ME 410 Flight Vehicle Design II Spring 2012 Information Sheet INSTRUCTOR: Don Wroblewski OFFICE: ENG 415 OFFICE

HRS: M 4-5 W 9-10 PHONE 3-9739

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TEXT: Recommended: Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, Daniel Raymer, AIAA, Washington, D.C., 2005. COURSE GOALS: The main activity in this class will be a preliminary design of an aircraft, to be accomplished in teams. The idea is to have each member of the group be responsible for one functional aspect of the design. The success of your final design will depend upon how well each individual successfully performs his/her task as well as the ability to work together and communicate so that the separate pieces can be integrated into a viable design. To that end, the specific objectives of the course are as follows: To provide an in-depth aerospace system design experience within the context of a team effort. To stress the importance of professional skills such as communication, project management and teaming. PROJECT MILESTONE/DELIVERABLES: 1. Conceptual Design Update: Technical memorandum describing updates to conceptual design based on comments provided at the end of last semester. E-ppendices. Work Plan: Short report outlining workplan, including Gantt chart and linear responsibility tables. Video Pitch: Short video (60-90 seconds) pitching your concept to potential investors. Individual Progress Reports: Formal presentations providing progress on preliminary design in the individual functional areas. These will NOT be team presentations, but individual presentations grouped by functional area. E-ppendices Mock-up: This will involve three deliverables: a preliminary plan (including some preliminary drawings), a final plan submitted as part of the progress reports, and the mock-up with a short video report. A single composite grade will be assigned. Design Review Presentation: Formal presentations scheduled for approximately two weeks before the final presentation to present final design. Unlike the Final Design Presentation, which is a presentation to a general audience, the design review should be oriented towards a technical audience. ALL members of the group are expected to present material and to evaluate the progress reports of the other groups. E-ppendices. Final Design Report: Detailed written technical report, describing design and analyses in each of the functional areas. This will be the primary archival record of your work. E-ppendices. Final Design Presentation: Oral presentation to a general technical audience (other AM students, Professors, alumnae and guests). In general, this is expected to be a well-polished display with effective visual graphics that demonstrate both a high-level of technical expertise and communication skills. ALL members of the group are expected to present material.

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ME 410 Flight Vehicle Design II Spring 2012 Information Sheet OTHER ASSIGNMENTS/TASKS: 1. Team Meetings: Every Thursday during the scheduled class period, teams will meet with the DEW to discuss progress and plans. The meetings will be 30-minutes long, and are meant as a means to inform DEW regarding project progress and to seek advice regarding major design issues. Detailed technical questions that require more than the allotted time should be handled separately outside the team meetings. These are not intended to replace regular team meetings: do not plan to carry out regular team business such as making assignments for deliverables, voting on design issues etc. For each meeting, a different team member will be designated as the Meeting Leader and another will be assigned as the Secretary. The meeting should include the following activities: o Status Report: A summary of the status of the teams progress and any outstanding issues. This will be an oral presentation by the Meeting Leader, without interruption. (See below under Meeting Leader responsibilities for more details. o DEW Q&A after Status Report. o Open discussion, moderated by the chair, on major issues. o Reports from one or more functional areas, elaborating on Status Report. Meeting Leader Responsibilities o Prepare handout which includes an agenda, and the following items: (1) summary of the groups activities since the last meeting, (2) highlights of key findings, (3) comparison of progress to the Gantt chart, (4) outline of plans for the coming week, and a (5) listing of any outstanding concerns or issues. This should be in the form of several PowerPoint slides. Provide these to DEW and team members in one of 2 ways: Hard copies Posted electronically on Group Page/File Exchange before meeting o Presenting a 5-10 minute oral Status Report covering items from the handout-- activities, key results, progress, and plans. The talk should conclude with a clear statement of the key objectives of the meeting. This report should communicate in a succinct manner the status of the project in all areas, and reflect knowledge of the main issues in all areas. o Chairing the meetingkeep the discussions on topic so all agenda items can be covered. Secretary Responsibilities o Keep minutes of the meeting and post those minutes to the Blackboard Group page. o Contents of minutes: (1) key discussion points, (2) decisions made, and (3) action items for specific individuals NOTE: If DEW suggests that the team follow a specific approach, this should be highlighted in the minutes. All team members are expected to attend all meetings and to bring their notebooks to the meetings. Exceptions for attendance will be made on a case by case basis, but generally will be granted only for the same types of emergencies that would merit a make-up exam. Students who need to miss a meeting with a valid excuse must inform the instructor and the meeting leader at least two days in advance. Meeting leaders or meeting secretaries who need to miss meetings must inform the instructor at least one week in advance and must also designate an alternate meeting leader or secretary. See syllabus and separate meeting schedule for time slots and meeting leader/secretary designation. Although each team will be meeting for only 30 minutes, the rest of the class period is NOT free time; it should be used for project work or other ME 410 assignments.

ME 410 Flight Vehicle Design II Spring 2012 Information Sheet 2. Design Notebook: Each student will maintain a Design Notebook, which documents work on his/her aspect of the design. Bring notebooks to all meetings. Students without notebooks will be asked to leave meetings. Ethics assignment: This will be an individual written assignment, dealing with professional ethics, based on discussions in class. Details to be provided. Peer Assessment: At the midpoint and end of the semester, you will be required to fill out peer evaluation forms, assessing other members of your team. The assessments will be used as part of the team contribution component of the grade. For situations in which an individual does not contribute significantly to the teams design effort, the group component of the grade will be discounted for the non-productive team member. This is rare, but has been done 4 times over the past 10 years, and in all cases, the remaining team members were highly supportive of the action.

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BLACKBOARD SITE: BlackBoard (BB) will be used extensively for this class: (1) Course administrative details (e.g.,syllabus): posted under the Course Information tab.* (2) Requirements and formats for deliverables: posted under Assignments tab.* (3) Lecture slides: posted under Course Documents tab. (4) Course Calendar (5) Announcements and updates to assignments or due dates: posted on Announcements page. Please check this regularlyI would prefer to use this as a means of communication rather than flooding your Inbox with repeated e-mails. (6) Group pages: found under Communications tab. Team members can communicate and share files, and submit electronic deliverables to me. (7) Links to relevant information: found under External Links tab. * For items (1) and (2): NO hard copies will be handed out in class PIAZZA: Piazza is a new Q&A forum application that is better than the one provided in Blackboard. This will be used mainly for students to ask questions to DEW. Any question that may have relevance to other teams or individuals should be posted on Piazzaespecially ones dealing with deliverables. Questions sent to me via e-mail will be posted on Piazza for all to see, so its better for you just to post them on Piazza. Occasionally, questions TO students will be posted as well.

ME 410 Flight Vehicle Design II Spring 2012 Information Sheet GRADING The final course grade will be a combination of a Team gradesame grade for all team membersand an individual gradedifferent grade for each student. The specific breakdown is shown in Table 1. Table 1: ME 410 Grade Breakdown Team Grade Individual Grade Conceptual Design Update Report Work Plan Progress report: Mock-up Overall Team Design 1 Overall Individual Design 2 Communication Skills 3 Team Contribution4 Participation 5 Ethics Assignment Total 4% 4% 10 % 15 % 20 % 4% 20 % 8% 5% 5% 5% 53%

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NOTES: See Table 2 for a summary of which deliverables/activities will contribute to the various overall grades.

1. The Overall Team Design grade will be determined based on the following criteria: a. Success at achieving mission objectives b. Level of effort throughout semester. c. Use of analysis for making design choices, and the use of trade studies to optimize the design. d. Level of difficulty of mission/project e. Creativity in both design choices and approach to analysis. f. Teamwork (Level of interaction of team members in working toward common goal)
The two teams scoring the highest on these metrics will be finalists for the Outstanding Aerospace Design Project Award, with the final choice based on consultation with other AE faculty members. The award will be presented at the Departments award ceremony (date and time TBA) and will be recognized at the College of Engineering Commencement Ceremony.

2. The Overall Individual Design grade will be based on the following criteria a. Level of effort throughout the semester and completeness b. Use of analysis for making design choices, including the extent of optimization c. Level of difficulty of functional area, including availability of tools and information. d. Creativity in both design choices and approach to analysis.
3. The Individual Communications Skills grade will be based on evaluation of presentation skills for the oral reports and evaluation of the format and quality of writing on individually written sections of the final report. 4. The Team Communications Skills grade will be based on evaluation of presentation skills for the oral reports, Video Pitch, and evaluation of the format and quality of writing on team written sections of the final report.

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5. The Team Contribution grade will be based on the following: a. Performance at team meetings as meeting leader and secretary, and level of engagement when not leader of secretary. b. Peer evaluations. This will include how your teammates assess you as well as the extent to which you realistically assess the teams performance and the lessons you learn from the experience.
6. The Participation grade will be based on the following: (1) attendance at meetings, (2) participation in class activities, and (3) participation in peer evaluations and presentation evaluations. Once the overall numerical grades have been compiled and final letter grades assigned, a special adjustment may be applied under the following condition: if one team member far outperforms the rest of the team, based on the relative values of the overall individual and team grades, his/her grade will be increased by letter grade. This adjustment is meant to reward individuals whose excellent work would be penalized by a particularly poor team effort, and will only be awarded in cases for which the discrepancy in the grades is dramatic. Only one student per team can receiver this adjustment. Table 2: Summary of deliverables/activities that contribute to various grades Grade Deliverable/Activity Video Pitch Individual Progress Report Design Review Final Report Final Presentation Team Meetings Peer Evaluations Class Activities Overall Team Design Overall Individ. Design Team Comm. Skills Individual Comm. Skills Participation

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