CFP and Key Analyses memo (Due Wednesday 10/3/07 in class)
- email to your advisor, Tina, and Class TA.
- turn in a signed hardcopy in class on Wednesday.
You should consider having 2 people work on this and list their names. It will be worth the equivalent of writing a weekly memo for 2 people in your group.
The main point of this memo is to have each team select
The main things this memo will include will be your team’s selection of the CFP (possibly influenced by feedback on HW#3) and the analyses or simulations that your team has identified should be completed while designing your project.
For the CFP, you should follow the 4-step process explained in the textbook for planning a prototype. That is you should provide motivation/reason for why you are choosing a particular thing(s) to prototype for your CFP. This motivation should include what you hope to learn from your CFP and how you will learn this. Though there are other reasons to make prototypes, I would prefer that you choose a prototype you can learn from. A test plan may be appropriate to state how/what you will learn from your CFP. You should also include a schedule by which you will complete your CFP in time for your CFP presentation. I would prefer that you make a physical prototype, but for some fairly complex projects some simulation models (if you have a means of showing that they have some accuracy to them and real meaning for your design) might also be appropriate.
For the key analyses portion of the memo, please think about the many aspects of your project that can be guided by some basic (or more complex) calculations or simulations. There are many potential analyses you should complete and that you are well equipped to complete given your last 3 years of education. Please identify these in the 2nd half of this memo. Please provide a bulleted list and then supporting text that describes the motivation behind each analysis and the type of analysis that will be completed (e.g., statics and stress hand calculations, or FEA modal analysis, or CFD drag analysis).
You should follow the same type of formatting and structure as a general memo.