Project Resources
Communications Computing Design Resources Documents Ethics Mfg Facilities Patents
Previous Projects Project Mgmt Professionalism Rapid Prototpying Team Work Tools Vendors
A compilation of useful resources to facilitate successful design projects

Basic Information


Professional Behavior
What is Business Casual?
Assignments


Communications

Making full size color posters: Engineering Copy Center, Eng. Unit A (~$50, Kinko's is a ripoff!)
Design of Scientific Posters
Web page design tips

Audio Teleconferencing, Long Distance Telephone
ME: 312 Leonhard Bldg; contact a staff member at 865-6492 or 863-6380 to arrange
IE: 310 Leonhard, call 865-7601 to arrange
EE: 129 EE East, call 865-7667 to arrange
Video Teleconferencing: 305 Hammond, to schedule: www.cede.psu.edu
Fax (outgoing and incoming): 314 Leonhard, Fax # (814)865-9693


Computing

Hardware

Software


Forms and Documents

Peer Evaluation
Weekly Status Report Format
Oral presentation evaluation
Confidential Information Disclosure Agreement
Deliverables Agreement
Evaluation of Sponsor
Fax Form
Project Proposal - Guidelines
      Sample of a pretty good proposal - 1
      Sample of a pretty good proposal - 2
Detail Design Specification - Guidelines
Final Report - Guidelines
Report Writing - Yavuzkurt Lecture
Sponsor Evaluation of Students


Manufacturing Facilities

Learning Factory - (all students), open 8 am - 10 pm M-F, contact Carson Baird   Training Classes
FAME Lab - (IE only), contact Michael Immel
ME shop - (ME only),23 Reber, contact Larry Millinder
Center for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship (CEDE) - (all students), 312-314 Hammond, contact Bruce Knoll
       
Location
Process Learning Factory FAME LABCEDE 23 Reber 101 Eng Unit C
Manual Machining * * * *
CNC Machining * *    
Rapid Prototyping FDM SLA   ZCorp  
Welding * *    
Metal Casting   *    



Work Areas

All: Learning Factory
All: Center for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship (CEDE)
ME: 101 Engineering Unit C, contact Larry Millinder   Usage Rules
EE: 301 EEW
IE: Fame Lab contact Michael Immel


Hardware, Instruments, Tools Checkout
ME Instrument Room - (ME only) 23 Reber, open M, Tu, Th 8:30 - 6:30; W, F 8:30-4:30
EE Stock Room - (EE only) 307 EEW open 8am-9pm



Project Management

Gantt Chart Tutorial
Tutorial on Microsoft Project
Project management slides - PROJ_MAN.PPT
Example - Acme memo - ACME.DOC
Example - Acme MS-Project - ACME.MPP
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) matrix - QFDHOUSE.DOC


Team Work

Team Checkup
Sample Team Standards and Guidelines - ASD_TEAM.DOC
courtesy of Automated Systems Design students, Spring 1999
Sample Team Code of Conduct items - IR_CODE.DOC
courtesy of Dave Pittman, Ingersoll-Rand
On-line Keirsey Personality Profile (similar to Meyers-Briggs)
Interpretation of Keirsey Profile


Engineering Ethics

NSPE Ethics Pages
ASME Code of Ethics
Ethics Center for Engineering & Science - Case Western
Engineering Ethics - Texas A&M


Patents and Literature Search

Engineering Library Resources for Literature and Patent searches
Copies (paper) of patents are available in the 3rd floor, Paterno Library
Searchable index of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
IBM Patent Archive (since 1971)


Design Resources

Matweb Online materials information resource
Examples of Bad Designs
Georgia Tech, ME3110 Online Catalog
Primer on Manufacturing Processes-Michigan Tech
ME Design Library- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Georgia Tech, ME3110 Virtual Product Realization Studio


Vendors

Grainger On-line Catalog
McMaster Carr
Thomas Register
Design Info - searchable engineering catalogs


Rapid Prototyping

Rapid Prototyping Primer
RP at the University of Utah
Wohlers' Associates
Helisys Inc.
Stratasys Inc.
3D Systems Inc.


Misc. Links

Professional Societies, Centers, Other Universities


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14 September 2006 J. S. Lamancusa