ME310 - Mechanical Engineering Design: Introduction

Instructor: Dr. Jim Burns; Office E105A (Refer to Office Hours); Phone 594-6076
Office Hours: 11:00am - Noon Mon., Tues., Wed.
Text: The Mechanical Design Process - 2nd Ed., By David G. Ullman, McGraw-Hill Inc. 1997.
Tentative Course Outline:

Week	Dates	Lecture Topics	Lab Activities	Text Ref's
1	1/27 - 1/30	Intro to Mechanical Design Process	How we design	Chapt. 1,2
2	2/2-2/5	Case Study of Mechanical Design	Shop Safety; Design Notebook, Quiz?	Chapt. 3,4
3	2/9- 2/12	CAD/ProENGINEER	CAD Lab	Notes
4	2/16- 2/19	Feasibility Assessment	Experimental Methods	Notes
5	2/23- 2/26	Intro to General Design Process	Project A Due Proj. A Competition	Chapt. 5, 7,8
6	3/2-3/5	Project Review; Concurrent Engineering	Creativity Presentation/Workshop	Notes
7	3/9- 3/12	Total Quality Design	TQD Lab	Notes
8+	3/16- 3/19	Exam#1 Proj. B and C discussion	Proj. B Labtime, Quiz?	Notes
9	3/23- 3/26	Specification Development/Planning	Proj. B Labtime	Chapt. 6
10	3/30 - 4/2	Product Design: Documentation	Proj. B Competition	Chapt. 9
11$	4/13 - 4/16	Product Design: Product Generation	Upper Div. Writing TQD Lab	Chapt. 10
12	4/20- 4/23	Product Design: Eval.for function	Proj. C Labtime	Chapt. 11
13	4/27- 4/30	Product Design: Eval.for manufacture	Quiz?	Chapt. 12
14	5/4 - 5/7	Product liability/guest speaker	Proj. C Labtime	Notes
15$	5/11- 5/14	Green Design/Intellectual property	Proj. C Competition	Chapt. 13

Grading:

• Project A 15%
• Project B 20%
• Project C 30%
• Homeworks (4-5) 20%
• Exams 15%
• Total 100%
  
  $ Denotes upper division writing req. exam (2 required)
  + Denotes week of Exam 1