ME470 - Fall Calendar (2006-2007) (Final Copy)
Dr. Greg Kremer, Ohio University, Mechanical Engineering
Team Pages , Project Page
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 Monday

Tuesday (9-10)

Wed.

Thursday (9-10)

Friday (9-11)

   Sep

 4
Labor Day

 5 - Intros & Administrative
* ME470 Info page

* Goals of Capstone Experience (pdf)
* Calendar discussion
* Blackboard course page
* Program Objectives
* Design Notebook
* "How-2-Be" a good engineer
* Team Formation Discussion & Assignment
Meyers Briggs Type

Natural Team Role

Learning Styles

 

6

 7

Celebrating our diversity: Team Formation Activity

 

Team Formation Survey

 

 

 8

Design Process &

Final Design Report (Begin with end in mind)

 

IDEO video

Creativity,

voice of the customer,

team process &

Conceptual Design

 

Review Energy situation, needs statements, project status (prototypes and vehicles) and begin project re-definition

 

Introduce teams & begin project discussions

 11

 

This week teams nominate 2-3 "manufacturing leaders" - See Randy in 011

 

 

 12

 

Teams post on Blackboard a WORD file containing all team members' individual thoughts and research on "needs", and a consensus needs statement. 1 team member will make a short informal presentation (PPoint recommended, just a few slides) describing and justifying the team's proposed needs statement (which may or may not agree with last year's needs statement)

 

 13

 

 14

Crafting a Good Argument

 

Synopsis of proposed needs areas

 

Work towards consensus on needs statements and project

 

 

 15
9-10AM: ME board stories on "How-2-Be" an engineer

Stories from 2005
David Althausen - ethical dilemma

Tom Wakeman

Art Chonko

Russ Tipton

Andy Hughes

Terry Russell

 

Quality - Time - Cost Tradeoff

 

10-11AM, Terry Russell: Effective Teamwork

 18

 

Teams post refined needs statement and T-chart and summary statement to BBoard DB forum by 10AM.  All students read all other team's postings before Tuesday's class.

 

Work on "Team Profile" web pages this week using KEEP toolkit or similar.

 19
Class Operating Procedures, especially wrt academic honesty in team context - TBD

Team Profile, including operating procedures

Review needs statements and T-charts from teams

·        Commonalities and need for more justification and evidence - Human power example - Dr. Iz

·        Work towards consensus on needs statement(s)

Begin Lab safety training for Manufacturing leaders (as scheduled with Randy)

 20

 21

Needs statements - v1

FOCUS: Voice of the Customer
Frame the project
Organize resources

Before Friday's class each individual team member must independently generate a prioritized list of customers and proposed ?s & observations.  Post the lists on your team blackboard file sharing page.

 

 

 22 -
Library / Data Base Search
(Bob Houdek)

Standards Search:
CPSC
ANSI
NSSN (Global)
NIST
(Bob Houdek)

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FOCUS: Collect

Discuss/Develop interview and observation guides and plans

Begin interviews & observations

Teams_tasks & cooperation

 Oct

 25

 

 26 -

Intellectual Property Rights & Patent Search

 

Summary of the slide Presentation
(Dr Graham)

 

Team Profile web pages due

 

 27

Post team plan & individual research results (by end of day put outline of team's research plan and individual results that correspond to the plan in the team file exchange or team discussion board.)

 28 - FOCUS:
     Understand

Team Presentations on customer requirements and benchmarking (continue into Friday's class if needed) - also serves as practice round to prepare for formal presentations

Presentation order
3
4
6
5
2
1

29 - FOCUS:
     Understand

Team Presentations (continued)

Discuss customer requirement statements, specs and constraints

Standards
  ASME Article

Example forklift specs

Example: Specs for Powered Shopping Cart

 

 2

 

Continue interviews and observations and research

 3 -

Reminder about Context and the final design / prototype dynamic interplay

 

Team status/update on customers, needs and requirements

 

Design Notebook reminders and examples

 

Intro to Target Specifications

Develop Target Specs

 

 4

 

Teams post customer requirement
statements
with values from benchmarking and interviews /observations

 5 -

Discuss Target Specs

 

Academic Integrity in the Capstone Design Experience - Discussion

 

Peer Ratings (please complete on Blackboard by 8AM Tuesday 10/10)

 6

 

FOCUS:  Select

Conceptual Design Intro

 

Creativity

 

Analytical Models for Design.

 

Concept Evaluation and Selection

 

First draft of Design Report Sections 1-4 due by end of day for mentor review and feedback (WORD file template) - send via email to advisory board and Dr. Kremer

 9 -

 10

Meetings with individual teams - Team 1 (9-9:30) and Team 3 (9:35-10AM).
Team 2 (10AM)
Bring a workable copy of target specs to the team meeting.

Peer ratings due by 8AM

Team profile and design notebook checks this week. ...

Feedback from team mentors this week...

 11 

 12 

Meetings with individual teams - Team 4 (9-9:30) and Team 6 (9:35-10AM). Bring a workable copy of target specs to the team meeting.

 

 13  
Meetings with individual teams - Team 5 (9:10-9:40) Bring a workable copy of target specs to the team meeting.

Meetings with EPCT vehicle improvement teams [1,2,5], (9:45AM-10:15AM)

Meetings with small vehicle teams [3,6], (10:30-11AM)

Common Needs statement and specs for land vehicle projects

Bring Design Notebooks to class or to my office before noon

 16-

Design Report 2nd draft due by end of day (revised based on feedback received, and updated with any new info - this is a graded copy)

 17

Project Review Presentations by teams 1 and 2, up to current status. 

Presentation  Style Expectations
 

 18 

 19

Project Review Presentations by teams 5 and 6, up to current status.  

 20 -

Project Review Presentations by teams 3 and 4, up to current status.

 

Example graded reports from last year - power calcs for feasibility

Hit 'n Run

SkidMark

 

Ford video - concept development

 

PE Fundamentals Exam - why take it?

  * To license or not...?

* National Council of 
Examiners Website

 

Project Planning Presentation

 

 23
 

 24 -

Meeting with Team 2 - Presentation and report feedback, business opportunity statement review, project plan review, CD status

 

 25

Meeting with Team 1...

 

RCENT Student Workshop on Academic Honesty

 

 26

Meeting with Team 5 - Presentation and report feedback, business opportunity statement review, project plan review, CD status

 

 

 

 27 -

Meeting with Team 4 (9:10 - 10) & Team 3 (10:10 - 11)- Presentation and report feedback, business opportunity statement review, project plan review, CD status

 

Work with Board reviewers through the next week to get feedback on business opportunity statement, project planning schedule and conceptual designs that address your "business opportunity"

 Nov

 30

 

 31 - 
Meeting with Team 6 - Presentation and report feedback, business opportunity statement review, project plan review, CD status

 

 1

 2 -

 All teams meet in class

 

Executive Summary  discussion

 * Tollgate 1 Summary guidelines


Example Reports with executive Summaries:
David Althausen's Piping design report
ORNL Energy Report

 

Reflection reports, including Course Outcomes Assessment and Engineering Identity

 

DR1 guidelines

 3 -

General Lab safety discussion led by Randy Mulford. 
Each team should report to the 011 lab at the assigned time. 
This training is required for lab access (badge and swipe card).

9 AM: Team 3

9:20 AM: Team 2

9:40 AM: Team 4

10 AM: Team 1

10:20 AM: Team 6

10:40 AM: Team 5

 6

Design Report 3rd draft due by 7AM (Focus on Conceptual Design Sections (5&6).

Include final draft of business opportunity statement in Appendix. Separately submit an outline showing the development of the argument or message in the statement.)

7 - DR1: Conceptual Design Selection  (team6, team5)

Presentation Review guidelines

 

 8

 9 - DR1: Conceptual Design Selection (team 4, team 3)

 10
Veterans Day
(no classes)

Executive Summary

* Audience, purpose, and outline due.  Also submit a draft copy of the summary if you want feedback prior to resubmittal

  Tollgate 1 Summary guidelines

 13

 

 14  Last day of classes

DR1: Conceptual Design Selection (team 2, team 1)

Submit Design Notebook for grading 

 16
Reading Day

 17


 

 

 

 18

Dr. Kremer is at the Lilly Conference on College Teaching
 

 

 20

Due at end of Final Exam period (noon):

Design Report* Through Section 6

 

Project Planning through 1st Week of Winter Quarter (in report or submitted separately)

 

Individual Executive Summary

Individual Reflection report

Peer Ratings (on Blackboard)


Class Evaluations

 21

 

Info leading into ME471

 

Intra-city vehicle rental system based on cell phones

 

Toyota PM electric concept vehicle

 

Tollgate 1& Introduction to Design Methods & Value Engineering

 

Teams - Conflict Resolution

 

 22

 23
Thanksgiving Day

 24

 

* Quality of Design Report will determine "common spec" values, approval to continue with proposed project scope
(if feasibility is not proven, faculty/board will limit or modify your project scope), and priority order for use of existing vehicles/parts.

Graded copies of design reports

The Goonies DR1 Design Report

Team Sunken Boat DR1 Design Report

Athens County Choppers DR1 Design Report

Hocking River Pirates DR1 Design Report

MeCAT DR1 Design Report

The Sembilanagon DR1 Design Report

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