SENIORDESIGN
Students spend the fall semester walking through the product development process including collecting customer needs , concept generating , prototyping , analysis and detail design .
PLAN CONCEPTUALIZE
By winter break , teams have settled on one concept to move forward with and have completed half of the detailed design for that concept . During the spring semester , students finalize the details of the design then build and test their product . |
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Team charter
Project charter
Customer needs
Engineering characteristics
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Concept generation Early prototyping Risk assessment Down selection |
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Target specifications |
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Example deliverables schedule
SEPTEMBER FEBRUARY
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Customer needs Engineering characteristics Target specifications Concept review
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MARCH
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Critical design review
Product launch presentation
OCTOBER
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Risk assessment
Design review - present project overview and design concept
NOVEMBER
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Preliminary design review
DECEMBER
APRIL
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MAY
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Product test and evaluation Design expo and poster session
Final design presentation and report
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Design review - 50 % detailed design complete
16 EDUCATION • VIRGINIA TECH MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT • 2019-2020