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AME 470: Senior Design Project - Fall 2000 Offering

A senior level requirement for all students in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum. This site contains information on this course and links to student project sites.

The Course:

The course is presented as a team-based, product-focused design-build exercise. The students are organized into small design build teams and each team is responsible for the concept definition, design, documentation, fabrication and testing of a specific mechanical system. Information on the project and progress of the student groups will be provided as the course progresses. Comments regarding this course are encouraged and can be directed via email to the instructors listed below.

Fall 2000: Automated Fabrication Cell (AFC)

Last updated November 21, 2000.

The following document (in .PDF format) provides some information on this semester's project.

The Project Description in the form of a Request for Proposals

Each design team has the option of developing a web page to present their efforts. Links to these sites will be made available as the semester progresses.

The following student groups are participating in the project this semester.

The Critical Design Review took place on Thursday, November 9, 2000. The review panel was composed of:

Dr. Morgan Murphy, Delphi Electronic Systems
Mr. Matt Hutchinson, Honeywell, Aircraft Landing Systems
Mr. Dale Beer, Bayer Corporation
Mr. Bill Roeder, Bayer Corporation

The support of these individuals and their organizations is greatly appreciated.

The demonstration of the group's products will take place on Saturday, December 2, 2000. The demonstration will be held in the College of Engineering Learning Center from 10:00 a.m. until noon. All are invited to attend.

The following photos highlight some of the activities in this course.

Milling a part.

I promise I'll clean this up when I'm done.

Gaining a bit of experience with a soldering iron.

This connects to what?

Interface group at work.

Prototype fabrication.

Prototype fabrication..

Prototype fabrication.

Each group was required to complete all of the parts for their subsystem by November, 20. The following photos are their displays of the parts fabricated in the B19 Design Studio.