This is a hands-on project-based course which introduces the basic engineering concepts, experimental skills and design methodology needed for the design and construction of a hardware based system. Students will work in small groups on a practical project in which they will apply the design methodology introduced to them in lectures in a design project. The project work will involve defining milestones, identifying the constraints and requirements, defining the requirement specifications of the design, making and evaluating different possible designs by carrying out experiments to obtain data for refining the design, prototyping of the final design and testing of the system built in the project.(Not for students who have taken ESTR1000.)