1. MAE 4291: SENIOR DESIGN Presentation Review November 10, 2008
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Florida Institute of Technology
D. R. Kirk

2. Junior Design

3. JUNIOR DESIGN OVERALL PERFORMANCE (3-4.5 SCALE)
PANTHER II
PIFAS
CHANNEL WING
HPV
GLXP
COEUS
ARES
MAV
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4. JUNIOR DESIGN FINAL RANKING
PIFAS
HPV
Channel Wing
Panther II
COEUS
ARES
GLXP
Juggernaut
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5. Senior Design I Presentation I

6. CHANNEL WING HPV COEUS MAV GLXP PANTHER II ARES PIFAS
1. Team goal, objectives, and specifications are clear and well thought out
HPV
MAV
CHANNEL WING
COEUS
GLXP
ARES
PANTHER II
PIFAS
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7. CHANNEL WING HPV COEUS MAV GLXP PANTHER II ARES PIFAS
2. The team has a good understand of the overall project and the main sub-systems, i.e., they understand the complexity and underlying nature of their proposal.
HPV
MAV
CHANNEL WING
COEUS
GLXP
ARES
PANTHER II
PIFAS
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8. CHANNEL WING HPV COEUS MAV GLXP PANTHER II ARES PIFAS
3. Modeling and calculations that are being attempted make sense at this point, i.e., is this what should be calculated at this point or are they ignoring something more important that should be addressed sooner.
HPV
MAV
CHANNEL WING
COEUS
GLXP
ARES
PANTHER II
PIFAS
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9. 4. Modeling and calculations are presented in sufficient detail.
HPV
MAV
CHANNEL WING
COEUS
GLXP
ARES
PANTHER II
PIFAS
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10. CHANNEL WING HPV COEUS MAV GLXP PANTHER II ARES PIFAS
5. The team has presented sufficient evidence that the project or sub-system will succeed.
HPV
MAV
CHANNEL WING
COEUS
GLXP
ARES
PANTHER II
PIFAS
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11. AVERAGE SCORE CHANNEL WING HPV COEUS MAV GLXP PANTHER II ARES PIFAS
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12. FINAL RANKING End of Junior Design PIFAS HPV Channel Wing Panther II
COEUS
ARES
GLXP
Juggernaut
Mid-Term Fall Senior
HPV
Channel Wing
ARES
COEUS
Panther II
PIFAS
GLXP
Juggernaut
PDR Fall Senior
FDR Spring Senior
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13. Senior Design I PDR

14. GLXP PANTHER II ARES PIFAS CHANNEL WING HPV MAV COEUS
1. Team goal, objectives, and specifications are clear and well thought out
GLXP
PANTHER II
ARES
PIFAS
CHANNEL WING
HPV
MAV
COEUS
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15. GLXP PANTHER II ARES PIFAS CHANNEL WING HPV MAV COEUS
2. The team has a good understand of the overall project and the main sub-systems, i.e., they understand the complexity and underlying nature of their proposal.
GLXP
PANTHER II
ARES
PIFAS
CHANNEL WING
HPV
MAV
COEUS
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16. GLXP PANTHER II ARES PIFAS CHANNEL WING HPV MAV COEUS
3. Modeling and calculations that are being attempted make sense at this point, i.e., is this what should be calculated at this point or are they ignoring something more important that should be addressed sooner.
GLXP
PANTHER II
ARES
PIFAS
CHANNEL WING
HPV
MAV
COEUS
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17. 4. Modeling and calculations are presented in sufficient detail.
GLXP
PANTHER II
ARES
PIFAS
CHANNEL WING
HPV
MAV
COEUS
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18. GLXP PANTHER II ARES PIFAS CHANNEL WING HPV MAV COEUS
5. The team has presented sufficient evidence that the project or sub-system will succeed.
GLXP
PANTHER II
ARES
PIFAS
CHANNEL WING
HPV
MAV
COEUS
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19. 6. The team has addressed important questions
GLXP
PANTHER II
ARES
PIFAS
CHANNEL WING
HPV
MAV
COEUS
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20. AVERAGE SCORE: 0 – 18 SCALE GLXP PANTHER II ARES PIFAS CHANNEL WING
HPV
MAV
COEUS
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21. AVERAGE SCORE: ZOOM-IN, 13 – 18 SCALE
GLXP
PANTHER II
ARES
PIFAS
CHANNEL WING
HPV
MAV
COEUS
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22. FINAL RANKING End of Junior Design PIFAS HPV Channel Wing Panther II
COEUS
ARES
GLXP
Juggernaut
Mid-Term Fall Senior
HPV
Channel Wing
ARES
COEUS
Panther II
PIFAS
GLXP
Juggernaut
PDR Fall Senior
HPV
ARES
Channel Wing
GLXP
PIFAS
Panther II
COEUS
Juggernaut
FDR Spring Senior
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23. SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Nothing Each team is facing unique challenges
Grading is still done on a team by team basis
Everything
Assessment of communication/presentation ability
How you ‘stack-up’ relative to other teams
Most interesting to me / and how this fits into a grade:
How does each team deal with questions / rankings?
Was there an attempt made to incorporate answers / suggestions / feedback?
Does team even know what is going on with feedback / rankings?
How will all of this information be incorporated into final report?
What are you learning from projects that are going poorly?
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24. OTHER COMMENTS / OBSERVATIONS
Frustration with other teams not understanding your points
NSF reviewer completely misunderstood my points/argument/discussion even though they were absolutely crystal clear!
Conflicting comments / feedback
Reviewer 1: Section 2.5 needs more scientific detail…
Reviewer 2: Section 2.5 has too much detail… needs to be more of a summary…
Addressing comments/critique turns out to not matter
Review Round #1: received 9 comments that I addressed and re-submitted proposal
Review Round #2: received 8 new comments
‘Survivor’ style voting in industry/NASA
KSC: “We liked your proposal, but we only had funding for 2… we didn’t select you”
Florida Tech Congressional Earmarking: “Great presentation Dan!… We love this work!... This will resonate well with the state congress!... Our lobbyist in Tallahassee thought this is a sure thing for funding… Well, in the end we didn’t pick you…”
Assessment methodology is not fair
NSF: Scientific merit vs. broader implications
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25. NEXT STEPS Next class is on Monday, November 24th
Wednesday (November 12) and Friday (November 14):
Feedback from PDRs
Review any modifications your team has made to final report outline
Review questions from CDR presentations:
Compile list of questions
New vs. repeat questions
Answer/address questions
Due Monday, November 24th in class
Final Report Draft #1:
Due Friday, November 21st as electronic copy
Distribute your report to two other teams for review: Monday, November 24th
Report feedback/evaluation due on Friday, November 28th at noon
Pick-up evaluated reports on Friday, November 28th after 3pm
Final Report Draft #2 (optional):
Electronic copy due by December 1st
Feedback to you by December 3rd
Final Report Due in electronic form on December 12th
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