Students spend the fall semester walking through the product development process including collecting customer needs , concept generating , prototyping , analysis and detail design .
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 .
PLAN
1 . |
Team charter |
2 . |
Project charter |
3 . |
Customer needs |
4 . |
Engineering characteristics |
5 . |
Target specifications |
CONCEPT- UALIZE
1 . |
Concept generation |
2 . |
Early prototyping |
3 . |
Risk assessment |
4 . |
Down selection |
DESIGN
1 . |
3D CAD model |
2 . |
Simulation |
3 . |
Analysis |
4 . |
Tolerance stack-up |
5 . |
2D drawings |
BUILD
1 . |
Get supplier quotes for lead |
time and price |
2 . |
Purchase components |
3 . |
Complete assembly |
TEST
1 . Test / validate for each target specification
2 . Analyze results
12 VIRGINIA TECH MECHANICAL ENGINEERING • ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021