To be handed in at your final presentation. This is an individual assignment. Each member of a team needs to turn in his own report. Obviously some components of the report will be the same for each team member. These include: FRSARC Charts, Pugh Charts, Engineering drawings.
Objective: To document the work you have accomplished over the course of the semester.
Learning objective: To understand the components that entail a technical report. To improve your technical writing.
Assignment
Complete a written report
The style of the report should be a formal document to the director of engineering or potential sponsor from a venture capital firm. The report should be broken down into two parts.
All of your reports must be filed in the proper format. You will use the (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) IEEE template. There are two tools that you can use to write a paper in the IEEE formatting sytle, Microsoft Word and LaTeX. I recommend that you take the time to learn LaTeX. It makes more professional-looking documents simply because it is what the professions use! Latex is a typesetting program, not a WYSIWYG program like Word. Word is great for short papers, but it becomes cumbersome when your documents become long or contain many equations, figures, and tables.
The abstract and introduction should include high level concepts. The "meat" of your paper should include all of your analysis, the work behind why you chose that screw diameter, why you chose that wall thickness. You did a lot of work this past semester, include it all!
The document should include at a minimum the following:
Objective: To document the work you have accomplished over the course of the semester.
Learning objective: To understand the components that entail a technical report. To improve your technical writing.
Assignment
Complete a written report
The style of the report should be a formal document to the director of engineering or potential sponsor from a venture capital firm. The report should be broken down into two parts.
All of your reports must be filed in the proper format. You will use the (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) IEEE template. There are two tools that you can use to write a paper in the IEEE formatting sytle, Microsoft Word and LaTeX. I recommend that you take the time to learn LaTeX. It makes more professional-looking documents simply because it is what the professions use! Latex is a typesetting program, not a WYSIWYG program like Word. Word is great for short papers, but it becomes cumbersome when your documents become long or contain many equations, figures, and tables.
The abstract and introduction should include high level concepts. The "meat" of your paper should include all of your analysis, the work behind why you chose that screw diameter, why you chose that wall thickness. You did a lot of work this past semester, include it all!
The document should include at a minimum the following:
- An introduction to the problem,
- Your design concept
- How this product fits into the marketplace. This might include:
- FRSARC chart - you don't have to put the actual chart in, but convey the information in some manner.
- Alternate concepts and the analysis that lead you to choosing your current design (from the FRSARC really)
- Engineering analysis as it pertains to the design.
- All mechanical drawings and the bill of materials. (only one per group)
- Results of the testing you did to verify your design.
- Improvements that could be done to the design and future work.
- What needs to be done to put your design into production. (We don't really cover this too much in the class, but some short comments on this, sort of "next steps" would be beneficial).