The performance of this project will encompass proposal writing, progress presentations, interaction with industrial advisors, and consideration of global design variables such as, economics, customer requirements and manufacturing considerations. Even though a component of students' grades will be on individual effort, each project will be conducted by a team of students who will be operating in a broader academic-industrial setting. The second term of the design project will be a continuation of the previous course where student groups complete their design problem obtained from local industry and remaining under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The performance of this project will include writing a final report, giving progress and final presentations, continued interaction with industrial advisors, and consideration global design variables such as, development and application of rational evaluation procedures, implementing their design recommendations and consideration of manufacturability. The length of projects will be approximately two quarters.
Interdisciplinary projects are of particular interest.
The proposal will be graded. Progress will be formally evaluated by faculty on a regular basis in terms of individual written weekly progress reports, class presentations, and discussions during weekly team meetings. The final project report will encapsulate all your activities for the two terms and should represent a complete document that is of professional quality and useable by the industrial sponsor.