Welcome to Capstone Design!
Integrated Product and Process Design
ME 475-476
Preparation for
Leadership in Engineering
Design and Development
Today’s Objectives:
• Help you get excited about
what you will learn in
Capstone
• Become familiar with
course mechanics
• Understand what you will
need to do this week
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Objective One:
Help you get excited about what you
will learn and do in Capstone
What do you want to learn?
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What do you want to learn?
Individual Exercise:
1. Take about 4 minutes, look at
the inside front cover( p.2)
and pages 10-11 of the
“Guidebook”. Identify the three
most important things you
would like to learn in Capstone
2. Write these three items on
page 1 of the Record Book
section of your Guidebook
(section behind the last tab)….
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What do You Want to Learn?
Team Exercise:
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1. Discuss your three items
with your team
2. Identify the one item most
team members chose
3. Identify the second most
chosen item
4. Choose a spokesman to
share these results with
the class
5. Write these items in your
Record Book
Share with the class
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Team A
Team E
Team K
Team T
Team Z
Team AB
Why do we do Capstone?
Fulton College of Eng. &
Technology Objectives:
• To develop men and women of faith,
character and technical ability who will
become outstanding leaders throughout
the world
• To conduct creative work of consequence
which contributes to solving the world’s
problems and advances engineering and
technology disciplines
• To be an influence for good in the world
and make friends for the University and
the Church
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Why do we do Capstone?
The reason we do Capstone is not to have
you do a project, but to help you learn how to
do challenging engineering projects….
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The Grand Challenges…
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Make solar energy
economical
Provide energy from fusion
Provide access to clean water
Prevent nuclear terror
2011 Incoming BYU Freshmen
This year there are 970 freshmen
entering BYU
• Average ACT score was 28.1
- 16 students admitted, scored perfectly
on ACT
- 1/3 admitted, scored 30 or above
• Average high school GPA was 3.8
- 13% had a perfect 4.0 high school GPA
- 1 in 9 new freshmen were ranked
number 1 in their high school graduating
class
- 1 in 6 were ranked in the top 5
• 86% of all admitted had at least some
AP classes in high school
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Your Potential as BYU students
• Who would be in a better position to contribute
to the solution of these “Grand Challenge”
problems (and others like them) than people:
• Who are among the best in their fields?
• Who are mature, flexible and culturally
adept?
• Who act from a foundation of gospel
principles?
• Who qualify for the Spirit?
• Do you think boldly enough about what you
might do in service to humankind?
• Have you considered that the Lord may be
counting on you, yes YOU, to do great things?
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Our Vision is…
We believe that the Lord
expects great things of you!
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Your Educational Task
Because “where much is given, much is
required”—your task is to learn the
principles of design and then apply them to
your project….
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Your Project Task
Develop a product and/or a process that
meets or exceeds the needs of your
customers and/or sponsoring company.
Past Capstone
Design Team with
Project, Coach,
and Sponsor
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What meeting the task looks like
Uncover
Winter Semester
Evaluate & Select
Fall Semester
Create Working Concept
Refine Concept into Product Capture
Lectures & work on a real project
with a real customer
Lectures on Refinement Tools and
work on a real project w/real
customer
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What it takes to meet that task
The careful integration
and execution of skills
in three areas:
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• Technical Analysis
• Design Creativity
• Project Management
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(See Pages 13-24 in Guidebook)
What is Design?
• The essence of engineering is design…
• The essence of design is in making good
decisions…
• However, making good decisions is not always
easy!
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Some Keys to Success
• Be an outstanding team player—treat others the
way you would like to be treated
• Listen to your customer, your coach, your team
members, and the Holy Ghost. Be eager to learn
and to be taught
• Hold effective meetings
• Work in parallel on your team
• “Fail often early, so you can succeed sooner…”
• Make and remake a schedule and get ahead of your
schedule
• Communicate effectively
• Most importantly—use faith and hard work in all
that you do
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The Importance of Faith
Prepare well and be willing to
take some risk….Take counsel
from your faith, not your fears!
Do not be afraid to
go out on a limb.
…That’s where the
fruit is!
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Objective two:
Become familiar with course
mechanics
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Introductions
(Contact info on Page 4 in
Guidebook)
Robert H. Todd
Carl D. Sorensen
Jim Trent
Paula Harper
Capstone Director
Capstone Co-Director
Capstone External
Relations Coordinator
Capstone Administrative
Assistant
We also have 30 Coaches:
16 from Industry, 14 from BYU
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Introductions, continued
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Cody Telford
Kelly Hales
Capstone TA
Capstone TA
Lindsey Andersen
Capstone Student Secretary
The Guidebook
• (Almost) Everything you need to know about
capstone
• Getting Started
• Schedule
• Assignments, Evaluations
• Policies, Resources
• Record Book
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Getting Started
• Course objectives
• Overview of Design
• 5-Step Design
Process
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Uncover
Create
Evaluate & Select
Refine and Reflect
Capture & Inspire
Design Process Exercise
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Uncover: Individually, for 3 minutes, reflect on previous
team experiences in classes
Create: Make two lists in your Record book:
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Things you like about working on teams
Things you dislike about working on teams
Evaluate and Select: Choose the two most important
from each list
Refine and Reflect: In your team, select two items that
your team feels are most important from each list
Capture and Inspire: Share the results with the class
when called upon
Schedule
• Fall class schedule
• Fall assignments
• Winter class schedule
(subject to change)
• Winter assignments
• Calendar
You should review this
section regularly to
make sure you are on
top of things.
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Assignments and Evaluations
• Grading principles
• Grade breakdown
• Grade tracking
worksheet
• Grading
responsibilities
• Description of
Assignments
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Policies and Resources
• Project bidding process
• University policies we must follow
• Especially travel and purchasing
• Resources available to help complete your
project
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Objective Three:
Understand what you will need to
do this week
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Three main things
• Start learning to work together as a team
• Prepare bids for projects you would like to
work on
• Meet your coach and contact your project
sponsor after having a project assigned
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Learning to work together
• Your first team task is bidding on projects
• This will require working together as a team
to decide and prepare bids
• Don’t let the most vocal team member
decide the bids
• Make sure you get input from everybody
• This will lay the foundation of your success!
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Preparing bids (Guidebook, p.
63)
• View list of project and project summaries at
www.capstone.byu; then Site Log in.
Net ID: student
Password: Enter2Learn
• Attend the Capstone Project Fair on Tuesday, from 8:009:30
• Follow the 5-step process to choose the three projects on
which you wish to bid
• Mark your choices on the project list on Jim Trent’s door
(inside of 415 CTB)
• Submit bids electronically by 10 AM Thursday to
capstonereports@byu.edu
• You’ll receive your project assignment by email by 8:00
AM Friday
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Meet your coach and sponsor
• Get sponsor information from Paula
• Make arrangements to meet with your coach
• Hopefully, have a speaker phone call or skype
with your sponsor on Friday morning
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Next Week
• Monday -- Labor day
• Tuesday -- Class at 8:00 AM, 214 CTB
• Wednesday -- Class at 8:00 AM, 214 CTB
• Develop a team name and logo
• Prepare a contact information sheet
• Create a project objective statement
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You can succeed
“Never deny yourself the
right to reach your
individual dreams. You
and the Lord, working
together, can
accomplish anything.
Never forget -- God did
not put us here to fail.”
Elder Jon M. Huntsman
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Doing and Becoming…
“The difference between
being well schooled and well
educated rests somehow in
what you do with the
knowledge you have gained”
President Boyd K. Packer
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Great Learners:
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Welcome correction…
Make and keep commitments…
Work hard…
Help others learn…
Expect opposition and work to President Henry B. Eyring
overcome it!
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Summary
Think of your participation in Capstone as:
• An Opportunity to learn a structured design
process,
• An Opportunity to delight a real-life customer,
• An Opportunity to learn to work well within a
cross-functional team and an,
• An Opportunity to strengthen your confidence.
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President Kimball
Think of this year in Capstone also, as an
opportunity to learn a great principle that
President Spencer W. Kimball taught us about
excellence at BYU:
“We must do more than ask the lord for excellence.
Perspiration must precede inspiration; there must
be effort before there is excellence. We must do
more than pray for these outcomes at BYU,
though we must surely pray. We must take
thought. We must make effort……dreams and
prophetic utterances are not self-executing. They
are fulfilled usually by righteous and devoted
people making the[se] prophecies come true.”
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President Spencer W. Kimball, “The Second Century” 1975
Thank you!
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Questions….
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