Workshop status report

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Workshop status report Johan Malmqvist Pete
Young October 7, 2003
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Status at Chalmers

• Lab now in use in Intro to Mech Eng course
• Student and faculty education on-going
• Brochure being produced
• Design-build-test experiences
• Intro to Mech Eng the students are have
  completed their basic designs and are now
  planning how to build it
• Product Development will this year feature a
  distributed project with Luleå Technical
  University and with Volvo Monitoring and Concept
  Centre in Irvine, California, USA as client
• IDE studio used
• Formula Student
• Successful participation in July competition
• New project started
• Teamwork IRM will be used in a number of DBTs

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Status in Linköping
Y4 DBT courses

• From year 2003/2004 it will be compulsory for
  students in the fourth year of the program to
  attend a CDIO DBT course
• The courses are related to the specializations
  during year four
• Course requirements
• Minimum 5 credits (5 weeks full-time study)
• Project groups of at least 4 members
• Project work using LIPS
• CDIO syllabus
• Industrially relevant projects

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Status in Linköping Proposed Y4 courses

• Electronics system design (EE)
• Systems engineering (EE)
• Applied math (Math)
• Medical technology (Med Tech)
• Automatic control (EE)
• Image processing (EE)
• VLSI system design (EE)
• Mixed signal electronic design (EE)
• Computational physics (Physics)
• Microchip design and manufacturing (Physics)
• Software development (CS)
• Modelling and verification (CS)

• 12 courses from 5 different departments will be
  offered as CDIO-based project courses from AY
  2003/2004
• Varying needs for development in different
  courses
• No course has earlier used a LIPS-type project
  model
• LIPS education for teachers is running and will
  be finalised June 2003
• Course development is done in parallel with the
  LIPS education

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Status in Linköping
Y3 Electronics project course

• Electronics project course has been run one time
• Muxen Lab is in full operation
• 21 projects, with 6 students in each project
  group, were executed during spring 2003
• The course is now further developed with new
  projects and updated routines.

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Status at KTH

• The waterbike project wasfinalised in may 2003
• 3rd generation advanced design-build course has
  started
• Extended in terms of
• Number of projects (1 has evolved to 3)
• Number of students (16 -gt 32)
• Faculty involvement
• Organisation (project model, seminars, guest
  lectures, )
• Assessment models
• The small shop included in Poolen (former
  Hangaren) made available for other courses in
  order to encourage new DB activities

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Status at KTH

• Within the School of Mechanical and Materials
  Engineering (MMT) at KTH four new/reformed CDIO
  programs have started
• Design Product Realisation
• Materials Engineering and Design
• Mechanical Engineering
• Vehicle Engineering
• Totally hosting 413 1st year students (!)
• New/reformed introductory courses in all 4
  programs including
• Examples of engineering models
• Visits to industry
• Team project activities
• Information search
• Sketching technique, written and oral
  presentations
• Societal aspects of engineering
• New workshops are planned within two of the
  programs (DPRVE)

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Status at MIT Fall 03

• Continued high demand in the Gelb Labs for
  students' projects work
• Aero-based capstone course underway
• Incorporate autonomy and navigation capability to
  a "quad rotor" flight vehicle
• Two term sequence
• Proposal accepted for new CAD/CAE/CAM course for
  January 04
• Modern Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping
  - complete CDIO cycle in 4 weeks!
• Under evaluation robotics D/B modules for first
  year Spring 04 course -- 16.00, Introduction to
  Aerospace and Design
• Astro-based capstone course planned for Spring 04
  start
• Three term sequence

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Status at Queens University BelfastDesign-build
Experiences

• Year 1 Model racing car
• Fully inclusive team project
• Assembled from a kit of parts
• Competitive testing session
• Year 2 Beam design
• Fully inclusive team project
• Manufactured from a sheet of MDF
• Competitive testing session
• Year 3 Formula student
• Selective participation team project
• Student led design
• Student/technician manufactured
• Year 4 Team Project
• Fully inclusive team project
• Emphasizes innovation, design, manufacture and
  marketing
• Highly successful outside Queens (20k
  competition winners)

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Queens University BelfastFormula Student

• Formula Student has been running at Queens since
  1999/2000
• Cars built in 2000/01 and 2001/02
• Positive effect on student recruitment and
  motivation
• Project structure within School revaluated during
  2002/03
• Recommendations from 2002/03 review
• Participation extended to all years (academic
  credit for years 3 and 4, non-academic
  participation for years 1 and 2)
• Year 4 students to take on majority of
  responsibility
• Additional academic supportfor year 3 and 4
  projects
• Higher level of general supportfrom School
• Further evaluation of learningoutcomes to be
  undertaken

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Queens University BelfastFormula Student Team
Structure
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Queens University BelfastWorkshop Facilities

• Year 1 Racing Car
• Access to discussion/meeting area
• Student manufacture and assembly
• Year 2 Beam Design
• Access to discussion/meeting area
• Manufacture by technicians
• Assembled by students
• Year 3 Formula Student
• Dedicated discussion/meeting room
• Dedicated assembly area for cars
• Limited access to workshop facilities
• Year 4 Team Project
• Dedicated innovation room underdevelopment
• Access to bench top workspace

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Queens University BelfastWorkshop Issues

• Effective utilisation of existing space within
  the School
• Limited space available
• Conflicting requirements of research
• Conflicting requirements of Faculty
• Health and Safety
• Student training and supervision
• Controlling access to labs and equipment
• Insurance
• Curriculum
• Evaluation of existing laboratory experiments
• Introduction of new design-build experiences
  which are consistent with available facilities
  and proposed learning outcomes

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Queens University BelfastWorkshop Summary

• Design-build experiences now available to all
  students
• Initial feedback from students very positive
• CDIO implementation group at Queens
  concentrating on
• Benchmarking existing laboratory programme
• Provision of student lab/workshop facilities
• Learning outcomes of design-build experiences