Students in Mechanical Engineering are required to take ME 4182 or GT 4823 to meet their Capstone Design Course requirements
Syllabus
Schedule
| Week | Date | Lecture Topic | Weekly Deliverables |
| 1 | 05/16/2016 | Course Intro, Sponsored Projects and Team Formation | Student-Faculty Q&A on project/Problem Statement Project Plan [More Details] |
| 2 | 05/23/2016 | 1.) User Needs 2.) Ideation, Concept Generation, Design Process and Teamwork.com | Stakeholder Analysis, User Needs & Functions, Specifications [More Details] |
| 3 | 05/30/2016 | 1.) Market Research/Prior Art Search, 2.) Industrial Design/Human Factors | Ideation Report [More Details] |
| 4 | 06/06/2016 | 1.) Risk, Liability, Codes & Standards, 2.) Mock up, Prototyping and Manufacturing | Relevant codes, Standards and Risk Analysis [More Details] |
| 5 | 06/13/2016 | 1.) Societal and Environmental Considerations, 2.) Analysis | Feasibility Analyses and Preliminary CAD [More Details] |
| 6 | 06/20/2016 | No Lecture | Mid-Term Presentations and Report Due June 22 (Report #2) |
| 7 | 06/27/2016 | 1.) Create-X, 2.) Intellectual Property, 3.) Provisional Patent Filing | CAD, Engineering Analyses, and Prototyping Update [More Details] |
| 8 | 07/04/2016 | No Lecture | – |
| 9 | 07/11/2016 | No Lecture | – |
| 10 | 07/18/2016 | No Lecture | – |
| 11 | 07/25/2016 | No Lecture | Final Presentations |
| 12 | 07/26/2016 | Mini-Expo | Final Report |
*Individual section instructors have latitude on deliverables, timing, and grading. The preceding information is a set of general guidelines.
Contacts:
Todd Sulchek
Lead Faculty
todd.sulchek@me.gatech.edu
Amit Jariwala
Director of Design and Innovation
amit.jariwala@gatech.edu