Senior Design Presentations

This year’s seniors are presenting the proposals for their Senior Design projects throughout the last week of classes.   I strongly urge you to view one or more of them – you’ll be presenting a year from now. 

• Almost all the presentations are a half hour long, starting on the half hour.  Here’s an unofficial schedule of the presentations.  Note that it’s best viewed in Week view.
• The presentations are in AEL-275 – the CAEE conference room.  Note that it’s a small room and will undoubtedly be crowded towards the end of the week.

Lancaster Square Presentations - A7

Our final class will be devoted to your presentations of the analysis of Lancaster Square.  We’ll handle it as follows.

• Each group will prepare a 4-minute slide presentation
• This is a reduction reduced from 5 minutes as defined in the assignment
• That presentation will be linked from your website
• The topic of that presentation will be as defined below
• Every group will make an oral presentation
• This is a change from what I said initially in class.  That’s because the presentation aspect is part of the grade.
• The time for presentations will be as follows
• 4 min presentation
• 2 min questions
• 2 min change-over
• Each person will evaluate each group using this presentation assessment form
• The group order and topics will be as follows

Topic	Group
Site	1 - Hope Lewis; Timothy Perdue; Ilana Ritvalsky; Catherine Stephens
Architecture	2 - Taylor Castonguay; Anthony Epifano; Kassandra Moyer; Janet Tran
Foundations	3 - Christopher Frederick; Alexandra Little; Colleen Mulligan; William Whitesell
High-Rise Structure	4 - Marko Durica; Christopher Hohn; Adrian Kuzniarowicz; Lekh Patel
Mid-Rise Structure	5 - Mohammad Alenezi; Karan Sagar Sinha; Matheus Tresso Custodio; Zilong Xiao
High-Rise HVAC	6 - Ami Amegan; Yu-Sen Liu; Chang Qin; Jiaao Wu
Mid-Rise HVAC	7 - William Kerr; Leonard Knittel; Rikki Moore; Omar Ramos Lopez
Electrical	9 - Yue Cao; Yilei Jiang; Melissa Mo; Yuyang Shi
Other Systems	10 - Hawra Nadheer A Almutailq; Jesse Chladil; Michael Holzworth; Michael Paccione

A5 Class System Evaluations–Monday 11/3/2014

To wrap up our look at the variety of HVAC systems each group will look at all the assigned systems using your submissions from the class database.

We’ll allow about 20 minutes for you to perform the review and then look at the results.

• If you finish early you can start looking at A6.

Each team’s task is to look at the “major systems” assigned – one of the three systems for most team’s websites.  Those systems with the team number are.

1    CAV
2    VAV
3    Window AC
4    Rooftop Package Unit
5    Radiant Floor Heating
6    Convective Heating
7    High Temperature Radiant Heating
8    Chilled Beam
9    Combination Home Air Heating and Cooling
10    Passive Solar - Trombe Wall
11    Geothermal Heat Pump
12    Residential Hot Water Radiators
13    Active Solar HVAC

You are to rate each team on two scales using this form:

1. Engineering Understanding – of the engineering aspects of the system
2. Site Organization – for viewer understanding

A4 Grading Comments

Good work again by the class on this assignment. Most of you were very thorough and put together impressive websites. Some of the common issues we noticed were:

-Many groups did not use all of their criteria in choosing their system. Many of you laid out huge lists of criteria, and then relied on 2-3 main criteria when you actually chose a system. 

-Many of you missed including something that was listed on the rubric, such as common numerical data for each structural system. Remember to go through the rubric before finalizing your website to make sure that you hit each point.

-Be sure to be explicit in why the system you chose meets your criteria better than any other system. If there are three viable systems, you should provide specific reasons for why the system you chose meets your needs better than the other two systems. 

Keep up the good work for assignment 5!

Best,

The Graders

Tom and Steve

Monday 10/27 Plan–Structural Selection Process

We will review your submissions for the Structural Selection Process using the sub-group method we used for A2.

Preparation – A Single Slide Handout

• Each team prepare a single “slide” (something easy to project and to print) on their selection process
• Bring enough copies to distribute to the other teams in your group
• It’s OK to just have it a link from you webpage submission

Groupings

• A Teams 1-3
• B Teams 4-6
• C Teams 7-9
• D Teams 10-13

Focus of Review

• Clearest presentation of the Selection Method

Process

• Each group will review the work of all their teams – 10-15 min
• Discuss and pick the most interesting presentation of the Selection Method – 5 min

Class Presentation

• Chosen team from each group will present their selection process to the class – 3 min/team
• Each of these groups will receive extra credit points to make up any assignment deficit  - 2 points/group

A3 Grading Comments

All of you did well with this assignment,we were quite impressed with the level of detail that some of the groups went into. Most of the groups have been following our advice and meeting the criteria on the rubric and clearly labeling everything. Here are some general comments we had on issues that seemed common to many groups:

-Many of you seemed to do a lot of copy pasting for the numeric parameters. This is fine in the sense that you need to look up the data and we're fine with you presenting it in the same way that you found it. However, it is important to go the next step and comment on the numbers. We would like to see groups make an effort to explain what the numbers they found mean, how they relate to others systems, etc.

-Many of the issues this week seemed to come from a lack of organization. When groups lost points it was generally because there was some lack of communication or some point on the rubric was overlooked.

Overall the websites submitted this week were excellent, keep up the good work!

Best,
The Graders,
Tom and Steve

A3 Class Plan

Looking Ahead

At the conclusion of A3 on 10/20 I’ll ask each group to be ready with a 2 minute “Sales Presentation” about their system. 

• Think about what I mean by a “Sales Presentation” – how does it differ from a technical presentation.
• We’ll asky you to fote for extra credit points (2) using the following criteria
• Most Effective
• Most Technically Convincing
• Most humorous

 

Class Meeting – Wednesday 10/8

Looking at the system definition

• What is the definition for a structural system?
• What are the components for some of your systems?
• How do they “perform a specific function” for your system?

Materials

• What materials are necessary for your system in addition to any “main” material?

Numbers

• What kinds of numbers are important for most structural systems?
• A key goal of having numbers is to allow comparisons when making decisions about the appropriate structural system during design.

 

Class Meeting 10/15

• What numbers have you found
• Discussion of “Sales Presentation”
• Work session with interruptions for issues of general interest