MIE 1444: Engineering for Psychologists (Summer 2018)
This course is intended for those without an undergraduate background in engineering. The only way the enrollment system can check for this is to limit course enrollment to those with instructor permission. Ironically, the course instructor cannot see attempts at enrollment. Therefore, when you enroll, please send me your undergraduate transcript (unofficial is ok for now) to shu@mie.utoronto.ca.
Lecturer:
Prof. L.H. Shu
E-mail: shu@mie.utoronto.ca
Telephone: 416 946-3028
Office: MC 420 / BA8126
Lectures:
First lecture May 1, 2018
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3-5pm MC306 (location to be confirmed)
Marking System:
Attendance/Participation 10%
Exam 35%
Project 55%
Provisional Schedule:
| wk | Tue.date | Lecture: Tuesday | Lecture: Thursday | Notes |
| 1 | May 1 | 1. Course introduction
2. Need identification |
3. Translating needs to specifications (HOQ)
4. Functional decomposition |
May 7 2018 – add date |
| 2 | May 8 | Prof. Michael Gruninger, MIE: Information engineering project |
Prof. Mark Chignell, MIE: Human-factors engineering project |
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| 3 | May 15 | Prof. Peter Grant, Institute of Aerospace Studies: Pilot training project |
Prof. Jeffrey Siegel, Civil Engineering: Building sciences project |
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| 4 | May 22 | Prof. Mark Fox, MIE: Urban systems engineering project
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Prof. Goldie Nejat/Shane Saunderson, MIE: “Persuasive Robotics and Trust in Human-Robotics Interaction” Project | |
| 5 | May 29 | Prof. Mark Chignell lecture: Prototyping and wire-frame modeling | Prof. Birsen Donmez, MIE (To be confirmed): Driver behavior project | |
| 6 | June 5 | 5. Affordances
6. Transformation Design for Pro-Environmental Behavior Project |
7. Fixation
8. Functional fixedness Overcoming fixation and functional fixedness project |
June 8 2018– Summer-Y drop date |
| 7 | June 12 | 9. Concept generation methods
10. Bio-inspired (design-by-analogy) concept generation |
11. Concept combination/evaluation12. Configuration design |
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| 8 | June 19 | 13. Design for Assembly 1 14. Design for Assembly 2 |
Exam | |
| 9-16 | June 26-Aug 14 | Work on project, meet with project supervisor and course instructor as required, make progress / final project presentations | ||
| Aug 16 | Submit final project report | |||