EEL Senior Capstone Design II Spring 2015

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1 Instructor: Alan Harris, Ph.D. ` Office: Bldg. 50, Room 3122 Phone: (904) alan.harris@unf.edu Office Hours: TBD Catalog Description: Students are responsible for completion of their engineering project that was initiated in the Design 1 course. Students are responsible for testing relative to original specifications, oral presentation of the project, and project documentation in the form of a project report. Prerequisites: EEL 4914 (Senior Capstone Design I) Class Schedule and Building / Room: T R 8:00 10:40, TBD Grading Policy: Each student s final grade will be determined as follows: Project Deliverables 20% Final Design Report (w/ Presentation) 40% Functionality* 30% Peer Evaluation* 10% * See attached description Overall course grades are assigned as follows: A: B+: B: C+: C: D: F: <60

2 Semester Schedule Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Final Ethics, Syllabus and Rules Manufacturing SOW Due Friday by noon Risk and Safety; Continuing Ed Grad School Progress Presentations (15 minutes) Performance Assessment Methodology and Data Presentation Mid Semester Design Performance Review (on site, by team) Final Report Requirements; Q&A Spring Break No Class Poster files due Thurs by noon Symposium Evening Session (details TBA)** Class meeting Last Minute Questions TR Final Presentations Reports due MONDAY by noon Mandatory final meeting of Senior Design (failure to attend will result in 10% deduction from you final grade) Bold denotes deliverables due Underline denotes team attendance activity Despite all efforts and best intentions, the schedule is subject to change in Senior Design, and often does. Any change in the schedule will be communicated to all students via . Check your UNF daily (or forward it to one you do check daily)

3 Attendance and Participation Attendance is mandatory for all meetings, including lectures. A sign-in sheet will be passed around during each lecture. You are allowed 1 absence from lecture for the semester. Failure to sign in, will be considered and absence. Each absence after that will result in 5 points off your final grade. Absences may be excused in advance or with adequate proof/reason of absence, at the consent of the instructor. Presentations will be submitted on USB drive and loaded on the lecture computer before the beginning of class. Presentations not submitted at the beginning of class will not be accepted. If you are absent or arrive late on the day a presentation is required, you will not receive credit for that deliverable. The Design Proposal presentation must be delivered by all team members All deliverables will be submitted in hardcopy, word processed, and nothing will be accepted by . Due date and time for all deliverables is firm. Late deliverables will receive no credit. Description of the Methods of Evaluation Progress Deliverables (20% of Total Grade) Weekly Team Progress Memos (10% of Total Grade): Your team must meet, AT A MINIMUM, once a week. Documentation of your weekly progress will be submitted at the end of every week in a memo, separately and in addition to any deliverables due that week. You must follow an official memo format, list attendees and absentees for all team meetings, describe the meeting topics/agenda, document any action items and assignments given, and progress made. If no progress is made, or no meeting is held, your team must still submit a memo documenting this, but you will receive half credit for the week. Memos are to be turned in every Friday by noon (under instructor s door if unavailable to accept). If you have multiple meetings within the week, you can document that all in one memo. Meeting attendance will be used to document participation (see special note below). Manufacturing and Assembly Scope of Work (3% of total Grade): You will provide a scheduled list of activities and team assignments that will be employed through the production phase of your proposed design. You will need a parts list, complete with specifications (including materials) Teams will turn in one document (1-2 pages minimum + figures) describing the efforts to be performed throughout Senior Design II. Assignments for each team member must be clearly laid out, and each team member must sign a form acknowledging that they agree to this assignment Progress Presentations (3% of total grade) Your team will present an update on the progress, based on the scope of work. There should be significant progress evident, and a succinct plan to meet final goals for the semester. (i.e. and updated GANTT chart) Symposium Poster (4% of total grade): Each team will create a standard poster (template and printing to be provided) detailing the design process and efforts of production for their project. The poster is subject to the same rules of grammar and style as the report and presentation. SPECIAL NOTE ON DELIVERABLES: Upon receipt of evidence that a team member has not contributed to the deliverables, a meeting will be held with the entire team. For any individual deliverable, the instructor has the right to detach that deliverable from the team grade, and give an individual student a lower grade than the rest of the team. If the remaining team members unanimously

4 affirm that no significant contribution was made over the entire semester, the unproductive team member(s) will forfeit all points for Functionality, Peer Evaluation and Deliverables resulting in failure of Senior Design II, rendering them unable to graduate. There is no special summer class or independent study that will make up Senior Design II. Graduation will be delayed a year, without exception. This course enforces an understanding of professional responsibility, and should be executed with the same professionalism you will exhibit in your career as an engineer. Failure to do so will carry dire consequences, as would professional misconduct. Final Design Report (40% of Total Grade) Written Design Report (30 % of Total Grade): The design report should accurately document the design process used in the construction of your final project. The report must contain an executive summary that describes the overall effort as well as the functionality of the design you built. Budgets, work schedules, team assignments and professional engineering drawings are required. Functionality must be documented in terms of engineering performance and customer satisfaction (see Functionality below) In addition, you will prepare one segment of the report to address the sustainability and life cycle analysis of your design, and how it would translate into mass production of your proposed design, if possible. More detailed description of the requirements for the design report will be provided in the coming weeks. The report will be graded on both form and content. More than 5 spelling and/or grammatical errors will result in a loss of 25% of the written report grade. 10 or more such errors will result in a loss of 50% of the s. Grammar and style points are taken off the top, after the report is graded for content. In short.proof READ YOUR REPORT AND DON T FORGET THE FIGURES AND CAPTIONS! Final Team Presentations (10% of Total Grade): Each team will present their final design report in a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation. The team will present the cogent points of the design process from concept to realization. Teams will dress professionally. Your presentations may be inventive and fun, but must remain professional. Presentation files must be turned in on USB drive, and will be graded for grammar and form, just like the report. Failure to appear on time or participate in your team presentation will result in forfeiture of all points associated with the presentation.

5 Functionality (30% of Total Grade) Your design must function according to the original design parameters set forth in your proposal, and meet the ultimate needs of your customer. The customer can be identified as the final user of the product, and part of your assessment of functionality must measure the degree of customer satisfaction with the final product. Therefore the functionality grade is comprised of 3 equal parts: mid semester performance progress, engineering performance and customer satisfaction. Mid Semester Design Performance Progress Review: (10% of Total Grade) Each team will meet with the instructor to demonstrate status of functionality of their product. Significant, if not complete, progress to a functional product is expected. If nothing is manufactured or partially functional at the time of the review, the team will forfeit 10 points from the 30 functionality point total. Engineering Performance (10% of Total Grade) Based on the quantifiable performance metrics defined by your team in Senior Capstone Design I, you must demonstrate through testing and documentation that your product meets or exceeds ALL of its original performance goals. Failure to meet individual goals will result in a loss of up to 1/3 of the functionality grade. Customer Satisfaction (10% of Total Grade) Realizing that engineers serve the needs of society, every engineering design or product must meet the needs of some specific facet of society. Whether the project serves a local industrial partner, municipal entity, charity or internal UNF need, the customer is defined as the group for whom the project is built, and who must ultimately decide its ability to meet their needs. Each team must devise a method to document the level of customer satisfaction with the final product. Rubrics will be provided to aid the teams in their documentation and assessment efforts. Note on Functionality: Failure to produce a functional product (i.e. it cannot demonstrate physically that it does anything it s supposed to) will result in a loss of all 30 points, regardless of mid semester functionality or customer satisfaction. Peer Evaluations (10% of Total Grade) You will be asked to rate yourself and other members of your team on several different aspects of performance. Your honest feedback in this process is critical. Team activities can be rewarding, but they require attention to the working styles and personalities of the entire team. Use this feedback as an exercise in management, so you will be prepared to enter the workforce with solid team building skills. Blindly agreeing to give everyone on your team high marks is a cowardly way out of providing feedback. Team conflicts will ultimately come to the attention of the instructor, and without accurate information on these forms, you will have little support in dealing with poorly performing team members (see the special note on deliverables). Remember: there is no I in team, but there could be an F on your transcripts!

6 Additional Policies All deliverables will be submitted in hardcopy and word processed. Nothing will be accepted by . Due date and time for all deliverables is firm. Late deliverables will receive no credit, regardless of the circumstance. Each team will periodically meet with the instructor to discuss progress and challenges with their project. You are to bring tangible evidence or documentation of project progress. Meetings will be scheduled on the same day of the week, and time for the entire semester. Attendance by ALL team members is mandatory, NO exceptions unless approved in advance by the instructor. Plagiarism Policy and Failure of Senior Capstone Design II Plagiarism will not be tolerated in Senior Design. Plagiarism takes on many forms, from simple cutting and pasting of other s words, to lack of (or insufficient) citation of information from a publication. It is the responsibility of the students to learn the universities policies on academic dishonesty and misconduct. The first instance of any plagiarism in this class will result in ZERO credit for whatever assignment the offense occurs in (including the final report). If that assignment is your final report, you will fail Senior Design II, and your graduation will be delayed one year. More than one instance of plagiarism will result in assignment of an Unforgiveable F for the class, regardless of the point value of the assignment. An Unforgiveable F will prevent you from graduating from this university. A grade of D or F in Senior Capstone Design I will require students to start the senior design sequence over in a subsequent fall semester. There is no special class or independent study that will allow you to make up Senior Design I or II. Your graduation will be delayed a year, without exception. This course enforces an understanding of professional responsibility, and should be executed with the same professionalism you will exhibit in your career as an engineer. Failure to do so will carry dire consequences as would professional misconduct. Graduating Senior Survey Class will meet during the scheduled final exam period for the course. Students will complete the Graduating Senior Survey during the exam period. This survey is a valuable feedback mechanism used by the School of Engineering to assess the delivery of the program. As your feedback is vital, completion of the survey is required. Failure to show and complete the survey will result in deduction of one letter grade of the top of your final grade in Senior Design II. Exceptions and Deviations from the Syllabus As each Senior Design project is unique and the array of projects vary in scope and complexity, the instructor reserves the right to assign points for functionality relative to each team s design goals. However, scope or ambition of the project will not affect the degree of functionality. An incomplete project will not be given any extra consideration just because it may have been more difficult to execute. This is the risk you assume when you take on a challenging project. It is up to the discretion of the instructor to account for circumstances that may be deemed beyond the control of the team on a case by case basis. The grade assignments, deliverables and schedule are subject to change in the event of unforeseen circumstances. The class will be notified at the earliest possible time of any change in the point values of

7 graded materials and deliverable deadlines. Any changes will apply to all teams equally whenever possible, to maintain fairness in the overall grade assignment. Final note: The vast majority of the activity in this class is performed outside of the classroom. It is your responsibility to prepare deliverables, presentations, and reports throughout the semester. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE DUE DATE TO COMPLETE YOUR WORK, AND DO NOT ASSUME YOUR TEAMMATES WILL DO THE SAME. GIVE YOUR ENTIRE TEAM THE TIME TO REVIEW EVERYTHING THAT IS TURNED IN FOR A GROUP GRADE.