ECE 480, Lecture Schedule, Spring, 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 January 7, in 2221 EB
Week 1
Jan. 7 -- 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, Jan.
8.
Jan. 9 -- Video on team design, discussion of design process
Jan. 11 -- Introduction of team roles, project planning,
engineering notebooks
Engineering Notebook Description
Lab miniproject #1 due in scheduled lab Week
1
Jan.
14 – Lecture on teaming; group meeting rules developed
Lecture
Notes -- Building Your Prototype (.ppt)
Jan.
18 -- Technical Communications – Written – RFP distributed
Request for Proposal
(RFP)
Lecture Notes- Project Management and MS Project Usage
Lecture Notes-
Project Management and MS Project Usage -- .pdf file
Week 3
Jan.
21 -- Martin Luther King Day celebrated, class does not meet
Jan. 25 – Tech. Writing Guidelines/How To/Citing Sources
Lab miniproject #2, parts A-C, due in scheduled lab Week 3. Soldered board due at BEGINNING of next week’s lab.
Week 4
Jan.
28 -- Technical Communications -- Oral
Overheads on
Oral Presentation
Jan.
30 – Technical Lecture – Circuit protection, power supply circuits,
thermal models – Prof. Elias Strangas
Feb. 1 – (Goodman talked on lab safety, technical lecture topic determination)
Week 5
Feb.
4 – Class is cancelled, due to rescheduling of speaker to Wednesday
Feb. 6 – Guest Lecture: Garth Motschenbacher, on career planning, finding job
opportunities, in EB 1145.
Feb.
8 – Tech. Lec. – Noise models, battery technology --
Prof. Strangas
Practice oral
presentation with facilitator at meeting in week 5. Lab Miniproject #3 due in scheduled lab.
Week 6
Feb. 11 – Oral Proposal Presentations: Teams 1, 2, 5 talk; other teams give feedback;
Feb. 13 -- Oral Proposal Presentations: Teams 3, 4, 6 talk; other teams give feedback;
Feb. 15 – Oral Proposal Presentations: Teams 7, 8, 9, 10 talk; other teams
give feedback;
Week 7
Feb.
18 -- Guest Lecture: Marc Bracken,
Programmable Systems on a Chip (PSoC)
Feb.
20 -- 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
Feb.
22 – NOTE:
SPECIAL LOCATION THIS LECTURE ONLY:
Class is meeting in EB 2250, NOT our regular classroom!!!
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)
Miniproject #4 due in scheduled lab.
FEBRUARY 22 -- Design Day Program Pages Due!!! See here for instructions.
Week 8
Feb.
25 -- Overview of Quality Function Deployment and Design for Six
Sigma [1] – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Feb. 27 -- Design for Six Sigma [2] – Voice of the Customer – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow
Chemical Co.
Break Week (Mar.
3-7): Spring Break -- NO CLASSES
Week 9
Mar.
10 -- Design for Six Sigma [3] – the House of Quality – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow
Chemical Co.
Mar. 12 -- Introduction to Quality Function Deployment and Design
for Six
Sigma [4] – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Mar. 14 -- Technical Lecture – Sensors – Prof. Andrew Mason (rescheduled from Feb.
1)
Mar. 17 -- MAIC
Optimization [5] – Mr. Gregg Motter, Dow Chemical Co.
Mar. 19 -- Guest
Lecture: Assistive Technology -- Stephen Blosser, MSU Artif. Lang. Lab
and Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities
Mar. 21 -- Student Technical Lectures, 1145 EB:
Team 2,
“Selection & Operation of Local Wireless Technology”
Team 10,
“Power Management & Sleep Modes”
Week 11
Mar.
24 -- Student Technical Lectures, 1145 EB:
Team
1, “Selecting a Serial Communication Solution”
Team
5, “PCB Layout for Electromagnetic Compatibility”
Mar.
26 -- Student Technical Lectures, 1145 EB:
Team 3, “Choice of DC/DC Voltage Conversion
Technologies”
Team 4, “Control of a Pneumatic Cannon”
Individual Application
Notes due to facilitators Week 11
Week 12
Mar. 31 -- Student Technical Lectures, 1145 EB:
Team 6, “Developing a GUI for
a Mobile Device using C#”
Team 7, “PM DC Motors Under
Load”
Apr.
2 -- Student Technical Lectures, 1145 EB:
Team 8, “Control of a Stepper
Motor”
Team 9, “High-Voltage DC/DC
Power Supply”
Apr.
4 – Class is cancelled—work with your team during this extra time!
Team's Progress Report # 2 and Demo #2 due to facilitators.
Week 13
Apr. 9 – Class is cancelled. Turn
in your Design Issues papers electronically to goodman@egr.msu.edu before
5:00pm Wednesday, April 9. 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
Apr. 14 -- Final instruction day -- discussion of final report,
other deliverables, Design Day
procedures, etc.
Apr. 16 -- Class is
cancelled -- use this time to
meet with your group, work on your
prototype, your final report, your poster, your
final presentation, etc.
Apr.
18 -- Class is cancelled -- use this
time to meet with your group, work on your
prototype, your final report, your poster, your
final presentation, etc. See
detailed
instructions for final report and all final deliverables HERE.
Week 15
Apr. 21 -- Evaluation Day -- course evaluations (SIRS),
evaluations of facilitators will be done in class;
departmental senior survey should have been completed
on-line BEFORE class.
Apr.
23 -- 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 4:30pm, for Goodman and judges 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, Apr.
28).
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
(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,
Apr. 25 -- Design Day, at MSU Union Building.
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, April 30, 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).