly represent the future of design education in general. Program Overview: Curriculum
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Engineering Vision Grant Submittal
Founded in 2003, the Graduate Program in Product-Architecture and Engineering at Stevens is a
pioneering interdisciplinary design program integrating the study of mechanical engineering, architecture
and computer science with advanced production methodologies and emerging materials. Comprised of
Mechanical Engineers, Industrial Designers, Architects, Mathematicians and Computer Scientists, the
program overcomes longstanding deficiencies in design education by creating a distinctive fusion of design
culture, technology and research. The curriculum focuses on intense and creative collaborations between
designers, engineers, scientists and manufacturers through applied research on real projects with the
most progressive design and engineering offices in New York City, Los Angeles and London.
This upstart graduate degree program, which resides in Stevens’ Mechanical Engineering Department,
offers a two-year, 30 credit Masters Degree in Product-Architecture and Engineering as well as a 12 credit
Graduate Certificate in Product-Architecture and Engineering.
The curriculum; a sequential assemblage of technical content, research and collaborative design projects,
culminates with a final design thesis. Quite often, the intellectual content of the thesis work forms the
basis for subsequent and continued collaboration with established design and engineering firms.
Subsequently, prospective graduates of this program have entered these practices at far more advanced
levels than those coming from extremely reputable MArch and MEng programs as their abilities and
interdisciplinary exposure more poignantly represent the future of design education in general.
Program Overview: Curriculum
The first semester establishes the core of the curriculum while also serving as the fundamental base for all
design research by focusing on the object oriented CATIA modeling platform. Here, students are
introduced through CATIA concepts in object oriented data, conditional design and parametric
methodologies. Predetermined design performance criteria are established for each design project while
predetermined formal solutions are discouraged. Students are taught to put aside traditional design
concepts in lieu of a rule based approach to form generation and component based assembly.
During this initial term, students are concurrently studying concepts in mechanics of solids (FEM) and
environmental analysis (CFD).
▪ The Rapidly Deployable Kayak by first year student, David Wight (mechanical engineer),