ECE 480
Lecture Schedule
Spring 2012
Professor Michael Shanblatt
Office Hours: MWF 10:00-11:00
2308H Engineering Building
Lecture hours: MWF 9:10-10:00AM
1145 Engineering Building
Attendance Policy: All students must attend all lectures (except by prior approved arrangement or valid university excuse).
Attendance will be taken.
(Schedule is subject to change as circumstances may dictate – changes will be announced in class)
Labs begin Tuesday January 17 in 2221 EB
Your parts kits will be distributed at your first lab session.
Week 1 Project Preference ranking forms due by Monday 1/11 at 5:00, electronically or in Prof, Shanblatt's mailbox in the ECE Office, 2120 EB
Teams will be assigned and notifications made at or before Wednesday’s lecture.
Jan. 9 -- Class Overview, presentation of brief project descriptions, handout of preference ranking forms.
Jan. 11 -- Video on team design, discussion of design process.
Jan. 13 -- Introduction of team roles, project planning and engineering notebooks.
Engineering Notebook Description
Jan. 16 --No class – MLK Day
Jan 18 -- Assignment and explanation of proposal; overview of required reports; RFP distributed; policy on plagiaris, citing other work, and writing expectations.
Week 3 Lab miniproject #2, parts A-C, due in scheduled lab Week 3. Soldered board due at BEGINNING of next week’s lab.
Jan. 27 -- Guest Lecture: Dr. Asif Naseem, President and CEO, GoAhead Software “Thirty years in engineering; if I knew then what I know now!”
Week 4 Voice of Customer assignment due to Mr. Motter by email (exact date TBA by Mr. Motter).
Pre-proposal due to facilitator at group meeting during week 4
Initial team web page developed.
Jan. 30 -- Quality Function Deployment (QFD) – Customer-Driven Development [3]. Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Feb. 1 -- Function Definition - Powerful Problem Analysis Technique [4] – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Feb. 4 -- Six Sigma Optimization - MAIC [5] – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Week 5 Lab Miniproject #3 due in scheduled lab.
Work with your team on your page for the Design Day Program, due about week 6 or 7 (exact date TBA).
FAST diagram due by email to Mr. Motter (exact date TBA by Mr. Motter).
Practice oral proposal presentation with facilitator at weekly meeting during .
Feb. 6 -- Lecture on teaming; group process rules developed.
Intro to Project Management and MS Project
Lecture Notes- Project Management and MS Project Usage
Feb. 8 -- Technical Communications – Oral Presentations
Overheads on Oral Presentation
Feb. 10 -- Team Oral Proposal Presentations: Teams 1 and 2
Week 6 GANTT chart due to facilitator and Prof. Shanblatt on Feb. 15 by 5:00PM.
Design Day Program Pages due to Prof. Shanblatt, ON A CD to ECE Office (exact date TBA). See here for instructions.
Feb. 13 -- Team Oral Proposal Presentations: Teams 3 and 4
Feb. 15 – Team Oral Proposal Presentations: Teams 5 and 6
Feb. 17. -- Guest Lecturer: Mr. Steven Noll, patent attorney (Schiff Hardin, Chicago), on Intellectual Property
Example Patent used by Mr. Noll
Lecture Overheads on Intellectual Property (.ppt) (from Dr. Margaret Wade, Director, Division of Engineering Research)
Final proposals due to facilitator and sponsor, Friday, Feb. 24 at 5:00; submit electronically
Feb. 20 -- Team Oral Proposal Presentations: Teams 7 and 8
Feb. 22 -- Team Oral Proposal Presentations: Team 9
Week 8 Two page progress report due to facilitator at weekly meeting
Photocopy of Engineering Notebook (up to date) due to facilitator at weekly meeting
Business canvas assignment (exact due date to be announced by Mr. Motter)
Mar. 2 -- Class is cancelled. Meet with your team to work on your project
Spring Break
Week 9
Mar. 12 -- Technical Lecture: “Circuit protection, power supply circuits, and thermal models”. Prof. F. Peng
Mar. 14 -- Guest lecture: Assistive Technology -- Stephen Blosser, MSU RCPD
Mar. 16 -- Lecture on “Standards and Product Liability” -- Prof. Shanblatt
Week 10
Mar. 19 -- Planning for student tech lectures/deliverables/scheduling/application note assigned
Student Technical Lecture Topic Submission
Handout- Application Note Assignment
Assigned Reading:
Design Issues Paper Assignment
Mar. 23 -- Guest Lecture: Garth Motschenbacher, “The Center,” Employment Opportunities
Mar. 26 -- Team Technical Lectures: Teams 9 and 8
Mar. 28 -- Team Technical Lectures: Team 7 and 6
Mar. 30 -- Team Technical Lectures: Teams 5 and 4
Week 12
Apr. 4 -- Team Technical Lectures: Teams 3 and 2
Apr. 6 -- Team Technical Lectures: Team 1
Apr. 8 -- No Lecture. Meet with your team to work on your project
(Specifications for paper are here).
Team's Progress Report # 2 and project demonstration due to facilitators during weekly meeting
Apr. 16 --Final instruction day: discussion of final report, other deliverables, Design Day procedures, etc.
See detailed instructions for final report and all final deliverables HERE.
Apr. 20 -- No Lecture. Meet with your team to work on your project
Week 15 Final Reports due Wednesday April 25 (see below)
See below for other last week deliverables
Apr. 23 -- Evaluation Day: Course evaluations (SIRS), evaluations of facilitators will be done in class.
Special note: Tuesday April 26 FINAL REPORTS DUE ELECTRONICALLY AND PRINTED TODAY, as follows:
To facilitator (electronic or printed, as they choose)
To Prof. Shanblatt: electronic (docx file) AND five (5) printed copies due in ECE Office, PRIOR to 4:30pm, for Prof. Shanblatt and judges to read.
(Make an additional printed copy to turn into your sponsor at Design Day, if they attend, or for you to express mail to them no later than
Monday, May 2nd).
Final updates to web pages (videos, photos, results, and all other non-confidential items) should be made by 6:00 today (Wednesday) so that the
judges may examine them Wednesday/Thursday.
Judging Criteria (HERE).
Apr. 25 -- No class -- Team final preparation day - work on project/poster/oral presentation.
The two copies of your POSTER (see instructions on main web page) are not DUE until Design Day Friday morning, BUT you should be printing them
(in person at DECS office on 1st floor) Wednesday or EARLY THURSDAY, as it takes a while to set up and print each one, and to laminate it, and about
THIRTY teams (ECE + ME + CSE) all need their posters printed for Friday morning. Don’t wait until 4pm on Thursday to print your poster! Mounting
material available in ECE Shop. Note: Print quota additions for poster printing and for printing multiple copies of final report will be available if requested
by Tuesday at noon. Otherwise, you’re on your own to pay for additional quota if needed.
April 27 -- Design Day, at MSU Union Building. Final oral presentations, demonstrations of projects, poster displays graded/judged by instructor and invited judges.
Detailed schedule to be announced in Design Day Brochure.
Prizes announced at award ceremony in Union Ballroom, ~1:00pm.
Most ECE classes cancelled through 3:00; plan to spend the day.
ALSO DUE:
Final Notebooks due to facilitator by 5:00PM.
Final CD with ALL documentation due to Prof. Shanblatt by 5:00. (May turn in CD and notebooks at ECE Office, labeled for Shanblatt (CD) or your facilitator (notebook)).
1. Due Monday, April 30th at 12:00 noon: You must submit (electronically to Prof. Shanblatt) your evaluation of the contributions of your team members (get it here).
2. Due Monday, April 30th, at 5:00PM: You must have cleaned out your lockers, turned in all parts and project materials not going back to your sponsor, sent your hard-copy reportand CD to your sponsor, and had the ECE Shop sign off on the form indicating completion, or grade will be withheld and possibly reduced.