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Just as in industry, you will be assigned to a design team. Teams will typically have 4-6 members. Team membership will be announced in Week 3.
Furthermore, you will take a Personality Temperament Indicator to assess your personality style during Week 1 (the exact deadline is in the Weekly Schedule). The results of these tests will be used to form the design teams.
Once the teams have been formed, you should immediately begin following the Design Roadmap (MEC325).
Your team number is very important. It consists of your section number followed by the team number within the section. So team 3 in section 1 is team 0103; and team 2 in section 4 is team 0402. Make sure you know your team number.
Read the Solidworks Information document for important notes about the CAD package you’ll need to use for your project.
References in ASME format are expected in all project reports. The templates for each of these reports has a section for References.
All teams in a given section will do the same project. By section, links to project design briefs are given below:
| SECTION(S) | PROJECT DESIGN BRIEF |
|---|---|
| 1, 9 | Bike Living |
| 2, 3, 7 | Carrying Shopping |
| 4, 5, 13 | Assistive Transport of Children when Walking |
| 6, 11, 12 | Incapacitated Human Carrying System |
| 14, 15 | All-Terrain Mobility Aid |
The deliverables of a project are those “concrete” things that must be presented to a client (in this case, the instructors) to constitute a completed project. This section describes those deliverables.
A complete project includes all the documents listed in the table below.
Templates for the various reports are available in the Project Reporting Templates folder.
Each team will keep all these deliverables in a single Google Shared Folder.
<aside> <img src="/icons/warning_orange.svg" alt="/icons/warning_orange.svg" width="40px" /> PDFs of key documents will be generated as required to facilitate grading. The instructors and teaching assistants will grade the material directly in the Google Shared Folder, and will not be uploaded to D2L.
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Reports should be written as technical documents targeted at upper management and technical staff, not a sales or marketing tool to convince prospective customers to “buy” your product. “Fluffy” language will not be tolerated.