1. Team meetings

  • Purpose

  • Participants and roles

  • Product or Deliverable

1.1. Links

The Engineer’s Guide to Running Productive Meetings — Pat Sweet

How to Run Engineering Team Meetings (and not waste anyone’s time) — Catherine Miller

How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting — Roger Schwarz

1.2. Participants and roles

  • Chair - responsible for keeping meeting on track and on time.

  • Recorder - records the discussion points and results.

1.3. Do it

  • Chair publishes agenda before

  • Time estimates for each item

1.4. Product or Deliverable

Action Items

A meeting without a documented result is a waste of everyone’s time!

1.5. Template

Copy and modify this meeting agenda and minutes template: YYYY-MM-DD subject meeting

2. Design constraints

2.1. Economic

  • $$$ budget

  • Time and schedule

2.2. Manufacturability

  • What is needed to build this?

  • Facilities, skills, materials

  • Ordering

2.3. SWaP — Size Weight and Power

  • Conservation of Energy FTW

  • Fundamental characteristics of a successful solution

2.4. User interface

AKA user experience

no user → no product

3. Deliverable

Complete the Project Document or continue from your existing version.

  • User story

  • Major objectives. purpose of the solution

  • Specific requirements

Write a set of at least 10 requirements that will be used to evaluate the success of your project solution and demonstration. Use the EARS format and assign each a number or tag. Use the Requirements statement rubric to ensure well-written items.

Submit this as a group submission in Canvas.