ECE 480, Lecture Schedule, Fall, 2008
Course Coordinator: 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 in the first week of classes,
beginning August 26, in 2221 EB
Week 1
Aug. 25 -- 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 at end of class or by 5pm today,
in Goodman’s mailbox
in the ECE Office, 2120 EB
Teams will be assigned, notifications made by email, on Tuesday, Aug.
26.
Aug. 27 -- Video on team design, discussion of design process
Aug. 29 -- Introduction of team roles, project planning,
engineering notebooks
Engineering Notebook Description
Lab miniproject #1 due in scheduled lab Week
1
Sep.
1 – Labor Day
Sep.
3 – Assignment/explanation of proposal, overview of required
reports.
RFP
distributed. Plagiarism policy/citing
work, writing expectations.
Request for Proposal
(RFP)
Sep. 5 – Lecture on teaming; group process rules developed
Intro to Project Management and MS Project
Lecture Notes- Project Management and MS Project Usage
Lecture
Notes- Project Management and MS Project Usage -- .pdf file
Week 3
Lecture
Notes -- Building Your Prototype (.ppt)
Sep.
10 – Project Management, cont.: MS Project Usage and Your Plan
Sep. 12 – Technical Communications -- Oral
Overheads on Oral Presentation
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.
15 – Six Sigma Overview and Introduction to Design for Six
Sigma [1. Mr.
Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Sep. 17 – Understanding the Customer’s Viewpoint – VOC [2]. Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow
Chemical Co.
Sep.
19 – Quality Function Deployment (QFD) – Customer-Driven
Development [3]. Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow
Chemical Co.
Week 5
Sep.
22 – Planning for student tech
lectures/deliverables/scheduling/application note
assigned
Student
Technical Lecture Topic Submission
Handout-
Drawing Schematic Diagrams
Handout-
Application Note Assignment
MS Project Do's and Don't's
Sep.
24 – Technical Lecture “Circuit protection, power
supply circuits,
thermal models,“ Prof.
Fang Peng
Sep. 26 – Oral Proposal Presentations: Teams 1, 2, 3 talk; other teams give
feedback;
Lab Miniproject #3 due in scheduled lab. Voice of
Customer assignment due by email to Motter on Wednesday, Sep. 24.
Practice oral presentation with
facilitator at meeting in week 5.
Week 6
Sep.
29 – Function Definition - Powerful Problem Analysis
Technique [4] – Mr. Gregg Motter,
Dow Chemical Co.
Oct. 1 – Oral Proposal Presentations: Teams 4, 5, 6 talk; other teams give feedback;
Oct.
3– Oral Proposal
Presentations: Teams 7, 8, 9, 10 talk; other teams give feedback;
Week 7
Oct. 6 – Guest Lecture: Garth Motschenbacher, on career planning, finding job
opportunities.
Oct. 6 -- Design Day
Program Pages Due to Goodman, electronically!!! See here
for instructions.
Oct.
8 – Guest Lecture: Marc Bracken,
Oct.
10 – Guest Lecture:
Assistive Technology -- Stephen
Blosser, MSU
Artif. Lang. Lab and
Miniproject #4 due in scheduled lab.
Oct. 6 -- Design Day
Program Pages Due to Goodman, electronically!!! See here
for instructions.
Week 8
Oct.
13 – Tech. Lec. – Noise models, battery technology -- Prof.
Strangas
Oct. 15 – Technical Lecture – “Sensors,” Prof. Andrew Mason
Oct. 17- Guest Lecturer: Standards
and Product Liability -- Prof. Shanblatt
Week 9
Oct. 20 -- Six Sigma
Optimization - MAIC [5] – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Oct. 22 -- Student Technical Lectures, 1145 EB:
Team 1
Team 4
Oct. 24 -- Student Technical Lectures, 1145 EB:
Team
3
Team 2
Oct.
27 -- Student Technical Lectures, 1145 EB:
Team 5
Team 6
Assigned
Reading BEFORE Lecture is HERE
Intellectual
Property
Example
Patent used by Mr. Noll
Lecture Overheads on Intellectual Property (.ppt)
(from Dr. Margaret Wade,
Director,
Division of Engineering Research)
Week 11
Nov. 3 – Student Technical Lectures, 1145 EB:
Team 7
Team 9
Nov.
5 -- Student Technical Lectures,
1145 EB:
Team 8
Team 10
Nov.
7 – Class is cancelled; work with your team during this extra time!
Individual Application
Notes due to facilitators Week 11
Week 12
Team's Progress Report # 2 and Demo #2 due to facilitators.
Week 13
Nov. 19 – Class is cancelled. Turn in your
Design Issues papers electronically, as a .doc file, to goodman@egr.msu.edu before
5:00pm Wednesday, Nov. 19. Work
with your team!!!
Team's Design Issues
paper (assistive tech., IP, environment, safety, cost, etc.) due to Goodman (electronic or ECE mailbox)
(specifications are here).
Week 14
Nov. 24 -- Final instruction day -- discussion of final report,
other deliverables, Design Day
procedures,
etc. See detailed instructions for final
report and all final deliverables HERE.
Nov. 26 – Class is cancelled -- use this time to meet with your group,
work on your
prototype, your final report, your poster, your
final presentation, etc.
Nov.
28 – Thanksgiving Break – NO
CLASS- use this time to meet with your group, work on your
prototype, your final report, your poster, your
final presentation, etc.
Week 15
Dec.
1 -- Evaluation Day -- course evaluations (SIRS), evaluations of
facilitators will be done in class;
departmental senior survey should have been completed
on-line BEFORE class. Evaluation of
contributions of fellow team members due
electronically to Goodman today.
Dec.
3 -- No class -- Team final preparation day:
work on project
display/poster/oral presentation. FINAL REPORTS DUE
ELECTRONICALLY
To
facilitator (electronic or printed, as they choose)
To
GOODMAN: electronic (doc file)
in ECE
Office, PRIOR to
read. Another printed copy (keep to turn into your
sponsor at
Design Day
or for you to express to them no later than
Monday, Dec.
8).
NOTE: if your project is under a confidentiality
agreement, the
judges may not
receive any material that is deemed confidential.
That means you must REMOVE from four (judges’)
copies all
detailed schematics, code, etc., that are viewed as
confidential.
Clearly mark these copies “JUDGE’S
COPY” on the front.
The copies for Goodman, the facilitator, and the
sponsor should
be complete copies.
Final updates to web pages (videos, photos, results,
and all other
non-confidential items) should be made by 6pm
Wednesday, so
judges may examine them Wednesday/Thursday. 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) 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 Wednesday at noon. Otherwise,
you’re on your own to pay for additional quota
if needed.
FRIDAY,
Dec. 5 -- Design Day, at
Final oral presentations,
demonstrations of projects, poster
displays, grading/judging by instructor, facilitators,
judges for
Prism VentureWorks Prize, answering questions for
fellow students,
general public. Detailed schedule to
be announced.
Food/beverages (subs or pizza) available for
participants. Prizes
announced at award ceremony in Union Ballroom,
1:15pm.
Most 400-level ECE classes cancelled through 3:00;
plan to spend
the day. Each
student attends at least 2 presentations besides own,
spend rest of time near poster.
Notebooks due to
facilitator by 4pm, all other materials to goodman (or ECE Shop, if returning
materials). May turn in CDROMs, and
notebooks at ECE Office, labeled for Goodman (CDROMs) or your facilitator
(notebook), if desired.
No
later than noon, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 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, 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).