MEEG 401 – Senior Design Concept Generation & Selection & Project Management Phase 2 Kick-Off Meeting MEEG401 – Senior Design Fall 2011

MEEG 401 – Senior Design Ideas! New product System component Modeling technique Whole solution (very rarely!) Ideas! New product System component Modeling technique Whole solution (very rarely!) 1 Concept Generation & Selection Divergent Process Defer judgment Focus on quantity Play off of other’s ideas Convergent Process Identify patterns Combine solutions Focus on feasibility ITERATE

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 2 Concept Selection Tools UDesign (Available on course website under Phase 2)

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 3 Well defined Project Scope Prioritized Sponsor Needs & Wants Project Constraints Metrics associated with Constraints Working Prototype Complete Design Portfolio Clear Hand-Off to Sponsor Milestone #1 Milestone #2 Milestone #3 Milestone #4 Bad Project Management Good Project Management Project Management

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 4 Do ThisNot That Make a list of all project tasksThink only in terms of major milestones Make a master schedule with all tasks, milestones Wing it Add a time cushion, particularly for testing & fabrication Have no time cushion Maximize usage of all available resources…delegate! Have one person do all the work Track progress on schedule & revise schedule & tasks Do it once & forget about it Calculate time for each task (be conscious of items w/ lead time) Toss a random number out there Common sense, no?

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 5 Sponsor: Prof. Mike Keefe Team: Buckley, Cloud, Fagerstrom, Glancey, Harris Project: Hydraulic lifts on UD 15-passenger vans

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 6 This is not project management. Is he doing all the work?

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 7 Project Management Tools Advantages Disadvantages Calendar Familiar & easy to set up Static No inherent relationship between tasks Tool

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 8 MilestoneTasksLead Person SeptOctNovDec Phase 1: Design Requirements & Project Scope Review project proposal & formulate initial questions for sponsorSPOC - Cloud Site visit(s) & reports from visits sent to AdvisorFagerstrom Benchmark car hydraulic lift systemsGlancey Eng calcs to determine necessary lift forceHarris Finalize constraints/metricsBuckley Draft of Phase 1 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Final Phase 1 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Phase 2: Concept Selection & Project Plan Group brainstorming session - chassis modificationSPOC - Cloud Eng justification for/against each chassis modificationGlancey / Fagerstrom Cost/assembly time for each ideaHarris Design selection - hydraulic lift, chassis modificationSPOC - Cloud Draft Schedule through project completion - time estimates for each taskBuckley Draft of Phase 2 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Final Phase 2 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Phase 3: Detailed Design & Test Plan Draft of Phase 3 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Final Phase 3 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Phase 4: Performance Validation & Path Forward Draft of Phase 2 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Final Phase 2 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Draft schedule is one of the deliverables for Phase 2

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 9 MilestoneTasksLead Person SeptOctNovDec Phase 1: Design Requirements & Project Scope Review project proposal & formulate initial questions for sponsorSPOC - Cloud Site visit(s) & reports from visits sent to AdvisorFagerstrom Benchmark car hydraulic lift systemsGlancey Eng calcs to determine necessary lift forceHarris Finalize constraints/metricsBuckley Draft of Phase 1 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Final Phase 1 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Phase 2: Concept Selection & Project Plan Group brainstorming session - chassis modificationSPOC - Cloud Eng justification for/against each chassis modificationGlancey / Fagerstrom Cost/assembly time for each ideaHarris Design selection - hydraulic lift, chassis modificationSPOC - Cloud Draft Schedule through project completion - time estimates for each taskBuckley Draft of Phase 2 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Final Phase 2 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Phase 3: Detailed Design & Test Plan Order hydraulic lift (6 week lead time)Fagerstrom Detailed design - chassis modificationGlancey / Fagerstrom Secure shop tools for final assemblyGlancey FE analysis of chassisHarris Data synthesis & design package assemblyBuckley Draft of Phase 3 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Final Phase 3 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Phase 4: Performance Validation & Path Forward Modify chassisGlancey Hydraulic lift receivedFagerstrom Assemble system on carHarris Fatigue testing of systemBuckley Draft of Phase 2 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Final Phase 2 report to advisorSPOC - Cloud Task dependencies & parallel tasks are difficult to visualize… You may want to use another tool.

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 10 Project Management Tools Advantages Disadvantages Calendar Familiar & easy to set up Static No inherent relationship between tasks Gantt Chart Easy to understand Industry standard Not easy to see precedence, relationships Tool

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 11 Gantt Chart Clearer display of parallel tasks Dependencies displayed but not completely obvious.

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 12 Project Management Tools Advantages Disadvantages Calendar Familiar & easy to set up Static No inherent relationship between tasks Gantt Chart Easy to understand Industry standard Not easy to see precedence, relationships Pert/CPM Network Charts Easy visualization of task relationships Complex & difficult to maintain Hard to visualize timeline/dates Tool

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 13 Network Diagram Task dependencies are very clear. Use to identify critical path. Dates/timeline not easy to identify

MEEG 401 – Senior Design 14 Use divergent processes to generate pool of ideas & convergent processes to select best option…Iterate until you have a solution. Take Home Generate a detailed project schedule early. Identify & delegate tasks & sub-tasks Identify dependencies amongst tasks Work backwards from deadlines & add a time buffer. Different project management tools may be useful depending on level of project complexity. Simple schedule (Excel) Gantt Chart, Network Diagram (MS Project)