Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Edward S. Kolesar; Matthew D. Ruff

of Engineering. He has served as a technical consultantwith The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Division of Environmental HealthEngineering, Baltimore, Maryland; the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, Washington, D.C.; the ARDEX Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationCorporation, Austin, Texas; the EG&G Mound Applied Technologies Laboratory, Miamisburg, Ohio; SRIInternational, Menlo Park, CA; and the Lockheed Martin Corporation, Fort Worth, TX. He is a registered profes-sional engineer; a member of Tau Beta

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Terrence L. Chambers; William E. Simon

semesters in the event that we were unable to complete the task during the firstsemester. In consultation with the client, we tried to scope the project so that it wouldtake about 10 hours per week for each of the 5 students, for the duration of the 15-weeksemester, or 750 man-hours total. We also tried to scope the project so that no more thanabout half of the income would have to be spent on materials, leaving some residual toupgrade the laboratory facilities. On this basis, we bid for and were approved for twoprojects from two different MEPoL clients. Each project was of the nature of assemblyline automation, where a manual assembly process was to be automated. Communications and DeliverablesThe MEPoL tasks were written so