Instructor: Prof. Gary Halada
Office: Room 308, Old Engineering Building
Office Hours: Monday 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Phone: 2-8526
Email: ghalada@ms.cc.sunysb.edu
T.A.'s: S. Chawda and Prashnat Jha
Texts:
"Engineering by design", 2nd edition, by Gerard Voland
with associated website at: http://www.etcs.ipfw.edu/~voland/
Topics to be covered (in this order): Approximate schedule: Basic philosophy of engineering design: week 1-2 Needs assessment: week 2-3 Problem solving in design: week 4 Development of specifications: week 5 Searching for solutions/intellectual property rights: week 6 Modeling and simultaions: week 7 Synthesis: week 8 Midterm test week 8 Ethics: week 9 Hazard and failure analysis: week 10 Design analysis: week 11 Implementation: week 12 Materials selection: week 13 Additional case studies: week 14 Oral presentations: week 15
The course will also use guest lecturers and a number of
real-world examples provided throughout the semester.
This course requires sophmore standing or higher.
This course is a prerequisite for ESG 316.
Grading:
Two 45 minute in-class tests: 50% Final exam/paper on ethics/failure analysis: 40% Homeworks: 10% Total: 100%
1. Academic dishonesty -- any evidence of academic dishonesty (submitting same answer -- in total or in part as another student -- or copying from a reference without attribution and referencing) will result in an F for the course (if not worse).
2. No extensions on the deadline.
Also, all answers are to be printed out, hard copy. I am not giving a set length for the answer, but please try to give a comprehensive response (balanced with some brevity -- no forty page responses, please!). Some of the things to include in the answer are noted below.
Please choose one of the fifty "Additional Case problem Topics" on pages 571 to 576, or one of the four case problem topic areas on pages 505 to 570, and prepare a design solution report which includes the following:
1. Identify a list of at least ten design needs to solve the problem
2. Generate a list of concepts (at least 6) based upon at least one patent (which you should describe) and using both analogies and a morphological chart (in which you can incorporate some of the design needs from part 1.)
3. Evaluate your alternative designs using rank ordering of design goals and generation of weighting factors. (please explain the reasoning or methodology behind your generation of weighting factors).
4. Use this information in Kepner-Tregoe decision analysis and potential problem analysis. Identify which is your "wining" concept and why.
5. Explain (a few examples for each) how you could refine your chosen concept based on the following:
-- Design for Manufacturability and Design for Assembly
-- Design for Reliability
-- Design for Quality
Create a "house-of-quality" chart for your design (you can just "make up" the technical evaluation and competitive evaluation data). Explain, briefly, how this helps to ensure quality in the final design (this counts as one of your examples for "Design for Quality").
6. Briefly explain how material selection could play a role in your design process for your particular concept (e.g if we used plastic instead of sheet metal for the cover, we could reduce weight and employ a less expensive manufacturing technique ...)
Note -- where charts are used, please provide at least a brief explanation concerning how they are generated."
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