ECE 480, Lecture Schedule, Fall, 2007
Instructor: Erik Goodman,
Prof., ECE; EB2308M, goodman@egr.msu.edu
(EXCEPT for certain dates, meeting place to be announced)
(Schedule is subject to change
as circumstances may dictate—changes will be announced in class)
Note: Labs DO meet
first week, 2221 EB
Week 1
Aug. 27 -- Class Overview, presentation of brief project
descriptions,
handout of preference ranking forms
Lecture
Overheads
Your parts kits will be distributed at your first lab session.
Project Preference ranking forms due by
Aug. 29 -- Video on team design, discussion of design process
Aug. 31 -- Teams assigned; intro of team roles, project planning,
engineering
notebooks
Engineering Notebook Description
Sep. 3 -- Labor Day holiday, class does not meet
Sep.
5 -- Lecture on teaming—group meeting rules developed
Sep.
7 --
Technical Communications – Written – RFP distributed
Request for Proposal
(RFP)
Lecture
Notes on Tech Communications
Examples of
Feasibility and Selection Matrices
Lecture Notes- Project Management and MS Project Usage
Lecture
Notes- Project Management and MS Project Usage -- .pdf file
EACH
in week 2!!!
Week 3
Sep.
10 – Technical Lecture – Package Types, Prototyping Methods,
Team
Projects, Issuance of Notebook Computers
–
Brian Wright, Gregg Mulder
Lecture Notes -- Building Your Prototype (.pdf file)
Lecture
Notes -- Building Your Prototype (.ppt)
Supplements to Lecture (.pdf file)
Sep. 14 – Technical Lecture – Sensors – Prof. Andrew Mason
Lab miniproject #2, parts A-C, due in
scheduled lab Week 3.
Soldered board due at
BEGINNING of next week’s lab.
Week 4
Sep.
17 – Special Guest Lecture -- Patrick Kane,
Systems-on-a-Chip
Sep. 19 – Tech. Writing Guidelines/How To/Citing Sources
Project Management Revisited
Sep.
21 -- Technical Communications – Oral
Overheads on Oral Presentation
Week 5
Sep.
24 – Technical Lecture – Circuit protection, power supply circuits,
thermal models – Prof. Elias Strangas
Sep.
26 – Meet with your teams during scheduled lecture time, plan/practice oral
proposal
Sep.
28 – Guest Lecture: Bernadette Friedrich, Assoc. Dir., Engineering
Cooperative Education,
on career planning, finding job opportunities, upcoming Career Gallery
by
Week 6
Oct.
1 – SPLIT ROOMS:
EB 2250
(normal room, taping) Teams 1, 2, and 3 present oral proposals;
teams 7 and 8 give feedback
EB 2205: Teams 4, 5 and 6 present oral proposals; teams 9 and 10
give
feedback
Oct.
3 – Design process, embedded systems, H/S co-design,
microcontrollers, DSP chips, and MS Project Do's
and Don't's
Lecture Overheads on MS Project Do’s and Don’t’s
Oct. 5 -- SPLIT ROOMS:
EB 2250 (normal room, taping): teams 7 and 8 talk; teams 1, 2 and 3 give
feedback;
EB
2205: teams 9 and 10 talk; teams 4, 5 and 6 give feedback
Week
7
Oct.
8 -- Overview of Quality Function Deployment and Design
for Six
Sigma [1] – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Oct. 10 -- Introduction to Quality Function Deployment and Design for Six
Sigma [2] – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Oct. 12 – Special Guest Lecture: Mr. Steven Noll, patent attorney,
Schiff-Hardin (
engineers
Notes
re Intellectual Property
Lab miniproject #4 due in scheduled lab in Week 7.
Week 8
Student
Technical Lecture Topic Submission
Handout-
Drawing Schematic Diagrams
Handout-
Application Note Assignment
NOTE:
Each team’s Voice of Customer Assignment due by email Wednesday, Oct.
17.
Oct.
19 – Team Worktime – no lecture – may work in classroom or lab. WORK ON YOUR PAGE FOR DESIGN DAY
PROGRAM, due Monday!
Progress report 1, including design
matrices, due to facilitator at weekly meeting
Week 9
Oct.
22 -- The House of Quality [3] – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow
Chemical Co.
Team's
brochure page due on CD to Goodman in class (.doc file made from the sample and
directory containing all materials used on the page). See main course web
page (lower right-hand side) for instructions.
Oct.
29 -- Introduction to Quality Function Deployment and Design
for Six
Sigma [4] – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Oct. 31 -- Assistive Technology -- Stephen Blosser
Nov. 2 – MAIC Optimization [5] – Mr.
Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Week 11
Nov.
5 -- Tech. Lec. – Noise models, battery technology -- Prof.
Strangas
Nov.
7 – Student Tech. Lecture: Teams 1, 2
present; other teams provide feedback
Nov. 9 -- Standards and Product Liability -- Prof. Shanblatt
Individual Application
Notes due to facilitators Week 11
Week 12
Nov.
12 -- Student Tech. Lecture: Teams 6, 8
present; other teams provide feedback
Nov.
14 – Student Tech. Lecture: Teams 3, 7
present; other teams provide feedback
Nov.
16 -- Student Tech. Lecture: Teams 4, 5
present; other teams provide feedback
Team's Design Issues paper (assistive tech., IP, environment, safety, cost, etc.) due to Goodman (electronic or ECE mailbox) (specifications are here). Team's Progress Report # 2 and Demo #2 due to facilitators.
Week 13
Nov. 19 -- Student Tech. Lecture:
Teams 9, 10 present; other teams provide feedback
Nov. 21 -- System Modeling and Top-Down Design
Nov. 23 -- Thanksgiving holiday -- no class
Week 14
Nov.
26 – Special Guest Lecture, Karl Gude, MSU School of Journalism, and formerly
head of graphics design at NEWSWEEK,
on effective communication
using posters – BIG TIME help on designing your poster for Design Day!
Nov.
28 – Guest Lecture – Redstone Results – “How to Communicate Effectively with
People from
Other Planets” – please do the on-line assessment and
print/save your emailed
results report before class.
Professional self-assessment papers
due to facilitators today!
Nov. 30 – Team workday – class will not meet. Work on your poster, report, prototype! Good luck!
Week 15
Dec.
3 -- Evaluation Day – course evaluations (SIRS,
assessments due iu class; departmental senior survey
should have
been completed on-line BEFORE class.
Dec.
5 -- No class -- Team final preparation day – work on project
display/poster/oral presentation. FINAL REPORTS DUE
ELECTRONICALLY TO GOODMAN,
to judges, and to facilitators. Final updates to web pages (videos, photos,
results,
and all other non-confidential items) should be made
by
judges may examine them Wednesday/Thursday.
FRIDAY,
Dec. 7 -- Design Day, at MSU Union Building.
Final oral presentations,
demonstrations of projects, poster displays,
grading/judging by instructor, facilitator, judges for
Prism Venture
Partners Prize, answering questions for fellow
students, general public.
Detailed schedule to be announced.
Food/beverages available for
participants. Prizes announced about
plan to spend the day.
Each student attends at least 3 presentations
besides own, rest of time near poster. Subs and pizza provided for
lunch and dinner.
Monday, Dec. 10 -- All other
materials due by
All
checked-out supplies, tools, computers, etc., will be due no later than noon,
Wednesday, Dec. 12. During or before that time, you must have cleaned out
your lockers, turned in all parts and project materials not going to sponsor,
sent your report and CD to your sponsor, turned in the team’s laptop PC, and
had the ECE Shop sign off on the form indicating completion, or grade will be
reduced.
All students attend all lectures (except by prior arrangement/valid university excuse).