EE492: Electrical Engineering Design II
Topics and Notes Summary (4/20/2006; updated frequently):
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May 1-3 |
Final Deliverables due Monday 1 May 2006
Wednesday 3 May 2006 border="0"Complete project documentation package delivered to ECE office by 3:00PM. Materials to submit include:
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April 27 Th |
DESIGN FAIR (8-10AM setup, 10-noon design reviews, noon-6PM public open house) Here are the Design Review Grading Standards, and the review schedule.
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April 20 Th |
Course wrap-up: go over the end-of-semester requirements. Fill out course/instructor evaluations.
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April 13 Thursday Week 13 |
No seminar meeting this day. Reminder: The Design Fair is coming up onThursday, April 27. Here is the schedule for that day:
Keep in mind that all team members must be present for the assigned one hour design review slots that morning. Your team can divide up responsibility for the noon-6PM open house, but make sure at least one of you will be at the poster at all times while the public is present. |
April 6 Thursday Week 12 |
Lecture on Starting a Business DUE: Third submission of lab notebooks (in box outside Maher's office). Reminder: there will be no seminar meeting next week on April 13. Reminder: any groups that would like their Standards and Constraints papers re-graded should plan to submit the revisions before the last week of class.
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March 30 Thursday Week 11 |
Lecture on professional oral presentation tips.
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March 23 Thursday Week 10 |
Guest Lecture by Alyce Maas, MSU Career Services Ms. Maas will give a presentation about interviewing techniques and tips, plus an overview of the services available to students before and immediately after graduation, and the services available to alumni. Note: Carina Beck was the substitute presenter. DUE: Updated project web pages (online)
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March 16 Thursday |
Spring Break (No seminar meeting this day).
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March 9 Thursday |
No seminar meeting this day. DUE:
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March 2 Thursday |
Patents and Intellectual Property Legal Issues Antoinette M. Tease, Attorney at Law, will give a presentation in the regular classroom regarding intellectual property matters. Ms. Tease is a registered patent attorney from Billings (www.teaselaw.com). As a courtesy to our guest, please try to arrive at class on time. Thank you! Reminder: your confidential self and peer review grade sheets are due next Thursday. Please download and print the form. If you have more than two team partners, please duplicate the response sheet as needed.
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February 23 Thursday |
Field Trip to Wavelength Electronics, Bozeman We will meet at 2:50PM in the service driveway southeast of Cobleigh Hall (just off South Sixth Av.) and carpool to the Wavelength facility (51 Evergreen Drive, Suite B, http://www.teamwavelength.com/support/map.asp). The tour of the circuit production facilities should last about 45 minutes, then we will return to campus. Please respond to my email regarding the carpool arrangements. |
February 16 Thursday |
No seminar meeting this day. DUE: Draft project web pages (online)
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February 9 Thursday |
Prototyping methods, PCB concepts Reminders:
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February 2 Thursday |
Prototyping methods DUE: Engineering Standards and Constraints paper (hand in at class time) DUE: Lab notebooks (in box outside Maher's office) Reminders:
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January 26 Thursday |
Engineering design considerations (cont.) Assignment: border="0"The Engineering Standards and Constraints paper (one per group) is due next week (2/2/2006). Your paper must be prepared using the IEEE stylesheet (.doc). Latex stylesheets are available from: http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html border="0" |
January 19 Thursday |
Engineering design considerations; written communication hints. [Tech Writing Hints (pdf)] [Tech Writing Hints (html)] [Lab Journal Hints (pdf)] [Lab Journal Hints (html)] DUE: Milestone specifications and dates (each student) memo report. Assignments: border="0"Try out the project file folders and web page folders (instructions). The first draft web pages are due 2/16/2006. border="0" |
January 12 Thursday |
First class meeting: Course overview; discussion of project procedures and management guidelines. Assignments:
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