MEAM.Design - IPD 501 - FINAL


Machine

Dates
Tu M20: Assigned

- Project introduction.

Th M22: Teams Due

- Form a team of six students and post a note on Piazza listing your team members by 2:00PM before class.
- Come up with general questions and preliminary ideas to discuss in class.

Tu M27: Project 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 qualitative and quantitative 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 not be submitting any CAD. 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 2:00PM before class. Title both the file and email as "501-FINAL-PROPOSAL-TEAM-NAME". Your team should be ready to present in class and can choose to use your own computer if it works with the projector.

We M28: Finalize Project

- Email medesign@seas.upenn.edu with a brief description of the team's final project selection and full team name/list by 2:00PM. Title the email as "501-FINAL-TOPIC-TEAM_NAME".

Th M29: Schedule and Preliminary BOM

- As a team, create a project schedule/gantt chart for your project. This should be a google sheet or some other cloud-based schedule tool for easy editing.
- Create a preliminary BOM for some of the major items you expect to require for your project.
- Email the shareable links to medesign@seas.upenn.edu by 2:00PM before class. Title the email as "501-FINAL-SCHEDULE-TEAM_NAME".

Tu A03: Status Update 1

- Prepare a status update presentation and present it in class.
- This presentation should also include a discussion of your schedule, BOM, and manufacturing plans. Your team should also have clear and practical design and engineering requirements.
- At this point, your project should be fairly well-defined and should not be deviating too much from this point on.
- Save the presentation as a .pptx and email it to medesign@seas.upenn.edu by 2:00PM before class. Your team should be ready to present in class and can choose to use your own computer if it works with the projector. Title both the file and email as "501-FINAL-UPDATE1-TEAM_NAME".

We A04: First Order

- The teaching staff will submit an order for each team's approved BOM to business office at 9:00AM.

Tu A10: Status Update 2

- Prepare a status update presentation and present it in class.
- This presentation should also include a discussion of your schedule, BOM, manufacturing plans, and a potential prototype of a subsystem(s). Your team should also provide analysis that the project is meeting your design requirements. This can be done with FEA or hand calculations, among other things.
- At this point, your team should have already begun at least some preliminary manufacturing.
- Save the presentation as a .pptx and email it to medesign@seas.upenn.edu by 2:00PM before class. Your team should be ready to present in class and can choose to use your own computer if it works with the projector. Title both the file and email as "501-FINAL-UPDATE2-TEAM_NAME".

We A11: Second Order

- The teaching staff will submit an order for each team's approved BOM to business office at 9:00AM.

Tu A17: Status Update 3

- Prepare a status update presentation and present it in class.
- This presentation should include a discussion of your plans to finish the project on time..
- Save the presentation as a .pptx and email it to medesign@seas.upenn.edu by 2:00PM before class. Your team should be ready to present in class and can choose to use your own computer if it works with the projector. Title both the file and email as "501-FINAL-UPDATE3-TEAM_NAME".

Tu A24: Final Project Due

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


Assignment
Working in a team of 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. All machined parts require the submission of a work permit and drawings.
  • Each team will be given a budget of $1000.
  • 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. Aside from machining, each project is required to incorporate at least one other method of manufacturing that was covered in class in a well thought and engineered manner.
  • This project is run on a tight timeframe. Pick something that you can reasonably accomplish, as a result, not having enough time is not a good reason for not meeting deadlines.
  • Ultimately this is a mechanical design and manufacturing class. The primary goal of this project is to have a completed machine with well-manufactured 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":


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