1960 1970 1980 1990 2000

Product Design Program (w/ Fine Arts Dept.)

Team-based design with industrial projects

Design for Manufacturability

SLL

Robotics and computers in mechanical design

Smart Product Design Course

MEMS and Mechatronics

RPL

The Design Division has been partnering with industry in project-based courses for over 25 years

Project courses with industry partners

ME113 Undergraduate design course with industrial projects

ME210/310 Graduate design course with industrial projects

ME217 Graduate DFM course with industrial projects

ME218 Graduate Smart Product design course (218d with industrial projects)

For a summary of these and other courses outside of Mechanical Engineering, visit theSIMA industry-sponsored project course page

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goal: Develop global design-development team LEADERS

prepared for a life-long odyssey in creative engineering design that is both pragmatic and intellectually informed.

given: Few incoming students have real, complete, engineering

product design experience. Fewer have been encouraged to examine the intellectual foundations of design.

approach: Corporate partners drive technical learning and motivate

product development; the instructional team oversees process-management

and intellectual skill development-learning; technology is used to accelerate the learning curve.

ME210 Goals & Approach

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Project-based learning

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.Confucius

•Me210 is about forming and running creative, productive, engineering design teams.

•It is also about “the Design Division philosophy” of engineering design.

•It is the quintessential project-based learning (PBL) course:

• see and hear• do and experience• reflect and introspect• document for the future

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The ME210 learning community

Teaching team

Students

Coaches andalumni

Corporateliaisons

Communityknowledge

The greater Stanford community& friends of the Design Division

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The ME210/310 Environment today

• Typical range of projects

• The design loft

• Tools (software, methodology)

• Electronic design archives

• Research connections (CDR)

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“Typical” ME210/310 Projects

ME210industry sponsored projects for

distributed teams, Internet mediated design-development,

emphasis on hardware, theory and conceptual prototyping

CDRdesign theory & methodologyagent-based-engineering,manufacturing processes,robotics,engineering education

Center for Design Research

Electronic notebook tools, internet collaboration services and results from formal studies

of design activity

Feedback regarding tools, services and behaviorfrom formal studies of design education, activity and documentation

VIP

C D R

Computer-aided support for teams across time & space

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210 design loft(VIP view)

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210 global partner communicatio communication

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Building an electronicdesign archive

Notebook Home Page

Marks’ HandbookColorado Steel Catalog

Sketchbook Entry from Hong Kong ID Group

Link to CAD File

Nodes Tasks Features Agents Resources

Links Strong Precedence

InputOutput

Weak PrecedenceFeedbackSide-Effect

Constraints Assignments Abstraction

Views Directed Graphs Matrices Abstraction Trees Lists

Filtering by Abstraction Levels by Node & Link Types by Spatial Locations by Assignment Groups

Design Roadmap (now IdeaStorm by MacroScape Inc.)

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Knowledge & Rationale Capture - 1

Current Best Practices

knowledge and experiencecreation process

saved information

reconstructable knowledge

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Knowledge & Rationale Capture - 2

New Best Practices

knowledge and experiencecreation process

saved information

reconstructable knowledge

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Knowledge & Rationale Capture - 3

Best Practices with New Paradigm

knowledge and experiencecreation process

saved information

reconstructable knowledge

organized summary

discoverable rationale

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ME210/310 Design Document templates

Captures the process that lead to your design.

What is the need that your design addresses?

What are the requirements behind your design?

What was your design approach - what alternatives did you consider, how did you evaluate them?

What are the specifications of your design?

What are the lessons learned from the process?

Models for <subject> thesauri (M. Yang)

Documentation sources Formal (CAD) Final design documentation Informal (Design Process) PENS notebooks

Trade-off: Effort to generate models Time

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DP information

CAD information

Legform Impactor

Rotary transducer

Linear tranducer

Tibia

Femur

Accelerometer

Knee

SYNONYMimpactorlegformimpact devicelegsimulator

FUNCTIONsimulateconnect

FUNCTIONsimulateshearroate

FUNCTIONmeasuresense

FUNCTIONmeasuresense

FUNCTIONmeasuresense

FUNCTIONsimulatereplicatetestsenseshearrotatemeasuredeform

Coating

FUNCTIONsimulate

FUNCTIONsimulateshearroate

Legform Impactor

Rotary transducer

Linear tranducer

Tibia

Femur

Acceleration Sensor

Deformable connection

SYNONYMlimbmember

FUNCTIONsupport

FUNCTIONdeformconnectjoin

FUNCTIONsupport

FUNCTIONsupport

FUNCTIONmeasure

FUNCTIONconvert

FUNCTIONconvert

SUBJECT = SUBJECT =

CAD Model Design Process Model