CEE 215 Group Project Assignments Fall 2008 This document details each of the CEE 215 Group Project Assignment s three parts 1 Group Presentation 2 Group Submission to be posted to the web 3 Individual Reflections to be submitted to coursework These will be submitted twice Midterm Final For the midterm you are expected to supply the information described below only up through the Teams and Goals Models The project is structured it has required elements and strives to achieve specific goals However the project also allows room for innovation and creativity some of the requirements are open ended We intend the outline below to be instructive and not to prevent you from innovating or improving based on your project results Please ask for additional information or feedback or make suggestions if you are unclear about any of the specific requirements 1 Group Presentations The goal of the Group Presentation is to share in a succinct informative and thought provoking manner the major findings and insights of your group project During the midterm you will have 10 minutes to present and discuss your work during the midterm and 20 minutes to present and discuss your work during the final Visual aids for the presentations are at the discretion of the group Please ensure all members attend on time and check for technical issues prior to your presentation Time spent dealing with technical issues will be taken out of your presentation time 2 Group Submittal The goal of the Group Submittal is to share in an organized and transparent form the work your group has performed throughout the quarter highlighting the major findings and insights gained Your submittal should be accessible on line In addition to the decision title and team member and mentor names the Group Submittal should include the following four elements which the subsequent text details 2 1 Current State Narrative and descriptions 2 2 Future State Narrative and descriptions 2 3 MACDADI models and descriptions 2 4 Innovation Following are the description of each of these elements 1 2 1 Current State Narrative Summary A Current State Narrative describes the information and processes executed or likely to be executed to make the design decision s on your project This model should demonstrate how your decision of interest is being made on projects today and should be based on your observation of current practice Please include these parts A Narrative link to on line version B Description Text description of what your narrative represents C Methods Text discussion of how you built it using what methods what combination of document review interviews and other means D Insights Text discussion of your observations and insights from the model development exercise 2 1 A Narrative Below is a sample of how a Current State Narrative might look The instructions for how to post a narrative on line are found in the Tools and Processes section of the class Wiki https www stanford edu group narratives community ABC 20Hospital 20Structural 20Design 20Process 2 1 B Description This sample explains the narrative illustration s meaning Figure 2 1 a Current State Narrative read from left to right a during the project definition phase various stakeholder define project requirements and assumptions b during pre design phase architects and engineers begin preliminary design c preliminary analyses of structural system cost is performed while architect continues to gather information d early in conceptual design the design team selects a structural system e architect tries to coordinate service lines with structural system and critique of decision process is performed 2 1 C Methods This sample explains how one Current State Model was created 2 Members of our group attended two design team project meetings In addition we conducted three phone interviews with 2 decision makers 1 designer Through observation and discussion we were able to create a basic diagram of the decision process We then showed this diagram to one of the decision makers previously interviewed He confirmed the diagram looked accurate and provided additional information about the owner s project goals see project goals node We found most of the project documents on the project workplace website which is an one line repository for project 2 1 D Insights This sample explains the novel ideas this exercise produced One of the biggest insights our group observed was a noticeable lack of communication between the architectural team and the engineering team While parallel studies were on going the engineer created structural options and analyzed these options without contextual information available to the architects about specific site conditions We were surprised to see that the team never generated any project specific designs or analyses for the structural system decision but rather seemed to rely on generic data The structural decision was made independently from understanding of the site as a result the site conditions were made to fit the structural choice rather than the structural choice accommodating the pre existing site conditions 2 2 Future State Narrative Summary Goal A Future State Narrative critiques the Current State Narrative by proposing an improved process by which to make the decision We expect each of these Future State Narratives will include a MACDADI enabled process Please include A Narrative Visual representation on wiki and link to on line version B Description Text description of what your narrative represents C Methods Text discussion of how you built it using what methods what combination of document review interviews and other means D Insights Text discussion of your observations and insights from the model development exercise 2 2 A Narrative Below is a sample visual representation of a Future State process for a hospital project NOTE Post a version of the Narrative to the web and give a link here Relevant portions in the online version of your Future State Narrative should reference link to pieces of the MACDADI model described below 3 2 1 B Description This sample explains the narrative illustration s meaning Figure 2 2 a Future State Process Diagram read from left to right is similar to the Current State Process Diagram Figure 2 1a with the addition of an intervention of applying MACDADI The green nodes denote the elements that are new with this intervention The red Project Preferences node denotes that we did not model project level preferences for this project
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