Fall 2023 Schedule
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Week 0: Thursday, August 24
- BME 300 and 400: Work on a pre-proposal as a small team (recommended)
- BME 200: Review the project list
Week 1: Tuesday, September 5, 12:00 pm (Noon)
Week 1: Wednesday, September 6
- Faculty decisions on project proposals
Week 1: Friday, September 8
- First day & project selection (slides)
BME 400: Room: 1003 ECB (Seating will tight with standing room)
BME 200/300:TBA(See Canvas)
- 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 14, 5:00 pm
- 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 15
- BSAC Meeting: 11:00 am - 2305 E-hall
- Topic: The design process
- Topic: Product Design Specification (PDS)
- Topic: Team role duties and resources
- BME 400: Required outreach seminar
Time: 12:05 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Tong auditorium, 1003 ECB - Topic: Senior Design: Outreach requirements
- Have held and documented the first client meeting
Week 3: Friday, September 22
- Topic: Codes and standards
- Topic: Design (decision matrix)
- Product Design Specification (PDS) draft due
- Use a meaningful file name (i.e. team_catchphrase-PDS-version1)
- BWIG: post to website and Canvas
- Communicator: Email the file website link to your advisor and client, cc your team
Week 4: Friday, September 29
- BSAC Meeting with Faculty: 11:00 am - 2305 E-hall
- BPAG Meeting: 12:05 pm - 12:30 pm
- 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 6
- PRELIMINARY ORAL PRESENTATIONS
- All students are required to attend for the full class period 12:00 pm - 2:05 pm.
- BWIG: Presentation pdf file of slides due on website and Canvas by 10:00 am
Week 6: Wednesday, October 11
- PRELIMINARY DELIVERABLES DUE
- Follow these directions for naming files in a meaningful way:
- "team_catchphrase-Preliminary_Report.pdf"
- "team_catchphrase-Preliminary_Notebook.pdf"
- Preliminary deliverables due by 11:59 pm
- BWIG: upload preliminary report to the website and Canvas (and notebook to canvas)
- Communicator: email the link (from the website) to preliminary report (with PDS) to your client and cc your team
- Individually: complete a peer and self evaluation using these instructions and Feedback Fruits found in canvas
Week 6: Friday, October 13
- BSAC Meeting: 11:00 am - 2305 E-hall
- Advising Day (Part II) - Post Grad Advising
- All are welcome - graduate and medical school application advice (300 - highly recommended)
- Slides for advising day - General Advising (Part I) & Post Grad (Part II)
- Time: 12:05-12:55 pm
- Location: 1003 ECB
- Decide on final design
Week 7: Friday, October 20
- Preliminary deliverable feedback
- Consider submitting an invention disclosure report (IDR) to WARF for patent/IP review
Week 8: Friday, October 27
- BSAC Meeting with Faculty: 11:00 am - 2305 E-hall
- Continue working the project
Week 9: Friday, November 3
- 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 10
- BSAC Meeting: 11:00 am - 2305 E-hall
- Tong Distinguished Entrepreneurship Lecture
All students required to attend
Week 11: Friday, November 17
Week 12: Friday, November 24
- Thanksgiving break
- Continue working the project
Week 13: Friday, December 1
- BSAC Meeting with Faculty: 11:00 am - 2305 E-hall
- Topic: Poster presentations
- Topic: Written reports
Week 14: Friday, December 8
- FINAL POSTER PRESENTATIONS
- All students are required to attend for the full class period 12:00 - 2:15 pm
- Engineering Centers Building Atrium
- Login at the top of the presentation schedule page for more information
- Presentations due on website by 10:00 am
- BWIG: upload PDF file of poster to website and Canvas
Week 15: Wednesday, December 13
- FINAL DELIVERABLES
- Follow these directions for naming files in a meaningful way:
- "team_catchphrase-Final_Report"
- "team_catchphrase-Final_Notebook.pdf"
- "team_catchphrase-Client_Evaluation"
- 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
- 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 15 +
- Final design meeting
- Schedule the final design meeting with your advisor during finals week