6-13-2006

Capstone Milestones (first semester)

Deliverable / Description / Criteria
Bid Proposal
(week 2) /
  1. Resume
  2. Survey
  3. Rationale for project choices.
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  1. Suitable for internship application
  2. Identify red flags, rationale explained in thoughtful responses
  3. Connected with long term professional plans and past experiences

Team Charter
(week 3) /
  1. Name/contact information (e-mail addresses and phone numbers)
  2. Working rules and roles. Budgeting, Web Page, Project Manager, Customer Contact
  3. Meeting times with instructors
  4. Goals/deliverables
  5. Team documentation system (binder + web)
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  1. Professional and memorable name
  2. Minimum set that insures professional performance
  3. Reserve an hour, once a week.
  4. S.M.A.R.T. project goals owned by the team
  5. Comprehensive, adds value, maintainable, and flexible

Problem Definition Posting
(week 5)
Initially done on TIDEE form and then put on website for review.
Followed up by ABET Team Processes Assessment /
  1. Background
  2. Problem statement
  3. List of customer needs
  4. List of target specifications
  5. List of constraints
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  1. Comprehensive description of the situation
  2. Concise, motivating, relevant paragraph, suitable for general audience
  3. Prioritized list showing awareness of different stakeholders, describe what, not how
  4. Finite, measurable, attainable, meaningful, challenging, prioritized
  5. Address user issues, fall within scope of class and budget

Project Learning Plan
(week 6)
Brief technical presentation during team meeting to peers and instructor
followed up with ABET Life-Long Learning Paper /
  1. Resources identified
  2. Skill development planned
  3. Synthesis of what they (team members) know about the problem (key knowledge areas and explanation of concepts and principles).
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  1. Five good references per team member to explore
  2. Performance areas identified and key person mapped to each. Develop learning plan.
  3. Logbook based—accurate, organized, and meaningful.

Initial Prototype Review
(week 7)
Mid-semester Snapshot Day /
  1. Acquisition/construction of physical prototype
  2. Demonstration and explanation of physical prototypes at Snapshot Day
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  1. Prototype adds significant value to understanding of project
  2. Relevant to project, clear explanation of how it works as well as the underlying scientific concepts

Preliminary Design Review
(week 9)
ABET Oral Communication /
  1. identify subsystems
  2. specifications of subsystems
  3. determine interface requirements
  4. description and initial weighting of design alternatives
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  1. complete system design (functional requirements)
  2. supported by project learning and prototyping
    (design parameters)
  3. complete set of issues
    (analysis of coupling)
  4. robust & realistic
    (axiomatic principles)

Draft Design Report
(week 12) /
  1. prototype discoveries
  2. finalized conceptual design
  3. bill of materials
  4. budget
  5. technical communication
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  1. resolves system and component issues
  2. approval by client and instructor
  3. parts/vendors known
  4. wise use of resources
  5. credibility of team

Mid-Project Snapshot
(week 15)
ABET Design skills
(based on report)
Followed up with ABET Team Processes Assessment /
  1. refined prototypes
  2. mid-year design report
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  1. all functionality proven
  2. justification for all design decisions

Capstone Milestones (second semester)

Deliverable / Description / Criteria
Performance Review
(week 2) /
  1. workbreakdown for
    semester
  2. website review
  3. development initiatives
    for semester
/ 1, realistic and enlightened
2. up to date, process and
product information
3. responds to findings
from team processes assessment
Detailed Design Review
(week 4)
ABET Ethics & Professionalism /
  1. Finalized Interface Design
  2. Parts selected, ordered, received
  3. Diagrams & Drawings (part drawings and PCB layouts)
  4. Manufacturing Plan
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  1. Addresses feedback from mid-year report
  2. Purchased parts in-house
  3. Sensible dimensions, tolerances, and features
  4. Wise use of local resources

Finished Prototype Snapshot
(week 8)
ABET Team Processes /
  1. Complete prototype
  2. Draft DFMEA
  3. Initial Test Plan
/ 1.Components assembled and ready for testing
2.Minimum set that insures professional performance
3.Aligned with project specifications and responsive to DFMEA
Acceptance Review
(week 11)
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  1. Debugged prototype
  2. Revised DFMEA
  3. Outline of final report
  4. Website Review
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  1. Concise, motivating, relevant paragraph, suitable for general audience
  2. captures all lessons learned in testing
  3. all subsections and graphics defined
  4. all phases of design process illustrated

Final Presentation
(week 14) /
  1. EXPO Hardware display
  2. Project Poster
  3. Draft final report
  4. Finalized Website
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  1. impresses EXPO judges and general public
  2. attractive, readable from
    10 feet away
  3. all sections and appendices complete
  4. inclusion of edits and lessons learned

Project Delivery
(week 15)
ABET Team Processes /
  1. Finished Hardware
    and Software
  2. final report
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  1. ready for shipping to client
  2. bound and in color