- Spring 1999
Engineering Design Project
College of Engineering
Rowan University
THE GUITAR EFFECTS PEDAL
SPONSORED BY MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPTS.
Dr.
Anthony J. Marchese
Department
of Mechanical Engineering
College
of Engineering
Rowan
University
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701
Email address: marchese@rowan.edu
Telephone: (609) 256-5343
Fax:
(609) 256-5241
| Team Member | Requirements and duties |
| Project Leader | Logistics, Engineering Economics, Web page |
| Marketing Manager | Requires an interest in music, focus on the customer |
| Mechanical Engineering | ProEngineer solids modeling, stress analysis, rapid prototyping, machining |
| Electrical Engineering | Electronics, signal processing, PSPICE, Quickcircuit |
| Week | Date | Activities |
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Jan. 11 | Job Fair |
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Jan. 18 | Intro to Sound Effects - Digital |
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Jan. 25 | Intro
to Sound Effects - Analog
Mock Interviews in CAP Center |
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Feb. 1 | Competitive Assessment of a Guitar Effects Pedal |
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Feb. 8 | Intro to 3D Solid Modeling using Pro/ENGINEER |
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Feb. 15 | Continue Competitive Assessment |
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Feb. 22 | Effectronics |
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March 1 | Conceptual Design for Original Design; House of Quality; Configuration Design |
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March 8 | Design Review; Begin Building Alpha Prototype |
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March 15 | Spring Break |
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March 22 | Design Report Due. Begin Beta Prototype |
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March 29 | Alpha Prototype Complete |
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April 5 | PSPICE; Quick Circuit; Stereolithography |
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April 12 | Continue Assembly of Beta Prototype |
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April 19 | Beta Prototype Complete |
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April 26 | Test; Focus Groups |
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May 3 | Final Exam Week |
Company binder. In addition to the web page, each team will maintain a binder that will contain hardcopies of all technical material related to the project.
Weekly Progress Report. Each week, a progress report is due which outlines all of the company activities. The progress report must be posted on the company web page.
Mid-Semester Design Report. Half way through the semester, a design report is due which describes the final design in detail.
Alpha Prototype. The Alpha Prototype will consist of a breadboard, COTS items and a generic enclosure.
Beta Prototype. The Beta Prototype is the market-ready device, built using steroelithography, QuickCircuit and COTS.
Musical Equipment Supply Companies
Manufacturers of Guitar Effects Pedals Electronic Audio Schematics...on
Competition
The best athlete
wants his opponent at his best.
The best general
enters the mind of his enemy.
The best businessman
serves the communal good.
The best leader
follows the will of the people.
All of them embody
the virtue of non-competition.
Not that they
do not love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play.
In this they
are like children and in harmony with the Tao.
Tao
Te Ching
Lao-Tzu, 600
BC
...on
Quality
Quality...you
know what it is, yet you don't know what it is. But that's self-contradictory.
But some things are better than others, that is, they have more
quality. But when you try to say what the quality is, apart from
the things that have it, it all goes poof! There's nothing
to talk about. But if you can't say what quality is, how do you know
what it is, or how do you know that it even exists? If no one knows
what it is, then for all practical purposes it doesn't exist at all.
But for all practical purposes it really does exist. What
else are the grades based on? Why else would people pay fortunes
for some things and throw others in the trash pile? Obviously some
things are better than others...but what's the "betterness"?...So round
and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding any place
to get traction. What the [heck] is Quality? What is
it?
from Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig,
1974