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to see details for format.) Feedback will be provided by instructor/TA Tuesday morning, Feb. 23. The final proposal and slides will be due by 5:00 pm, Tuesday, March 2. We are all capable of identifying market needs and thus generating ideas for new products, in part by noticing the deficiencies in the products we use in everyday life. To prove to yourself that you can identify market needs, generate a list of at least 20 “bugs.” Designers at the product design firm IDEO use “bug lists” to record their observations of products and situations where products failed to meet the actual conditions of use. This list should include any observation or annoyance that comes to your mind. Note that we are looking for a list of “bugs” (e.g., my vegetable peeler hurts my hand when I peel potatoes) rather than a list of product solutions (e.g., a vegetable peeler with a soft handle). In other words, do NOT invent solutions to the problems you see – just state the problem. Upload your bug list to the course website under “assignments” and “twenty bugs”. TBA Special Solidworks Lab (Catherine Newman at KAUST): Solidworks Tutorial - “Revolves and Sweeps” 4 W 2/24 Assemblies and Virtual Prototyping in Solid Modeling Guest Lecturer Sara McMains will go over will go over the basics of using assemblies for virtual prototyping in solid modeling. Individual Assignment Due: Solidworks modeling assignment specified on bSpace. TBA Special Solidworks Lab (Catherine Newman at KAUST): Solidworks Tutorial - Lesson 2 “Assemblies” 5 M 3/1 Equations, Degrees of Freedom and Configurations in Solid Modeling Guest Lecturer Sara McMains will go over how parametric equations and degrees of freedom can be included in solid modeling configurations. Individual Assignment Due: Assembly modeling assignment specified on bSpace. TBA Special Solidworks Lab (Catherine Newman at KAUST): Solidworks Tutorial - “Design Tables” and begin configuration assignment that is due March 8. As students will have different levels of proficiency, we are using an extended deadline to provide more time and tutoring for students as needed. 6 W 3/3 Project: Proposal Presentation and Voting Students will be given an opportunity to pitch their project ideas in class. Details of the presentation below. Individual Assignment Due: Final project proposal and slides due by 5:00 pm, Tuesday, March 2 4 Project Preferences Due: 5:00 pm, Thursday, March 4 Your one-page proposals should include: • A brief, descriptive project title (2-4 words) • Your name, phone number, e-mail, and department affiliation • A description of the market opportunity you have identified. Your description may include any of the following: Documentation of the market opportunity, shortcomings of existing competitive products, and/or definition of the target market and its size. Please do not present product ideas at this point. Our strict focus in this phase of the course is on the market opportunity – the unfilled need or unsolved problem – and not on solution concepts. 4 Unless otherwise specified, all times are KAUST times. 2
These proposals will be posted to a location where all participants in the class can see them. Come to class prepared to give a VERY SHORT (i.e., 2 minute), yet convincing, presentation of your project proposal. Please prepare four slides that you can present in 30 seconds each that clearly communicate the user/market need on which you would like your classmates to work with you. We will collect all of the slides into a single presentation that we will run with PowerPoint’s timed presentation feature. Your slides should communicate the following: • The first slide MUST include your name and department affiliation. • A verbal and visual demonstration of the product opportunity you have described in your proposal. • Given that the audience will be able to read your written proposal at their leisure, you might spend your time explaining the richness of the market opportunity or demonstrating existing competitive products. • The slides are due absolutely NO LATER THAN 5 P.M. on Tuesday March 2 so that we can get the full presentation assembled for class on March 3. • By 5 p.m. on Thursday, 3/4 you must decide on your project preferences. You should vote on the FIVE projects on which you would most like to work in order of preference. Submit your preferences per the instructions on bSpace. We will process your preferences and assign teams. There is a possibility that we will ask you to vote a second time after we have eliminated some of the projects in the first round, so stay tuned. 7 M 3/8 Project: Project Launch During this class session, we will talk about team dynamics and interactions as being critical to new product development success. We’ll conduct a team launch exercise in which you and your teammates debrief your MBTI profiles and the other questions on the survey. You will be given ta eam launch exercise to work on during the class. Be sure to bring your MBTI profile to class. Read Ch. 16: Managing Projects Read: “The Trouble with Teamwork” (http://www.leadertoleader.org/knowledgecenter/journal.aspx?ArticleID=80) Individual Assignment Due: Final Solidworks configuration & assembly assignment discussed on March 1. Individual Assignment Due: Complete the Jung Typology Test and the team launch survey available through the SurveyMonkey link. You will need to know your Myers Briggs profile in order to complete the survey. • The Jung Typology Test and information about it are available at www.humanmetrics.com. Read the background on the test and then take and score it. • After you have the results of your test, go to the SurveyMonkey website listed on bSpace and complete the survey there. 8 W 3/10 Concept Development: Customer and User Needs Assessment In this class, we will talk about user needs understanding, and in particular the role of ethnographic research in understanding customer needs. Read Ch. 4: Identifying Customer Needs Scan: Design Research (pp. 20-80), http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?id=B8C0CE80-179F- 4B6D-B097-9FFA295C448E 3
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