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Week No. |
Project Phase |
Week date |
Topic |
Project Activity and Assignment Handouts |
Deliverables Due |
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1 |
Project Initiation Phase |
23-Aug |
Introductions; Syllabus Overview; Schedule
Review; Meet the Team; Introduction to the Product Design
Process; |
Application forms for Company Assignment |
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25-Aug |
Project Presentations |
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2 |
30-Aug |
Project Presentations |
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1-Sep |
Projects, Teamwork, Ethics and Professional
Responsibility; Program Management Plan |
Project Management Plan Assignment |
Application Forms for Company Assignment |
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3 |
Project Planning Phase |
6-Sep |
Defining and Solving Design Problems; Formulating
the Design |
Request for Proposal (RFP) |
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8-Sep |
Project Lab |
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RFP Assignment |
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4 |
13-Sep |
Requirements definition; House of Quality; QFD;
Engineering Design Specifications |
Engineering Design Specification (EDS) |
Project Management Plan |
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15-Sep |
Project Lab |
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Weekly Report |
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5 |
20-Sep |
Concept Design; Activity analysis; Function
decomposition; Design for human factors |
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Engineering Design Specification (EDS) |
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22-Sep |
Project Lab |
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Weekly Report |
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6 |
Project Execution Phase |
Project Monitoring and Control |
27-Sep |
Selecting Materials; Mechanical, Physical,
Classes and Material Selection Methods; Selecting Manufacturing
Processes: molding, casting, metal forming; machining;
finishing; assembly |
Conceptual Design Report and Preliminary Design
Review (PDR) Assignment |
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29-Sep |
Project Lab |
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Weekly Report Monthly
Report Peer Evaluation |
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7 |
4-Oct |
The application of Geometric dimensioning and
tolerancing |
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6-Oct |
Project Lab |
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Conceptual Design Report; Weekly Report |
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8 |
11-Oct |
Preliminary Design Review (PDR) Presentations |
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Preliminary Design Review (PDR) presentation |
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13-Oct |
Preliminary Design Review (PDR) Presentations |
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Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
Presentation Weekly
Report |
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9 |
18-Oct |
FALL BREAK |
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20-Oct |
FALL BREAK |
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10 |
25-Oct |
Configuration design; Analyzing & Refining
Configuration Alternatives; Design for Function; DFA; DFM;
Manufacturing costs and selection |
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27-Oct |
Project Lab |
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Weekly Report Monthly
Report Peer Evaluation |
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11 |
1-Nov |
Parametric Design; Design for Robustness |
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3-Nov |
Project Lab |
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Weekly Report |
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12 |
8-Nov |
Building & testing prototypes |
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10-Nov |
Project Lab |
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Weekly Report |
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13 |
15-Nov |
Design for X: Failure modes & effects analysis;
PDR discussion |
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17-Nov |
Project Lab |
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Weekly Report |
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14 |
22-Nov |
Detailed Design and Concurrent Engineering |
Critical Design Review (CDR) assignment |
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24-Nov |
Project Lab |
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Weekly Report |
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15 |
29-Nov |
Critical Design Review (CDR) presentations |
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Peer Evaluation |
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1-Dec |
Critical Design Review (CDR) presentations |
Critical Design Review (CDR) |
Weekly Report Critical
Design Review (CDR) |
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16 |
Close Out |
6-Dec |
FINAL EXAMINATION |
|
Exam |
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8-Dec |
(7:00 - 9:50 p.m.) |
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Exam |
