Objective: To teach students how to work on a large design project as a design team.

1) Each student will be able to work as part of a team.

2) Each student will learn teaming techniques and leadership skills

3) Each student will learn about professional ethics

4) Each student will learn how each aspect of a large design project is integrated into a complete report.

Week Topic Jan 14 Ethics and the Engineer - Case Studies, Project introduction, Team Characteristics Jan 21 Ethics and the Engineer - Case Studies, Project design schedule & Milestones Jan 28 Ethics and the Engineer - Case Studies, How to do a professional presentation Feb 4 Project design Feb 11 Project design - Project presentations on concept plans Feb 18 Project design, Ethics Presentation Feb 25 Project design Mar 3 Project design Mar 10 Spring Break Mar 17 Project design Mar 24 Project design - task progress reports Mar 31 Project design Apr 7 Project design Apr 14 Preliminary Design Report Due Apr 21 Project Presentation - Final report Due Apr 28 Final Grades Discussed

Class Participation: Attendance will not be taken, but you cannot participate if you are not present. Class participation includes : attendance, ability to answer questions in class, ability to work problems in class, being respectful of others in the class. Your ability to work with your team and the quality of your final report depend upon being in class.

Ethics: A 10 minute presentation on an ethical issue will be made the week of February 18. This presentation will count for 10% of the final grade. A grading sheet will be discussed before the presentation. Each week a discussion of ethics will be conducted. Students will be required to participate in the discussion and provide ethical case studies for discussion. The weekly discussions are worth 5% of the final grade.

Project: The final project is worth 85% of the course grade. The project grade will be based on:

quality of technical design work and plans (35% of final grade)

quality of written report (30%of final grade)

quality of oral presentations (10% of final grade).

Preliminary design report handed in on time and at 90% complete (10% of final grade)

During the first week a schedule and initial distribution of work will be determined.

See Project page for details

The course grade is based on the following breakdown of points.

Ethics Presentation: 10%

Ethics discussions: 5%

Project: 85%

Final Grading: The following is a guide to the grading scheme used on the final grades. The instructor reserves the right to lower the cutoff points.

A	A-	B+	B	B-	C+	C	C-	D
>93	90 - 92	87 - 89	83 - 86	80 - 82	77 - 79	73 - 76	70 - 72	60 - 69

Project Requirements:

1) Project calculations

All project calculations will be included in the final report. This includes all design and estimating calculations. Calculation sheets must have the following on each page: Name of Designer, Name of checker, date of design & check, project description.

Project calculations need to be neat and orderly so that others can follow your logic.

2) Plans and sketches

All plans and sketches need to be error-free. Plans and sketches need to have a title box on each page and a page numbering system.

3) Report

The report needs to be complete. It should include: Executive summary, Table of Contents, Existing conditions, proposed project description, sections for structural, transportation, site development, others, all calculations and sketches needed. The report needs to be both technically and grammatically correct. All errors in technical content, grammar, spelling and plans carry an equal weight.

4) Presentations

All presentations are to be considered professional. Appropriate dress is required. All presentations will be done using Powerpoint. Additional handouts of material to the audience is encouraged. The presentations needs to be both technically and grammatically correct. All errors in technical content, grammar, spelling and plans carry an equal weight. All members of the design team must talk for at least 2 slides worth of information.

5) Hand-ins

One bound report, one complete set of plans (either full size or ½ size), Powerpoint Presentations, CD with report, plans, ppt on it.

6) Date Due

All hand-ins are due at the beginning of the last class. A grade will be assigned to the project within 1 week so that the distribution of the final grade can be made during the final exam period.

7) Grading

Group project grades - all group grades will be determined in the following manner. The instructor will determine a grade for the group. Using a zero sum gain approach, the group will then allocate grades to each of the members of the group. Uniform grading is not allowed. Once all members of the group agree to the grades, they will provide the instructor with a grade sheet.

Final grades will be based on the individual's project grade and ethics grades.

Project Set-up

Professor Wolfe: Project Manager - Oversees the project from a management point of view. Can help with questions on traffic operations, estimate, schedule, drainage

Professor Baran: Consultant - can be used as a resource for questions on highway design, water and wastewater, drainage

Professor Dunn: Consultant - structural will work as needed with Professor Dunn on the steel work in buildings.

Steps:

1) Determine tasks - someone needs to be project manager to oversee project completion

2) Set up a schedule for completion of tasks

3) Write a memo of understanding - this memo should inclulde who is doing what tasks, penalties for not submitting in a timely manner, incomplete submissions, poor work

4) Set up an activity sheet for each person to be filled out weekly

5) Get your work done early

6) Have all work checked for grammar, spelling and technical content before handing it in for grades.