ENGN 1000 - Projects in Engineering Design

 Spring 2012

Current Projects

Spring 2012

Previous Projects

                    2011 Spring      Fall 2011

               2010 Spring       2010 Fall

                2009 Spring     2009 Fall

                2008 Spring     2008 Fall

Class Videos

Syllabus

Grading:

• 25%: Designing and creating 3 prototypes
  with the second an improvement on the first, and the third an improvement on the second.
• 40%: Meeting requirements. 
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• 15%: Class participation: Comments on Lecture and other teams' design
• 20%: Final Presentation

Calendar - 2012 Spring Lecture & Assignment

Administrative Details & Meeting Time Calendar 

Project Proposal Template

Course Summary

Engin1000 is a capstone design class which presents concepts of the design process, and strengthens students theoretical engineering abilities by introducing project requirements and real-world constraints. Students will gain first-hand experience with the design process while using engineering skills to solve technical challenges in their projects.

Please fill out the Project Preference Survey   [Survey Results]

Links and Outside Resources

Project Ideas:

MIT D-Lab

TreeHugger

Design for the Other 90%

Yet2 - Open technology sharing site

SBIR - Government funded requests - many companies live off these, some neat ideas

Thingiverse

Instructables

Mechanical Rapid Prototyping

Ponoko - 3D Printing, fewer materials, and 2D Laser Cutting

Shapeways - 3D Printing, many materials

Electrical Rapid Prototyping

PCB-Pool

Sunstone Circuits

Parts/Components

Octopart - Online Electronics Search Tool

Inventables - New, undeveloped, or advanced materials

SparkFun - Simplified or developer kit electronics

Adafruit Industries

MakerSHED

McMaster-Carr - Anything and everything

Digikey - Anything electronic (including sensors and more)

Mouser - Same as Digikey

Jameco Electronics

Northern Tool

Tower Hobbies - RC Electronics and miniature mechanical components

Robot Marketplace - Many kinds of robot components: motors, controllers, batteries

Laser Cutting for Balsa Wood

http://www.specializedbalsa.com/contact/index.php

http://ak-models.com/lasercutservices.htm

Other

Brown University

Patent Resources

MIT Design Links

Gantt Chart with Google Spreadsheets