Section 3 of the Group Final Report (due Monday Nov. 5, 2007 by 5PM via email)
This section concerns documenting your project’s design requirements
- email your completed section 3 .doc file to your your advisor, the writing Comm. TA, your class TA and if appropriate post to your Wiki Group?
- If you post it to your wikiGroup, just send a link to its location on the wiki to the above recipients. The writing Comm. TA (Tina Dyer) will be grading this section and give you feedback on the structure and organization, grammar and syntax. Your class TA will also give you comments and may give grading input.
You should consider having 2 people work on this and list there names. It will be worth the equivalent of writing a weekly memo for 2 people in your group.
You can download the word template for this section here.
For more details about the M E4000? Final report, refer to Group Final Report.
The Final Group report is broken up into files based on sections in the report. A good example to follow can be found in the Precision Kiting Report. Note that we are making changes to the way we are writing up design requirements and design specifications in 2007 that follow more closely with what is outlined in Ulrich and Eppinger’s text. So the Precision Kiting Report and other examples that are linked off the Group Final Report page will have slightly different organization in the requirements/needs and specification sections than we will follow this year.
Section 3 concerns Design requirements and will typically be 3–10 pages long. You can download the word template for this section here.
An example of a section 3 writeup from the old style of organizing requirements into functional and physical requirements can be found in the VW design team at Stanford (here). Note that this is not organized according to hierarchy in the manner which our text by Ulrich and Eppinger outlines, so you will need to take this example and any of the examples that you see from the 05 and 06 wiki sites with a grain of salt.
Information about what goes in the section 3 writeup can be found in Tina’s presentation from Friday 9/28/07.
Section outline:
SECTION 3: DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
3.1 Overview of customer needs/requirements
3.2 First Primary Need in Need Hierarchy
3.2.1 Secondary need 1 (from “need hierarchy”)
3.2.2 Secondary need 1 (from “need hierarchy”)
3.3 Second Primary Need in Need Hierarchy
etc…
These requirements should be organized according to hierarchy in the manner which our text by Ulrich and Eppinger outlines (see Chapter 4 of text). -Dr. P. (Sept. 2007)