For students and teams who have started a sustainable-development project in D-Lab (SP.721, SP.722), the IDEAS Competition, Design for Demining (SP.776), Product Engineering Processes (2.009), or elsewhere, this class provides a setting to continue developing projects for field implementation. Topics covered include prototyping techniques, materials selection, design-for-manufacturing, field-testing, and project management. All classwork will directly relate to the students' projects, and the instructor will consult on the projects during weekly lab time. There are no exams. Teams are encouraged to enroll together.

Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .rm and .mp3.

Syllabus

Class Description

For students and teams who have started a sustainable-development project in D-Lab (SP.721, SP.722), the IDEAS Competition, Design for Demining (SP.776), Product Engineering Processes (2.009), or elsewhere, this class provides a setting to continue developing projects for field implementation. Topics covered include prototyping techniques, materials selection, design-for-manufacturing, field-testing, and project management. All classwork will directly relate to the students' projects, and the instructor will consult on the projects during weekly lab time. There are no exams. Teams are encouraged to enroll together.

Recommended Textbook

 Ulrich, Karl T., and Steven D. Eppinger. Product Design and Development. 3rd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 9780072471465.

Grading Policy

This is a six-unit class: three hours a week will be spent in class and the remaining three hours will be spent doing homework and working on the design projects, both individually and in groups. Because much of the work for this seminar will be done during class time, attendance is essential. Students missing a class meeting should contact the instructor and their group to make up the work. Students may not miss more than two classes during the semester. This seminar is graded on an A/B/C/D/F basis, furthermore it is a class where your work is impacting the lives of people around the world and we expect an appropriate level of commitment.

Group Meetings and Weekly Updates

Roughly one session each week will be largely dedicated to group work and will include progress reports and group consulting. Groups should come to class with a work plan for the class so they can get things done while they are together as a group. Groups will also need to schedule time for meetings outside of the class session.

Intellectual Property Policy

In this class, you will be working on projects and inventions as individuals or in groups. All of MIT's intellectual property rules apply to any projects you work on during this class. For further information about these policies, you can contact the IP office directly. The Web site for the office is MIT Office of Intellectual Property Counsel and some of the policies on "Ownership of Intellectual Property" can be seen at Information Policies.

That being (carefully) said, students can own the rights to their projects if they have not made significant use of MIT resources. The machine shop, library, desktop computers and so on are not considered significant MIT resources. It is unlikely that you will receive "significant MIT resources" (e.g. certain types and amounts of money) from this class. Unless you have received other resources from MIT outside of this class, it is unlikely that MIT will have any rights to the intellectual property you develop in this class. Please contact the IP office with any questions.

Calendar

Course calendar.

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introductions, Prototyping Levels, Present Projects, Match People to Teams
2	Project Management, Gantt Chart Schedules, Post-it Exercise	Homework 1 due
3	Where to Get Resources, What is Worth Spending Money on? Present and Discuss Gantt Charts	Homework 2 due
4	Consulting Time to Review Schedules	Homework 3 due
5	Project Management (Guest Speaker: Linda Plano)	Homework 4 part 1 due
6	Consulting with Guest Ben Linder: Pugh Charts, Selection Matrices	Homework 4 part 2 due
7	Case Study: Low Cost Irrigation (Guest Speaker: Sudarshun)
8	Consulting with Guest Ben Linder: Pugh Charts, Selection Matrices
9	Businesses, Networking, 50k Competition, Entrepreneurship (Guest Speaker: Joost Bonson)	Homework 4 part 3 due
10	Progress Reports, Fund Raising Opportunities and Techniques, IDEAS Contest/Generator Dinner in the Evening	Homework 4 part 4 due
11	Consulting; Bring Work to Class	Homework 5 due
12	Design for Manufacturing; Destroy a Videotape	Homework 6 due
13	Description and Requirements for M1 Design Review; Work on Presentations
14	Field Testing and Customer Surveys
15	M1 Design Review: Poster Session Presentations
16	Design Review Post-Mortem, S.W.O.T.
17	Consulting, Review Schedules; Bring Work to Class	Homework 7 due
18	International Relations (Guest Speaker: Chad Lewis)
19	Consulting Session; Bring Work to Class
20	Pot in a Pot Refrigeration (Guest Speaker: Mohammed Bah Abba)
21	Consulting; Review Schedules; Bring Work to Class	Updated schedule for final 3 weeks
22	Consulting Session; Bring Work to Class
23	Proposal Writing (Guest Speaker: Sally Susnowitz)
24	Presentation Dry Runs/Feedback
25	M2 Final Presentations; Guest Reviewers Present
26	Class Feedback and Celebration