Spring, 2004
Course Instructor: Daniel T. Schwartz, Boeing-Sutter Professor of Chemical Engineering
Design Objective: Develop a product line that satisfies the educational marketplace's need for low cost, effective, experiments that reinforce fundamental science and engineering concepts, while also providing insight into the emerging science/engineering area of Lab-on-a-Chip technology. Your design must detail the manufacturing process and attributes of the designed product, including device performance simulations, a manufactured prototype, and an evaluation of profitability. Investors will provide the initial capital needed to manufacture and market your product line if you can show a plausible economic scenario that will return a 20% discounted cash flow rate of return over a 7 year investment window.
Funding: The Camille
and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Links to Course Materials
Introduction to Chem E 486 (940kB PPT)
Overview of the Design Process (24kB PPT)
FEMLAB Lecture by Professor Bruce Finlayson (2.4MB PPT)
Boot Camp Assignments: This document describes the assignments each specialist team will have leading up to April 16.
Preliminary Design Concepts Report Guidelines: This document describes the report each team will prepare by April 23/26.
Final Design Report Format:
This document describes the final report format each team will prepare
by May 28th, 4 pm.
LATEST ITEM UPDATE (6/1/04)
Peer Review Point Assignments (4 person groups): If you are in a 4 person group, rate the performance of your peers...turn in by May 28th, 4 pm.
Peer Review Point Assignments (3 person
groups): If you are in a 3 person group, rate the performance
of your peers...turn in by May 28th, 4 pm.