Design and Manufacturing Resources Timeline
Design and Manufacturing Resources Overview
- Week #1 – Welcome to the Robot Company
- Week #2 – Introductions, Schedules and Contact information
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Week #1 – Welcome to The Robot Company
Before you get to class, it would behoove you to read The Robot Company Work Breakdown Schedule. There really is no other course in the curriculum like 400D. Just as the subtitle says, it is “The Robot Company”–not a course on how to build a robot. Though everyone should know how to do that by the end of the semester. This is the only course that I know of that even comes close to preparing engineers for actual workplace politics and responsibilities. Be warned, and be excited.
Week #2 – Introductions, Schedules, and Contact Information
- Appoint 1 consistent meeting minutes secretary
- Get everyone’s contact information, engineering backgrounds, and engineering work experience
After everyone has applied for jobs at The Robot Company, everyone who hasn’t dropped will receive a title. If the title you receive happens to D&M, congratulations: you are reading the correct document.
Shortly after jobs are assigned, the division manager will be prompted to organize their first division meeting: Just gather up the newly appointed D&M engineers into a corner of the room. Basic meeting organization is described in a powerpoint found in Meeting Agenda 2 called “Meeting Minutes”. Read this before you call the meeting.
The first order of business is to introduce everyone to everyone else in the division. Each member should provide their Name, Email address, School and Work Schedule, Project Title, and some information about what types of projects they have been or involved in inside or outside of school. The division manager should make a table with this information to help decide when and where to hold weekly division meetings. The D&M division manager should read everything on this page and know that it’s their responsibility, for at least the first half of the semester, to train the D&M engineers in concepts related to 3D design/assembly and to grade the rest of the engineers on their ability/progress.
Each member should acquire the following:
- Solidworks
- Previous project’s design files (If acceptable)
- Previous projects physical robot (If acceptable)
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