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MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN
ME 413/ME 414 Capstone Design - Proposal Procedure
Proposals
can be submitted by students, faculty or industry.
The deadline for submission is August 28, 2006.
Each project will be completed under the
supervision of one or more Mechanical Engineering
faculty members with expertise in the project
area. Each student team will normally consist of
two to four Mechanical Engineering seniors.
Each
project must meet the following criteria:
1.
Project can be completed during the
academic year, August to April.
2. Project
must meet ABET design criteria:
a)
open ended
b)
non-unique solutions
c)
student decisions required
d)
involve advanced engineering analysis
e)
design configuration decisions required
Each
proposal should be outlined as listed below:
A. Proposer’s
name, address, phone number and affiliation.
B.
Choice of faculty advisor if known.
C.
Number of students desired and student
design team choice if known.
D.
Type of analysis that project may involve
such as thermal-fluid, solid
mechanics, mechanisms,
controls, etc.
E.
State tentative project name followed by a
description of the project not
more than one page in length.
F.
If the project is from industry please
state what your company is willing to
donate to the project to offset student travel,
duplication expenses, etc.
A donation in the range of $500 to $1000 is
requested but is not required.
Please
submit proposals by mail or email to:
Frank
Donovan, PhD, PE
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
EGCB 212
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL
36688
fdonovan@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
The
proposals will be reviewed by the Mechanical
Engineering faculty and students will be assigned
to selected projects by the end of August.
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Proposal
Capstone 2006
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