Office: Room 433 Clyde Building, Hours Tuesday and Thursday 10-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m.
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The text that has been used for the last few years is, "Product Design and Development, Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger, McGraw - Hill Inc. We are using the 4th edition this year. The text is also used for the Mechanical Engineering Capstone Program and has a lot of valuable resource material for project management. It can be purchased in the bookstore and paperback versions are available on the internet at Amazon.com. The text is not mandatory, but if you plan on being involved in project management in your career, it is an excellent resource. (By the way, this course is available from MIT for engineering managers in a 5 day format for $7950. You get it for free with your BYU Tuition!!”)
For Winter_2012, all sections of EE 490 will meet together on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. in room 254 CB.
ECEn 490 integrates a challenging senior design project with a simulation of an industrial workplace environment.
The students will learn a structured design methodology similar to what most engineers use in the actual workplace.
The students will work in teams, and each team will be responsible for defining, scheduling, completing, and documenting their project.
Each project is expected to develop a website to communicate the progress of their project. This website should contain the latest versions of the project control documents, minutes of project meetings, progress reports, pictures, etc.
Grades will be based on the results of; 1. The team performance, 2. The actual execution of the project, 3. The quality of the project documentation, and 4. Written and oral presentations. There will be four written documents associated with the class plus three oral presentations. These are to be done as a team, and the team will be graded as a group.
· Complete a significant design project and learn new technical skills.
· Learn to use a structured design process to take your design from concept to final prototype.
· Learn to function as part of an engineering team.
· Learn and practice written and oral communication and presentation skills.
· Work in a design environment with real-world design constraints.
These lectures will be focused on the design processes associated with completing the Senior Project. We will have several types of projects represented in the class. The lectures are intended to parallel the actual technology development that will be taking place during the semester, but may not align exactly with each project.
Most of the homework assignments are the management documents that contain the key information needed to complete the design process.
· The team will produce three control documents and a Final Report; namely,
o A Functional Specification for your project,
o A Concept Generation & Selection Document, (CG&S)
o and Project Plan/Schedule.
· There will be several brief homework assignments that are to be emailed to Brother Clifford.
Recent Postings
Class instruction and follow-up notes can be found by following the highlighted links below. Look there for up-to-date information and instruction.
I have added the letter to the team leaders highlighting their responsibilities.
Electronic
copies of the lectures and course handouts may be obtained on the website. Current information that is available is
highlighted below. Click on the links
below for access.
Winter 2012_Syllabus –All reading assignments are from Ulrich and Eppinger unless noted.
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Thurs, Jan 5 |
Chapter 1 |
Determine team membership |
Functional Specification Description |
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Tues, Jan 10 |
Chapter 3 |
Complete Team Assignment sheets |
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Thurs Jan 12 |
Chapter 2 |
*Teamwork Assignment Sheets due via email. * Develop the Body of Facts (BOF) for your project. |
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Tues Jan 17 |
Chapter 4 |
Complete the “customer needs” process and table |
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Thurs Jan 19 |
Chapter 5 |
*Decide on Team management site * Work on the FSD. *Develop 5 specifications from Cust needs |
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Tues Jan 24 |
Chapter 6 |
10 concept fragments for your project next class |
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Chapter 7 |
* FSD due * Complete a scoring matrix for one design concept |
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Tues Jan 31 |
Class notes |
* Concept Generation and Selection Doc due |
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Tues-Thurs Feb7-9 |
First Design Reviews |
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Tues Feb 14 |
Chapter 16 |
Schedule example 1 |
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Thurs Feb 16 |
Chapter 12 |
Develop your schedule task list |
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Tues Feb 21 |
Monday instruction |
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Thurs Feb 23 |
Class notes |
Project Schedule due |
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Tues Feb 28 |
Chapter 15 |
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Thurs Mar 1 |
Product quality Robust Design |
Chapter 11 & 13 |
Develop a “test suite” for the key product specs in the FSD. |
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Tues Mar 6 |
Class notes |
Test suite due |
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Thurs Mar 8 |
2nd Design Reviews |
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Tues Mar 13 |
2nd Design Reviews, Cont |
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Mar 15-Apr 11 |
Open for team meetings, technical instruction, consulting, etc. |
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Apr 11 |
Final Reports and presentations, (last day of class) |
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Sample final reports |
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Apr 14-19 |
Finals, Presentations, Reports |
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Final Reports due (probably due sooner) |
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