Skill Teams - Missions and Tasks
Management
Mission: To maintain and improve the quality of the team's engineering design process and, in cooperation with the instructor(s), the quality of the course
Tasks: (R: Requirement)
- (R) Weekly status report to facilitator: summaries of meeting agendas and attendance, progress and problems on the project, expenditures, etc.
- (R) Project task list and timeline
- (R) Budget
- (R) Group processing
- Project management
- Economic decision analysis - Chapter 4 of text
- Risk analysis
- Decision-making and planning tools - Chapter 8 of text, Microsoft Project software
- Optimum design - Chapter 10 of text
- Product reliability - Chapter 13 of text
- Patent search (see practice project on p. 176 of text)
- Robert's Rules of Order
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Web
Mission: To support the team's shared information workspace, to effectively use web technology in the team's engineering design process, and to present a positive image to the public of the team and course
Tasks:
- (R) Unix directory maintenance
- (R) SET requirements for design-team web site and pages
- (R) Web page authoring and site development practices
- (R) CD-ROM writing
- Use of imaging and video hardware/software, such as digital camera, scanner, video camera, Adobe Photoshop, etc.
- Advanced use of web/internet for teaming - e.g., Microsoft NetMeeting
- Web programming (Java, scripting, etc.)
- Web applications
- Product design using the web - extension of Chapter 11 of text
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Doc Prep
Mission: To provide support for professional, high-quality oral and written communication in the team's engineering design process
Tasks:
- (R) Software tools - Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Acrobat
- (R) SET requirements and practices for oral/written reports
- (R) Peer-editing of documents (within and across teams)
- (R) Documentation portfolio
- Audience analysis
- High-level design documentation, including diagrams - Chapter 7 of text, software
- Advanced use of software tools
- Communication skills
- Documentation examples
- Style guides
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