Report Guidelines and submissions for “Design Assignment”

1. Work to be included in the report

The report should be completed by each allocated working group for “Design Assignment”.
The report should present the technical work for “Design Assignment” outlined in document
“Design Exercise Outlines” in MyAberdeen.

The report should include

(1) A written technical document in Word format (submitted to Engineering General Office
Box for Reports Submission).
(2) The supportive SolidWorks documents.
These supportive documents will be used as references for checking and evaluating
the design work presented and discussed in the written technical document (Submitted
via MyAberdeen).

2. Format of the written report

The written document should be formatted as a design report. An engineering design report is
written to introduce and document engineering designs, to the audience of other engineers
who are interested in the design work and want to know how effective the design is. The other
audience could be the management interested in the application and effectiveness of the
design.

The presentation format of the report should be standard and consistent, e.g. using Arial 12
font for the text body; different font sizes to distinguish the title, subtitle and texts in the main
body; fonts of bold, italic, or underlines can be used for titles, subtitles; reference format
should be consistent and in standard style (numbered or Harvard style). The structure of an
engineering design report is outlined in Appendix I.

3. Technical contents of the written report

The technical part of the design should be described in details (in Discussions section),
including but not limited to the followings:
o Analysis of design requirements.
o Discussions of product functions, approaches to the objectives, analysis and
justifications of all alternative solutions obtained in brainstorming session.
o Theoretical calculations (base on design code PD5500 for wall thickness if applicable).
o Equations used in the calculations with all variables clearly defined.
o The final design presented with 3D model, engineering drawings.
o Discussions of simulation results against the calculated results.
o Problems encountered (or anticipated) in the design and how those problems have
been or could be overcome.
o Stress analysis and Environmental considerations (sustainability analysis)
o Budgets.

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See Appendix I for more details about other sections.

4. Checklist for submission

Submission should include:

(1) A completed and signed Group Plagiarism Coversheet

The coversheet must be dated and signed by all members in the team.
(2) A completed by each group member “Peer Assessment Sheet” (submitted via
MyAberdeen)
(3) The technical work, including
a. Written document (Word format)
b. Supporting documents in modelling, engineering drawing, simulation and analysis
(“.sldprt”, “.slddrw”, “.sldasm”). How many files should be included in this part will
depend on your design.

As your submission involves multi-files, you must compress all files as one single file with
extension “.zip”. So, each group will submit only one single file (.zip). This needs to be strictly
followed.

All documents must be organised and entitled meaningfully, so that the markers can
understand what and where to look for the documents in your design/model and simulation.

5. How to submit, submission Deadline

Written report along with signed group plagiarism form must be submitted to Engineering
General Office Box for Reports Submission.

Supporting documents must be submitted as one single .zip fike via MyAberdeen.

Peer Assessment form must be submitted via MyAberdeen.

The submission deadline is 25th of April at 12:00 (noon). Late submission will result in
mark deduction.

It is strongly suggested that you should

(1) Avoid last minute submission;

(2) Open and check the submission after it is uploaded but before the final submission,
and see if the uploaded zip file is the correct one;
(3) Open and check the submission again after the submission is completed. If you found
something not right, you can always resubmit.

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Appendix I Format and contents for a “Design report”

The following format and contents are commonly used:

(1) Title

(2) Abstract

The “Abstract” is a brief technical outline of your design and the motivation for having
the design and the effectiveness of the design. The “Abstract” should give some
background information that the abstract is based on.

(3) Introduction, should address

a. The design problem

b. The assumptions for the design
c. The objectives/aims of the design, to present synopsis of design work, i.e. what is
done and included in the report (e.g. start with a sentence like: This report presents
“the work… ”).
d. The analysis of the steps/phases in Design Process for this particular design
practice, including how the working team is organised, how the design is planned
and conducted by the team, and how the work will be carried out by the team.
e. The selection of the design being reported (this can be a separate section)
f. The design alternatives.
g. Also the mapping of the entire report if needed

(4) Discussions,

The design itself should be presented in details. You can have several headings (e.g.
Theory, analysis, results). Compare with theory, show results in graphs if applicable
and discuss the meanings

As an example of Design Assignment 2, you can include the followings

a. The analysis of the design requirements, objectives, and functions using the
techniques covered in design process lectures.
b. The analysis and justifications of alternative solutions obtained in brainstorming
session.
c. The theory behind the design.
d. The problems encountered (or anticipated) in producing the design and how those
problems have been or could be overcome.
e. Detailed design, such as 3D modelling, technical drawings and analysis in SW.
f. The results of any tests on the design: analysis and examination of your design,
through analysing the load/pressure design, the implications to the results, and
Factor of Safety design, environment and budget.

Note: if your design turns up with a minimum factor of safety below the expected
value, give suggestions about how it can be improved and how this would affect
the use of the product (e.g. restrictions).

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 g. Sustainability analysis and how such analysis can benefit your design.
h. Discussion and analysis of the materials for meeting the pressure requirement (if
applicable).

(5) Conclusion and future work

a. Summarise the design and testing work you have completed in your design. You
should also assess how (well or bad) the design meets the objectives included in
the “Introduction”.
b. Analyze, if the design does not meet the objectives (or some of the objectives),
why it was not successful and what could have been or would be done to improve
the design
c. Give a future perspective for how the design could be used or further developed in
the future.

(6) References

(7) Appendixes, include

a. The Gantt-chart work plan.

b. The reports generated by SW on sustainability or/and stress (if applicable) analysis
for the materials you chose.
c. Other materials which are useful to show your design but not suitable to put in the
main body, e.g. some technical drawings.