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ENGR 4412: Senior Engineering Design I
Lecture 1 Syllabus
Weldon Wilson
Dept of Engr & Physicshttp://www.physics.uco.edu/[email protected]
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ENGR 4412
SENIOR ENGINEERING DESIGN I
Fall Semester 2010
R 1:00-3:50, Howell Hall 203
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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Weldon Wilson
OFFICE: Howell Hall 221H
URL: www.physics.uco.edu/wwilson
PHONE: 974-5470
EMAIL: [email protected]
COURSE SYNOPSIS: This is the first semester of the two-semester capstone
design course for senior engineering physics and biomedical engineering majors.
1.The purpose of the course sequence is to integrate the principles of successful
engineering design through implementation of a practical design project.
2.The course will emphasize team-based, engineering design projects.
3.The main objective of the course is for students to practice engineering design
by completing a real-world design project.
4.A second objective is to return value to the client through the delivery of a
completed product.
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PREREQUISITES: Written permission required
and Senior standing. Students must follow this
course in the Spring Semester with ENGR 4422(Senior Engineering Design II). To be eligible to
take this course sequence, a student
must graduate in the 2011 calendar year after the
sequence is started.
OFFICE HOURS: MWRF 11:00-1:50; Other times
by mutual arrangement.
TEXTBOOK: Practical Engineering Design
edited by Maja Bystrom and Bruce Eisenstein
(CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2005).
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Objectives (Cont) You may find it unnerving if you ask your advisor what to do
next, and they reply, I don't know, you figure it out! Or you
may ask your advisor if your calculations are correct, and theyreply, I don't know, you tell me!"
But that is life for a working scientist or engineer; no answer
exists at the back of any text for an open-ended design
problem. Your manager may not even have the technicalexpertise to validate your models. Nevertheless, you have to
convince them that your work is correct.
Learning effective project management, team work and group
coordination is an important objective of the course. Whileyou might be able to deliver a good product without
considering how the project is managed or how to effectively
use every team member, the team's output, and your grade,
will be much better if good management principles are
followed. 5
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Objectives (Cont) You are likely taking this class during your last year as an
undergraduate student. You are expected to apply all those
modeling and analysis skills that you have developed in yourprerequisite classes. For example, if your product involves
some sort of structure, the methods you learned in Statics are
likely relevant. You are expected to support your project with
all appropriate analyses, and document them in your finalreport. This will help you to earn a high course grade.
Your project advisor will probably not tell you what analysis to
apply, but rather will expect you to determine when analysis
is needed and what analysis to use. Nevertheless, your
advisor will expect you to know what you are talking about.
Look for opportunities to put your background classes to work
for you. Your team might also assign some of your members
to learn more about certain technical subjects to properly
appraise your designs.6
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COURSE STRUCTURE (Cont)PROJECT TEAM FORMATION: Project descriptions are passed
out at the first class meeting. Teams of 3 to 5 students select
one of the projects. You are free to form your own teamssubject to approval by the course instructor. Teams should be
formed and the instructor notified of the team members as
soon as possible and no later than the second class meeting.
PROJECT SELECTION: After you have formed a team, you willneed to select a project. Project descriptions are passed out
at the first class meeting, but you may propose a project of
your own choosing provided you can find a faculty member
will to serve as the faculty sponsor and advisor for the project.
You may also find that some faculty have possible senior
design project ideas that are not on the list of possible
projects. BME students must work on a biomedical
engineering project. All students who have not selected a
team and/or a project will be assigned to a team.8
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COURSE STRUCTURE (Cont)PROJECT TEAM FORMATION: Project descriptions are passed
out at the first class meeting. Teams of 3 to 5 students select
one of the projects. You are free to form your own teamssubject to approval by the course instructor. Teams should be
formed and the instructor notified of the team members as
soon as possible and no later than the second class meeting.
PROJECT SELECTION: After you have formed a team, you willneed to select a project. Project descriptions are passed out
at the first class meeting, but you may propose a project of
your own choosing provided you can find a faculty member
will to serve as the faculty sponsor and advisor for the project.
You may also find that some faculty have possible senior
design project ideas that are not on the list of possible
projects. BME students must work on a biomedical
engineering project. All students who have not selected a
team and/or a project will be assigned to a team.9
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COURSE STRUCTURE (Cont)PROJECT TASKS: You will organize project work using a Work
Breakdown Structure. From this you will create tasks. Every
task will have its own deliverable, due date and responsibleperson. Task deliverables are often either a report (brief
technical report, brief Powerpoint Slides, set of CAD drawings)
or a physical prototype. More information on how to organize
project tasks will be given as the course develops.INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: You will likely be creating new
inventions during this course. All projects require signing an
intellectual property stating that any intellectual property you
create is assigned to the company client. Although the IP will
belong to the client, you will still be a named inventor on any
provision or full patent applications. The agreement is typical
when contracting to do work for companies because these are
real projects with potential commercial value.
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COURSE STRUCTURE (Cont)DELIVERABLE: A project deliverable is required from all teams by
the end of the course sequence.
TECHNICAL REPORTS: Brief technical reports will be the natural
outcome of many team tasks. Reports can be in the form of
PowerPoint slides or a technical document. Copies of these
reports should be given to your Faculty Advisor for yoruproject and also retained by your project team in a safe place
for referral. Technical reports are valuable both because they
summarize the output of a project task and because they are
material that can be inserted into the nal report. Every teammember is expected to author at least two technical reports
during ENGR 4412. More information on technical reports will
be provided in lecture.
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NOTEBOOKSEvery student is required to keep a senior design project
notebook for recording all of their work. Learning to document
the evolution of your design in a notebook now will serve you
well when you are out in the real world working as an engineer.
Notebooks must be sewn-bound (no spiral notebooks) with
consecutively numbered pages (you may have to add the page
number yourself) and may have pages that are blank, ruled or
with grids, your choice. Record in your notebook anything andeverything associated with your project - ideas, thoughts,
sketches, computer programs, derivations, graphs, data, website
URLs, printouts - dated and thoroughly documented, just in case
you decide to pursue patents based on your work. Patentlitigation is sometimes decided based on documentation in
design notebooks. Your notebook will be evaluated by your
instructor once or twice each term. Specifics on what type of
notebook you need and what you should put in it will be
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FE PRACTICE EXAMS: You will have six FE Practice Exams on the
dates specied in the class schedule. These exams will consist
of approximately 20 multiple choice question of the kind you
can expect to see on the FE exam. The exams will be over thefollowing areas:
1. Math / Programming
2. Statics / Dynamics
3. Thermodynamics / Fluids
4. Electric Circuits / Electromagnetic Fields
5. Engineering Econ / Engineering Ethics
6. Strength of Materials / Materials Science
SEMINAR: We will have three departmental research seminars
on the dates indicated in the attached schedule. You are
required to attend and submit a brief report on each.
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GradesYour final grade will depend on both individual and design team performance.
This means your grade depends not only on how well you do as an individual,
but also on how well your team members do. Grading is based onperformance, not on effort.
The criteria for assessment of the team are:
10% - Professionalism
10% - Course Coordinator assessment of overall design
15% - Advisor assessment of overall design
20% - Quality of Project Proposal
20% - Quality of Project Design Presentation
25% - Quality of Project Design Report100%
Your team will get a letter grade based on the project results and the team
project deliverables.
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Grades (cont)The criteria for assessment of individuals within the team are:
10% - Professionalism
10% - Notebook/Weekly Reports
10% - Research Seminar Reports
10% - Peer assessment of your performance by other members of your team
15% - FE Practice Exams
20% - Course Coordinator assessment of contribution
25% - Faculty Advisor assessment of contribution100%
Your personal grade will start with the team grade, but may go up or down from
the team grade based on your contribution to the project and your individual
deliverables. For example, if your team receives a B, your grade will likely be
anywhere between a C and an A. For another example, if your team receives a Cfor the project grade, it is extremely unlikely that you will get anything above a B
for your own grade no matter how good your individual performance was. So
what you should conclude from the grading policy is that it's to your benefit to
make sure you have a high performing team. Truly abysmal individual
performance (essentially you do nothing at all) will rate a D or F, no matter what
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Grades (cont)Each student will be different. Some will excel by doing excellent analysis, some by building
an awesome prototype, some by writing reports, and some by taking on effective team
leadership roles. The bottom line is, did you contribute, did you apply your engineering
skills, and did you stretch yourself during the semester.
It is a sobering thought to imagine that you might have received a B if evaluated only on
your own work, but were dragged down to a C because one of your team members was
not pulling their weight. The opposite can also happen where you soar up to an A because
you are a member of a particularly powerful team. Although this method of performance
evaluation may sound unusual, in fact it is exactly what happens in the real world. Your
team would do well to conduct periodic internal reviews of the team's performance and to
help those members that for any reason are lagging behind. Your advisor can help in this
process or you can contact the Course Coordinator.
Although there may be minor grading variations across groups, we make every effort tomaintain an appropriate level of consistency. It is not productive to compare your grade to
that of someone in another group because each project has different objectives,
deliverables and team dynamics. The best thing you can do to ensure a good grade for
yourself is to put in the hours (from day 1), to work as part of the team so that the sum is
greater than the parts, and to make use of all that you have learned from your extensive
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COURSE MILESTONES
PROJECT DESIGN PROPOSALS: The project proposals are
an initial check to make sure that each group understandsthe problems to be solved and has made a concrete plan
to develop a system that has the potential to solve every
aspect of the design problem. This plan needs to be as
complete as it can be when it is submitted and must
include a time line for the remainder of the project. It is
understood that these are initial proposals, that designs
necessarily evolve and changes are frequently made,therefore teams are not held to the specifics of their
design proposals.
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COURSE MILESTONES (CONT)PROJECT DESIGN PRESENTATION: These presentations should tell the
story of the design project. The mid-year progress report is to tell the
story from the first day of class to the presentation date, describing whatwas considered and explored and what needs to be done in the next
several weeks to win the competition. Since you are competing with the
other groups, you need not reveal any secret or wonderfully clever ideas
that you might have, but the presentation must be of substance. The final
design presentation must be complete and contain details of eachsubsystem and component of your design as well as a complete cost
analysis. The overall emphasis of both of these presentations is to have
your audience understand what you did, why you did it and how your
device works. You are to avoid equations, photographs of electronic
circuits and listings of computer programs. Explain your design throughdrawings, photos, demonstrations, video clips, block diagrams and
flowcharts. The presentations must be prepared according to specified
guidelines and format; the opening slide should contain the names and
photos of all group members.
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COURSE MILESTONES (CONT)
PROJECT DESIGN REPORT: The final report and presentation this
semester should have a description and demonstration of yourdesign prototype. In addition to the format and guidelines specied
by your instructor, the following will be included in the final written
reports. The main evaluation criteria will be:
Modelling, analysis and hardware/software development Use of all applicable engineering standards
Systems approach, design considerations and backup solutions
Oral and written presentations, and actual system demonstrations
Creativity and uniqueness from design concept to implementation
Project progress, consistency and completion
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PROJECT MANAGERS/TEAM LEADERSEach student group will select a different team leader each month
with each member of the group serving at least once as the project
manager. The project manager will be the main contact for thegroup, will present the weekly progress reports, function as liaison
between the team and the faculty advisor, and be responsible for
the internal communications within the group. The project manager
rotation must be identified to the course instructor in the project
proposal.
Responsibilities of the project manager include: insuring that
deadlines are met, insuring that the team is prepared for the
weekly advisor meetings, responsible for assembling and giving
weekly team report, responsible for competing and submitting all
purchase requisitions, responsible for logistics and confirmations
associated with weekly team meetings, weekly advisor meetings,
and all reports and presentations. This includes room and
presentation equipment reservations. 20
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PROFESSIONALISM
You are expected to treat this course as an engineering job with the
course coordinator as your boss/manager. In addition, you will berequired to satisfy one the following:
1.Show evidence that you have joined the professional engineering
society that is appropriate for your degree, or
2.Write a report on the professional engineering societyappropriate for your degree that details how to become a member,
the specific benefits that organization offers, etc.
In addition, you will be required to satisfy one the following:
1.Show evidence that you have registered to take the FE exam, or
2.Write a report on the FE that details how to become a signup to
take the exam in Oklahoma, the specific areas that are tested on the
exam, the format of the FE exams, etc. 21
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ATTENDANCE POLICY: Attendance is required. Treat the
weekly class meeting as a job with the course instructor as
you boss. If you are going to be unavoidably late or miss a
class, like any employer your instructor will expect a
telephone call or email explaining the details.
You are expected to be available to work on your projectevery Thursday from 1:00 -3:50 PM. You do not
necessarily have to meet with your team for that entire
time, but you want to be available to your team if
necessary. You may work on independent sub-tasks such
as researching concepts in the library, running models in
the computer lab or prototyping in the Student Shop.
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TIME COMMITMENT: While this is a two-credit course, it
meets three hours each week. The expected time
commitment is approximately 3 hours outside class for
each hour in class. So you should expect to devote at least
12 hours per week to this course. The group meeting time
on Thursday afternoon qualifies as a portion of this time.
The course does not have an imposed structure like most.How you invest your hours will depend on your project.
Be cautious about letting time slip away early in thesemester because the design show seems far away. You
are urged to police your time to make sure you are
dedicating yourself at an appropriate level for this course.
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CELL PHONES: Unless you have received prior permission
from your instructor, all computers and communications
devices must be turned o and put away during lecture
sessions. This includes cell phones, pagers, laptop
computers, palm plots, etc.
COURSE WEB PAGE: I will be placing various forms,lecture notes and other materials on our course web page
at
www.physics.uco.edu/wwilson/courses/sr engr design.html
You should check it often for announcements and other
course related information.
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