Welcome to Capstone Design!

Integrated Product and Process Design

ME 475-476

Preparation for

Leadership in Engineering

Design and Development

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Today’s Objectives:

• Help you get excited about what you will learn in Capstone

• Become familiar with course mechanics

• Understand what you will need to do this week

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Objective One:

Help you get excited about what you will learn and do in Capstone

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What do you want to learn?

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What do you want to learn?

Individual Exercise:1. Take about 4 minutes, look at the

inside front cover( p.2) and pages 10-11 of the “Guidebook”. Identify the three most important things you would like to learn in Capstone

2. Write these three items on page 1 of the Record Book section of your Guidebook (section behind the last tab)….

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What do You Want to Learn?

Team Exercise:1. Discuss your three items with

your team

2. Identify the one item most team members chose

3. Identify the second most chosen item

4. Choose a spokesman to share these results with the class

5. Write these items in your Record Book

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Share with the class

• Team A

• Team E

• Team K

• Team T

• Team Z

• Team AB

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Why do we do Capstone?

Fulton College of Eng. & Technology Objectives:

• To develop men and women of faith, character and technical ability who will become outstanding leaders throughout the world

• To conduct creative work of consequence which contributes to solving the world’s problems and advances engineering and technology disciplines

• To be an influence for good in the world and make friends for the University and the Church

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Why do we do Capstone?

The reason we do Capstone is not to have you do a project, but to help you learn how to do challenging engineering projects….

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The Grand Challenges…

Make solar energy economical

Provide energy from fusion

Provide access to clean water

Prevent nuclear terror

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2011 Incoming BYU Freshmen

This year there are 970 freshmen entering BYU

• Average ACT score was 28.1- 16 students admitted, scored perfectly

on ACT- 1/3 admitted, scored 30 or above

• Average high school GPA was 3.8 - 13% had a perfect 4.0 high school GPA- 1 in 9 new freshmen were ranked

number 1 in their high school graduating class

- 1 in 6 were ranked in the top 5• 86% of all admitted had at least some

AP classes in high school

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Your Potential as BYU students• Who would be in a better position to contribute to

the solution of these “Grand Challenge” problems (and others like them) than people:• Who are among the best in their fields?• Who are mature, flexible and culturally adept?• Who act from a foundation of gospel principles?• Who qualify for the Spirit?

• Do you think boldly enough about what you might do in service to humankind?

• Have you considered that the Lord may be counting on you, yes YOU, to do great things?

Our Vision is…

We believe that the Lord expects great things of you!

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Your Educational Task

Because “where much is given, much is required”—your task is to learn the principles of design and then apply them to your project….

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Your Project Task

Develop a product and/or a process that meets or exceeds the needs of your customers and/or sponsoring company.

Past Capstone Design Team with Project, Coach, and Sponsor

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What meeting the task looks like

Fall Semester Winter Semester

Create Working ConceptUncover Capture

Lectures & work on a real project with a real customer

Lectures on Refinement Tools and work on a real project w/real customer

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Refine Concept into Product

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What it takes to meet that task

The careful integration and execution of skills in three areas:

• Technical Analysis• Design Creativity• Project Management

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Analysis Management

(See Pages 13-24 in Guidebook)

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What is Design?

• The essence of engineering is design…

• The essence of design is in making good decisions…

• However, making good decisions is not always easy!

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Some Keys to Success

• Be an outstanding team player—treat others the way you would like to be treated

• Listen to your customer, your coach, your team members, and the Holy Ghost. Be eager to learn and to be taught

• Hold effective meetings• Work in parallel on your team• “Fail often early, so you can succeed sooner…”• Make and remake a schedule and get ahead of your

schedule• Communicate effectively • Most importantly—use faith and hard work in all that

you do

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The Importance of Faith

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Prepare well and be willing to take some risk….Take counsel from your faith, not your fears!

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Do not be afraid to go out on a limb. …

That’s where the fruit is!

Objective two:

Become familiar with course mechanics

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Introductions

Carl D. Sorensen Capstone Co-Director

Jim TrentCapstone External

Relations Coordinator

Robert H. ToddCapstone Director

Paula Harper Capstone Administrative

Assistant

(Contact info on Page 4 in Guidebook)

We also have 30 Coaches: 16 from Industry, 14 from BYU

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Introductions, continued

Cody TelfordCapstone TA

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Lindsey AndersenCapstone Student Secretary

Kelly HalesCapstone TA

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The Guidebook

• (Almost) Everything you need to know about capstone

• Getting Started• Schedule• Assignments, Evaluations• Policies, Resources• Record Book

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Getting Started

• Course objectives• Overview of Design• 5-Step Design

Process• Uncover• Create• Evaluate & Select• Refine and Reflect• Capture & Inspire

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Design Process Exercise

• Uncover: Individually, for 3 minutes, reflect on previous team experiences in classes

• Create: Make two lists in your Record book:1. Things you like about working on teams

2. Things you dislike about working on teams

• Evaluate and Select: Choose the two most important from each list

• Refine and Reflect: In your team, select two items that your team feels are most important from each list

• Capture and Inspire: Share the results with the class when called upon

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Schedule

• Fall class schedule• Fall assignments• Winter class schedule

(subject to change)• Winter assignments• CalendarYou should review this

section regularly to make sure you are on top of things.

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Assignments and Evaluations

• Grading principles• Grade breakdown• Grade tracking

worksheet• Grading

responsibilities• Description of

Assignments

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Policies and Resources

• Project bidding process• University policies we must follow

• Especially travel and purchasing

• Resources available to help complete your project

Objective Three:

Understand what you will need to do this week

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Three main things

• Start learning to work together as a team

• Prepare bids for projects you would like to work on

• Meet your coach and contact your project sponsor after having a project assigned

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Learning to work together

• Your first team task is bidding on projects

• This will require working together as a team to decide and prepare bids

• Don’t let the most vocal team member decide the bids

• Make sure you get input from everybody

• This will lay the foundation of your success!

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Preparing bids (Guidebook, p. 63)• View list of project and project summaries at www.capstone.byu

; then Site Log in.Net ID: student Password: Enter2Learn

• Attend the Capstone Project Fair on Tuesday, from 8:00-9:30• Follow the 5-step process to choose the three projects on which

you wish to bid• Mark your choices on the project list on Jim Trent’s door (inside

of 415 CTB)• Submit bids electronically by 10 AM Thursday to

capstonereports@byu.edu• You’ll receive your project assignment by email by 8:00 AM

Friday

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Meet your coach and sponsor

• Get sponsor information from Paula• Make arrangements to meet with your coach• Hopefully, have a speaker phone call or skype

with your sponsor on Friday morning

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Next Week

• Monday -- Labor day

• Tuesday -- Class at 8:00 AM, 214 CTB

• Wednesday -- Class at 8:00 AM, 214 CTB

• Develop a team name and logo

• Prepare a contact information sheet

• Create a project objective statement

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You can succeed

“Never deny yourself the right to reach your individual dreams. You and the Lord, working together, can accomplish anything. Never forget -- God did not put us here to fail.”

Elder Jon M. Huntsman

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“The difference between being well schooled and well

educated rests somehow in what you do with the

knowledge you have gained”

President Boyd K. Packer

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Doing and Becoming…

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Great Learners:

• Welcome correction…

• Make and keep commitments…

• Work hard…

• Help others learn…

• Expect opposition and work to overcome it!

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President Henry B. Eyring

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Summary

Think of your participation in Capstone as:• An Opportunity to learn a structured design

process,• An Opportunity to delight a real-life customer, • An Opportunity to learn to work well within a

cross-functional team and an,• An Opportunity to strengthen your confidence.

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President Kimball

Think of this year in Capstone also, as an opportunity to learn a great principle that President Spencer W. Kimball taught us about excellence at BYU:

“We must do more than ask the lord for excellence. Perspiration must precede inspiration; there must be effort before there is excellence. We must do more than pray for these outcomes at BYU, though we must surely pray. We must take thought. We must make effort……dreams and prophetic utterances are not self-executing. They are fulfilled usually by righteous and devoted people making the[se] prophecies come true.”

40 President Spencer W. Kimball, “The Second Century” 1975

Thank you!

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Questions….

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