Section 5 of the Group Final Report (due Monday November 26, 2007 by 5PM)
This section involves documenting your projects Design Specifications.
- email your completed section 5 PDF (or .doc if appropriate) to your advisor, your team TA, and the comm. TA (Tina Dyer). The Comm. TA will be grading this section and give you feedback.
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.
The Final Group report is broken up into files based on sections in the report. Section 5 concerns design specifications and will typically be 3–15 pages long. You can download the word template for this section here.
Please include both ideal and marginal specification levels as you did in HW#4. Please also show how your specifications map back onto your Customer Needs expressed in section 3 of your report. Refer to chapter 5 in your text (Ulrich and Eppinger) for more detailed information concerning establishing design specifications. For more details about the ME 4000 Final report, refer to Group Final Report.
Section outline:
SECTION 5: Design Specifications
5 Design Specifications
5.1 Overview of design specifications
(include a system block diagram that provides the organization of which the later subsections will be organized)
(include a table of specifications similar to ulrich and eppinger’s exhibit 5.8 showing the relationship between specs. and customer needs)
5.2 Subsystem 1 specifications or other
5.2.1 Specification for item in subsystem 1
5.2.2 Specification for item in subsystem 1
5.3 Subsystem 1 specifications or other
Information about what goes in the section 5 writeup can be found in Tina’s presentation from Friday 9/28/07.
old formatting from past years (pre-2007)
SECTION 4 Design Specifications 4.1 Functional Specifications 4.2 Physical Specification
Starting Fall 2007 this section will be revised, so that it is no longer required to distinguish between Functional and Physical Specifications. Instead, the team should consider how best to organize these specifications.
Information about what goes in the section 4 writeup can be found here.
An example of a section 4 writeup from the VW design team at Stanford can be found here.
A good example from M E4000? from 2005 from the old format for this chapter can be found in the Precision Kiting Report. Other examples are linked off the Group Final Report page.