Introduction to Engineering Design II IE 202 XBG

Introduction to Engineering Design II (IE 202) XBG Team 7 Designing a Robot IE 202 -Team#7 Students name: Celebration Section 1

Introduction: This course was full of interesting and useful topics. The major topics we learned from IE 202 course are: §Modeling and simulation § The design process. v Problem Definition. v Conceptual design. v Preliminary design v Detailed design v communication § Project management. § Distribution of tasks among the team members. § Following the task deadlines. IE 202 -Team#7 §Identifying functions v. Black box and Transparent box v. Dissection and reverse engineering v. Function-means tree Celebration v. Make a mathematical model to the design. v. Computer simulation 2

IE 202 -Team#7 Celebration § Brainstorming techniques. § Team work. § Generate design alternatives and choose the best alternative. 3

Member 1 Member 4 Member 2 Member 5 IE 202 -Team#7 • Why is this course offered by the college of engineering? Why is it in the curriculum? • What does it do to the students, i. e. what are the outcomes? • What did you like in the course ? • How do you think it could be improved? Celebration Every team member will talk about: Member 3 Member 6 4 End

Member #1 It affects the way of thinking and provides the engineering students with the techniques to reach the highest quality of outcomes such as the techniques of managing projects, defining the problem designing requirements , testing and evaluating. Thus, we learn how to work as a team, to end up with a professional engineer who can work with teams and shows an excellent work with high quality. IE 202 -Team#7 This course is one of the most essential courses to engineering students due to: Celebration • Why is this course offered by the college of engineering? 5

IE 202 -Team#7 • A student who can outlines the steps necessary to progress through the design process. • Ability to communicate with teams effectively. • Understands our role in the design process as a designers. • Make alternative designs and choose the optimum one. • A better communication skills. Celebration • what are the outcomes of the course? • Ability to identify, formulate, and solve eng. prob. • Ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for eng. practice 6

IE 202 -Team#7 • The way of teaching the course and the stories which make the course more interesting and easier for us to understand the concepts. • The easy ways of communication with our professor, since he was in touch with us all time and even we don’t meat him face to face I was satisfied and every thing was clear as there was several ways to communicate. • The quizzes and the team work. • The active learning and the creative ideas we made in the classes. • The new techniques we learned that make designing process easier to accomplish successfully. • Designing a robot which is our first chance to do such an interesting project like this. • The way that our professor contacts with us specially the leaders and that made me more confident while writing emails. Celebration What I like in the course ? 7

IE 202 -Team#7 • Specify workshops and tutorials to accomplish designing the artifact easily and successfully in addition to benefit the most. • Discuss the project at the beginning of the course with all the details needed. • Putting mikes in each table of the class to certain fairness and every one get chance to participate. Celebration How the course could be improved ? 8 back

Member #2 IE 202 -Team#7 • To experience how it feels like to be a product designer • To teach us creative and strategic thinking • To take a course that's not about studying, memorizing, and solving but rather understanding and applying the general knowledge that was learned in previous years. • To provide a simulation of what to expect when we start to work Celebration Why is this course offered by the college of engineering? 9

IE 202 -Team#7 • It allowed students to work in a team and enjoy it. • It was good brain practice to teach students how to generate ideas that are out of the box more effortlessly. • It gave students space to express and release their thoughts • It taught students how to analyse products and situations • "Never marry your first design“ Celebration what are the outcomes of the course? 10

IE 202 -Team#7 • I like that it gave me space to think creatively and express my thoughts • I liked the positive vibes that were offered during and outside of lecture. “Today is a day filled with challenges, not obstacles. ” • I liked how at first it felt almost impossible to achieve the project, and at some point we almost gave up, but we worked hard to finally achieve our goal. Celebration What I like in the course ? 11

IE 202 -Team#7 • To conduct factory visits to better understand product designing • To video tape the competitions • Face-to-face lectures with professors • Allow more room for creativity in the final project Celebration How the course could be improved ? 12 back

Member #3 IE 202 -Team#7 • IE 202 course is aimed at developing the students’ writing, presentation and technical communication skills. The course is providing students with the tools to complete background and reading, design research tools, do research, write reports and make recommendations based on the research. Celebration Why is this course offered by the college of engineering? Why is it in the curriculum? 13

Improving the teamwork skills. Encourage the student to be creative. Learning the steps for designing. Develop students' skills to deal with problems. IE 202 -Team#7 • • Celebration what are the outcomes? 14

IE 202 -Team#7 • Learning how to deal with some programs such as: Microsoft office (Excel) and MS project. • Learning how to manage the project. • Solving our real problems. • Give a chance for students to apply theoretical concepts on their project. Celebration What did you like in the course ? 15

How do you think it could be improved? IE 202 -Team#7 Celebration • Visiting companies or factories to see the real problems. • Reduce the number of quizzes and tests. • Improve the way of communication in the class. 16 back

Member#4 IE 202 -Team#7 • I think this course is helpful for us as engineers because it improves the engineer's skills for example the ability of analysis the problems , solving the problems, how to write professional reports, and the communication skills. so this course is very useful in the real life. Celebration Why is this course offered by the college of engineering? Why is it in the curriculum? 17

Know how to manage the project. Know how to define and solve the problems. Improve the team working skills. Improve dealing with different Microsoft programs such as (Excel and MS project) IE 202 -Team#7 • • Celebration what are the outcomes? 18

IE 202 -Team#7 • The techniques that used to deliver the information to us. For example, the stories. • Developing the skills in thinking and solving problems. • Team working • Bonuses • There is no final exam • There is no papers • Helped me to be more organized Celebration What did you like in the course ? 19

IE 202 -Team#7 • Improve the communication with instructor through the lectures. • Give chance to improve the grade by make extra test or quiz. • Explain the project at the beginning of the course and Make workshops about the project. Celebration How do you think it could be improved? 20 back

Member#5 IE 202 -Team#7 To improve basic skills that must be in any engineer, such as generation of ideas, team work, work ethics and communication skills Celebration Why is IE-202 in the curriculum? 21

what are the outcomes? An engineer character has ability of : • Manage project (team work) by plan to design strategy using techniques in IE-202. • Using modern engineering tools and techniques. IE 202 -Team#7 • Choose the best solution for a problem from alternative solutions that were reached. Celebration • Flexible thinking to identify formulate problems in order to convert it to design achieve the needs of the costumer. • Professional communicate. 22

Stories of Dr. Ibrahim. The space for the students to present their ideas. Enhances the management skills. Enhances the general knowledge. How the Doctor encourages and support the students. IE 202 -Team#7 • • • Celebration What did you like in the course? 23

IE 202 -Team#7 • I think this kind of courses shouldn't be through screen; since sometimes there is some communications problems in the network during the classes. • Initial idea about the project at the beginning of the semester. • Improve the active class by provide table for each team, and enough microphones. • More activities in class to give chances for every students to get bonuses. Celebration How do you think it could be improved? 24 back

Member#6 IE 202 -Team#7 The course offered to serve the students of the college of Engineering by assisting them to acquire skills they need for their current studies and future careers as engineering professionals. Also, to allow students to gain professional hands-on engineering design experience through a wellplanned project based active learning course. Finally, to provide students with the tools to design artefact, design report, design portfolio, design poster, design final oral presentation, work as a cooperatively engineer in the team and to help the students to produce work with high quality. Celebration Why is this course offered by the college of engineering? Why is it in the curriculum? 25

IE 202 -Team#7 Produce student with an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems, to design a system, a component, or a process to meet desired needs. Also, an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice, an ability to communicate effectively and to function on multi-disciplinary teams. The student will recognize the needs and will be able to get engaged in lifelong learning activities. Finally, understanding the professional and ethical responsibility. Celebration What does it do to the students, i. e. what are the outcomes? 26

IE 202 -Team#7 • There are many things i liked in this course which are: • Working as a team "Alone I can do so little, together we can do so much" Helen keller. • Making the first robot in my life. • The bonuses. • Learning new skills such as: MS project. • It depends on understanding more than memorizing. Celebration What did you like in the course ? 27

How do you think it could be improved? Improving the environment of the class to be more interactive. Creating work stations to help us in building the project. Extra classes to explain how we can use the excel program. Determining the project in the beginning of the semester. back IE 202 -Team#7 • • Celebration In my opinion there are many things in the course should be improved. So, the following points show some suggestions that might help improving the course: 28

IE 202 -Team#7 We get lots of benefits from this course despite the disadvantages of it. We had enjoyed with this course and it was very helpful to us as a professional engineers. Celebration Conclusion 29