CAD 252 - Design Project I

1. Appraise design project conceptions
   1. Discuss product markets
   2. Examine supply and demand
   3. Examine cost analysis
2. Associate typical engineering jobs and duties as they pertain to the design project
   1. Discuss design teams
   2. Discuss manufacturing/engineering relationships
   3. Discuss Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
   4. Discuss company and project security
3. Analyze project components
   1. Examine working set of drawings
   2. Discuss detail parts
   3. Define purchase parts
4. Relate drawing types
   1. Discuss layouts
   2. Discuss detailed drawings
   3. Discuss chart drawings
   4. Discuss specifications
   5. Discuss source control drawings
   6. Discuss assembly, weldment, and sub assembly drawings
   7. Discuss parts lists/numbers, balloons, and notes in assemblies
   8. Discuss bill of materials (BOM)
   9. Examine schematic, diagrams, and parts family tree drawings
5. Evaluate how the market for a product determines engineering conception and design
   1. Evaluate how product marketing drives engineering projects
   2. Examine how different factors can enter into product design
   3. Research how marketing could affect your design
6. Depict creating an engineering project
   1. Discuss project sketches and layouts
   2. Examine time estimates for drawings
   3. Examine CAD/CAM/CAE considerations
   4. Discuss material considerations
   5. Discuss fabrication techniques
   6. Discuss assembly techniques
   7. Examine preliminary and critical design reviews
   8. Discuss project milestones and GANTT charts
   9. Discuss automatic updates within engineering department PLM
   10. Discuss purchased parts
   11. Discuss engineer prototype
7. Explore the engineering release cycle
   1. Discuss drawing release cycles
   2. Discuss the design drafter’s role in the release cycle
8. Examine Engineering Change Order cycles
   1. Examine a engineering change request document
   2. Examine implementing an engineering change notice
   3. Discuss releasing the change back into the engineering system
   4. Discuss the design drafter’s role in the change cycle
9. Critique reverse engineering
   1. Examine reverse engineering applications
   2. Discuss reverse engineering as a means of prototyping
   3. Examine practical applications for reverse engineering
   4. Reverse engineer a machined/cast part
   5. Sketch and measure part with precision measurement tools
   6. Reproduce part in parametric software and generate a rapid prototype
   7. Discuss 3D scanning of parts and scan a machined/cast part
   8. Convert scanned part into a featured parametric part
10. Evaluate a design project
    1. Select a design project
    2. Perform a market research for the design project
    3. Prepare project notebook
    4. Present project ideas to class
    5. Prepare preliminary sketches
    6. Evaluate project with instructor
    7. Evaluate project with subject matter experts
11. Examine engineering prototypes
    1. Discuss purpose of prototype
    2. Examine prototype simulations
    3. Discuss rapid-prototyping
12. Create a project layout.
    1. Prepare layout conception from preliminary sketches
    2. Create design layout of project
    3. Calculate time management
    4. Prepare project to be completed in CAD 254