Undergraduate MEMS 1043

Senior Design Project

(3 units)

Description: A major project involving literature search, planning, design, fabrication, experimentation, analysis, technical report, poster presentation, and presentation at a technical symposium is performed by a small team of students under the direction of a faculty advisor and corporate advisor on a project presented by the corporate advisor.

Prerequisites: Senior standing.

Textbook: Mechanical Measurements, 6th edition, T.G. Beckwith, R.D. Marangoni, and J.H. Lienhard, Prentice Hall.

Course Objective: This course is designed to give seniors in mechanical engineering the ability to bridge the gap between being a student engineer and being a practicing engineer by assigning the students a semi-independent experimental engineering project requiring a team situation involving literature, research, experimentation, a final report, poster presentation, and an oral presentation at a technical symposium.

Course Schedule:

The groups meet independently except for the following mandatory meeting times.

1. Initial meeting explaining complete course outline and requirements
2. Group assignments and meetings with advisors
3. Status report for each group, including a short written report at midterm
4. Presentation guidelines; hints for final group presentation
5. Presentation practice. Each group has use of Kresge Conference Center for practice.
6. Technical symposium student presentations
7. Video review. Students view a video of their presentations.

Class/Laboratory Schedule: Seven 50-minute periods per week.

Professional Component Contributions: Engineering science and design

Relationship to Program Objectives: 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4

Prepared by: Roy D. Marangoni

Date Prepared: April 11, 2005