Gantt chart HW

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Background: During the midterm exam, you briefly answered two questions about a Gantt Chart created for a project. Now that you have almost completed your design project and have experienced every step in the engineering design process, the same Gantt chart created for a project is given to you and you are asked to thoroughly critique it and this will assess how well you understand the design process after you have completed the hands-on design project.

Gantt Chart Background: The chart below is a Gantt chart for a proposed design process. As a reminder, a Gantt shows activities (tasks or events) displayed against time. On the left of the chart is a list of the activities and along the top is a suitable time scale. Each activity is represented by a bar; the position and length of the bar reflects the start date, duration and end date of the activity. Please attempt to understand the purpose and use of a Gantt chart before you proceed with the assignment.

Project Prompt: The Engineers Without Borders (EWB) team from Arizona State University has recently completed a small health clinic to serve a rural town in Nicaragua. At this time, the clinic does not contain examination tables, which are necessary as many proper physical examinations and some treatments require that a person lie down. Thus, the goal of this project is to develop and build an examination bed for the EWB-built clinic in Nicaragua.

Extra Credit Assignment: Thoroughly critique the proposed 14-week design process to create an examination bed for the clinic in Nicaragua. This process is displayed in the Gantt chart of Figure 1.

· Elaborate on the steps in the design process with specific details.

· Elaborate on specific strategies appropriate to accomplish the steps in the design process.

· Identify the pros (advantages, strengths, etc.) and cons (disadvantages, weaknesses, etc.) of the proposed design process.

Grading: Based on the quality of your submitted work, you may earn up to 30 points as extra credit.

Note that absolutely no work on this project was done prior to what is shown in the chart and the creation of this chart.

Figure 1. Gantt Chart