me317 Announcements

May 26th, 2009

Probabilistic NPV spreadsheet question: how do I make my own button?

• first you need to see the "control toolbox" icons in the toolbar: view > toolbars > control toolbox
• now you should see some new icons: click the one that has a blue triangle on it (Design Mode) click the one with the single rectangle on it (Command Button) click anywhere on your spreadsheet to create the new button

• once you have the button, you need to assign a macro to it: if you are still in design mode you can double click on it
• you should now be in the Microsoft Visual Basic editor. You can go to my spreadsheet, get into design mode, and double click my "run one hundred" button. Feel free to copy and paste my macro into the VB editor for yours, but you will have to change it so that it works for your worksheet. It may take some messing around to get it to work, but the basic idea of the macro is super-simple: copy the quantities of interest (e.g., 10 years worth of revenues and costs), paste them, refresh the random numbers and update the location of the cell where you want the next set of numbers pasted. Then the plot is nothing more than a scatterplot of all the pasted numbers.

As always, try it out, and ask if you have more questions.

May 4th, 2009

Probabilistic NPV spreadsheets are now online

Please check them out and email Whit to set up an appointment. Please download the distributions (.xls) and probabilistic NPV spreadsheet (.xls) files so you can begin to use them.

Mar 2nd, 2009

Kos has fallen ill

• For information on his health please see this site.

• The originally scheduled lecture for today is available on SCPD. It is the lecture on the same material delivered last year, so please ignore the dates.
• Feel free to contact the teaching team with any questions on how Quality Scorecarding applies to your projects.
• HW#4 FMEA is now due on Wednesday.

Jan 22nd, 2009

HW#2 is now posted

HW#2 on QFD and Cost-Worth is now posted (due Wed 2/4). HW pdf link is here. And our QFD Excel template is here.

Jan 21st, 2009

The First Active Learning session happens today + HW2 goes out (due Wed 2/4)

Please come prepared to discuss your partner-team's Scenario Graph and their CVCA. Email your coach with any questions.

Jan 13th, 2009

Lecture Material now password protected

If you have not received an email from the teaching team providing the login credentials, please send a note to me317tateam at stanford.edu.

Jan 8th, 2009

Project Descriptions Posted

Project descriptions for 2009 On-campus projects available here.

Jan 7th, 2009

Access to Lecture and Reading Material

First lecture slides and reading material available here.

ME317 Calendar is posted

Available under the Miscellaneous Links on the left, as well as right here.

Jan 3rd, 2009

Syllabus Updated

The latest 2009 ME3217A Syllabus is here.

Dec 18th, 2008

Syllabus Now Available

The teaching team is hard at work preparing for the 2009 me317 class. Please find the 2009 me317A syllabus here.