Students in Mechanical Engineering are required to take ME 4182 or GT 4823 to meet their Capstone Design Course requirements
Syllabus
Schedule (All lectures will be held in IC #103 from 3:05 – 3:55pm)
| Week | Date | Lecture Topic | Weekly Deliverables |
| 1 | 01/12/2016(T) | Course Intro and Sponsored Projects | Studio Introduction |
| 1 | 01/14/2016(Th) | Student Project and Design Discussion | Team Formation |
| 2 | 01/19/2016(T) | User Needs, Design Specifications, etc. and Teamwork.com | Projects assigned by instructors |
| 2 | 01/21/2016(Th) | Ideation, Concept Generation, Design Process and Team Assessment | Student-Faculty Q&A on project/Problem Statement Project Plan [More Details] |
| 3 | 01/26/2016(T) | Market Research/Prior Art Search | Stakeholder Analysis, User Needs & Functions, Specifications [More Details] |
| 3 | 01/28/2016(Th) | Industrial Design/Human Factors | – |
| 4 | 02/02/2016(T) | Risk, Liability, Codes & Standards | – |
| 4 | 02/04/2016(Th) | Analysis | Ideation Report [More Details] |
| 5 | 02/09/2016(T) | No Lecture | Market Research Results |
| 5 | 02/11/2015(Th) | No Lecture | Report#1, Progress Presentation for Report #1 |
| 6 | 02/16/2016(T) | Societal and Environmental Considerations and Reimbursement Info | – |
| 6 | 02/18/2016(Th) | Mock up, Prototyping and Manufacturing | Industrial Design and Human Factors report [Refer lecture notes and section #7 of Report 2 guidelines] |
| 7 | 02/23/2016(T) | Forming a Company + Create-X | – |
| 7 | 02/25/2016(Th) | Intellectual Property, Link 2 & Filing Patent Claims (Online Feedback Form) | Relevant codes, Standards and Risk Analysis [More Details] |
| 8 | 03/01/2016(T) | Collaborative CAD + Team Formation Survey Form | Feasibility Analyses and Preliminary CAD [More Details] |
| 9 | 03/09/2016(W) | No Lecture | Engineering Feasibility Analyses and CAD Update |
| 10 | 03/16/2016(W) | No Lecture | Report #2, Progress Presentation for Report #2 |
| 11 | 03/23/2016(W) | No Lecture (Spring Break) | – |
| 12 | 03/30/2016(W) | No Lecture | CAD, Engineering Analyses, and Prototyping Update [More Details] |
| 13 | 04/06/2016(W) | No Lecture | Impact of Societal & Environmental Factors on Design [More Details] |
| 14 | 04/12/2016(T) | Provisional Patent Filing | CAD, Engineering Analyses, and Prototyping Update [More Details] |
| 15 | 04/20/2016(W) | No Lecture | CAD, Engineering Analyses, and Prototyping Update [More Details] |
| 16 | 04/25/2016(M) | No Lecture | Final Presentation |
| 16 | 04/26/2016(T) | No Lecture | Capstone Design Expo |
| 17 | 05/04/2016(W) | No Lecture | Final Report |
*Individual section instructors have latitude on deliverables, timing and grading. The preceding information is a set of general guidelines.
Contacts:
Bert Bras
Lead Faculty
bert.bras@me.gatech.edu
Amit Jariwala
Director of Design and Innovation
amit.jariwala@gatech.edu