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