Capstone Engineering Design
Project Process and Reviews (Student Engineering Design Workbook)
Synthesis Lectures on Mechanical Engineering Series

Capstone Design: Project Process and Reviews (Student Engineering Design Workbook) provides a brief overview of the design process as well as templates, tools, and student design notes. The goal of this workbook is to provide students in multiple disciplines with a systematic iterative process to follow in their Capstone Design projects and get feedback through design reviews. Students should treat this workbook as a working document and document individual/team decisions, make sketches of their concepts, and add additional design documentation. This workbook also assists in documenting student responsibility and accountability for individual contributions to the project. Freshman- and sophomore-level students may also find this workbook helpful for design projects. Finally, this workbook will also serve as an evaluation and assessment tool for the faculty mentor/advisor.

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Design Workbook Information.- About this Design Workbook.- What is the Engineering Design Process.- Deign Reviews.- Team Contract and Meetings.- Contents (Student Design Notes).- Part 1: Capstone Design Process.- Design Need.- Project Planning.- Design Requirements: Specifications Development.- Design Concepts: Generation and Evaluation.- Detail Design and Analysis.- Design Evaluation and Communication Part 2: Templates and Tools.- Scope of Your Project.- Make Your Plans.- Design Brief or Need Statement..- Typical Gantt Chart.- Understanding the Design Problem (Customer Discovery).- Design Project Proposal: Template.- Design Review #1: Project Proposal and Design Requirements Review.- Design Review #2: Concepts Evaluation Review.- Design Review #3: Design Realization Review.- Capstone Design Report Format.- Student Reflections on Capstone Design.- Scoring Rubric.- Part 3: Student Design Notes.- Author Biography.

Ramana M. Pidaparti earned his Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Dr. Pidaparti is now a Professor and Distinguished Faculty Scholar in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He was previously a faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University and Purdue School of Engineering and Technology (IUPUI). He taught design and analysis courses emphasizing multidisciplinary designs and simulations, and encouraged students to participate in multidisciplinary design competitions. He won several design awards and presented papers at various conferences. He is a Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society, and Associate Fellow of AIAA (American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics). His current research interests include multidisciplinary design from Arts and Biomimicry, and bioinspired materials and structures, and computational mechanics and informatics.