MEAM.Design - IPD 501 - FINAL



Final

Dates
Th M23: Assigned

- Project Introduction

Tu M28: Teams and Proposals Due

- As a team, prepare a professional presentation proposing at least three ideas and your explorations of feasibility of each. This should be essentially a Preliminary Design Review for each project.
- For each project list the quantitive and qualitative goals that would make the project a success.
- Discuss the pros and cons of each project from a design and manufacturing point of view and any other pros and cons you can come up with.
- Play around with each concept by sketching it. You should have at least 3 sketches of each proposed project.
- Save the presentation as a .pptx and email it to medesign@seas.upenn.edu by 3:00PM. Be ready to present in class. You can also use your own computer if it works with the projector. Subject: "501-FINAL-PROPOSAL-TEAM_NAME".

We M29: Finalize project

- Email medesign@seas.upenn.edu with your team's final project topic and full team name list by 1:00PM. Subject: "501-FINAL-TOPIC-TEAM_NAME".

Th M30: Schedule

- Turn in your project schedule / gantt chart by 3:00PM. This should be a google sheet or some other cloud-based schedule tool for easy editing. Email the link to medesign@seas.upenn.edu by 3:00PM. Subject: "501-FINAL-SCHEDULE-TEAM_NAME".

Tu A04: Status Update 1

- Prepare a status update presentation and present it in class.
- This presentation should also include a discussion of your schedule and BOM.
- Save the presentation as a .pptx and email it to medesign@seas.upenn.edu by 3:00PM. Be ready to present in class. You can also use your own computer if it works with the projector. Subject: "501-FINAL-UPDATE1-TEAM_NAME".

Tu A11: Status Update 2

- Prepare a status update presentation and present it in class.
- This presentation should also include a discussion of your schedule and BOM.
- Save the presentation as a .pptx and email it to medesign@seas.upenn.edu by 3:00PM. Be ready to present in class. You can also use your own computer if it works with the projector. Subject: "501-FINAL-UPDATE2-TEAM_NAME".

Tu A18: Status Update 3

- Prepare a status update presentation and present it in class.
- This presentation should also include a discussion of your schedule and BOM.
- Save the presentation as a .pptx and email it to medesign@seas.upenn.edu by 3:00PM. Be ready to present in class. You can also use your own computer if it works with the projector. Subject: "501-FINAL-UPDATE3-TEAM_NAME".

Tu A25: Final Project Due

- Bring your completed final project to class for a demo!


Assignment
Working in a team of five (or six), your task is to conceptualize, design, manufacture, and test a machine.

Deliverables
1. A completed and functional machine.


Guidelines

  • More then any other project this semester, we are expecting that you approach this as both an engineer and a designer.
  • You will be able to order parts, but we will expect that anything that can be made in-house will be done so. Order dates will be announced.
  • The expectation will be that you utilize the advanced manufacturing topics discussed in this class. 3D printing is applicable in some situations, but should not be used as an easy way out of DFM and actually manufacturing parts.
  • This project is run on a very tight timeframe. Pick something that you can reasonably accomplish.
  • Ultimately this is a mechanical design and manufacturing class. The primary goal of this project is to have a completed machine with well-machined and functional parts. Sloppy machining (bad surface finish, machine crashes, etc...) and bad design (parts not aligning, poor thought for precision location, etc...) will heavily impact your final grade.


Some inspiration for definition of a "machine"

  • A robotic arm
  • A desktop shopbot
  • A desktop CNC lathe
  • A desktop CNC mill
  • Pen line drawing machine Example by Kris Li and Mark Gallagher
  • Fourier transform machine shown here
  • Something that incorporates this
  • A printing press example
  • A pan-tilt camera controller example
  • A motorized camera boom something like this but smaller example
  • A cable-cam / sky-cam


Resources
* MIT Course: FUNdaMENTALS of (mechanical) Design
* MIT Course: Elements of Mechanical Design
* Team Nightfall 1st Presentation
* Team Nightfall 2nd Presentation