Design thinking
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read the project description (Canvas)
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Pick anything ‘reasonable’ your group can build
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Brainstorm problems to be solved
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Constraints
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it has to be…
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safe
- no weapons, explosives, radioactive material
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built to scale
- No space elevators or hyperloops
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quantifiable
- Have a measurable or definable outcome.
- E.G. building a ‘water wheel’ is not enough. Building a water wheel to generate up to X amount of power continuously
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Designed and working
- There is no design plugging a solar panel into battery ):
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you dont need to be an inventor
- you can improve an existing design
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good projects solve a problem
- there should be some challenge that can be overcome
Get training for the cool shit :)
Funding
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Wighton Fund (i.e. Max = $100)
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Purpose: Engineering development fund for student projects
- Reimburses ‘low-volume’ parts purchased for projects
- Yes: RPi, microprocessors, specialized sensor, etc
- No: resistors, capacitors, toy motors, etc…
- all reimbursed material must be returned to me in lab 1 at the end of the term. (i.e. you cannot keep reimbursed parts)
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Qualifications
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one person on the team does the purchases/ makes a claim
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ENSC design projects that have a practical purpose and are real
Upcoming group Assignment (due week 5)
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teams brainstorm and record up-to three problems to solve this term
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teams can record more than five but five will grant full marks.
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problems should be ‘reasonably realistic’
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i.e. No teleportation project’s
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problems should lead to a practical design
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While brainstorming
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SFU GITLAB
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Canvas group homepage
Next steps
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Finalize design and prepare for oral presentations
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Determine your measures of success and what you will demo
- focus to prove primary functions
- Quantify the output
- speed, direction capacity
- incremental testing
- how will you visualize the demo
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Divide project into sub-system and assign work for each group member