Engineering Projects/HoverCraft/Howard Community College/Fall2011/550 HCJ

Electronic Sections Expected

Problem Statement

Build a hovercraft from scratch and build a basis for future student to follow.

May change throughout project

Team Members

JH

Summary

Put an overall, one paragraph summary here with links to the team weekly reports.

Poster

Put a graphic in wikimedia, include the graphic here or link to it here. The graphic should be suitable for creating a traditional project poster.

Story

Tell a story of the project. Describe how split up, what the obstacles were, what testing was done, what informal decisions were made, what assumptions were made, what the results were. This is a longer version of the summary with links to all the details collected associated with the project. These links could be to software, links to videos, links to project pages with pictures, etc. Think of the story as a summary of the team weekly reports on one long page rather than a short paragraph like the summary.

Decision List

List all formal decisions made with links to their documentation such as a decision tree or decision matrix.

Material List

Figuring out what to purchase, what to build, what everything costs is a huge part of engineering. Typically there is a list of materials in stock, materials that are ordered, materials that should be ordered next time there is money, materials that have not been fully justified. These issues are part of healthy management of the engineering lab but are associated with a particular college. The detail needs to be published in this "Done" form. However in the project root, just a list of materials is necessary.

Software List

Installing and learning different software packages is part of most engineering project just like the materials list.

Time

Hours worked on project

Tutorials

Most projects consist of making instructions to jump start the next team, shrink the learning of tools and software to the minimum, advice on where to purchase materials, how to assemble, etc. Tutorials modified or created are described here with links.

Next Steps

This was not filled out. The next team may have to repeat each of your steps just to figure out what the next step is. It is best to write this immediately at the end of the project while creating the summary, poster, presentation, and story.