Project Resources
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| Previous Projects | Project Mgmt | Professionalism | Rapid Prototpying | Team Work | Tools | Vendors |
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Basic Information
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
Hardware
Software
Peer Evaluation
Learning Factory - (all students), open 8 am - 10 pm M-F, contact Carson Baird Training Classes
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
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 | ||||||
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| Process | Learning Factory | FAME LAB | CEDE | 23 Reber | 101 Eng Unit C | |
| Manual Machining | * | * | * | * | ||
| CNC Machining | * | * | ||||
| Rapid Prototyping | FDM | SLA | ZCorp | |||
| Welding | * | * | ||||
| Metal Casting | * | |||||
All: Learning Factory
Work Areas
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
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 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
NSPE Ethics Pages
ASME Code of Ethics
Ethics Center for Engineering & Science - Case Western
Engineering Ethics - Texas A&M
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)
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
Grainger On-line Catalog
McMaster Carr
Thomas Register
Design Info - searchable engineering catalogs
Rapid Prototyping Primer
RP at the University of Utah
Wohlers' Associates
Helisys Inc.
Stratasys Inc.
3D Systems Inc.
Professional Societies, Centers, Other Universities