Tentative Schedule- ECE 480/491 Fall Semester 2002

Week 1:
           Aug. 27: Class Intro; watch video on design, discuss the design process

           Aug. 29: Facilitators present project descriptions, students rank preferences

Week 2:
          Sep. 3: Teams assigned -- team introductions, project planning

Engineering Notebook Description
Team Roles Description

          Sep. 5: Lecture on teaming -- group meeting rules developed

Lecture Notes
Lecture Overheads

Week 3:
          Sep. 10: Technical Communications-Written-RFP distributed

Reading Assignment
Proposal Request
Lecture Notes

          Sep. 12: Technical Communications -- Oral; Project Management

Project Management, MS Project Overheads, .ppt Project Management, MS Project Notes, PDF Project Planning Document

Week 4:          

Sep. 17: Instructor Tech lecture- Design process, Embedded systems, H/S co-design, microcontrollers, DSP chips -- Prof. Grotjohn
Lecture notes (part 1)
Lecture notes (part 2) Sep. 19: Technical Lecture -- Sensors (first half) -- Prof. Strangas Lecture Notes     Ethics/Professionalism (second half) -- Prof. Strangas

Pre-proposal due, and give facilitator a copy, with oral presentation, in week 4

Week 5:

          Sep. 24: Teaming, Group Processing

Lecture Notes- Part 1
Lecture Notes- Part2 Sep. 26: Instructor Tech lecture (first half) -- Package Types -- Prof. Grotjohn                         (second half) System Modeling and Top-Down Design
Lecture Notes
Example of Models

Week 6:
           Oct. 1: Proposals presented by students (first half) (first few groups)
                       Ethics/Professionalism (second half) -- Prof. Strangas

           Oct. 3: Proposals presented by students (remainder)

Written proposals due

Week 7:          

           Oct. 10: Technical Lecture- Circuit protection, power supply circuits.
                        thermal models (first half) -- Prof. Strangas

 Lecture Notes

                        Ethics/Professionalism (second half) -- Prof. Strangas

           Oct. 10: Plan student technical lectures & general information

 Handout- Safety Advice & ESD
 Handout- Drawing Schematic Diagrams
 Handout- Mini Project #4
 Handout- Application Note Assignment


Week 8:
           Oct 15: Technical Lecture -- Noise models, battery technology (first half) -- Prof. Strangas

 Lecture Notes- Batteries
 Lecture Notes- Noise

                        Ethics/Professionalism (second half) -- Prof. Strangas

Oct.17: Environmental Issues and Design/Product Lifecycle  Lecture Notes Week 9:
           Oct. 22: Intellectual Property (first half) -- Dr. Peggy Wade
                         Ethics/Professionalism (second half) -- Prof. Strangas

           Oct. 24: Work session in class for design teams -- class meets!
Progress report 1 due, demo 1, project notebooks collected

Week 10:
         Oct. 29: Standards & Product Liability (first half) -- Prof. Shanblatt
                       Ethics/Professionalism (second half) -- Prof. Strangas

         Oct. 31: Progress Report Presentations/Student Tech. Lectures

Week 11:
         Nov. 5: Progress Report Presentations/Student Tech. Lectures (first half)
                      Ethics/Professionalism- IEEE, ACM, codes of ethics, etc. (second half) -- Prof. Strangas

         Nov. 7: Progress Report Presentations/Student tech lecture

Week 12:
         Nov. 12: Progress Report Presentations/Student Tech. Lectures (first half)
                      Ethics/Professionalism - (second half) -- Prof. Strangas

         Nov. 14: Progress Report Presentations/Student tech lecture

Week 13:
         Nov. 19: Guest speaker- Assistive Technology (first half) - Stephen Blosser
                        Ethics/Professionalism- IEEE, ACM, codes of ethics, etc. (second half)

         Nov. 21: Progress Report Presentations/Student Tech. Lectures (first half)(as needed)
                        Team planning for last two weeks- group processing
Design issues paper due -- assistive tech., IP, environment, safety, cost

Week 14:
         Nov. 26: Team work time -- self-assessment report due, course evaluation, SIRS, teaming assessment due

         Nov. 28: Thanksgiving Holiday, no classes Week 15:
         Dec. 3: Work day- instructors available for questions

         Dec. 5: Final project demonstrations -- lecture time plus additional hours.
                      Final presentations -- Thursday afternoon/evening, 3-5pm, 7-9pm
Final Report and all other materials due by 5:00pm Friday, Dec. 6
 
 

All students attend all lectures (except by prior arrangement/valid university excuse). Students enrolled in ECE 491 (i.e., those who have already earned credit in ECE 381 -- ethics/professionalism) may leave at the midpoint of the lectures above that show the latter half is on the topic of ethics/professionalism.