ECE 480, Lecture Schedule, Fall, 2006
Course Coordinator: Erik
Goodman, Prof., ECE; EB2308M, goodman@egr.msu.edu
Ethics and Professionalism:
Elias Strangas, Prof., ECE, EB1218, strangas@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. 28 -- Class Overview
Lecture
Overheads
Individual lab parts kits will be distributed at your first lab.
Aug. 30 -- Presentation of brief project descriptions, handout of preference
ranking forms
Sep. 1 -- Video on team design, discussion of design process
Project preference ranking forms due in class!!!
Sep. 4 -- Labor Day holiday, class does not meet
Sep.
6 -- Teams assigned intro of team roles, project planning, engineering
notebooks
Engineering Notebook Description
Sep.
8 -- Lecture on teaming group meeting rules developed
Lab miniproject #1 due in scheduled lab Week 2
Week 3
Sep.
11 -- 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
Sep. 15 -- Technical Lecture Package Types, Prototyping
Methods,
Lab Procedures, Issuance of Notebook Computers
Goodman, Brian Wright, Gregg Mulder
Lecture Notes -- Building Your Prototype (.pdf file)
Week 4
Sep.
18 -- Oral Presentation (cont.), Tech. Writing Guidelines/How To/Citing
Sources
Sep. 20 -- Technical
Communications Oral
Sep.
22 -- Technical Lecture Sensors Daniel Rairigh,
from Dr. Mason’s lab
Week 5
Sep.
25 -- Design process, embedded systems, H/S co-design,
microcontrollers, DSP chips, and MS Project Do's
and Don't's
Sep.
27 Special Guest Lecture -- Patrick Kane,
Systems-on-a-Chip
Sep.
29 Technical Lecture Circuit protection, power supply circuits,
thermal models Prof. Peng
Practice oral presentation with
facilitator at meeting in week 5
Week 6
Oct.
2 -- Guest Lecture: Garth Motschenbacher, on
career planning, finding
job opportunities
Oct. 4 -- SPLIT ROOMS:
EB 2250 (normal room, taping): teams 1 and 6 talk; teams 2, 3 and 4 give
feedback
C-301 Wells Hall: teams 5, 7 and 8 talk; teams 9 and 10 give feedback
Oct. 6 -- SPLIT ROOMS:
EB 2250 (normal room, taping): teams 4 and 10 talk; teams 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 give
feedback;
EB
2320: teams 2 and 3 talk; sponsor, instructor and facilitator give
feedback
Week
7
Oct.
9 -- Overview of Quality Function Deployment and Design for
Six
Sigma [1] Mr. Gregg Motter,
Dow Chemical Co.
Oct. 11 -- Ethics and Professionalism 1 -- Prof. Strangas
Oct.
13 Special Guest Lecture: Mr. Steven
Noll, patent attorney,
Schiff-Hardin (
engineers
Notes
re Intellectual Property
Week 8
Oct.
16 -- Introduction to Quality Function Deployment and Design for Six
Sigma [2] Mr. Gregg Motter,
Dow Chemical Co.
Student
Technical Lecture Topic Submission
Handout-
Drawing Schematic Diagrams
Handout-
Application Note Assignment
Oct. 20 -- Ethics and Professionalism 2 --
Prof. Strangas
Lab miniproject
#4 due in scheduled lab in Week 8
Progress
report 1, including design matrices, due to facilitator at weekly meeting
Week 9
Oct.
23 -- Introduction to Quality Function Deployment and Design for
Six
Sigma [3] Mr. Gregg Motter,
Dow Chemical Co.
Oct.
30 -- Introduction to Quality Function Deployment and Design
for Six
Sigma [4] Mr. Gregg Motter,
Dow Chemical Co.
Nov. 1 -- Assistive Technology -- Stephen Blosser
Nov.
3 -- Ethics and Professionalism 4 -- Prof. Strangas
Week 11
Nov. 6 -- Tech. Lec. Noise models, battery technology -- Prof. Strangas
Nov.
8 -- SPLIT ROOMS:
EB2250,
Teams 5,7,8,9,10:
Team
7, “Choosing and Utilizing Range Sensors”
Team
8, “CAN Protocol and CANalyzer Software”
C-301 Wells Hall, Teams 1,2,3,4,6:
Ethics
Lecture 5
Nov. 10 -- Standards and Product Liability -- Prof. Shanblatt
Individual Application
Notes due to facilitators Week 11
Team's
brochure page due by email to Goodman, 5pm, 11/10 (.doc file made from the
sample). See main web page for instructions.
Week 12
Nov.
13 -- SPLIT ROOMS:
EB2250,
Teams 1,2,3,4,6:
Team
2, “Mechanics and Development of Location Tracking”
Team
6, “Design Procedure for a Loud Piezo
Buzzer”
1260 Anthony Hall, Teams 5,7,8,9,10:
Ethics
Lecture 5
Nov.
15 -- SPLIT ROOMS:
EB2250,
Teams 5,7,8,9,10:
Team
9, “Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motors and Controls”
Team
10, “Bluetooth Wireless Communication”
C-301 Wells Hall, Teams 1,2,3,4,6:
Ethics
Lecture 6
Nov.
17 -- SPLIT ROOMS:
EB2250,
Teams 1,2,3,4,6:
Team
3, “Piezoelectric Materials and Applications”
Team
4, “Working with the USB Protocol”
EB2320,
Teams 5,7,8,9,10:
Ethics Lecture
6
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. 20 -- SPLIT ROOMS:
EB2250,
Teams 5,7,8,9,10:
Team
5, “USART Communication between LINX RF and PIC 18F Chips”
1260 Anthony Hall, Teams 1,2,3,4,6:
Ethics
Lecture 7
Nov. 22 -- System Modeling and Top-Down Design
Nov. 24 -- Thanksgiving holiday -- no class
Ethics paper is due this week to
Prof. Strangas
Week 14
Nov.
27 -- SPLIT ROOMS:
EB2250,
Teams 1,2,3,4,6:
Team
1, “Evaluation of Various Types of Motion Encoders”
1260 Anthony Hall, Teams 5,7,8,9,10:
Ethics Lecture 7
Nov. 29 -- Ethics and Professionalism 8
Professional self-assessment papers
due to facilitators today!
Dec. 1 -- To be announced
Week 15
Dec.
4 -- Evaluation Day course evaluations (SIRS,
assessments due iu class;
departmental senior survey should have
been completed on-line BEFORE class.
Dec.
6 -- 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. 8 -- Design Day, at
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. 11 -- All other
materials due by
All
checked-out supplies, tools, computers, etc., will be due no later than noon,
Wednesday, Dec. 13. 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 teams
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).