ME 491 Design Process

Capstone Project Sponsorship

Design Competition pictures and videos

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Pictures

More Pictures

HW2 – PDS Requirements

ME 491 Mini Project Competition Rules

Course Objectives

Syllabus

Course Organization

Timelines

Requirements of Competition-based Capstone Projects

Capstone Project Proposals

Proposal Format
Proposal Sample I

Proposal Sample II

ME 491 Mini Project Description (2008) : Solar Water Pump (updated 10/9)

Solar Panel Information

Example of Past Mini Project Competition : Can Crusher

Design Process
Identification of customers and customer needs

Sample PDS format

PDS Class Exercise

Benchmarking Class Exercise - Sample Benchmarking in PDS Report

Reports and Presentations

· PDS Report

· PDS Presentation

· Progress Report

· Progress Presentation

· Final Report

· Final Presentation

Example: Pascor Reports (June 2005)

• PDS Report
• PDS Presentation
• Progress Report
• Progress Presentation
• External Search
• Final report
• Final presentation
• Video

Sample PDS – IR Camera (2004)

Report Writing
Project Planning
Brainstorming
Sample Project

Concept Generation

Concept Evaluation

Example of concept evaluation – Conmet

Example of concept evaluation – Clean Hands Wheelchair

Sample Project from 2002 – Surgical Robot

Sample Project from 2002 - SawStop

Sample Project from 2002 – Formula Racing Car