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Evaluation of Ecosystem for Design Assessment and Verification by BAJA Dynamometer Capstone Team at the University of Nebraska
Technical Paper
2019-01-0812
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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This paper summarizes the outcome of an evaluation by capstone design teams from the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, of the Ecosystem for Design Assessment and Verification. The Ecosystem is a design decision support tool whose main goal is to identify design oversights, defined in terms of deviations from the design process or unfulfilled design requirements, early in the design process, guide designers through the design process, and teach proper design techniques. It is capable of automatically assessing students’ design work against ABET compliant learning outcomes. The Ecosystem offers many additional features found useful by capstone design teams, such as automatic generation of formatted project reports as well as interfaces to tools for team communications (Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive) or development (e.g., SolidWorks, CATIA, NX Unigraphics or AutoCAD).
The Ecosystem was recently evaluated by a capstone team working on an automated straw flattening machine and again during a following semester by a team designing a dynamometer used for measuring the engine power of a BAJA race car.
The paper draws upon the improvements of the Ecosystem software completed during the aforementioned time period, identifies the features the capstone teams found most useful, and compares the design experience (productivity) of the BAJA Dynamometer team to that of the a team not using the Ecosystem, but with the same faculty adviser. Through comparison of two such teams, it was found that the team using the Ecosystem managed to stay on schedule a little better.
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Steingrimsson, B., Phan, B., Nelson, C., Frederick, T. et al., "Evaluation of Ecosystem for Design Assessment and Verification by BAJA Dynamometer Capstone Team at the University of Nebraska," SAE Technical Paper 2019-01-0812, 2019, https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-01-0812.Data Sets - Support Documents
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