focus areas. The expertise areas weredivided in the following categories: 1. Customer needs 2. Concept generation 3. Product reliability 4. Product architecture 5. Product robustness 6. Legal and ethical 7. BudgetingThe above mentioned expertise areas encompass the entire EDM syllabus and include the variousdesign tools and methods covered in class lectures. The main goals for including this approach areas follows: • Students are encouraged to not only grasp the aspects of the entire design cycle in general, but also are exposed to individual responsibility by choosing a focus area, a practice that they would take in working on their design projects. • Teams and their leaders learn the practice of