Design Notebook
Complete Meetings for Balloon Launcher
Minutes 1
Meeting Time: Friday, October 8, 2004, After Design Lab
Members Present:Kyle, Rob, and Wes
Meeting Agenda:
Review the improvements to Design Lab Notebook. (5 minutes)
Divide up work for this week’s assignment on the Design Notebook. (5 minutes)
Set up an agreeable meeting time for Sunday afternoon. (5 minutes)
Exploring the Problem
1.) As the meeting convened, Rob reviewed with everyone the improvements made to the notebook, which should change our NI to an M. Page numbers are now updated, and an accurate table of contents has been created.
2.) We divided up the work for Monday’s assessment. Each member took an equal amount of work to contribute to the notebook. Wes was responsible for emailing Vince with his part of the work.
3.) Several members are going away for the weekend, so a scheduled meeting time is 8:00PM on Sunday afternoon at the Trabant building. At this brief meeting, the members will bring their contributions to be placed in the Design Notebook.
4.) As a team, we went over the “Exploring the Problem” aspect of the ongoing long-term balloon assignment. We reviewed the expectations for the product, and discussed ideas for customers. Rob suggested interviewing a younger member of his family that would be an ideal customer for the launcher. At such an early stage in development, it is difficult for us to talk in specific terms about the product.
Agenda 10/14/04
Meeting Time: 7:00 PM
Meeting Place: Trabant
The Agenda for tonight’s meeting will be covering project #L3b.
1st – We will review assignment expectations.
2nd – We will brainstorm ideas for water balloon launcher.
3rd – We will use an Osborn checklist technique to come up with new ideas.
4th – We will convert the generated list into a rough sketch of a fishbone diagram.
5th – We will discuss research for benchmarking.
6th – We will set up an agenda for the next team meeting.
Minutes 10/14/04
The team reviewed the assignment expectations. We briefly discussed the general expectations of the assignment to be sure that all of us understood what was required. Vince was unable to be present due to work.
The team brainstormed collectively for approximately 20 minutes. We wrote down our responses on paper. When we became stuck for new ideas, we built off of each other’s ideas. We also used random generation to continue the flow of ideas. The conclusive list of brainstormed ideas can be found as a word-processed document in the design notebook.
From this point, we maximized, minimized, and changed around old ideas to come up with newer ideas (Osborn’s Checklist).
The list of ideas was broken up into several categories, and presented in a rough sketch of a fishbone diagram. A word-processed version of this diagram is also available and is placed in the design notebook.
Together, the team discussed the meaning of benchmarking, and we all decided to do our part in the research. We discussed several sources of information, including web research, toy department store visits, and library research.
An agenda was set up for the next meeting. The next meeting will take place at Trabant on Saturday, the 16 at approximately 1:00PM.
Agenda 3
Date: Wednesday, October 22
Time : 8:00 PM
Place: Trabant
-Discuss the requirements for Design Lab this week.
-Brainstorm 50 unique ideas (minimum) for Monday.
-Discuss the new templates on WebCT.
-Discuss which design concepts we like so far
-Update the TOC
-Assign each member an equal part in the work
-Write a new agenda
Meeting 3
Date: Wednesday, October 22
Time : 8:00 PM
Place : Trabant
All members were present during tonight's meeting.
-Looking at the agenda, we decided to tackle the brainstorming first. We each generated approximately 25 ideas, and shared them with the team. Of these ideas, we were able to compose well over 50 unique idea and handed them in to be typed.
-We discussed the other expectations for Monday's assignment, which leed us to the new templates on WebCT.
-We talked about and filled in the Adverse Consequences table roughly, refined it, and handed it in to be typed.
-We loosely discussed which designs seemed too complex, too simple, unsafe, etc.
-We made a rough update of the Table of Contents to be typed.
- Using the checklist, we assigned each member of the team an equal part in the work.
-We came up with an agenda for topics to be covered during our next meeting.
Agenda 4
Date: Wednesday, October 27
Time : 8:00 PM
Place : Trabant
-Discuss the requirements for Design Lab this week.
-Discuss and Complete Team Checklist.
-Discuss Team Strengths and Weaknesses
-Discuss which design we are going to use
Meeting 4
Date: Wednesday, October 27
Time : 8:00 PM
Place : Trabant
- All members were present for this meeting.
-We started things off by getting out our team checklists, and we collaboratively evaluated each member of the team. There was little trouble in completing this, and we were all open and honest about our team strengths and weaknesses.
-We discussed which designs we thought were working out well theoretically, and narrowed down our two ideas to a cheiroballistra-style crossbow and a uniquely designed catapult. We planned to bring more sketches in for the next meeting
-We set up a time, place, and rough schedule for the next meeting.
Agenda 5
Date: Thursday, October 28
Time : 6:15 PM
Place: Trabant
-Discuss what more we need to complete Monday's assignment
-Discuss Materials needed
-Discuss our schedules for the next week
-Present new sketches
-Choose a definitive design
Meeting 5
Date: Thursday, October 28
Time : 6:15 PM
Place : Trabant
-All members present for this meeting.
-Each member supplied a run chart for the following week, including more sketches.
-We decided that a catapult design thought up by Kyle seemed like the most practical, durable design to use for the project. He planned to make a theoretical materials list as well as more refined sketches for Monday's assignment.
-We filled out a potential problem analysis sheet and handed it in to be typed by Vince.
-We decided to assess our progress during class the following day.
