Analytical Tasks Assignment

Analytical Tasks Assignment (100pts: 75pts Engineering content/25pts Technical Writing content) The Analytical Tasks Assignment is an individual assignment where you will need to pick one of the top engineering requirements, design components, or design decisions to justify mathematically the viability of your project. Depending on your project, this could include computational modeling or analyses. You may have already completed some of this work (depending on your project and where your team is in your process), but everyone is required to do this assignment by the due date. This Progress Report should answer questions such as: • Ø Why did you make this component long, or short? • Ø Why is this material used? What strength is required from the material? What hardness is required? • Ø Why did you pick this location or resource? • Ø Why did you choose XYZ? • Ø What torque and rpm would result for a given power input or load? • Ø What pressure drops, energy demands, power loads, energy losses, fluxes, etc. are generated from different designs? • Ø What is the maximum XYZ that may result, and is it within safety limits? • Ø What is the expected performance of concept variant X with respect to a given engineering requirement under extreme conditions (temp., force, time, chemical environment, high wind, low sun, moisture, etc.)? • Ø What is the magnitude of a complex engineering requirement for an existing/baseline or state of the art technology? [Note: This is not an all-inclusive list. These particular questions may not apply to certain analytical analysis; they are provided as examples of what direction your analysis may go.] This Progress Report must include: Ø An introduction to your design problem and the analysis that you are performing in order to better evaluate your design ideas. o Connect how your team’s design problem directly relates to a specific contemporary issue. State the specific contemporary issue and how your project works towards solving that issue. Be clear about what and whose needs will be met by your design. Connect your design to the most immediate stakeholders(direct users of the design) as well as the broader stakeholders (societal benefits). • Ø Description of the calculations performed and why they are needed. Be sure all equations are numbered and symbols are clearly identified. Details of calculations should be kept to an appendix. Cite the source of any values, data or theory using IEEE style. • Ø Description of all assumptions made in your analysis • Ø Details of any physical, computational or numerical modeling, as appropriate • Ø Models (such as CAD) should have detailed drawings/layouts at the top level of the design project and attached to memo as a pdf (though more detail, as required, will be needed by the end of the semester) • Ø Schematics and/or diagrams of the project/designEquations or flow chart of a program (don’t show all calcs, please) o Nothing handwritten will be accepted Ø The results and how they influenced or informed your design o Create a way to VISUALLY present your results that is both clear and concise. Ø Conclusions and how your analysis will benefit your team and your project goals. The end goal of this Progress Report is that EACH individual team member shows at least one design issue that the team member individually worked on, from a technical viewpoint. Note: The assignment that you hand in should be able to convince any mathematically inclined designer of the validity of your process and any non-technical person can read and understand your work. Reports must be formatted as follows: • - Single spaced • - 11-point font • - Include cover page with: o Name o Date o Team number and name o Individual analysis performed o Section information • - Reference page for any and all sources used • - There is no maximum page limit. The minimum is dictated based on how thorough your analysis goes. If in doubt, go deeper or further into the analysis. 2 You must get permission from your instructor for your individual task to make sure that what you are doing will be adequate for the assignment. To obtain permission: - As a team, determine who will be doing what analysis. - Write a short team memo that states who will be doing what , why each analysis is important for the success of the project, as well as how the analysis will be completed (methods or theory you will use) - Provide at least one paragraph description of each analysis propose. - Submit the memo via Bb Learn as a team assignment. - Check graded comments to determine what has bee