ENMA 6060:  Innovation and Technology

 

Projects – Fall 2009

 


 

Student team projects form a major element of this course.  Projects enable student teams to apply materials learned in course lectures and tutorials to real-world problems.

 

Projects for this course offering are outlined below:

 

Sponsor

Team

Description

Sponsor

Ph.

e-mail

Marquette University - University Advancement

Malin, Riccaboni, Parikh

Increase alumni donations with targeted fundraising campaign.

Todd McMahon

414-288-0346

todd.mcmahon@mu.edu

Briggs & Stratton

Hickey, Cooke, De Avila

Improve surface finish of engine cylinders.

Ross Hickey

 

 

Briggs & Stratton

B. Schneider, Brady

Improve surface finish of engine pistons.

Ben Schneider

 

 

Andis

J.Y. Schneider, Mozee, Rueckert

Improve performance of heat treatment process.

Jeff Marcheske

262-884-2600x2779

 jeff.marcheske@marquette.edu

Warsaw University of Technology

Saginus, Kuta, Darling

Improve quality of foundry castings – gas porosity.

Mark Polczynski

262-364-6609

mark.polczynski@mu.edu

Warsaw University of Technology

Hebert, Konkel, Pavaskar

Improve quality of foundry castings – material properties.

Mark Polczynski

262-364-6609

mark.polczynski@mu.edu

 

 


Projects will be conducted in accordance with the CRISP-DM process model.  Over the course of the semester, project teams will submit project deliverables per the schedule shown below (dates shown are due dates).  Team project deliverables correspond with the output reports defined in Section IV of the CRISP-DM 1.0 model (http://www.crisp-dm.org/Process/index.htm).  See Section IV for details if the contents of each output deliverable report.

 

Deliverable Output Reports – Fall 2009

Week

Due Date

CRISP-DM Phase

Deliverable Output Report

5

21-Sep

Business understanding

1.  Business understanding

7

5-Oct

Data understanding

2.1  Initial data collection

 

 

2.2  Data description

 

 

2.3  Data exploration

 

 

 

2.4  Data quality

9

19-Oct

Data prediction

3.  Dataset description

13

23-Nov

Modeling

4.  Modeling deployment plan

14

30-Nov

Evaluation

5.  Monitoring and maintenance

15

7-Dec

Deployment

6.  Final report (.ppt)

16

14-Dec

Deployment

7.  Final report

 


Deliverables will be prepared as follows:

 

·         Each deliverable should be created as a Microsoft .doc document except as noted.

·         It may be that certain deliverables do not apply well to all projects.  Deliverables may be deleted or modified after consulting with your instructor.

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

·         The final report should contain a summary of the deliverables, and should include all of the deliverables as appendices.  There is no minimum or maximum length for the .doc final report.

·         The final presentation should consist of a 20 minute max. summary of the final report.

·         Teams will make final presentations to the class and sponsors on the date shown above during the regularly-scheduled class time.

·         All documents should contain no references to the name of the project sponsor, and should not contain any information that would allow the sponsor company to be identified.

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

 


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