Righter, J., & Washuta, N. J., & Ragan, D. D. (2025, March), Application of a House of Quality Intervention in an Engineering Capstone Design Course  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi. 10.18260/1-2--54144

\bibitem{asee_peer_54144}
  Righter, J., \& Washuta, N. J., \& Ragan, D. D. (2025, March), \emph{Application of a House of Quality Intervention in an Engineering Capstone Design Course}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi.
  10.18260/1-2--54144

James Righter, Nathan John Washuta P.E., and Deirdre D Ragan.  "Application of a House of Quality Intervention in an Engineering Capstone Design Course".  2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi, 2025, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/54144 Internet.  28 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_54144}
  James Righter, Nathan John Washuta P.E., and Deirdre D Ragan.
  "Application of a House of Quality Intervention in an Engineering Capstone Design Course".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi, 2025, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/54144 Internet.  28 Apr, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Engineering students are commonly instructed on the House of Quality and required to employ this tool in the early stages of product design.  This method is a valuable aid in maintaining the voice of the customer in product design and is also commonly applied in industry contexts.  Student misunderstandings of how to implement the House of Quality manifest in challenges ranging from errors defining customer and technical requirements to improperly populating the correlation matrix. These errors can affect the resulting prioritized technical requirements and downstream design decisions.  The House of Quality is also one phase of the Quality Function Deployment process that can span the design process from planning to detail design.  The later phases beyond the initial House of Quality are less commonly instructed or applied in capstone courses or more generally in the undergraduate curriculum.  Previous study has implemented the second matrix during embodiment design on a limited scale in a mechanical engineering senior design course; and, identified inconsistencies in the requirements incorporated from the first matrix—the House of Quality.  
An intervention was applied in a senior year engineering design capstone course, capitalizing on previous efforts to enhance the House of Quality in addition to insights from a previous study of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) in a capstone course.  The exercise was completed by teams in a single class session following the presentation of their first House of Quality during the initial design review panel.  The resulting matrices are analyzed by faculty to assess the intervention’s impact on requirements development in terms of quantity and quality.  
This intervention may also serve to provide a list of technical requirements at a more consistent level of abstraction to enable the effective implementation of the following phases of Quality Function Deployment considering correlations between technical requirements and product characteristics, and characteristics and manufacturing processes. 

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