MNET 426 - 402: Manufacturing Project

Instructor: Dr. Arijit K. Sengupta

PROFESSOR’S OFFICE
Office is located at Room 2517 of the GITC building. 
Telephone: (973) 642 7073, email: sengupta@njit.edu, web: http://web.njit.edu/~sengupta/

CATALOG DESCRIPTION
A “capstone” project course requiring a formal written report and oral presentation.

COURSE PREREQUISITES: Senior standing

COURSE OBJECTIVES
Develop the ability of students to be able to apply various analytical and technical skills that they have learnt in the engineering technology program for solving a real world problem.  The requirements of a final project report and an oral presentation are aimed to improve students' effectiveness of the technical communication skill.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Because of the small class size, the professor will meet the students weekly on a prescheduled time in his office (GITC 2517).  You are requested to contact the professor ASAP to setup this weekly meeting schedule.  During this hour, the professor  will receive weekly progress report from you and will guide you on your project work.  A tentative course schedule and the important deadlines for this course are given below.  Besides meeting with professor, you are expected to work on your own on library work, field data collection, experimentation, writing project report, and/or manufacturing of parts as needed for the project.  Every week you should expect to spend about three to four hours in these activities to complete your project satisfactorily. 

The project can be performed by team of maximum two students. A student team, according to their common interest, must choose a relevant topic, which should address a manufacturing and/or design related problem in a production or service industry.  Those students, who work in industry, may choose a manufacturing problem relevant to their work.  Others may choose any current problem related to the field of manufacturing, which is of interest to them.

 TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE (Any change will be notified prior to the change)

Week #

Project stages and important deadlines

Students’ activity

1

Introduction of the course and  group formation

Familiarity with the library resources and internet search procedures.

2-3

 Discussion of project topics, documentation and division of the tasks and draft proposal preparation.

Literature survey, background data collection, preparation of flow charts, process charts, gantt chart etc.

4

Oral presentation and formal project proposal due.

Documenting the present situation, production and/or design data, preparation of engineering specifications, production and/or design processes, and various alternatives.

5-9

Oral and written presentation of the interim project report.

Application of time and method study, developing alternative processes and/or designs. Market study, customer survey, forecasting.

 

 

Design of alternative solutions for the problem.  Implementation of the solution.

 10

 

Evaluation of the proposed solution.

11-12

Draft final project report is due

Write up of the project report

14

Final Oral Project Presentation and the final report are due.

20 minutes per group

 GRADING:

Project proposal                                               ->        10%
Project Planning and scheduling                         ->        10%
Adherence to the proposed plan                       ->          5%
Knowledge of the subject matter                       ->        25%
Thoroughness   of the project                            ->        25%
Oral presentations                                             ->        15%
Quality of written report                                    ->        10%

 NJIT Honor Code will be strictly followed.