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 4:35 – 5:25pm)
| Week | Date | Lecture Topic | Weekly Deliverables |
| 1 | 08/18/2015(T) | Course Intro and Sponsored Projects | Studio Introduction |
| 1 | 08/20/2015(Th) | Student Project and Design Discussion | Team Formation |
| 2 | 08/25/2015(T) | Projects assigned by instructors | |
| 2 | 08/27/2015(Th) | Ideation, Concept Generation, Design Process | Student presentation of project ideas/Problem Statement Project Plan (Presentations) [More Details] |
| 3 | 09/01/2015(T) | Market Research/Prior Art Search | – |
| 3 | 09/03/2015(Th) | Industrial Design/Human Factors | User Needs and Prior Art analysis report [More Details] |
| 4 | 09/08/2015(T) | Risk, Liability, Codes & Standards | – |
| 4 | 09/10/2015(Th) | Analysis | Ideation Report [More Details] |
| 5 | 09/15/2015(T) | Societal and Environmental Considerations | – |
| 5 | 09/17/2015(Th) | Mock up, Prototyping and Manufacturing | Market Research Results and Report#1, Progress Presentation for Report #1 |
| 6 | 09/22/2015(T) | Intellectual Property | – |
| 6 | 09/24/2015(Th) | Forming a Company | Industrial Design and Human Factors report [Refer lecture notes and section #7 of Report 2 guidelines] |
| 7 | 09/29/2015(T) | No Lecture | Relevant codes, Standards and Risk Analysis [More Details] |
| 8 | 10/05/2015(M) | No Lecture | Feasibility Analyses and Preliminary CAD [More Details] |
| 9 | 10/12/2015(M) | No Lecture | Engineering Feasibility Analyses and CAD Update [More Details] |
| 10 | 10/19/2015(M) | No Lecture | Report #2, Progress Presentation for Report #2 |
| 11 | 10/26/2015(M) | No Lecture | Engineering Feasibility Analyses and CAD Update |
| 12 | 11/03/2015(T) | Filing Patent Claims & Reimbursement Info | CAD, Engineering Analyses, and Prototyping Update [More Details] |
| 13 | 11/09/2015(M) | No Lecture | Impact of Societal & Environmental Factors on Design [More Details] |
| 14 | 11/16/2015(M) | No Lecture | CAD, Engineering Analyses, and Prototyping Update [More Details] |
| 15 | 11/23/2015(M) | No Lecture | – |
| 16 | 11/30/2015(M) | No Lecture | Final Presentations |
| 16 | 12/03/2015(Th) | No Lecture | Capstone Design Expo |
| 17 | 12/09/2015(Th) | 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