Course Documents
Objectives
Progress Reports
- Schedule
- Design Development
- Brainstorming – What might
- Idea screening – Show me it could work
- Modeling – Show me how you think it could work
- Prototyping – Show me how you know it will work
- Testing – Show me it does work
- Refinement – Make it work well
- Understand the iterative nature of design
Expect changes. There has to be flexibility in the system. Changes that are outside of the approved scope must be approved.
Identify Constraints, state assumptions
- Time
- Cost
- Equipment
- Knowledge/Skill
- Materials
What courses have taught you tools you can apply to your project.
- List courses
- Create questions and problems from each course that applies.
- Minimum 10 questions or problems
Specific Requirements
- Safety Critical projects will not be accepted
- Specific facility & equipment restrictions:
- See advisor. For example:
- Plasma cutting – 16 gauge is best. Use 16 gauge steel.
- Welded Parts – Use steel
- Machined parts – limit CNC machining, use aluminum
- Laser Parts – Use MDF (.25 max) or Acrylic (.25 max)
- See advisor. For example:
