- WWW Resources
Archive
- ME 349: Engineering Design Projects, Fall 2007 (Martin), formerly Course Homepage of Martin
- ME 349: Engineering Design Projects, Spring 2004 (Bower), formerly Course Homepage of Bower
- ME 349: Engineering Design Projects, Fall 2003 (Martin), formerly Course Homepage of Martin, Fall 2003
- ME 349: EPICS - Project 1: Moo-v-ability, Fall 2003 (Fronczak), formerly Course Homepage of instructor Fronczak
- ME 349: Engineering Design Projects, Spring 2003 (mitchell), formerly Course Homepage of mitchell
- ME 349: Engineering Design Projects, Spring 2003 (Martin), formerly Course Homepage of Martin, Spring 2003
- ME 349: Engineering Design Projects, Spring 2003 (Franchino), formerly Course Homepage of instructor Franchino
- ME 349: Interdisciplinary Design and Problem Solving - ME Page, Spring 2000 (Lee)
- ME 349: Engineering Design Projects, Spring 2000 (Milestone / Elder)
- Catalog Description
- 349 Engineering Design Projects. I, II, SS; 3 cr.
Applied engineering design projects. Emphasis
on design of practical mechanical engineering systems,
devices and/or components. Two 2-hr
labs and one lecture per week. Lecture focuses on the
design process, creativity, patents, and
other applications to practical problems. P: ME 314,
342 & 364.
- Course Prerequisite(s)
- See catalog description above.
- Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills
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This is the capstone design experience for students in mechanical engineering. It is imperative that students have completed and learned all prerequisite course material.
- Textbook(s) and/or other required material
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Ullman, David G., The Mechanical Design Process, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill
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A bound design notebook for maintaining a design record
- Course objectives
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The course has several objectives:
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Students must learn and understand the overall design process.
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Students must complete a design project through the detailed design stage in a timely maner.
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Students must enhance their ability to work in teams.
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Students must demonstrate a professional level of communication (written, graphical/drawing and verbal)and presentation skills with clients, vendors and peers.
- Topics covered
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The emphasis in this course in not on studying from a list of topics, but rather it is a project course. Students work in teams on a semester-long project. Some topics covered include presentation and discussions on the design process, intellectual property, task planning and management, quality function deployment, techniques for concept generation, techniques for concept evaluation/selection, and design documentation. Depending upon the projects, other topics may also be included.
- Class/laboratory schedule
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Each course section formally meets two hours each day, two days each week. During these scheduled course meetings the instructor typically presents and discusses a design topic for one hour and meets individually with student design teams during the other three hours. In addition each student team is expected to work on their project for an additional 8 to 12 hours per week outside of the scheduled class time.
- Contribution of course to meeting the professional component
- This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, and does provide design experience.
The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.
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Students are required to consider function and performance, natural physical laws and principles, empirical knowledge and information, appropriate codes and standards, conservation of economic and natural resources, manufacturability, producibility, maintainability, assembility, reliability, serviceability, and safety in their designs.
- Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes
- This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives.
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This course provides students with an opportunity to apply their creative and mechanical engineering skills and knowledge, along with their learned knowledge and understanding of the design process, to identify, solve, and document the solution to a real mechanical engineering design problem.
- Assessment of student progress toward course objectives
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During the course of the semester each student/student team is required to submit, in a timely manner, the following documents for assessment and evaluation.
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Design Project Proposal Report
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Quality Function Deployment Report and Product Design Specifications
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Preliminary Design Report
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Progress Reports (oral and written)
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Final Design Project Report including
Layout drawing(s)
Parts drawings
Parts List
Student Design Notebooks
Project summary including discussion of
economics, manufacturing, etc.
- Person(s) who prepared this description