The final year project extends over a two-regular-semesters period. In Project (1), student teams are assigned engineering problems involving a major engineering design component in which students apply the accumulated knowledge and skills gained throughout the mechanical engineering program. The assigned engineering problems may be theoretical, experimental or both. In the first semester, the students study the problem assigned and its theoretical background, set the approach, review the state of the art, make the problem analysis and preliminary design, and write a progress report including a cost estimate (if applicable) and timetable for achieving the whole project.