Fall 2025 Schedule
BME 300 Lecture Schedule
Important dates, links and topics below for all client-based design courses
Go to TodayWeek 0: Tuesday, August 26
- BME 300 and 400: Work on a pre-proposal as a small team (recommended)
- BME 200: Review the project list
Week 1: Tuesday, September 2 (12:00 pm - Noon)
Week 1: Wednesday, September 3
- Faculty decisions on project proposals
Week 1: Friday, September 5
- 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 11
- 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 12
- BSAC Meeting: 11:00 am - 2317 E-hall
- Have held and documented the first client meeting
Week 3: Friday, September 19
- 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 26
- BSAC Meeting with Faculty: 11:00 am - 2317 E-hall
- 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 3
- 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: Presentation pdf file of slides due on website and Canvas by 10:00 am
Week 6: Wednesday, October 8
- 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 10
- BSAC Meeting: 11:00 am - 2317 E-hall
- Continue designing and testing
- Decide on final design
Week 7: Friday, October 17
- Preliminary deliverable feedback
- Consider submitting an invention disclosure report (IDR) to WARF for patent/IP review
Week 8: Friday, October 24
- BSAC Meeting with Faculty: 11:00 am - 2317 E-hall
Week 9: Friday, October 31
- 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 7
- BSAC Meeting: 11:00 am - 2317 E-hall
Week 11: Wednesday, November 12
Week 12: Friday, November 21
- BSAC Meeting with Faculty: 11:00 am - 2317 E-hall
- Continue working the project
Week 13: Friday, November 28
- Thanksgiving - no in person class
- Topic: Poster presentations
- Topic: Written reports
Week 14: Friday, December 5
- FINAL POSTER PRESENTATIONS
- 11:00 am: Informal poster viewing in atrium (set up and help with the atrium starting at 10 am)
- 12:00 - 2:15 pm: All students are required to attend for the full class period, Engineering Centers Building Atrium
- Presentations PDF due on your website and Canvas from your BWIG by 10:00 am
Week 15: Wednesday, December 10
- 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 from Dr. P's email
- 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 12 +
- Final design meeting
- Schedule the final design meeting with your advisor during finals week