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Industry Sponsored Designed Projects
Selection Criteria
1. Project should solve a specific need for a company
2. Project should not be of immediate concern to company assuming
a min. development cycle of two semesters (8 months)
- project definition: April 2003
- project execution: August 2003- April 2004
3. Discrete projects should involve design and manufacture.
For example the project could involve:
- a physical prototype for a new product or product derivative
including the associated manufacturing processes.
- the redesign of an existing product including a physical
prototype and the associated manufacturing processes (redesign
for cost, quality, performance, productivity, automation,
etc.)
- a physical prototype for a new or redesigned test equipment
or manufacturing process
4. Continuous process projects should involve design, modeling
and analytical prototyping
5. Discrete projects can have firmware content
6. Projects may be purely software oriented; software projects
requiring 2 or more disciplines to successfully execute are
encouraged
7. Project scope should be approximately 600 engineering hours
(spread over an 8 month calendar period)
8. Student teams (5 to 7 per team) will be responsible for
the success of the project
9. Student teams will be coached by experienced engineering
faculty (6 to 8 hrs./week)
10. Company must be willing to dedicate some time of a liaison
engineer to the project (2 - 4 hrs./week)
11. Liaison engineer should
- have management support
- have vested interest in the success of the project
- be willing to work with students
12. Projects should not be classified or highly proprietary.
If required students/faculty will sign nondisclosure agreement
13. Students should be able to publicly present their work
with the mutual agreement of company
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