ME 340.3
Date
Fall 2011
Course Schedule
Topics
Activity
1
8/22
Course Introduction, The
Design Process
Introductions, Gossamer Condor
video and discussion
2
8/24
Personality Types, Team
Skills
Quiz1 (Ch 1, syllabus), Team
workshop
3
8/29
Ch 2 Quiz2
4
8/31
Development Processes and
Organizations (Ch 2)
Team Contract
5
9/7
Simpson’s video, Chevy Malibu case
6
7
9/12
9/14
Planning (Ch3) and
Customer Needs (Ch 4)
Product Specifications (Ch5)
Concept Generation (Ch 6)
8
9/19
Concept Selection (Ch 7)
9
9/21
10
9/26
How to Give Effective
Presentations
Project Management (Ch
16)
Concept selection exercise, in-class
inspection of design journals
Presentation Workshop
11
9/28
12
10/3
13
10/5
14
10/10
Bracket Reverse
Engineering, Midterm Exam
Review and correct CAD drawings,
compare to mating part drawing
15
10/12
Ethical Issues in Design
Ethics case study
Team Presentations and
Critique
Reverse Engineering,
Drawings, Dimensions,
Tolerancing
Industrial Design (Ch 10),
rapid prototyping
Ch 4 Quiz3, IDEO Video
Ch 5 Quiz4, Voice of customer
Ch 6,7 Quiz5, Concept generation
exercise, Design concepts in journal
Ch 16 Quiz6, Planning of Project,
make Gantt chart for Project using
MS project
Project Proposal Presentation
Bracket reverse engineering, part 1
Ch 10 Quiz7 Objectified video
Reading
completed
before
class
Items due at beginning of class
Bring journal to class, HW - hardcopy of
personality test results from
www.humanmetrics.com, complete
catme.org team selector, Lost at Sea
HW – Critique of good (or bad) product (in
journal) Solidworks 30 minute Lesson
Solidworks Tutorial Lesson 1
Completed team contract in journal and
hand in, Solidworks Tutorial Lesson 2
Solidworks Tutorial Lesson 3
LF machining class completed, Project
External search and patent search results
(in journal),
catme.org Team Checkup 1, Design
journal for feedback
Notes to Instructor
Assign survival
problem, bring blank
manila folders
Bring Jung handout
Ch 1
Ch 2
Ch 4
Assign customer needs
project
Ch 5
Ch 6, 7
Bring post-it notes
Progress Memo 1 (including external
search)
Presentation Handout, project Gantt chart
in journal
Progress Memo 2 (including executive
summary for proposal)
Project written proposal in ANGEL
dropbox (10pm, pdf file format), Bracket
CAD drawing hardcopy and in journal (by
individual)
Submit team’s corrected final bracket
drawing in pdf format by 5 pm tomorrow to
ANGEL dropbox, and in journal,
HW - ASME Canons, Ethics in the news
(in journal), Design journals collected for
grading
ME340.3
Assign Bracket Project
Ch. 10 ID
Fall 2011
Bring RP samples
Assign Ethics HW
110822
page 1 of 2
ME340.4 Course Schedule - Fall 2011
16
Date
10/17
Activity
Dewalt video, Drill Dissection session
1
Drill testing session 2
Items Due
Dissection results in journal
10/19
Topics
Benchmarking, Drill
Dissection
Drill Dissection
17
18
10/24
DFM/A, Rapid Prototyping
10/26
20
10/31
Intellectual Property and
Patents (Ch 14)
Bracket Project Conclusion,
Concept Models
21
11/2
Project
Drill Dissection memo report, DFA
exercise results in journal
Concept model complete
CATME Team Checkup 2
First Dyson Patent, Bracket memo
report and completed bracket half,
reflections in journal
Progress Memo 3
Ch. 11 DFM
19
22
11/7
Economic Analysis (Ch 15)
Ch 11 Quiz8, DFA assessment of a
consumer product
Hoover video, Discuss Hoover vs
Dyson patent case
Drill Dissection Quiz9, Mating of
bracket pairs, wrap-up and
discussion, Begin concept model
Team meetings with instructor,
Project – Design/Build/Test,
Ch 15 Quiz10, Economic analysis for
project (MS Excel)
Ch. 15 Econ
23
11/9
24
11/14
Project, DOE Design of
Experiments
Project
Dissection and/or testing related to
project
Team meetings with instructor,
Project – Design/Build/Test
25
11/16
Project
Project – Design/Build/Test
Economic analysis for project in journal
by end of class, HW Edmunds True
cost to own, Alpha prototype
test results in journal, project specific
HW
Progress Memo 4, Detailed Design
Report (10pm, ANGEL Drop box), 5 pm
deadline to submit RP jobs to Learning
Factory
CATME Team Checkup 3
26
11/28
Thanksgiving Break
Project
27
11/30
Project
28
12/5
Project
29
12/7
Last Class Meeting
Final Deliverables
Reading
Notes to Instructor
Assign Team Checkup
2
Revised Proposal
Ch 14 IP
Team meetings with instructor,
Progress Memo 5, Beta prototype
Project – Design/Build/Test
completed
Project - Poster design workshop,
Testing completed
Executive summary workshop
Project – Final competition, Poster
Final product demonstration, Poster file,
presentations
Draft final report for feedback (optional)
Reflection on project and course,
course assessment activity
Critique of good or bad product in journal, Project final report, design journal,
team peer evaluation, due 5 pm in instructor’s office, late submissions not
accepted
Assign project analysis
HW (in journal)
Assign Team Checkup
3
Assign Final Peer
Evaluation
Note: journal entry items are indicated by underlined text
ME340.3
Fall 2011
110822
page 2 of 2