ME470 Schedule
Fall 2011 Revision 1
9/19/2011
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Day |
Date |
Day |
Topics / Activities |
Powerpoint |
Reading |
Assignment |
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Day 1 |
Sept 1 |
Thurs |
Course
Introduction Assign
Team/Team Design Exercise |
Day1.ppt |
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Team
Homework |
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Day 2 |
Sept 5h |
Mon |
Statistics, ANOVA Install Minitab |
Bring laptop |
Review of Statistics |
Team Homework Due Assignment: Statistics
(ANOVA) |
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Day 3 Lab 1 |
Sept 7 |
Wed |
Lab 1:
V-Rod |
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V-Rod and
other things |
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Day 4 |
Sept 8 |
Thurs |
Design
of Experiments for Design |
Frisbee file Bring laptop |
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Assignment Statistics
(DOE) (see DOE.ppt) |
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Day 5 |
Sept 12 |
Mon |
Overview
of Engineering Design Product
Development Process |
Colbert Nation |
Ch. 1-2 |
Anova Assignment Due |
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Day 6 Lab 2 |
Sept 14 |
Wed |
Lab 2: Predictive
Equations for Product Performance |
DOELab Catapult file Bring laptop |
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Catapult
Lab V-Rod Due |
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Day 7 |
Sept 15 |
Thurs |
Opportunity
Identification and Customer Needs and Customer
Requirements |
CRAssign Bring laptop next week |
Ch. 3-5 |
Customer
Requirements DOE Assign Due |
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Day 8 |
Sept 19 |
Mon |
Establishing the
Engineering Characteristics, PDS, Benchmarking |
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Ch. 6 |
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Day 9 Lab 3 |
Sept 21 |
Wed |
Lab 3: Engineering
Ethics: Bring laptop to class |
Catapult Lab Due |
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Day 10 |
Sept 22 |
Thurs |
Product Design
Specification |
Ch. 6 |
PDS Assignment |
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Day 11 |
Sept 26 |
Mon |
Robust Design
Intro |
Bring laptop |
Ch. 15 |
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Day 12 Lab 4 |
Sept 28 |
Wed |
Lab 4: Functional
Decomposition |
FDLab |
Handout |
Decomposition Assignment Ethics Assignment Due |
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Day 13 |
Sept 29 |
Thurs |
Mid-term |
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Day 14 |
Oct 3 |
Mon |
Robust Design, Execution |
Bring laptop |
Ch. 15 |
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Day 15 Lab 5 |
Oct 5 |
Wed |
Career Fair: No lab |
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Get Job |
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Day 16 |
Oct 6 |
Thurs |
Concept Generation,
Creativity in Design |
Ch. 7 |
Decomp
Assign Due |
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Day 17 |
Oct 10 |
Mon |
Concept
Generation, Creativity in Design |
Project CG Assign |
Ch. 7 |
Robust Design Assign due |
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Day 18 Lab 6 |
Oct 12 |
Wed |
Lab 6
Engineering/Economics/Politics |
CAFEAssign |
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Oct 13 |
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Fall Break |
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Renew/Refresh |
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Day 19 |
Oct 17 |
Mon |
Concept
Selection |
Ch.
8 |
CS
Assignment PDS Assignment DUE |
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Day 20 Lab 7 |
Oct 19 |
Wed |
Lab
7: On the Spot/Set Based Design |
On the spot design |
Sobek and Ward Paper |
CAFE
Assign due |
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Day 21 |
Oct 20 |
Thurs |
Economic Decision Making: ·
Time
Value of Money ·
Cost
Comparisons ·
Depreciation |
Need Laptop |
Ch. 17 |
Economics Assignment |
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Day 22 |
Oct 24 |
Mon |
Economic
Decision Making: ·
Taxes ·
Profitability
of Investments ·
Sensitivity
and Break-Even Analysis |
Economics.ppt Need
Laptop |
Ch. 17 |
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Day 23 Lab 8 |
Oct 26 |
Wed |
Lab 7 Economics Lab |
Economics Project Need Laptop |
Set-Base Design Due |
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Day 24 |
Oct 27 |
Thurs |
Economic
Decision Making |
Need Laptop |
Ch. 17 |
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Day 25 |
Oct 31 |
Mon |
FMEA |
Handout |
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Day 26 Lab 9 |
Nov 2 |
Wed |
Lab 9: Design Review |
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Day 27 |
Nov 3 |
Thurs |
TRIZ: Inventive Problem
Solving |
Handout |
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Day 28 |
Nov 7 |
Mon |
TRIZ:
Inventive Problem Solving |
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Econ Proj Due
Economics Assign Due |
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Day 29 Lab 10 |
Nov 9 |
Wed |
Lab
10: Design for Assembly |
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Handout |
DFA due in class |
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Day 30 |
Nov 10 |
Thurs |
Review |
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