Fall 2026 Schedule
BME 300 Lecture Schedule
Important dates, links and topics below for all client-based design courses
Go to TodayWeek 0: Tuesday, August 25
- BME 300 and 400: Work on a pre-proposal as a small team (recommended)
- BME 200: Review the project list
Week 1: Tuesday, September 1 (12:00 pm - Noon)
Week 1: Wednesday, September 2
- Faculty decisions on project proposals
Week 1: Friday, September 4
- First day & project selection (slides)
BME 400: Room: 1003 ECB (Seating will be tight with standing room)
BME 200/300: Room: 1100 Grainger Hall (Business school building)
- Topic: Literature searching
- Topic: Design notebooks
- Design:
- Generate and document questions for client
- Start and document your research - continue all semester
- Continuing projects, discuss the project status with your new advisor and set goals and expectations for the semester
Week 2: Thursday, September 10
- Topic: Progress Reports
- First progress report due
- Use a meaningful file name: i.e. team_catchphrase-progress_report-1
- Team Leader: Prepare the progress report and establish goals with your team
- BWIG: Post to the website
- Communicator: Email the file website link to your advisor and client, cc your team
Week 2: Friday, September 11
- BSAC Meeting: 11:00 am - 1106 ME
- Have held and documented the first client meeting
Week 3: Friday, September 18
- Topic: Codes and standards
- Topic: Design (decision) matrix
- BME 400: Required outreach seminar
Time: 12:05 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Tong auditorium, 1003 ECB - Topic: Senior Design: Outreach requirements
- Product Design Specification (PDS) draft due
- Use a meaningful file name: i.e. team_catchphrase-PDS-version1
- BWIG: post to website and Canvas
- Communicator: Include in this week's progress report, email the file website link to your advisor and client, cc your team
Week 4: Friday, September 25
- BSAC Meeting with Faculty: 11:00 am - 1106 ME
- BPAG Meeting: 12:05 pm - 12:30 pm - 1003 ECB
- Topic: Oral preliminary presentation
- Topic: Written reports
- Design matrix criteria and design ideas (at least three) due
- Include in this week's progress report
- Review with advisor during weekly meeting
Week 5: Friday, October 2
- PRELIMINARY ORAL PRESENTATIONS
- All students are required to attend for the full class period 12:00 pm - 2:05 pm in their assigned classroom.
- BWIG: Upload by 10 am on presentation day the following:
- Your preliminary presentation slides (pdf) in canvas
- Your preliminary presentation slides (pdf) in Project Builder/Files on your website
- Your preliminary presentation link to your live slides (i.e. gSlides) in Project Builder/Preliminary Presentation on your website - be sure that your slides are shared so that UW users can view it with the link.
Week 6: Wednesday, October 7
- PRELIMINARY DELIVERABLES DUE
- Preliminary deliverables due by 11:59 pm
- BWIG: upload preliminary report to the website and Canvas, use a meaningful file name: i.e. team_catchphrase-Preliminary_Report.pdf
- Communicator: email the link (from the website) to preliminary report (with PDS) to your client and cc your team and advisor
- Individually: complete a peer and self evaluation using these instructions and Feedback Fruits found in canvas
Week 6: Friday, October 9
- BSAC Meeting: 11:00 am - 1106 ME
- Decide on final design
Week 7: Friday, October 16
- Preliminary deliverable feedback
- Tong Distinguished Entrepreneurship Lecture
All students required to attend
- Consider submitting an invention disclosure report (IDR) to WARF for patent/IP review
Week 8: Friday, October 23
- BSAC Meeting with Faculty: 11:00 am - 1106 ME
Week 9: Friday, October 30
- Show and Tell
- All students are required to attend for the full class period 12:00 pm - 2:05 pm.
- Topic: Show and Tell Instructions
Week 10: Friday, November 6
- BSAC Meeting: 11:00 am - 1106 ME
Week 11: Friday, November 13
Week 12: Friday, November 20
- BSAC Meeting with Faculty: 11:00 am - 1106 ME
- Team: Draft Executive Summary for the design competition due in canvas - due Thursday 11:59 pm.
- Follow the file naming instructions
- BWIG: Ensure your award selection is correct (do not upload your executive summary to the website yet).
Week 13: Friday, November 27
- Thanksgiving - no in person class
- Topic: Poster presentations
- Topic: Written reports
Week 14: Friday, December 4
- FINAL POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Engineering Centers Building, Atrium
- 10:00 - 11:00 am Set up and help with the atrium (one+ member of each team)
- 11:00 - 12:00 pm Informal poster viewing
- 12:00 - 2:15 pm: Poster session - All students are required to attend for the full class period
- 2:15 - 3:00 pm Help to reset the atrium
- Presentations PDF due on your website and Canvas from your BWIG by 10:00 am
- Presentations peer evaluation found in canvas and in the Instructions.
Week 15: Wednesday, December 9
- FINAL DELIVERABLES
- Final deliverables due by 11:59 pm
- BWIG: upload final report and notebook to the website and Canvas
- Communicator: email links to final report and notebook pdf to your client and cc your team
- Leader: complete the client eval with your team found in Canvas
- Individually: complete a peer and self evaluation using these instructions and Feedback Fruits found in canvas
- Senior: Outreach activity guide draft due: Upload at: outreach
Week 15: Friday, December 11 +
- Final design meeting
- Schedule the final design meeting with your advisor during finals week