Teams (.pdf)

Team-building tower challenge (.mov)

Team-building challenge roles (.pdf)

Running a meeting primer (.pdf)

Week 1 lab instructions:
Electing officers and ideation

3-Ideas presentation

Project timesheet

Idea fair
(7 PM)

Idea fair logistics

Presentations from the fair

Meetings and finding information (.pdf)

Treasure hunt
(due at noon)

Treasure hunt results

Customer observation and estimation
(.pdf)

Observation exercise

Reading:
Read chapters 3 and 4 in textbook

Ideas feedback and sketch models (.pdf)

For help with sketch modeling techniques, please see the sketch modeling tutorials

Week 3 lab instructions: From opportunity area to concepts

Special Workshop
by Eric Sugalski on designing using
sourced parts: Session II, build and test

Design notebook

Project timesheet

All team officer positions should be finalized

Product teardown
(.pdf)

Teardown activity instructions
(.pdf)

Results from class:
Teardown results
Teardown in 60 seconds (.mov)

References:
Plastics identification
Plastics identification symbols
Costing guidelines (certs required)

Case studies by David Meeker (MIT only, certificates required):
Erasure benchmarking study

Costing case study

Special tutorial on finding information for your product with course librarians. All information officers must attend. 7 PM, room 14N-132

Special Seminar by Robin Miller. 2.009 start to finish in the real world. The Otis hoist machine development project. 7-8 PM, room TBA.

What 2.009 students should know about patents
(.pdf)

RFP training, All financial officers must attend. 4:00 PM, room 5-314.

Special tutorial. Top-down design in Solidworks. This crash course by Eric Sugalski will get your team modeling assemblies effectively. 4 PM, room 35-125.

Columbus day holiday

Week 5 lab instructions: Identifying and resolving key risks

Design notebook

Project timesheet

Mockups, customer needs, and human use
(.pdf)

Reading:
Chapter 5 in textbook

Peer review 1 (5 PM)

Team review A (5 PM)

SI communication workshop (part 2 of 3) with cr instructors. All system integrators must attend, other class members are welcome. 7 PM, room 12-134. (schedule for part 3)

Family weekend
Specifications (.pdf)

The homer

Results from class:
Specification exercise

Reading:
Chapter 16 in textbook

Lab instructor review I

Product architecture (.pdf)

Week 7 lab instructions: Making the decision!

Code of ethics

Peer review 2

SI communication session (part 3 of 3) with cr instructors. All system integrators must attend, other class members are welcome. 7 PM, room 12-134.

Design notebook

Project timesheet

Design
for assembly
(.pdf)

Reading:
chapter 9 in textbook

Code of ethics
(draft, 5 PM)

Project consulting

Assembly review overview (.pdf)

Code of ethics
(final version, 5 PM)

Special Tutorial.
Ilan Moyer will provide power user tips on helping to manage a complex design in Solidworks. 4 PM, room TBA.

Safety, technical review and debugging process
(.pdf)

Short circuit! (.mov)
Gorilla and Banana demonstrate inattentional blindness

Week 9 lab instructions: Resolving design details and prototyping

Design notebook

Project timesheet

Component library (.pdf)

Project consulting

Veterans day:
student and staff holiday.

No formal class due to Thursday evening presentation

Week 11 lab instructions: Technical reivew and planning the rebuild

Teams need to meet to plan, but lab times are optional this week

Technical review
(7 PM)

Design notebook

Project timesheet

(submit prior to thanksgiving holiday)

Wed.
Nov. 23

no class/work

Final presentation logistics

Week 13 lab:
the final push

Special Tutorial on product costing by David Meeker. The goal is to work on a cost estimate for your final prototype. 7 PM, Pappalardo lab. (part 2 of 2)

Presenting data
(.pdf)