Course Outline

Date	Day	Topics / Activities	Powerpoint	Reading	Assignment
03-Sep	Thu	Course Introduction Team Design Exercise	Day1.ppt		Team Homework
07-Sep	Mon	Overview of Engineering Design Product Development Process	Day2.ppt	Ch. 1-3
08-Sep	Tue	Engineering Ethics: Bring laptop to class	Ethics.ppt	ASME Podcast	Ethics Case Study
09-Sep	Wed	Lab 1: V-Rod	VRod Assign		V-Rod and other things
10-Sep	Thu	Problem Definition and Need Identification Customer Requirements	Day5.ppt CRAssign	Ch. 4	Customer Requirements
14-Sep	Mon	Intellectual Property	Patent.ppt	Ch. 14	Meet in M137
15-Sep	Tue	No class
16-Sep	Wed	Lab 2: Peer Evaluations of Engineering Ethics Paper/Assignment of Contemporary Issues	CIAssign		8 copies of Ethics paper due
17-Sep	Thu	Establishing the Engineering Characteristics	PDS.ppt	Ch. 5
21-Sep	Mon	Product Design Specification	Bench.ppt	Ch. 5
22-Sep	Tue	Product Design Specification	PDS3.ppt PDSassign	Ch. 6	PDS Assignment
23-Sep	Wed	Lab 3: Contemporary Issues Peer Evaluations/ Discussion of Ethics			8 copies of Patent paper due
24-Sep	Thu	Concept Generation, Creativity in Design	CG1.ppt	Ch. 6
28-Sep	Mon	Concept Generation, Creativity in Design	CG2.ppt	Handout	Ethics Paper Due
29-Sep	Tue	Functional Decomposition On the Spot Design	DesignAssign	Ch. 6 Appendix
30-Sep		Lab 4: Functional Decomposition	FDLab	Handout	Decomposition Assignment
01-Oct	Thu	Systematic Design On the Spot Design		Handout	PDS Assignment DUE
05-Oct	Mon	Set-based Design	Setbased.ppt	Handout	Contemporary Issues Due
06-Oct	Tue	Set-Based Design		Sobek and Ward Paper
07-Oct	Wed	Lab 5: Design Exercise 3 Set Based Design No Lab Career Fair			Place roadway reflectors
08-Oct	Thu	TRIZ: Inventive Problem Solving On the spot design 2		Handout	Decomposition Assignment DUE On the spot design
12-Oct	Mon	TRIZ: Inventive Problem Solving	Triz.ppt	Handout
13-Oct	Tue	Decision Making and Concept Selection TRIZ: Inventive Problem Solving		Ch. 7	On the spot design due
14-Oct	Wed	No lab
15-Oct	Thu	Fall Break
19-Oct	Mon	Decision Making and Concept Selection Statistics, ANOVA Install Minitab	Statistics.ppt SudokuFile	Ch. 7	Concept Selection Assignment Statistics (anova)
20-Oct	Tue	Product Architecture Parametric Design Robust Design (DOE)	DOE.ppt Coke fill height Frisbee file	Ch. 9	Assignment Statistics (DOE) (see DOE.ppt)
21-Oct	Wed	Lab 5: Design for Assembly Robust Design (DOE)	DOELab Catapult file
22-Oct	Thu	Day 1 of Economic Decision Making Robust Design Intro	Robust1.ppt	Ch. 15
26-Oct	Mon	Economic Decision Making: Economic Decision Making Time Value of Money Cost Comparisons Depreciation	Economics.ppt	Ch. 15	Economics Assignment
27-Oct	Tue	Economic Decision Making: Taxes Profitability of Investments Sensitivity and Break-Even Analysis		Ch. 15	Anova Assignment Due
28-Oct	Wed	Lab 6 Economics Lab	Economics Project		Catapult Lab Due
29-Oct	Thu	Robust Design Economic Decision Making	Econ2.ppt	Ch. 13	Frisbee DOE assignment Due Statistics Assignment
02-Nov	Mon	Robust Design Robust Design, Execution	RobustExecute.ppt	Ch. 13	Statistics Assignment
03-Nov	Tue	Robust Design Concept Selection	ConceptSelection.ppt	Ch. 13
04-Nov	Wed	Lab 7 on Robust DesignDesign for Assembly			Robust Design Contest Economics Project Due
05-Nov	Thu	FMEA		Handout	Economics Assignment Due
09-Nov	Mon	Robust Design Contest Product Architecture	ProdArch.ppt
10-Nov	Tue	Project Management FMEA	FMEA.ppt	Ch. 15	Project Management Assignment
11-Nov	Wed	No Lab
12-Nov	Thu	Review for final, Discussion of ABET	FinalReview