ME470 Schedule

Spring 2012 (3/4/12)

Date	Day	Topics / Activities	Class/Powerpoint	Reading	Assignment
5,6-March	Mon/Tues	Course Introduction Assign Team	Day1.ppt Syllabus
7-March	Wed	Lab 1: V-Rod			V-Rod Assign
8,9-March	Thurs/Fri	Statistics, ANOVA Install Minitab	Statistics.ppt MileageFile Bring laptop	Ch. 7	Assignment:Statistics (ANOVA)
12,13-March	Mon/Tues	Robust Design (DOE)	DOE.ppt Coke fill height Frisbee file Bring laptop	Ch. 9	Assignment Statistics (DOE)
14-March	Wed	Lab 2: Robust Design (DOE)	DOE Lab Bring laptop		DOE Lab V-Rod Due
15,16-March	Thurs/Fri	Overview of Engineering Design Product Development Process	Product develop.ppt	Ch. 4	ANOVA Assign Due
19,20-March	Mon/Tues	Problem Definition and Need Identification Customer Requirements	Customer.ppt CR Assign	Ch. 1-3	Customer Requirements DOE Assign Due Project
21-March	Wed	Lab 3: Engineering Ethics: Bring laptop to class	Ethics.ppt ASME Canons	ASME .pdf	Ethics Case Study DOE Lab Due
22,23-March	Thurs/Fri	Establishing the Engineering Characteristics	PDS.ppt	Ch. 5	PDS Assign
26,27-March	Mon/Tues	Product Design Specification	Bench.ppt	Ch. 15	CR Assign Due
28-March	Wed	Lab 4: Functional Decomposition	FDLab	Handout	Decomposition Assignment Ethics Assign Due
29,30-March	Thurs/Fri	Robust Design Intro	Robust1.ppt Bring laptop	Ch. 13
2-6 April		Break			Renew/Refresh
9,10 April	Mon/Tues	Robust Design, Execution	RobustExecute.ppt In-class Robust File Bring laptop	Ch. 5	Robust Design Assign LeafSpringFile
11-April	Wed	Lab 5: Engineering/Economics/Politics		Ch. 14	Diesel Assign Decomp Assign Due
12,13-April	Thurs/Fri	Midterm Exam	Sample midterm		PDS Due
16,17-April	Mon/Tues	Concept Generation, Creativity in Design	CG1.ppt	Ch. 6
18-April	Wed	Career Fair: No lab
19,20-April	Thurs/Fri	Product Design Specification	PDS3.ppt PDSassign	Ch. 5	Robust Design Assign due
25,26-April	Mon/Tues	Concept Generation, Creativity in Design	CG2.ppt Project CG Assign	Ch. 6
27-April	Wed	Lab 6: On the Spot/Set Based Design	On the spot design Set based Design.ppt	Sobek and Ward Ward paper	Diesel Assign due
28,29-April	Thurs/Fri	Concept Selection	ConceptSelect.ppt
2,3-May	Mon/Tues	Economic Decision Making: (Time Value of Money, Cost Comparisons, Depreciation)	Need Laptop Economics.ppt	Ch. 15	Economics Assignment
4-May	Wed	Lab 7 Economics Lab	Need Laptop		Economics Project Set-Base Design Due
5,6-May	Thurs/Fri	Economic Decision Making: (Taxes, Profitability, Sensitivity and Break-Even Analysis)	Economics.ppt Need Laptop	Ch. 15
9,10-May	Mon/Tues	Economic Decision Making	Need Laptop	Ch. 13
11-May	Wed	Lab 8: Design Review
12,13-May	Thurs/Fri	FMEA	FMEA.ppt	Handout	Econ Proj Due Economics Assign Due
16,17-May	Mon/Tues	TRIZ: Inventive Problem Solving	Triz.ppt	Handout
18-May	Wed	Lab 9: Design for Assembly		Handout	DFA due in class
19,20-May	Thurs/Fri	TRIZ: Inventive Problem Solving