Slide 1E105 sign-up sheetProfessor Ken Pickar TA Jeff KranskiToday’s lecture 9/26/06Class TimesSlide 6Ken Pickar’s backgroundPurpose of CourseNot the PurposeE/ME 105Design of ClassWhat are we doing this year?Why is this so complicated?Slide 14Why?Introduction of Guatemalan Team MembersSlide 17Their expertise can guide you. . .We worked hard day and night…One good reason why I am teaching this course. . .What are we doing this yearHow will Caltech and Art Center students interact with Landívar students?Supplementary Lecture SeriesClass Attendance ExpectationsReadingsTextCase StudyPresentation FormatSlide 29GradingDFXDFX continuedShop assistanceSlide 34Why is this important to Caltech students? (WIIFM?)Slide 36Slide 37A word on teamsTeam Projects MilestonesForm a TeamSummary: Formation of TeamsExamples of Team ProjectsIntroductionsJeff KranskiTeam Formation Exercise“Engineering Design of Products”(E/ME105)Focus: GuatemalaFall Quarter 2006-2007E105 sign-up sheetName e-mail phone Class Concentration or Research AreaProfessor Ken PickarTA Jeff KranskiE-mail [email protected]@caltech.eduSnail mail 104-44 ThomasOffice Thomas 101Classroom New Media RoomPhone (626) 395 4185(Ken) or (626) 395-3769 (Jeff)Website http://www.its.caltech.edu/~kpickar/Sec’y Maria Koeper X3385Availability:Anytime but no set hours (best to e-mail first)Today’s lecture9/26/06•Intro•Administrivia•What’s new •Motivation (WIIFM)•Rules of the Road•Candidate projects and teaming exercise•Tuesday, Thursday•New Media Room (behind Einstein papers house on Hill St.) •2:30-4:00 Additional Guest Lectures on Sustainable Development: 5 Thursdays at 4:00 PMClass Times•Technology Management Courses at Caltech –E/ME 105 Product design (Q1)–E 102 Entrepreneurship (Q2)–E/ME 103 Management of Technology (Q3)–ME 71, 72 –BEM Classes including Entrepreneurship and Management of Technology•Other Resources–Caltech Engineers for a Sustainable World(http:www.its.caltech.edu/~esw)–Industrial Relations Center Short courses (http://www.irc.caltech.edu)–Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum(www.entforum.caltech.edu) –Caltech Entrepreneur’s Club (http:www.its.caltech.edu/~eclub)–Tech Coast Angel Meetings (techcoastangels.com) (see instructor)What is available at Caltech in Product Design Technology Management and Entrepreneurship?Ken Pickar’s background•PhD Low Temperature Physics•Bell Labs•GE Corporate R&D•AlliedSignal (Honeywell)•Caltech 1998-•Tech Coast Angels 1998-•Board of Directors: 3 public companies, start-ups, Los Angeles Regional FoodBankPurpose of Course•To study the business and social context for developing products (Focus: Guatemala)•To study how product development is accomplished and to actually design a product through the early design stagesNot the Purpose•To teach you CAD tools–Though rapid prototyping tools are available •Formal Methods–Semi-quantitative, qualitative Analysis•To learn team and communications skills•Product optimization algorithms•To study deeply the social causes of poverty•To learn how to start a company–A course in Entrepreneurship will be taught in Q2•To learn how to manage technology–A course in Management of Technology will be taught in Q3E/ME 105•This class is Year 3 of a collaboration with Caltech’s Student Club “Engineering for a Sustainable World”–Engineers for a Sustainable World is a nonprofit organization with a network of more than 1500 professionals and students working to reduce poverty and improve global sustainability.–Every day, people around the world struggle to gain access to clean water, food and shelter for their children, and an education to build a better future.–We believe that engineers can be a part of the solution.Design of ClassEngineering Design of ProductsSpecial Needs ofThe Developing WorldE/ME 105What are we doing this year?•Curricula–Increasing emphasis on special issues in building products for the Developing World •Project Choice–Project choices are informed by on-the-ground research in Guatemala•Teams–First Year Caltech and Art Center–Second year all-Caltech (scheduling difficulties)–This year Landívar and Art Center students•Lectures–Non-real time for Landívar –Integrated Parallel Lecture Series with Practitioners in Sustainable DevelopmentWhy is this so complicated?•Importance of having a customer connection in order to design appropriate products•Problem: How do you do this when your “customer”– Lives far from you–Has a culture that is even more remote from yours•Solution: Create a “proxy customer” Connect to customer through people who know the customer (or are willing to get to know the customer)What are we doing this year?•Inter-University Teams–Caltech–Art Center (Tony Luna)–University Raphael Landívar, Guatemala CityWhy?•Guatemalan Student Team members present you with–Experience with International Teams –Another view of design–“Ground- truth” connection with customers•Problem identification•Design•Prototype testingIntroduction of Guatemalan Team MembersAtabel Pineda <[email protected]>Alejandra Antonucci <[email protected]>Paulina Quiñones <[email protected]> Sarah Santos <[email protected]>Virginia Mosquera <[email protected]>Julio García <[email protected]>Their expertise can guide you. . .If you can get them to agree. . .We worked hard day and night…One good reason why I am teaching this course. . .What are we doing this year–Course co-designer: Mario Blanco–TA: Jeff Kranski–Collaborators•Tony Luna, Art Center•Dean Charles MacVean, Prof Olvidio Morales, Francois Herrera, Oscar Arce Raphael Landivar University–Mentors –Mario Blanco, Biosimulation Center Caltech–Luz Marina Delgado, Anthropologist–Erick L. Solares, California Dept of Transportation–Gabriel Biguria, CEO of AmigoLatino.com–Tony Luna Art CenterHow will Caltech and Art Center students interact with Landívar students?•Lectures will be put on streaming video for Landívar students to view jointly at a different time. •Each team will meet separately at least once per week to work on HW assignment. Suggest you use e-mail, wiki and Skype but means are up to you. Jeff can assist.Supplementary Lecture Series•Five Thursdays at 4:00 (TBA)–Each student writes 1-2 pages on 2 of the Lectures.•What did you learn?•How can you apply your learning to