Assembly & Product Contract
| The assembly review is an important step on the way to success in your technical review. There are two parts... an assembly model for your team's design and a product contract document. The review contributes to a portion of your shared team-wide grade and all course instructors will participate in the evaluation during an in-class review. The goal of the assembly milestone is to help your team develop a clear, detailed, and shared view of your overall product. The lack of a good assembly model very often leads to many errors and a high degree of stress as the technical review approaches. However, even while the team is working on the assembly model it is critical to continue exploring design options and performing physical tests for high risk aspects of the design. The product contract will be used as a baseline to evaluate the performance of your prototype during the technical review. The in-class review of the assembly and product contract is intended to provide design feedback. The electronic assembly model will be evaluated based upon completeness and quality of design details. Each team member will need to model at least one part of the assembly! The product contract will be evaluated based upon relevance and correctness of needs, attributes, and specifications. An image of your team's assembly and your product contract will be made available on the course web site. Examples from prior years are on the right. You can also view assemblies from the 2005 class in the gallery (select a project and click on the assembly link). If you compare the assembly model to the technical review or final presentation gallery entry, you can see how dramatic changes may be based upon input from the assembly review. Please review the detailed submission
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