Notes are posted shortly after each class and are in chronological order.
The timing of lectures in relation to both lab and milestone activities are mapped in
the overall course and lab schedule.
| Nov. 30 |
Presentation design (.pdf)
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| Nov. 23 |
2.009 business case (.pdf)
Product
costing /economics model (.xls)
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| Nov. 20 |
Technical review results and final presentation overview (.pdf)
Annotated final presentation example (.mov, 25 Mb)
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| Nov. 13 |
Project consulting
Technical review overview (.pdf)
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| Nov. 9 |
Technical review and debugging process (.pdf)
Gorilla and Banana demonstrate inattentional blindness
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| Nov. 6 |
Assembly review introduction (.pdf)
Results from class: Assembly review
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| Nov. 4 |
Assembly review introduction(.pdf)
Results from class: Assembly review
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| Nov. 2 |
Product form (.pdf)
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| Oct. 30 |
Safety and design for
assembly (.pdf)
Chicken chart! (.pdf)
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| Oct. 28 |
Product architecture (.pdf)
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| Oct. 26 |
Mockup feedback, critique, and ethics
(.pdf)
ASME
code of ethics
Results from class: Team codes of ethics
|
| Oct. 22 |
Mockup review introduction (.pdf)
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| Oct. 19 |
Mockup logistics and pointers (.pdf)
Mockup schedule
Project consulting
|
| Oct. 16 |
Specifications (.pdf)
The homer
Results from class: Specification exercise
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| Oct. 14 |
Scheduling and time estimation (.pdf)
Origami ball time
estimation experiment
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| Oct. 13 |
Mockups, customer needs, and human use (.pdf)
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| Oct. 9 |
Sketch
model feedback and hovercraft testing instructions (.pdf)
Tips for successful projects (.pdf)
Review results: Sketch model results
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| Oct. 8 |
Sketch model review introductiion (.pdf)
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| Oct. 5 |
Sketch model logisiics and build challenge (.pdf)
Compressed build video (18 MB, .mov)
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| Oct. 2 |
Horse power (.pdf)
Project consulting
|
| Sept. 30 |
Product teardown (.pdf)
Teardown activity
instructions (.pdf)
Plastics identification, Plastics identification symbols, Costing guidelines (certs required)
Teardown exercise results
Teardown in 60 seconds (17 MB, .mov)
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| Sept. 28 |
Sketch models (.pdf)
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| Sept. 25 |
3-idea presentation introduction (.pdf)
3-idea presentation results, team idea areas
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| Sept. 23 |
3-idea presentation and more estimation (.pdf)
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| Sept. 21 |
Estimation and testing (.pdf)
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| Sept. 18 |
Customer observation, what do you know about patents? (.pdf), Elaine Yang, Patent Attorney
Observation exercise
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| Sept. 16 |
Meetings and finding information (.pdf)
Treasure hunt instructions
and resources
Treasure hunt results
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| Sept. 14 |
Teams (.pdf)
Running
a meeting primer (.pdf)
3-ideas milestone
Idea fair schedule
Team-building challenge
roles (.pdf)
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| Sept. 11 |
Creativity and project
introduction (.pdf)
Creativity
strategies cheat-sheet (.pdf)
Brainstorming tutorial (.pdf)
Types of emergencies, from class brainstorming. Group 10 had 56 types!
For drawing help see the sketching tutorials
|
| Sept. 9 |
Product development process
introduction (.pdf)
Failed prototype test (.mpg) |
