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      MSE 5090: Case Studies in Material Selection

      Week 12 - Process Modeling and Selection

      Read this entire document before starting the assignments.
       
      1. Objectives
      2. Reading assignment
      3. Discussion questions
      4. Lecture topics
      5. Week 12 assignments:  Case Study Progress
      6. 1998 Midterm Problems
      7. 1998 Midterm Problems and Solutions
      8. Reference Material


      Objectives:
      Identify the key components of a design review
      Incorporate the lessons learnt from the Ice Axe case in your case study 
      Review the Case study on the Chemical Process Industries
      Begin oral presentations of case study progress to date.
      This week we will focus on updating the progress on the individual case studies. Beginning Wednesday one or two students  will present a status summary of their case studies. The class and the professor will serve as a design review committee. Design review procedures will be presented Monday , and the case study on the materials selection in the chemical process industries will be introduced. On Wednesday this case study will be discussed, along with a presentation of progress by one of the students.

      Shown below is a block diagram depicting how design reviews are carried out in larger companies. It comes from the US Navy Best Practices Program , codified in the book "Minimizing Technical Risk". It  tracks a design from its inception through its completion. This figure comes from the Design Reviews Reference Guidelines in the US Navy best practices , "The Transition From  Research to Production", Page 10. It will be discussed in more detail in class.







      Reading Assignment:
      ASM review pages 146-151 and  57-71
      Design review notes in library or in department office


      Discussion Questions:
      What are the similarities and differences between a case study and a role play game?
      What are the lessons learnt from the Ice Axe case study? 
      How are case study lessons incorporated in your case study? 


      Lecture topics:
      Monday Design Review Procedures , incorporating case lessons in case study
      Wednesday  Discuss Chemical Process Industry case
      Friday Review progress reports by students


      Week 12 Assignments:

      Case Study Review and Progress reports (Due 11/20/97)
      Subject: Week 12 - Case study progress outline



      Reference Material:
      This link is a design project from the University of Colorado on a large group single project called the Robotic Autonomous Transport (or Ratmobile). It has good examples of ongoing design reviews throughout the project and the use of design reviews as a management tool helping to complete the project.
      http://www.colorado.edu/ASEN/asen4018/

      Design reviews are going high tech, just as everything else is . The link below shows how advanced visualization and simulation software is software is being used at a number of government and industrial facilities to help review designs and obtain collaborative inputs. While the facilities look somewhat gold plated the article notes that a Virtual Reality facility of the type shown costs only $80-250,000, not a huge amount by modern corporate standards.
      http://www.cgw.com/cgw/Archives/1997/02/02story1.html

      Design Reviews are also becoming transnational. Below is an example of how three widely disparate Universities are developing " methods of design reviews in the context of an International Design project between the University of Massachusetts, Pusan National University, South Korea and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France. The three institutions present substantial differences in at least three obvious dimensions:
      Space (geography)
      Time (time zones and academic and cultural calendars (holidays, etc.))
      Languages (English, French, Korean (none of them speak all three)) " (quoted from the web page below)

      http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/vspgroup/burleson/ides/design_reviews.html
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