ENMA 6040: Projects

ENMA 6040: Lean Systems

Course Projects

Industry and business sponsored student team projects form a core element of this course. These projects provide students with first-hand real-world experience in applying the knowledge, tools, and techniques described in course lectures.

Students will be assigned to 3-5 person teams, and will prepare semi-weekly deliverables due on the date specified by the course schedule. Deliverables will be submitted to the associated D2L discussion forums for this course (for instructions, go here).

There are two primary sources of team projects:

Course instructor – Before the course starts, your instructor will have worked closely with sponsors in industry and business to identify and define projects. Students will have an opportunity to volunteer for projects, but the course instructor has ultimate responsibility for insuring that each team project is appropriately staffed.
Students – Students are encouraged to bring real-world projects to the course. Project teams will be finalized by the second week of class, so students bringing projects must have documented problem definitions by that date.

A key to successful team projects is identification of a particular individual who will act as the sponsor for the project. The sponsor’s primary responsibilities are to provide the team with “voice-of-the-customer” information, and to connect team members with other individuals who can provide relevant information. For projects proposed by the course instructor, the instructor will have identified the project sponsor. For projects proposed by a student, the student must identify the sponsor. For this case, the student may be the sponsor. An outline of a “good” team project is provided here.

Deliverables should be prepared as follows:

· Teams should be prepared to present their deliverables in class on the due dates.

· All deliverables should be submitted before 5:00 on the due date by depositing in the associated D2L discussion section.

· All deliverables should contain no references to the name of the project sponsor, and should contain no information that would allow the sponsor company to be identified, unless specifically requested by the sponsor.

Directory of Team Projects:

· Fall 2010