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This is a website encompassing everything related to a project for an Engineering Class, ENGR 1182.02 Scholars, at The Ohio State University’s Hitchcock College of Engineering. The project is a design project, in which a team, consisting of four undergraduate students, is required to design a monorail automated vehicle using the knowledge and concepts obtained from this course. The purpose of this project is to implement the concepts and insights grasped from ENGR 1181 and ENGR 1182 courses packet to solve a problem related to teamwork, programming, design, and engineering professional forms technical communication.

Design is an iterative process, which means it requires going back and forth processes while completing the whole project. In ENGR 1181, students were introduced to five main steps that facilitate the design process, given the acronym DR.PIE. The letter ‘D’ stands for Defining the problem, which is considered by designers the most important step, as a problem cannot be solved unless it is well understood. Knowing what is required, constraints, givens, and assumptions are all part of the defining step. The letter ‘R’ stands for Representing the problem in a visual or graphical form. The letter ‘P’ stands for the Planning of the solution. Planning usually includes searching for the right formulas and concepts to use to solve the problem, in addition to adding extra assumptions. The letter ‘I’ stands for Implementing the plan, which is simply crunching down numbers and processes to reach the a final solution. And finally, the letter ‘E’ stands for Evaluating the solution. When a solution is reached, it must be checked by making sure that the reached units match the expected answers units, comparing the results with similar problems’ results, etc. Thus, the design process is not simple and requires iteration through these five steps. The main things to consider are efficiency in allocating resources and time as well as working together as a team as coherently as possible. That being said, it is important to acknowledge that the goal of this team is not to create the best AEV of all time; however, the goal is to create the best AEV with the given time and resources.

The Engineering students team are looking forward to learn from this experience as well as produce the best results out of it.

Table of Contents:

  1. Project Management
    • Team Working Agreement
    • Individual Responsibility Agreement
    • Project Schedule
    • Meeting Notes
  2. Business Plan
    • Proposals
    • Electronic/Print Poster
    • Oral Presentations
  3. Project Documentation
    • Introduction
    • User Manual
    • Program Description for Developers
    • Final Algorithm, Flowchart or Pseudocode
    • Discussion
    • Conclusions and Recommendations
    • References
  4. Glossary
    • Table of Functions
    • Table of Keywords

 

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