Mall of America MOA Request for Proposals The

Mall of America (MOA) Request for Proposals • The Mall of America in Minneapolis, MN has designated an area of mall space to construct an indoor mini-golf course. • Mall of America executives have placed a call for design concepts from the leading design firms across the United States. • Your design team will be one of several teams who will pitch a design concept to MOA execs. • The winning concept will receive the contract to design and build a state of the art mini-golf course in the MOA.

Learning Objectives • Be able to work in an environment that includes remote team members. • Be able to use the Engineering Design Cycle to develop a high quality proposal for a client. • Be able to use Inventor 2015 to create part files and working drawings supporting your proposal. • Be able to present your proposal

Design Statement: • Competing design teams will submit a concept design containing 5 mini-golf holes illustrating the team’s overall idea for a mini-golf theme that will attract mall patrons.

Constraints: • All holes within a group/zone must have a consistent theme. • The concept design cannot exceed 25’ x 20’. Create your hole on a 25’ by 20’ by 1’ base. You will work in pairs on each hole. Most will be working with a partner from Pendleton HS. • Holes can be elevated up to 5’, but appropriate safety precautions must be taken. • All components of the hole must be less than 5’ tall. • Pathways as needed to move from hole to hole must be a minimum of 36” wide. • Holes can have some moving or animated parts. (optional) • All holes will have a standard tee off pad and scoring podium (these parts will provided by the project manager). • All 3 D modeling should be done to FULL SCALE. Be mindful of scale and units!

Team Role: Design Engineer (DE): • Each design engineer pairs will provide: – Preliminary brainstorm sketches describing the layout of the 5 hole course/zone. This preliminary sketch should include: – the pattern of play – where the players will enter and exit each area • 3 D model assembly of a themed hole including: – moving or animated parts – tee-off pad and scoring podium (provided by the PM). – walking paths providing access to the hole (must be a minimum of 36” wide)

Team Role: Project Manager (PM): • The project manager is responsible for: – – – assigning teams of 2 (from different sites if possible) provide a team layout diagram, assigning teams space the design of a scoring podium the design of a tee off pad the design of 150 sq. foot equipment/retail office one final team layout as an assembly drawing showing: • each hole designed by the team • a pattern of play outlining where players will enter and exit each area – assigning a team member(s) to put together the final presentation

Suggestions for New Themes and Examples Sports • Logos and teams • Olympic Sports • Professional Sports • Sports equipment • Arenas and fields • Fans • Games and Toys • Board games (Monopoly, Candyland, etc. ) • Legos, Blocks or building sets • Card games • Video games (Super-Mario etc. ) • Checkers, chess • • • Holidays and Celebrations 4 th of July Halloween Thanksgiving St. Patrick’s Day New Year’s Eve Birthdays Christmas Hannukah

Selling Your Proposal • Upon completion of your proposal your team will present it to the class. • The class will vote on which proposal to send on to Mall of America.

• • • Team members (5/23) Project Name (5/23) Team Norm Summary (5/25) Specifications and Constraints(5/25) Concepts (5/23 -5/27) What is Turned in by Individuals: A Power. Point with the following – Concept Sketches: At least three solutions per member • Develop a Solution (5/27) – Decision Matrix used to select the design direction (All team members will have the same matrix) • Construct and Test a Prototype (6/1 -6/3) – – – Inventor Part Files Inventor Dimensioned Drawing files Delegate who will do what on your team. Create a CAD model and complete set of working drawings for your solutions. Put screen captures in the Power. Point. • Assembly (6/3) (Animation EC) – Show all of the parts fit together and interchangeability of enhancements as appropriate. – Screen capture

What will be turned in by the team • Create a Trifold Brochure • Team Power. Point Presentation marketing your solution • Team Presentation (6/8) (This will be the final for Seniors)

How can you work in teams? • Developing team norms.

Developing Team Norms “The way our team will do things. ”

Learning Objectives • To understand be able to develop team norms for… • Interaction with teammates • File structure and organization • Communication how and when • Today you will create proposals to share with the rest of your team.

Team Norms • Team norms are a set of rules or guidelines that a team establishes to shape the interaction of team members with each other and with employees who are external to the team. • What is a worst case scenario if team norms are not established?

Stagnant Pond or Flowing River • Ken Blanchard, of One Minute Manager fame, said that a river without banks is a pond. Likewise, a team without relationship norms leaves itself open to potential interpersonal problems

Brainstorm • With your teammates come up with three team norms that you think will help your team succeed. (Give some time to develop ideas) • Share one of your team norms with the class.

• Sample Norms for Interacting with your team Here are some of the norms that project teams have found helpful: • Listen to what others are saying • Strive to understand each other's perspectives, rather than jumping to conclusions • Try to resolve problems without blaming • Send an acknowledgement in response to important email messages • Respect "do not disturb" signs on people's cubicles • When you've made a commitment you can't keep, let the other party know as soon as possible • If you don't understand something, ask for clarification • If you see a problem that others haven't noticed, bring it to someone's attention • Treat clients' issues and concerns as valid even if you don't agree with them • If you think team members have a conflicting understanding of a project issue, bring it to their attention • Focus on the positive: what's working well, not on what's going wrong

Modifying your Proposal • Using the information you have learned from other teams and from the example put together three + proposals for team norms regarding interaction with team mates. • Include these in your Power. Point

Team Norms: Organizing Files • • • File names Folders Revisions …. Why would setting standards for these be important?

File Name Recommendations The important take-away points from this article are: 1. The file-naming convention that your business uses needs to be understood by everyone in the organization. 2. File-naming conventions should help people find information quickly by scanning names or by looking for dates or other signifiers in the name. 3. Files that are "naturally-ordered" are easier to scan and sort. 4. Be consistent with naming conventions (Jill Duffy PC Mag)

Team Norms: Organizing Files • FIRST, A NOTE ON NAMING… • As different software uses different processes for naming and organizing, it’s best to avoid using things like special characters, symbols, and spaces in your naming. • Things to avoid include stuff like: !, @, #, $, %, &, *, (, ), /, ” and ? Here a couple of examples of good and not so good names to use: BAD: 2013 Jill+Brian GOOD: 2013_Jill. Brian • BAD: Jill Brian Highlights GOOD: Jill. Brian. Highlights • BAD: Jills & Brian’s First Class GOOD: Jill. Brian. First. Class

Things to consider including in your file structure A file name that establishes… Who created the file Description of the part Date created Which modification Consider a folder structure that will also help organizing information. • Types of files you will be working with: Part files, Drawing files, Individual and Group Powerpoints, Brochure, … • How will/can you use folders to keep your project organized? • • •

• Discuss file/folder structure norms for your group. • Come up with 1 -3 proposals for your team • Share one ideas with the class. With your group… Evan Miller Pendleton A Joshua Myers Pendleton A Trevor Ulicni Pendleton A Walker Paullus Pendleton A Andrew Kauffman West A Dakota Story West A Jacob Decker West A Austin Creger Jakob solomon Nick Johnson Brett Mc. Millen Cade Reeves Pendleton B West B Dylan Tran West B Isaac Parker West B Kevin West B Allen Pendleton C Mackey Brady Blanscett Pendleton C braeden gaven sayles Andrew Burleson Pendleton C West C Jacob Lichty Jacob S. West C C Mahayla Taylor West C Jesse Daulton West A Lucas West A Liam Haines West B West A Noah Wick West B roxy tahmaseb West Sage West Barnes West A Samuel Leader B Tyson Stephen Kirkpatrick Zack Mc. Donough West C C C

Team Norms: Communication • With your team come up with suggestions for… • How often to communicate with your virtual team. • What method you will propose using for communicating. (email, shared drive, …) • How will you handle if a team member is not contributing. • As a team, create a proposal for your Communication Team Norm

• • • Team members/Schools (Monday 5/23) Project Name (Monday 5/23) Team Norm Summary (Wednesday 5/25) – – • • – Delegate who will do what on your team. Look at extensions, and enhancements that go beyond the minimum requirements – – Create a CAD model and complete set of working drawings for your solutions Put Screen Captures into the Power. Point Assembly (6/3) (Animation Extra Credit ) Showing how all of the parts fit together and interchangeability of enhancements as appropriate Screen Capture of Assembly included in the Power. Point Create a Team Power. Point Presentation and tri-fold brochure (optional) marketing your solution (Monday 6/6) – • Use a decision matrix to evaluate the design proposals based on your Specifications and Constraints Include Decision Matrix in Power. Point Create Part files in Inventor Construct and Test a Prototype (6/1 - 6/3) – – • At least three sketches/member on Isometric Paper for proposals Take pictures of your proposals in include in Power. Point and share with partners Develop a Solution (Tuesday 5/27) – – – • Use the design brief to generate Constraints and Specifications Constraints: What it can’t do/be (Team picks top 4 -5) Specifications: What it can do/be (Team picks top 4 -5) Generate Concepts (5/23 – 5/27) – – • Interaction: File/Folder Naming Standards Define the problem (Wednesday 5/25) – – – • What is Turned in by Individuals: A Power. Point with the following Prepare your presentation to the Shark Tank Class Presentations (6/8)

To do Today • Email the rest of your virtual Team – Introduce yourself • Start communication on – Team Norms • Interactions • File Naming Structure • Communication (When, how, ) – Specifications (Things the product can do) – Constraints (Limits, things you can’t do) • Start Developing Concepts – Isometric Graph Paper ( 3 per Student)