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Call for Projects, 2009 - 2010Put a team of our energetic engineers to work on a solution to your design-thinking or manufacturing challenges! Our faculty are eager to help you find the best scenario for your engagement in design at Stanford, or an opportunity to work with our global-team partners around the world. Proposals for 2009-10 are being accepted now. Questions? Want to get involved? Please contact Kristin Burns for more information. ME113: Mechanical Engineering DesignME113 is the capstone course of our three-quarter undergraduate design sequence. With the assistance of course instructors and design coaches, student teams work from a project partner's problem statement to devise a solution which typically includes a working model. ME216b: Advanced Product Design: ImplementationME216b: Implementation is one of the core classes in the Product Design program. This ten-week class takes each student through all the steps required to take a product or service to the market. Corporate partners working with this class often pose a general market or product category to explore and work closely with the students to provide access to the relevant data and their customers to accelerate the development of concepts. The corporate partners spend a meaningful amount of time coaching the students (a tremendous advantage in later recruiting) and are often rewarded with compelling, provocative, and potentially profitable product concepts in fully developed form. Projects last an entire quarter. A formal presentation of findings is offered at the end of the project. http://design.stanford.edu/PD/ ME218abc: Smart Product DesignThe ME218 sequence teaches students how to create mechanical designs that incorporate electronics, microprocessors and embedded software. The focus is on the integration of intelligence into mechanical systems, as opposed to simple computer control of machines. It is a laboratory-intensive experience, with structured laboratories and open-ended projects in addition to lectures. Team projects in the first three courses emphasize not only the technical content, but also the communications and interpersonal skills necessary to function as an effective team member. Students in ME218d (fourth course, autumn quarter) undertake team projects in partnership with industry. http://design.stanford.edu/spdl/. ME310: Project-Based Engineering Design, Innovation, & DevelopmentME310 is an award-winning full-year graduate level course sequence in which Stanford student teams collaborate with academic partners in Europe, Asia and Latin America on product innovation challenges presented by global corporations. The course introduces students to the tools, methods and thinking strategies needed to form and creatively manage distributed design engineering teams. The course is well known for taking ideas from concept to fully functional proof-of- concept prototypes suitable for engineering and customer evaluation. Students typically possess one to six years of practical engineering experience when entering ME310. ME317ab: Design For ManufacturabilityME317ab addresses systematic methodologies to define, develop, and deliver competitive products/processes. The methods cover characterization of societal needs, user scenarios and values, manufacturability and other life-cycle complexities such as reliability and sustainability. ME317a develops a comprehensive product definition, while ME317b seeks “Quality by Design” to generate concepts and development roadmap for an improved product/process. Many companies ask for a follow-up with student internships, further case study development or additional project activity after ME317ab, which we will be glad to discuss. CS210: Software Project Experience with Corporate PartnersYou are invited to participate in CS210: Project Experience with Corporate Partners. In this two-quarter, upper level depth sequence, a team of 3-5 Stanford computer science students develops a project theme provided by an industry partner into a functional software product. Our goal is for student teams to produce compelling solutions of interest to the company, most likely, but not necessarily using technologies published by the company. The best projects are challenging, real-world ones that provide substantial room for creative input from the students. For more information, visit the CS210 website or download our collaboration PowerPoint presentation here. CS210 Course Instructor: Jay Borenstein ME468/COMM368: Experimental Research in Advanced User InterfacesComing soon! For more information, please visit the ME468 website. Academic issues regarding the Design Affiliate Programs: |
