Course Overview
In the final term, students are required to research, design, prototype and evaluate a technical project within their fields of interest. Documentation in the form of a formal written report is required. Students must work as part of a design team of 2 or more people, determined by the scope of the project. An oral presentation and demonstration are also required. Projects may be submitted internally (within BCIT), by the student, or from industry.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
6.0
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Learning Outcomes
- Select a project from an approved list of projects submitted by either BCIT or an industry sponsor, or suggest a project, subject to approval by the course coordinator.
- In concert with other design team members, read over detailed project descriptions, analyze requirements and make a decision on the most suitable project to select.
- Attend regular (weekly) progress meetings with an assigned staff advisor.
- Contact the assigned staff advisor and arrange a suitable time for all design team members to meet with the advisor.
- Arrive on time for each meeting properly equipped with a standard project notebook.
- Notify the staff advisor ahead of time if unable to attend a meeting.
- Use available resources to research the topic and obtain information relevant to the project selected.
- Access the technical library and the Internet for suitable technical information.
- Determine the materials, components and equipment required and develop a plan for completing the project.
- Access data books, electronics parts suppliers, manufacturers
- Prepare and submit a preliminary proposal.
- Use acquired technical information to design a preliminary plan to design the required project
- Preliminary Proposal form will follow a prescribed format provided by the course coordinator.
- Prepare and submit a detailed engineering plan.
- Design a detailed work plan based on concepts from the Operations Management course.
- The engineering plan will follow a prescribed layout and include a Gantt chart detailing the activities of each member of the design team and providing a timeline for completion of each component of the overall project.
- The engineering plan will also include a detailed list of parts required, their cost and a suitable supplier
- Design and construct a prototype.
- Each member of the design team will be responsible for designing, fabricating and troubleshooting a component of the overall project to the engineering prototype level.
- Maintain a daily log book of project-related activities.
- Each member of the design team will maintain a personal log book. The book will be bound and each entry will be written in ink and dated.
- Evaluate and refine the prototype.
- The generated prototype will be constructed on either a prototyping board or a pre-printed circuit board. The final circuit will be tested and results recorded to evaluate its capabilities with respect to the original project description.
- Provide a weekly demonstration of project status to the project coordinator.
- The design team will be available in the lab at least once a week to report to the course coordinator on the current status of the project.
- Provide a weekly status report by fax or email to the industry sponsor (if applicable).
- The design team will keep the sponsor (if applicable) informed of its progress at least on a weekly
- Basis via email or FAX. The design team will also contact the sponsor as required, to have questions answered.
- Prepare a final project report with full technical documentation to the course coordinator and the industry sponsor (if applicable).
- The final report will be written as an analytical report using a prescribed format of section titles. It will be enclosed in standard blue covers and have coil binding, all provided by BCIT.
- Provide a formal oral presentation and demonstration to staff members and industry sponsor (if applicable)
- Each project will be allocated 30 minutes for the oral presentation and a demonstration of the working prototype, followed by 15 minutes for questions.
- All team members will participate as speakers.
Effective as of Winter 2005
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