Course description:Praxis II follows from Praxis I and challenges students to apply, enhance, and refine their engineering design and communication skills. The design projects in Praxis II are both identified and defined by the students themselves and focus on issues for communities and citizens in the Greater Toronto Area. In the first half of the course students, working in small teams, identify, frame, and document appropriate engineering design opportunities; in the second half they design, prototype, and present engineering designs to a subset of those identified opportunities. In support of these activities, students continue to explore in greater depth the theories, tools, and practices of engineering design and communication. Praxis II culminates in an open showcase where students present their designs to representatives from interested governmental and non-governmental agencies, their project stakeholders, and the general public.

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