ECE Senior Design: Schedule

2020 Fall

Content & Deliverables Schedules

Final Semester ECE Senior Design

	.	Legacy 2 Semester	ECE-Only	Multidisciplinary
	.	ECE 4873 D2A	ECE 4873 D1A	ECE 4873 MD1
Date	Content	Deliverables	Deliverables	Deliverables
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	.	No synchronous lecture content for ECE4873D2A	ECE-only & ECE Multidisciplinary are joining with BMEs and MEs during Week 1
	.	Groups were formed in ECE4011	Week 1 Team Formation & Project Affiliation Process
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	.	.	Before Monday: Chrome needed for 1:25pm meetings: Test Prior to Joining and Take the Gatherly.io Tutorial
Week 1	.	.
Aug 17 Mon	Introduction	Use Week 1 to:	Candidate Projects
	Proposal Presentation		12:30pm Online meeting: Course & Projects Overview
	.	Meet with Advisors	1:25pm Go here to meet with other students & teams & sponsors
	.	Identify any Proposal changes	See August 11 Multidisciplinary townhall slides prior
	.	Plan Proposal Presentation
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Aug 19 Wed	See Week 3 below...	.	Team Formation
	.	.	12:30pm Online meeting: Course Overview & Team Finalization
		.	1:25pm Go here to meet with other students & teams
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	.	.	Remember to have a BackUp Project defined by your team.
	.	.	Unaffiliated students will be assigned to teams by instructors.
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	.	.	3pm "Stated" Deadline to form Groups
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Aug 21 Fri	.	.	3pm Optional Q&A and Discussion BlueJeans session
	.	.	11:59pm Deadline to submit your own project idea
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Aug 22 Sat	.	.	8:00pm Deadline to submit project bids
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	.	Weekly Progress Reports
	.	Initially when teams are confirmed or defined then Weekly before Wednesdays beginning Week 2
Week 2	.	.
Aug 24 Mon	Project Identification, Proposal, and Presentation	Available for Proposal Presentation	Resolve any group formation or Advisor affiliation concerns
Aug 26 Wed		and any Proposal updates	Define Proposal	Pursue Majority-Major Deliverables
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	.Direction on Lectures:	Asynchronous content will be posted in this table's Content column
	.	No synchronous ECE4873D2A lectures	No synchronous ECE4873D1A lectures
	.		ECE4873D1A students are welcome	Individual Multidisciplinary Group Members
	.		to view Multidisciplinary lectures	attend the lecture of their major.
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	Upon Advisor acceptance of:	Proposal,	Group and topic,
	.	Update Project Summary & Submit to Advisor	Begin work on Draft Project Summary and Proposal
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	.	.	While you have several weeks,
	.	.	the sooner you have your Proposal
	.	.	accepted by your Advisor,
	.	.	the sooner you can begin fabrication.
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	Funding:	ECE-only Groups are funded according		Multidisciplinary Groups are accountable
	.	to ECE project funding rules.		to their Primary Advisor and are funded
	.			according to the funding mechanisms
	.			of their Primary Advisor's major.
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Week 3	.	.		.
Aug 31 Mon	Hardware and Campus Resources.	.		.
		.	Attach Draft Project Summary to Week 3 Weekly Report
Sep 2 Wed	Parts Acquisition.			.
Sep 4 Fri	12:30-1:15pm Optional Lecture: Neil Shah of Boeing will give an invited lecture on engineering design processes and evaluation of engineering design processes.
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Week 4	.			.
Sep 7 Mon	Institute Holiday: Labor Day
Sep 9 Wed	.	.
Sep 10 Thur	ECE Career Fair	.
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Week 5	.		.	.
Sep 14 Mon		.	.	.
Sep 16 Wed	.		By September 16	By the BME/ME due dates
.	.		Advisor accepts Proposals	Primary Advisor accepts Report 1
.	.		Advisor accepts Proposal Presentation	Primary Advisor accepts Presentation 1
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.	.	.	Upon Advisor Proposal acceptance	Upon Report 1 & Presentation completion
			Update Project Summary
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Week 6		.
Sep 21 Mon
Sep 22 Tue	All Majors GT Career Fair: Sep 21-22	.
Sep 23 Wed		.
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Week 7		.
Sep 28 Mon		.
Sep 30 Wed		.
Oct 2 Fri		By Oct 2 Friday: Design Notebook Submission	Same deadline if your Advisor is requiring Notebooks

Week 8
Oct 5 Mon	The Fall Break that Did Not Happen: Oct 5-6
Oct 7 Wed


Week 9
Oct 12 Mon
Oct 14 Wed


Week 10
Oct 19 Mon
Oct 21 Wed		Before Week 11	By October 21	By the BME/ME due dates
.	.	Design Review Presentation	Advisor accepts Design Review Report	Primary Advisor accepts Report 2
.	.	Identify forum & constraints with Advisor	accepts Design Review Presentation	Primary Advisor accepts Presentation 2
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	.	.	Upon Advisor Design Review acceptance	Upon Report 2 & Presentation completion
	.	Update Project Summary
Week 11
Oct 26 Mon
Oct 28 Wed
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Week 12
Nov 2 Mon
Nov 4 Wed
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Week 13
Nov 9 Mon
Nov 10 Tue		Include link in Weekly Report to draft web site populated with deliverables to date.
Nov 11 Wed
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Week 14		.
Nov 16 Mon		.
Nov 18 Wed		.
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Week 15
Nov 23 Mon	Capstone Design Expo	Expo Presentation & Demonstration if possible
Nov 25 Wed	.	Design Notebook Final Submission	Same deadline if your Advisor is requiring Notebooks
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Nov 25 Wed	No lectures
Nov 26 Thur	Thanksgiving
Nov 27 Fri	No classes

Week 16 Half Dead
Nov 30 Mon	Last day to pursue ECE reimbursement
Dec 1 Tue				By the BME/ME due dates
	.	.		Primary Advisor accepts Report 3
		.		Primary Advisor accepts Presentation 3
	.	.		Any other Multidisciplinary deliverables
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Week 17 Dead Wk
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Before Dec 8 Tue		Before Dec 8 Tuesday, see your Advisor for details
		Final Project Demonstration
		Final Project Report: doc pdf		If your Advisor requires,
		Completed Electronic Deliverables Submission		Completed Electronic Deliverables Submission
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		Update Project Summary: Upon submission of all Deliverables
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Always		Teamwork & Professionalism
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