student design competition capstone design (me 4902)

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

Student Design CompetitionCapstone Design (ME 4902)

Shawn Midlam-MohlerAssistant Professormidlam-mohler.3@osu.edu

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

S.D.C. Capstone Overview

• The College of Engineering hosts a more than 30 student design projects:

http://engineering.osu.edu/studentorgs

• Students involved in these activities can use the content as their capstone design project (under certain conditions…)

• A student design team of 3-6 seniors is created

• The project gets the approval of the course instructor

• The project gets the approval of the design competition’s faculty advisor

• The student design team finds an appropriate advisor for the project

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

Student Design Competitions

• Motorsports Projects:

• Formula SAE

• BAJA SAE

• Buckeye Bullet

• EcoCAR 2

• Electric Motorcycle

• Many Other Design Competitions

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

Key Entities in Student Design Capstone

Design Team:3-6 students

Client:Team Advisor +Team Leaders

Design Advisor:OSU

Faculty/Staff

Design Instructor:

OSU Faculty/Staff

Design Team: 3-6 students

Design Team: 3-6 students

Student ProjectTeam

(Volunteers + Grad Students)

Design Advisor:OSU

Faculty/Staff

Design Advisor:OSU

Faculty/Staff

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

S.D.C. Capstone Overview

• The course sequence results in 7 + 14 weeks of working on your project with weekly meetings for updates/advice/deliverables

• It is possible to form interdisciplinary teams via other majors taking the ENG capstone sequence

• The students taking the ME sequence and the ENG sequence begin working together in the second 7 weeks

• Funding for these projects comes out of already available team budgets (i.e. need faculty advisor approval)

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

Recent Projects

• Buckeye Bullet:

• Battery Pack Design, 400 Mph Tire Tester, Vehicle Lift

• EcoCAR:

• Battery Pack Design, Automated Manual Transmission Actuation System, Automated Manual Transmission Test Rig, Engine EGR and VVT Control, Vehicle Ride and Handling Improvement, Vehicle Charge Port Integration

• Formula SAE:

• Brake Tester

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

How to Create a Team / Project

• If you are on a design competition already, find some other seniors and form a team:

• If you don’t have enough to form a team, recruit a few people outside your team

• I will also have a pool of interested students who need placed on capstone design team

• Teams must (usually) be made up of at least 50% “veteran” student design competition members

• Teams must have a faculty member as an advisor (usually the student design competition’s faculty advisor)

• Projects should come from working with the design competition team leaders and advisors and then reviewed by the capstone instructor

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

How to Enroll in this Option (MEs)

• Enrollment is “permission of instructor”:

• For students already involved in a student design competition, I need an email from your team leader saying you are part of the team

• Other interested students should send me an email with a current resume

• We will have a meeting later in the semester to get people organized into final teams for next year

• Entry into this version of capstone depends on availability of projects, advisors, and funding

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

How to Enroll in this Option (Non-MEs)

• Enrollment is unofficially “permission of instructor”:

• For students already involved in a student design competition, I need an email from your team leader saying you are part of their team

• Other interested students should send me an email with a current resume

• Once I have you on my list, I will work with Bob Rhoads to place you into the ENG Capstone sequence

• Do not enroll in the ENG Capstone directly – if you do this Bob will assume you are doing one of his projects

• Entry into this version of capstone depends on availability of projects, advisors, and funding

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

For questions, please contact:

Shawn Midlam-Mohler

midlam-mohler.1@osu.edu