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Engineering Design and Development (PLTW)
PLTW-ENGINEERING DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Course Code:81212CDepartment:Career & Technical Ed.
Credit:1.00 (Academic)CFLC(s):Engineering
Recommendation Required
Prerequisite(s): Principles of Engineering (PLTW)
An engineering research course in which students work in teams to research, design and construct a solution to an open-ended engineering problem. Students apply principles developed in the four preceding courses and are guided by a community mentor. They must present progress reports, submit a final written report and defend their solutions to a panel of outside reviewers at the end of the school year. Students taking this course MUST have taken the two foundation courses (IED and POE) and two speciality courses to be enrolled.

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