Students in Mechanical Engineering are required to take ME 4182 or ME 4723 to meet their Capstone Design Course requirements.
| Week # | Date | Content & Speaker | Reference Links/Lab Deliverables |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 8/11 & 8/12 | Town-hall Discussions | Video here: https://bluejeans.com/s/KRerhNfl8ct |
| 8/16 | Start-of-Semester Survey on CANVAS: ME Only Interdisciplinary | Flow-Chart for Week #1 activities | |
| 1 | 8/17 @ 12:30pm | Course Intro + Sponsored Projects' Pitch Session (Slides) - Video Recording | Visit Project Marketplace to review and submit projects. (How To Guide) |
| 8/17 @1:25pm | Social Mixer | Review Faculty Preferences | |
| 8/19 @12:30pm | Course Introduction Continued (Slides) | Video Recording Q/A logs from live Lab Discussion |
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| 8/19 @ 1:30pm | Faculty "meet and greet' and Team Formation | Form your group on Project Marketplace website | |
| 2 | 8/24 - Common Studio | 0. Studio Announcements/Introductions (Slides) 1. User Needs, Design Specifications, etc. (Slides) 2. Market Research and Prior Art (Slides) | Project/Faculty Assignments to Teams Video Recording Q/A Logs from Live Studio Session |
| 8/26 - Lab meeting | Team organization & Section policies | Problem Statement | |
| 3 | 8/31 - Common Studio | Studio Announcements/Introductions (Slides) 3. Ideation, Concept Generation, Design Process (Slides) 4. Industrial Design/Human Factors (Slides) | Video Recording Q/A Logs from Live Studio Session |
| 9/2 - Lab meeting | - | User needs, stakeholders, prior art analysis | |
| 4 | 9/7 - Labor Day | Institute Holiday | |
| 9/9 - Lab meeting | - | Ideation, ID, Human Factors | |
| 5 | 9/14 - Common Studio | 5. Risk, Liability, Codes & Standards (Slides) 6. Prototyping (Slides) | Video Recording Q/A Logs from Live Studio Session Q/A from Prototyping |
| 9/16 - Lab meeting | - | Presentation & Report #1 | |
| 6 | 9/21 - Career Fair | Studio cancelled | |
| 9/23 - Lab meeting | - | Feedback on Report #1 Relevant codes, standards, and risk analysis (FMEA Template) |
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| 7 | 9/28 - Common Studio | 7. Sustainability (Slides) 8. Societal Impact Assessment (Slides); SIA outline; SIA Template; Methodological Sheets for Social Life Cycle Analysis | Video Recording |
| 9/30 - Lab meeting | - | Preliminary design and feasibility analysis | |
| 8 | 10/5 - Common Studio | 9. Analysis (Slides) 10. Expo Plan (Slides), Effective Communication (Slides for Poster) and Video (Slides) | Video Recording |
| 10/7 - Lab meeting | - | Sustainability and Societal Impacts analysis | |
| 9 | 10/12 - Common Studio @12:30pm 10/12 - Common Studio @1:30pm | 11. IP Overview and Patents (Slides) 12. Expo video Preview Session (all teams share 1-minute video of their project problem/background with the class) Notes from Studio 1-min video from class | DEADLINE to register for the expo |
| 10/14 - Lab meeting | - | Analysis Scoping |
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| 10 | 10/19 - Optional Lab meeting | Watch video on Industrial Product Development - case study on how products are designed and released at Milwaukee Tools | - |
| 10/21- Lab meeting | - | Presentation and Report #2 | |
| 11 | 10/26 - Optional Lab meeting | - | |
| 10/28 - Lab meeting | - | Feedback on Report #2 Engineering analyses, CAE and prototyping |
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| 12 | 11/2 - Optional Lab meeting | - | |
| 11/4 - Lab meeting | - | Engineering analyses, CAD and prototyping update | |
| 13 | 11/9 - Optional Lab meeting | - | |
| 11/11 - Lab meeting | - | Engineering analyses, CAD and prototyping update | |
| 14 | 11/16 - Common Studio 2:25pm-3:00pm: Virtual Expo Platform Trial | 13. Expo Poster Feedback Session (all teams share a draft poster with the class). 2:25pm-3:00pm: Virtual Expo Platform Trial | - |
| 11/18 - Lab meeting | - | Engineering analyses, CAD and prototyping update |
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| 15 | 11/23 @ 12:30pm | Final Presentation to faculty | |
| 11/23 @ 3:30pm | Virtual Capstone Design Expo | ||
| 16 | 12/1 | - | Final report and Fab Package Due |
*Individual section instructors have latitude on deliverables, timing, and grading. The preceding information is a set of general guidelines.
Contacts:
Ken Cunefare
Lead Faculty
ken.cunefare@me.gatech.edu
Amit Jariwala
Director of Design and Innovation
amit.jariwala@gatech.edu