This is a 1 page submission. A template is provided on the Course Website. You must provide a statement of the design problem and identify the stakeholders in the design. The submission will also include a statement of the human resources and physical resources that you anticipate will be required in order to generate a feasible design and a design prototype. This submission may be done either individually or as a team of 2.

In order to give teams as much time as possible to work on their design, it is essential that the team formation process is completed as quickly as possible. For this reason, although the formal submission of this item is due at the end of Week 2, you are encouraged to post your Design Idea to the Team Formation Forum as early as possible to attract team members to your project.

The Design Idea must benefit people and not be intended to harm anyone or anything. Any Ideas that are intended to cause harm will receive 0 marks.

The statement of the design idea should be written using clear language and the need, opportunity and context for the problem should be identified.

Design stakeholders should be identified.

Human resources required, including the skills required, should be identified. This will assist in team formation as the team should be formed from people with appropriate skills.

Physical resources that may be required should also be identified, though these may change as the design problem is more clearly defined.

Further information about this assessment item is available on the Course website.

This is a team submission.

Your team will develop a Project Charter for the design. A template for the Project Charter is available on the Course Website. You will need to include information such as the reason for the project, project goal(s), scope, milestones/ deliverables, risks and communications plan.

Your team must also develop a detailed project plan which identifies the tasks you need to complete, deadlines, timeframes, sequencing and human and physical resources.

The Project Charter will include information on the budget, constraints, goal, scope, deliverables, risks and communication plan for the project.

The detailed project plan will have the project broken down into tasks, will show deadlines, have realistic timeframes allocated to tasks and have the tasks sequenced. Human and physical resources must be considered. Risks to successful project completion must be identified. A Gantt chart will form part of this submission.

Detailed Assessment Criteria for this assessment item is available on the Course Website.

The Portfolio is an individual submission that allows you to demonstrate your achievement of the Learning Outcomes for the course.

You will provide evidence from your project work, team work and class activities to demonstrate your achievement of the Learning Outcomes. It is recognised that there may be some Learning Outcomes which you are still in process of achieving since this assessment item is due prior to the end of term.

As a guideline, the main body of your Portfolio should be no more than 2500 words.

There is further information available on the Course Website about this assessment item.

A detailed Assessment Criteria for this submission is available on the Course Website.

At the beginning of Term, it is important that you familiarise yourself with the evidence you need to collect so that you can be collecting the required evidence as you work through the design process. You will require evidence such as minutes of team meetings, personal research for the project, notes/ photographs of participation in activities, evidence of personal design ideas such as sketches/ emails, evidence of working on a prototype, draft layout of team report and evidence of regular communication with your team. Some evidence will be related to the Tasks you will complete each week.

Make sure you read the detailed Assessment Criteria on the Course Website.

This is a team report and team presentation.

The intended audience for the report and presentation is either a potential investor or a group of executives at your company. You are trying to convince them that your design is worthy of further development and investment. In order to do that, you will need to convince them that you have identified a need and have defined the problem, that you have carried out extensive research and understand the current state of the art, that you have developed an understanding of user/ stakeholder needs, that you have investigated several possible solutions and chosen the best solution based on transparent criteria and that you have refined your design based on stakeholder feedback.

In other words, you have used the engineering design process and exhibited engineering judgement.

This is NOT intended to be a sales pitch with no substance. Convince your audience that you know your subject and that you have designed something that is feasible, based on solid engineering fundamentals, and will improve the life of the user.

The Report should be concise and professional. The body of the report should be no more than 10 pages, the report should be appropriately structured and there should be no major spelling or grammar issues. The report must be appropriately referenced and the design as presented must be feasible.

The Presentation should be professional with team members appropriately dressed and behaving in a professional manner throughout. The team should convince the audience of the need for the design and that they understand user/ stakeholder requirements.

There is a detailed Assessment Criteria available for this assessment item on the Course Website.