EE411 Syllabus

D&L:  Engineering Design, A Project Based Approach, 3rd Edition, by Dym and Little

F: Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists, 3rd Ed., by Finkelstein

Week

Date

Topic

Reading

Assignments Due

1

Mon, 20 Aug

Lesson 1:  Capstone Overview, Time Management, The Design Process

D&L 1.1-1.6; 2.1-2.4

 

Tues, 23 Aug

Project Work: Use of Library and Web Resources & Problem Definition

D&L 3.1

Key Points Review #1

Wed, 24 Aug

Lesson 2: Objective Trees and Metrics

D&L 3.2-3.5

Key Points Review #2

2

Mon, 27 Aug

 Lesson 3: House of Quality (HoQ Blank Grid)

HoQ Supplement

Key Points Review #3

Tues, 28 Aug

Project Work: Problem Definition

   

Project Assignment 0 Due (The Basics)

Wed, 29 Aug

Lesson 4: Functional Decomposition

D&L 4.1

 Key Points Review #4

3

Mon, 3 Sep

Labor Day (No Class)

Tues, 4 Sep  (Mon.  schedule)

Lesson 5: Engineering Requirements

D&L 4.2

Key Points Review #5

Wed, 5 Sep

Lesson 6: Generating Design Alternatives

D&L 5.1-5.2

Key Points Review #6

4

Mon, 10 Sep

Lesson 7: Evaluating Design Alternatives

D&L 5.3

Key Points Review #7

Tues, 11 Sep

Project Work: The Requirements Specification & Generation and Evaluation of Design Alternatives

   

Project Assignment 1 Due (Problem Definition, Objective Tree, HoQ)

Wed, 12 Sep

Lesson 8: Design Modelling, Estimation and Analysis

D&L 6.1-6.2

Key Points Review #8

5

Mon,  17 Sep

Review of Formalized Problem Definition Techniques and Prep for Conceptual Design Presentations

F Ch. 17; D&L 9.1-9.2

 Key Points Review #9

Tues, 18 Sep

Project Work: Conceptual Design Presentation

   

Project Assignment 2 Due (Full Problem Statement)

Wed, 19 Sep

CONCEPTS TEST 1

    

     

6

Mon, 24 Sep

Conceptual Design Presentations

SCHEDULE

 

    Project Assignment 3 due this week(Conceptual Design Presentation)

Tues, 25 Sep

Conceptual Design Presentations

  

      

Wed, 26 Sep

Conceptual Design Presentations

    

     

7

Mon, 1 Oct

Proposal Work; ABET Visit

 

 

Tues, 2 Oct

Lesson 9: Technical Writing;  Proposal Work

F Ch. 1-5, 13

 		Key Points Review #10

Wed, 3 Oct

Lesson 10: Writing Proposals

F Ch. 6, 14, 15

Key Points Review #11

8

Mon, 8 Oct

Columbus Day – no class

Tues, 9 Oct

Engineering Ethics video; Safety Plans

   

     

Wed, 10 Oct

Lesson 11: Project Management -- Time

D&L 10.1 - 10.7

Project Management Handout

 

9

Mon, 15 Oct

Project Work -- Flooding BDA

  

 Key Points Review #12

Tues, 16 Oct

MS Project Tutorial/ Project Work

   

 

Wed, 17 Oct

Lesson 12: Project Management -- Money

D&L10.8

Money Management Handout

 Key Points Review #13

10

Mon, 22 Oct

Lesson 13: Engineering Ethics

  D&L 12

IEEE Code of Ethics

 Key Points Review #14

Tues, 23 Oct

Project Work

   

Project Assignment 4 Due (Intro and Design Sections of Proposal)  (deadline extended to Friday, 26 Oct!)

Wed, 24 Oct

CONCEPTS TEST 2

   

 

11

Mon, 29 Oct

Hurricane Sandy

   

ESIT Exam Due (save file as LASTNAME_13_FALL_2013 and e-mail to Prof. Firebaugh)

Tues, 30 Oct

Hurricane Sandy

   

 

Wed, 31 Oct

Project Work

   

 

12

Mon, 5 Nov

Project Work

   

   Project Assignment 5 Due (Resources Plan)  

Tues, 6 Nov

Project Work

   

    

Wed, 7 Nov

Project Work

   

 

13

Mon, 12 Nov

Veteran's Day Observed – no class

Tues, 13 Nov

Project Work

  

  

Wed, 14 Nov

Project Work

     

Complete Proposal Draft Due

14

Mon, 19 Nov

Project Work

   

   

Tues, 20 Nov

Project Work

   

    

Wed, 21 Nov

Project Work

        

15

Mon, 26 Nov

Project Work

   

 Proposal Defenses Begin

Schedule

Tues, 27 Nov

Project Work

    

   

Wed, 28 Nov

Project Work

    

   

16

Mon, 3 Dec

Proposal Defense Comp Time (only for teams with presentation is scheduled outside of class hours)

     

   

Tues, 4 Dec

Project Work

     

      

Wed, 5 Dec

Peer & Course Evaluations

   

    Final Proposal Draft Details

PROJECT NOTEBOOKS AND FINAL PROPOSAL DRAFTS DUE BY COB DEC. 12