Senior Design II proposal A step-by-Step review

What is Senior Design?  Senior Design is a sequence of two courses during two consecutive semesters  The courses are named Senior Design I and Senior Design II. Electrical and Computer Engineering Students are supposed to take them during their last two semesters as Engineering Students ad FIU  Senior Design I is a 2 credit, lecture type course while Senior Design I is a 2 credit Directed Individual Study  The activities the students perform during this combination of courses would be the equivalent in the industry of a complete Project Life Cycle

What is Senior Design?  The Senior Design sequence is mainly a project management experience which includes the design of a final product  The Electrical and Computer Engineering Students dedicate a considerable amount of time in this process and over time they have increased our expectation for the Senior Design II demonstrations as very intriguing projects continue to be presented

What is Senior Design?  During Senior Design I students: Form a multidiscipline team and practice to achieve effective communication skills Determine the project requirement and specifications Do most of the research Check for patents infringement Do a preliminary Design keeping in mine the industry standards Estimate the Time Line and the budget  In this process students make sure that: The best ethical principles are used and Health, safety and the environment are preserved

What is Senior Design?  During Senior Design II students: Perform the Detailed Design Build a prototype Test and Evaluate the prototype Discuss with their mentor any changes in the requirement or in the specifications  In this process students make analyze: The results of the project How the budget and the timeline changed Elaborate a final conclusion on the project

What is The Senior Design II Proposal?  The Senior Design II Proposal would be our equivalent to the Preliminary Design Review (PDR)  All the activities during Senior Design I circle around the Senior Design II Proposal  In order to pass Senior Design I Students must have a proposal signed by The Mentor, The Senior Design I instructor and all the team members

What is The Senior Design II Proposal?  The main aspects of the Senior Design II proposal are: To determine the Problem Statement and Project Objectives To determine the Project Specifications To conduct a Technology review that includes: Similar Projects Patents Standards To establish the management schedule of the project based on: Time lines and Budget

What is The Senior Design II Proposal?  The main aspects of the Senior Design II proposal are (cont.): To set the health and safety goals To make correct decisions base on: Preserving the environment Improving Manufacturability Assuring Sustainability To Determine the project feasibility and the risks involved To Analyze different concepts and select the one that fits best to the project To produce a preliminary design and communicate it effectively by means of text and diagrams

What do we make Different?  Our Students form a Team and find a Mentor Early in the process  Our Students do most of the research and the writing during Senior Design I  Our Students start the design very early in the process, even when the Senior Design II Proposal is not complete

PROBLEM STATEMENT  At this point students have found a topic and a mentor. To emulate real world situations where designers (The students) design for Clients based on user needs, the Mentor assumes the role of the Client and therefore the Mentor can establish his/her own Project Requirement  Students determine the Problem Statement, Objectives, Constraints and Limitation based on their interaction with: The Client by means of a structured interview The potential Users by means of a Survey and The other Team Members by means of Brainstorming

NEED ANALYSIS/The Client Interview  Prepare a Structured interview with questions like: When and why do you use this type of product? Walk us through a typical session using the product. What do you like about the existing products? What do you dislike about the existing products? What issues do you consider when purchasing the product? What improvements would you make to the product? Are there already products on the market that have similar features? And you can always ask a second question: What does that mean? Why do you want that?  Every Project is different please customize

NEED ANALYSIS/The Survey

NEED ANALYSIS/The Brainstorming

 Remove repeated entries

Project Attributes Eliminate Constraints, Functions and Implementations

The Feasibility Analysis/Obtaining Weights

The Feasibility Analysis / Assessment

The Feasibility Analysis / Risk  Risk Exposure Matrix  Clear and well defined risk acceptance thresholds are required in order to define the level of risk that can be tolerated.  The Exposure Matrix can be used to prevent entering into a project  You may use a fishbone diagram to discover risks

The Feasibility Analysis / Fault Tree Analysis