 Capstone Design
Course Summary (162D - Winter): First of two mechanical engineering capstone design courses. Lectures on engineering project management, design of thermal systems, mechatronics, mechanical systems, and mechanical components. Students work in teams to begin their two-term design project. Laboratory modules include CAD design, CAD analysis, mechatronics, and conceptual design for team project.
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Enforced Requisites: courses 94, 156A (or 183A or M183B), 162A (or 171A). Limited to seniors.
Course Summary (162E - Spring): Second of two mechanical engineering capstone design courses. Student groups continue design projects started in course 162D, making use of CAD design laboratory, CAD analysis laboratory, and mechatronics laboratory. Design theory, design tools, economics, marketing, manufacturability, quality, intellectual property, design for manufacture and assembly, design for safety and reliability, and engineering ethics. Students conduct hands-on design, fabrication, and testing. Culminating project demonstrations or competition. Preparation of design project presentations in both oral and written formats.
Enforced Requisites: course 162D. Limited to seniors.
Units: 4
Lecture: two hours;
Laboratory: four hours;
Outside study: six hours.
Assignments & Grading:
HW Assignments & Final Project
Textbook: None (See list of books below)
YouTube Channel
MAE 162 YouTube Channel includes “elevator Pitches” (5 min) and final presentations (45 min) of students taking this class in previous years.
Class Philosophy
Engineering design is the process of devising a system, to meet desired needs. It is a decision-making process (often iterative), in which the basic science, mathematics and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective. Among the fundamental elements of the design process are the establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation.
As part of a class, groups of six to eight students will be formed with divested skill sets. A group leader will be identified and lead the internal group discussion as well as the group presentations during the mentoring session. Each group will work on an open ended design of a system initiated by one of the group members, the TA, or the Instructor. The system at the focal point of the design must have a social impact. The design process will start on day one of the class. The Winter quarter will be devoted to learn design as an engineering process and to acquire the missing engineering technical and management skills to complete the design of a system. This knowledge will be applied directly by each group to its selected system at hand. The Spring quarter will be focused on continuation of the actual design through both group based and individual based mentoring process provided by the instructor and the TA. In all of these mentoring interactions the TA and the instructor will serve as both design consultants and customers advocates.
The class will include the following elements: development of student creativity, use of open-ended problems, development and use of modern design theory and methodology, formulation of design problem statements and specification, consideration of alternative solutions, feasibility considerations, production processes, concurrent engineering design, and detailed system description. Furthermore, a variety of realistic constraints, such as economic factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics and social impact will serve as grounding element of the design process.
Grade
162D - Winter
5% Project Assignment 1 - P1: Problem Definition: 3 Individual Ideas
10% Project Assignment 2 - P2: Problem Definition: 3 Team Ideas
10% Project Assignment 3 - P3: Preliminary Conceptual Solutions
10% Project Assignment 4 - P4: SDR - System Design Review
10% Project Assignment 5 - P5: VC Pitch
20% Project Assignment 6 - P6: PDR Preliminary Design Review
30% Labs 1-6 (MAE/ECE/Joint) -
5% - Attendance & Participation
162E - Spring
10% Project Assignment 7 - P7: Shareholder Meeting/Demo
10% Project Assignment 8 - P8: CDR - Critical Design Review
80% Project Assignment 9 - P9: FDR - Final Design Review
Project Assignment 9 - P9: FDR (Breakdown)
30% - Design – Assembly and machine-shop drawings (Functional i.e. electromechanical)
5% - Design – Esthetics
5% - Design - Safety
5% - Design – BOM
5% - Design Budget
15% - Analysis
5% - Project Management (GANTT Chart, Attendance, Participation)
10% - Presentation (Oral, Video, Written)
Class Notes & Video Libraray
Video Libaray
Into to Design
Class Notes 00: Class Intro
Class Notes 01: Design Process (Trauma Pod)
Class Notes 02: Design Reviews
Class Notes 03: Values & Principles of Good Design
Design Process
Class Notes 04: Problem Definition
Class Notes 05: Requirements & Onjectives Definition
Class Notes 06: Design Methods
Weekly Plans, Assignments & Labs
Winter/Spring Sylabus
Project Assignments
Project Assignment 1 - P1: Problem Definition: 3 Individual Ideas
Project Assignment 2 - P2: Problem Definition: 3 Team Ideas
Project Assignment 3 - P3: Preliminary Conceptual Solutions
Project Assignment 4 - P4: SDR - System Design Review
Project Assignment 5 - P5: VC Pitch
Project Assignment 6 - P6: PDR Preliminary Design Review
Project Assignment 7 - P7: Shareholder Meeting/Demo
Project Assignment 8 - P8: CDR - Critical Design Review
Project Assignment 9 - P9: FDR - Final Design Review
Lab Assignments (M-MAE; E-ECE; J-Joint)
Lab 1M: Solidworks Modeling
Lab 1E: Kinematics Modeling
Lab 2J: Build Woodbots
Lab 3M: SolidWorks Simulations
Lab 3E: Webots Simulations
Lab 4J: Open Loop Comparison
Lab 5J: Uncertainty
Lab 6J: Comparison
Templates
(*) Collaboration Task Matrix
(*) Peer Review Assessment
(*) House of Quality (Excel Template - Large / Small)
(*) GANTT Chart (Excel Template Office 364 , Vortex 42) - Add Milestones
Topics of the GANTT Chart
1. Hardware - Mechanical System
1.1 Structure
1.1.1 Specification
1.1.2 Design
1.1.3 Finite Element Analysis
1.1.4 Sub System Fabrication
1.1.5 Subsystem integration
1.1.6 Sub System Functionality demonstration
1.2 Mechanisms
1.2.1 Specification
1.2.2 Design
1.2.3 Kinematics / Dynamics Analysis
1.2.4 Sub System Fabrication
1.1.5 Subsystem integration
1.1.6 Sub System Functionality demonstration
2. Hardware - Electrical System
2.1 Specification
2.1.1 Sensor Specification
2.1.2 CPU specification
2.1.3 Connector Specification
2.1.4 Cables specification
2.1.5 Wiring diagram (block diagram)
2.1.6 Power supply
2.2 Design
2.2.1 Amplifiers
2.2.2 Signal Conditioning (analog filters)
2.2.3 Servo controller/amplifier
2.2.4 PCB design
2.2.5 Enclosure for Electronics
2.2.6 Subsystem Fabrication
2.2.7 Subsystem integration
2.2.9 Sub System Functionality demonstration
3. Software
3.1 Low level control (servo)
3.1.1 System ID
3.1.2 Controller design (PID)
3.1.3 Close loop servo control implementation
3.1.4 Subsystem Functionality demonstration
3.2 High level control
3.2.1 Design - Modes of operation
3.2.2 Design - Emergency Stop (E-Stop)
3.2.3 Data management
3.2.4 Communication Protocols
3.2.5 Implementation
3.2.6 Subsystem integration
3.2.7 Subsystem Functionality demonstration
4. User Interface
4.1 Design - User interface (graphical – Software)
4.2 Design - User interface (hardware)
4.3 Design - Modes of operation
4.4 Failure Modes
5. System
5.1 System Integration
5.2 System testing
5.3 System demonstration
5.3.1 Mode of operations
5.3.2 Failure modes demo
5.4 Project Documentation (final report / Video)
Milestones
(*) Completed Design (Critical Design Review – CDR)
(*) Full Functionality of ALL subsystems
(*) Full functionality of the entire System – Demo (all modes of operation including failure modes)
Resources & Books
(#) Core Class
(*) eBooks available from the library to UCLA students
(+U) Hard copy books at the UCLA Library
(+) Hard copy books
Topic Based Resources
Human Factors
HANDBOOK OF HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS
Hydraulics
(*) Hydraulics and Pneumatics - Andrew Parr
(*) Hydraulic Control Systems
Military Handbooks
Air Force Human Systems Integration Handbook
29 CFR 1910 - OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS
MIL-STD-1472F Human Engineering
NATICK/TR-15/007 - 2012 ANTHROPOMETRIC SURVEY OF U.S. ARMY PERSONNEL: METHODS AND SUMMARY STATISTICS
MIL-HDBK-759C Human Engineering Design Guidelines
NISTIR 7889 Human Engineering Design Criteria Standards Part 1: Project Introduction and Existing Standards DHS S&T TSD Standards Project
MIL-HDBK-46855A Human Engineering Program Process and Procedures
DOE-HDBK-1140-2001, Human Factors/Ergonomics Handbook for the Design for Ease of Maintenance (Parts 1,2,3)
Motors
(*) Mechanical design of electric motors - Wei Tong
SimScape (Matlab)
Modeling and Simulation of Mechatronic Systems using Simscape Synthesis Lectures on Mechanical Engineering, Shuvra Das, 2020
Tolerance Fit
Video - Fits and Tolerances: How to Design Stuff that Fits Together
TOLERANCING AND ENGINEERING STANDARDS
(*) Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing for Design, Manufacturing and Inspection - A Handbook for Geometrical Product Specification Using ISO and ASME Standards (2nd Edition), Henzold, Georg. (2006). Elsevier.
Welding
Design for Welding
Vibration & Control
Damping Properties
Technical Design Books
(*#) An Introduction to Design Science
Johannesson, Paul, Perjons, Erik
(*#) The Engineering Capstone Course
Fundamentals for Students and Instructors
Hoffman, Harvey F.
(+#) Engineering Design Methods - Strategies for Product Design
Nigel Cross
(+#) Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction
Dym, Clive L.
(*) Inclusive Design
Design for the Whole Population
Clarkson, P.J., Coleman, R., Keates, S., Lebbon, C.
(*) Managing Engineering Design
Hales, Crispin, Gooch, Shayne
(*) Make and Test Projects in Engineering Design
Creativity, Engagement and Learning
Samuel, Andrew E.
(*) Design by Evolution
Advances in Evolutionary Design
Hingston, Philip F., Barone, Luigi C., Michalewicz, Zbigniew
(*) Disruption by Design
How to Create Products that Disrupt and then Dominate Markets
Paul Paetz
(*) Conceptual Design for Engineers
Michael Joseph
(*)
Conceptual Design
Interpretations, Mindset and Models
Myrup Andreasen, Mogens, Thorp Hansen, Claus, Cash, Philip
(*) The Design and Engineering of Curiosity
How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job
Lakdawalla, Emily
(*) Design Principles and Methodologies
From Conceptualization to First Prototyping with
Examples and Case Studies
Freddi, Alessandro, Salmon, Mario
(*) The Design Imperative
The Art and Science of Design Management
Chen, Steven
General Design Books
(+U) Design in Nature
Adrian Bejan, J Peder Zane
(+U) Don't Make Me Think, Revisited:
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
(Voices That Matter)
Krug, Steve
(+U) 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
(Voices That Matter)
Weinschenk, Susan
(*U) Build Better Products:
A Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products
Laura Klein
(+U) Design for How People Learn
(Voices That Matter)
Dirksen, Julie
(+U) Living with Complexity
Norman, Donald A.
(+U) Teaching Design: A Guide to Curriculum and Pedagogy for College Design Faculty and Teachers Who Use Design in Their Classrooms
Davis, Meredith
(+U) The User's Journey:
Storymapping Products That People Love
Donna Lichaw
(+U) Design Is Storytelling
Lupton, Ellen
(+U) The Design of Future Things
Norman, Don
(+U) Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Eyal, Nir
(+U) Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Norman, Don
(+U) Invention by Design;
How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
Petroski, Henry
(*U) Success through Failure:
The Paradox of Design
Petroski, Henry
(+U) To Engineer Is Human:
The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Petroski, Henry
(*U) To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure
Petroski, Henry
(*U) Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook,
Sclater, Neil
Audrino Books
(*) Beginning Arduino
Michael McRoberts
(*) Practical Arduino Engineering
Harold Timmis
(*) Arduino Robotics
John-David WarrenJosh AdamsHarald Molle
(*) Beginning Robotics with Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Using Python and OpenCV
Jeff Cicolani
(*) Beginning C for Arduino
Learn C Programming for the Arduino
Jack Purdum
Mechanical / Eletrical Engineering Books
(*) Machinery's Handbook
Chapter 25 - Drafting Practices
Chapter 26 - Allowances and Tolerances for Fits
(*) Hydraulics and Pneumatics - A Technician’s and Engineer’s Guide
(*) Mechanical Design - Peter R N Childs
(*) Mechanical design engineering handbook - Peter R N Childs
(*) Mechanical Design - Antonino Risitano
(*) Blake's Design of Mechanical Joints - Harold Josephs, Ronald L. Huston
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