Meeting Minute 4

Date : 11 February 2009
Venue : BT18/19
Time : 10.20am
Members in attendance: Alex Sim, Dg. Syarmi, Roland Mislan, Tan Beng Hin, Wong Mun Bin

1. All group members discuss about the proposal for the project that have to be submitted next week.
a) Proposal definition in pre-proposal is included in proposal.
b) The minimum requirement for proposal is at least to conceptual design.
c) If possible, the proposal also includes the preliminary design.

2. After the discussion among the members and understanding the requirement request for proposal, each of the group member do a pair wise table to rank the most criteria to judge the feasibility of the design.

3. All group member pick five criteria that should be used in the design,
a) Usefulness
b) Cost
c) Durability
d) Good-looking
e) Portability
The above criterion has been arranged following the group members choices.
4.
The group members divide the task individually.
a) Introduction; overview of the problem and costumer needs.
b) Background; preliminary research, previous or related project.
c) Objective or design specification; mission statement, function, design criteria.
d) FAST diagram
e) Conceptual design description
f) Ranking of conceptual design; pair wise table with explanation.
g) Proposed design solution; design methodology, diagram or figures.
h) Risk analysis; concern and challenges for the project.
i) Project management plan; gantt chart
j) Budget
k) References

5. There are few left task that all members did not understand and ask Roland to meet the lecturer.

6. Discuss the proposal content and the formatting in proposal report.

7. Discussion session ends at 12.50pm.