The document summarizes an engineering design project to create a new archival storage solution for the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The project aims to understand the limitations of the current solution, recognize the potential impact of a new method, and prepare a multidisciplinary class. The team will also attend entrepreneurship classes to potentially create a business from the project. Their mission is to advance preventive conservation through superior storage solutions. The team will go through the engineering design process of background research, brainstorming, evaluating ideas, implementing ideas, and future plans like testing solutions and creating a business plan.

1. Engineering Design For Art and Artifact Conservation Rice University CCE Fellows 2009

3. Understand limitations of current solution

4. Recognize potential impact new method

5. Prepare a new multidisciplinary class for the fall 2009 semester at Rice University

8. Kristi Day

9. Rhodes Coffey

10. Nicole GarciaDr. Maria Oden Dr. Matthew Wettergreen

11. Community Partner Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Wynne Phelan Julie Bakke Head Conservator, MFAH Chief Registrar, MFAH

13. Learn to work cohesively as a team

15. Riddles

16. Online quizzes

18. Promotes online presence

21. Literature

22. Interviews

23. Wynne Phelan and Julie Bakke: MFAH

24. Corey Rogge: Rice University

25. Anthony Lacastro and Ben Esquivel: 360 Art

27. Brainstorming Session 1 500 index cards: first thoughts, sharing ideas Session 2 Making all the ideas visible Organizing 500 index cards Further grouping and consolidating Session 3 Three sets of brainstorming 25 plausible solutions One set of brainstorming focusing on modularity and realism.

28. Evaluating Ideas

30. CAD

31. Order Materials

32. Rapid Prototyping

34. Iteration

35. Test & Evaluate Solution(s)

36. Innovation Norway Business Plan

37. Elevator Pitch

38. Documentation