ECEN 490 Project Management Lectures

Winter 2010

Instructor:

Douglas Clifford

Office:  Room 433 Clyde Building, Hours Tuesday and Thursday  10-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m.

phone: 801-389-0942 (cell)

           

email: dmcranch@byu.edu

ECEn 490 Business - Web site

http://www.et.byu.edu/groups/ecebuslecweb/

Text

The text that has been used for the last few years is, "Product Design and Development, Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger, McGraw - Hill Inc.  We are using the 4th edition this year.  The text is also used for the Mechanical Engineering Capstone Program and has a lot of valuable resource material for project management.  It can be purchased in the bookstore and paperback versions are available on the internet at Amazon.com.  The text is not mandatory, but if you plan on being involved in project management in your career, it is an excellent resource.  (By the way, this course is available from MIT for engineering managers in a 5 day format for $7950.  You get it for free with your BYU Tuition!!”)

 

For Winter 2010, all sections of EE 490 will meet together on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. in room 256 CB.   

 

Overview

ECEn 490 integrates a challenging senior design project with a simulation of an industrial workplace environment.

The students will learn a structured design methodology similar to what most engineers use in the actual workplace.

The students will work in teams, and each team will be responsible for defining, scheduling, completing, and documenting their project. 

Each project is expected to develop a website to communicate the progress of their project.  This website should contain the latest versions of the project control documents, minutes of project meetings, progress reports, pictures, etc.

Grades will be based on the results of; 1. The team performance, 2. The actual execution of the project, 3. The quality of the project documentation, and 4. Written and oral presentations.  There will be four written documents associated with the class plus three oral presentations.  These are to be done as a team, and the team will be graded as a group.

 

Class Objectives

·         Complete a significant design project and learn new technical skills.

·         Learn to use a structured design process to take your design from concept to final prototype.

·         Learn to function as part of an engineering team.

·         Learn and practice written and oral communication and presentation skills.

·         Work in a design environment with real-world design constraints.

·         Have fun!!

 

Project Management Class Content

·         Project Management Lectures

These lectures will be focused on the design processes associated with completing the Senior Project. We will have several types of projects represented in the class. The lectures are intended to parallel the actual technology development that will be taking place during the semester, but may not align exactly with each project.

·         Homework assignments

Most of the homework assignments are the management documents that contain the key information needed to complete the design process.

·         The team will produce three control documents and a Final Report; namely,

o   A Functional Specification for your project,

o   A Concept Generation & Selection Document, (CG&S)

o   and Project Plan/Schedule.

·         There will be several brief homework assignments that are to be emailed to Brother Clifford.

 

Recent Postings

 

Class instruction and follow-up notes can be found in the Downloads  section of the website.  Look there for up-to-date information and instruction.

 

I have added the letter to the team leaders highlighting their responsibilities. 

 

Electronic copies of the lectures and course handouts may be obtained on the website.   Current information that is available is highlighted below.  Click on the links below for access.

Downloads

 

Winter 2010_Syllabus  –All reading assignments are from Ulrich and Eppinger unless noted.

 

Date 

Lecture Topic

Reading Assignment

Other Assignments

Addition resources

Tues,  Jan 5

Introduction to the Class

Chapter 1

Determine team membership

Functional Specification Description

FSD example 1

 

Thurs, Jan 7

Working in teams

Chapter 3

Complete Team Assignment sheets

 

Tues

 Jan 12

Development Processes and Organizations

Chapter 2

*Teamwork Assignment Sheets due via email.

* Develop the Body of Facts (BOF) for your project.

 

Thurs. Jan 14

Capturing the voice of the Customer

Chapter 4

Complete the “customer needs” process and table

FSD example 2

Tues   Jan 19

Establishing Product Specifications

Chapter 5

*Team Website up

* Work on the FSD.

*Develop 5 specifications from Cust needs

Concept Generation and Selection Doc Description

Example 1

Example 2

Matrix CG&S doc

Thurs Jan 21

Importance early concept generation

Chapter 6

10 concept fragments for your project next class

 

Tues   Jan 26

Concept Selection

Chapter 7

* FSD due

* Complete a scoring matrix for one design concept

CG&S doc review and requirement

Thurs Jan 28

Effective Presentation

Class notes

* complete the CG&S doc

Scoring sheet for 1st design review

Tues    Feb 2

First Design Reviews

 

Concept Generation and Selection Doc due

 

Thurs Feb 4

Design Reviews Continued

 

 

 

Tues   Feb 9

Project Scheduling

Chapter 16

Develop your schedule task list

Schedule example 1

Example 2, Example 3

Thurs Feb 11

Prototyping

Chapter 12

Project Schedule due

 

Tues  Feb 16

Monday Instruction No class

 

 

Thurs Feb 18

Manage your boss

Class notes

 

 

Tues  Feb 23

Business Economics

Chapter 15

 

Spreadsheet example

Homework example

Thurs Feb 25

Product quality  Robust Design

Chapter 11 & 13

Develop a “test plan” for the key product specs in the FSD.

 

Tues  Mar 2

Paradox of Choice

Class notes

Test Plan due

 

Thurs Mar 4

2nd Design Reviews

 

 

Scoring sheet for 2nd design review

Tues  Mar 9

2nd Design Reviews, Cont

 

 

 

Mar 11 —April 13

Open for team meetings, technical instruction, consulting, etc.

 

 

 

April 13

Final Reports and presentations, (last day of class)

 

Final presentation scoring sheet

Sample final reports

Final report 1

Final report 2

Final report 3

April 21 Last day of finals

Finals, Presentations, Reports

 

Final Reports due (probably due sooner)