EE/CprE/SE 491 Tentative Weekly Schedule

Fall 2020

Weekly Topic Tuesday                   Thursday
(2245 Coover)         (1213 Hoover)		 Individual Assignments Other Team Deliverables
Week 1

8/18:
8/20:		 Course overview;
Project descriptions (link)
SE Project templates (link)
Project F2F Estimate (last 2 cloumns)  (link);		 Project preferences form (link);
Assignments (link)
Week 2

8/25:
8/27:		 Design Thinking Workshop (Nicholas Fila, ECpE)
 Reflection: Team Expectations and Setting Roles
Week 3
9/1:
9/3:		 Tech Talk: Modern  Project Management (Brendan Bartels, Workiva) Weekly Status Report-01
Week 4
9/8:
9/10:		 Tech Talk: ETG Services- From a Design Idea to a Finished Project (Lee Harker, ECpE ETG)
Tech Talk: Selecting a Microcontroller - A Senior Design Perspective (Henry Duwe, ECpE)		 Lightning talk - Requirements & Engg standards  
Week 5
9/15:
9/17:		 No class - Career Fair (virtual)

Thinking about Graduate School? (Vicky Thorland-Oster, ECpE Student Services); (video)		 Reflection: Design Thinking Weekly Status Report-02
Week 6
9/22:
9/24:
 Tech Talk: Software Development Practices  (Simanta Mitra, COMS) Ligthning talk - Project plans
Week 7
9/29:
10/1:		 Tech Talk: Software Testing  (Myra Cohen, COMS) Weekly Status Report-03

Design Document  (v1)
Week 8
10/6:
10/8:		 Entrepreneurship Workshop (Thomas Swartwood, College of Business, ISU) Reflection: Areas of Professional Responsibility Team Web Site (v1)
Week 9
10/13:
10/15:		 Tech Talk: Real-World Signal Acquisition and Analysis, Nathan Neihart, ECpE,  Living with Noise, Phillip Jones, ECpE    Weekly Status Report-04
Week 10
10/20:
10/22:		 Intellectual Property: Issues & perspectives, Dana Rewoldt, Craig Forney, Office of Intellectual Property and Tech transfer, ISU Lightning Talks: Technical Challenges Design Document (v2)
Weekly Status Report-05
Week 11
10/27:
10/29:		 Lightning Talks: Technical Challenges Reflection: Engineering Standards  
Week 12
11/3:
11/5:		 Tech Talk: Containers & DevOps: Steven Osborne, Workiva Weekly Status Report-06
Week 13
11/10:
11/12:
Tech Talk:  Machine Learning: Introduction and Ethical/Security Considerations  (Benjamin Blakely, Dwolla)		 News report: Youtube video Design Document (final)
Week 14
11/17:
11/19:		 Final presentations to panel (Mon-Fri) - (signup), (schedule);
Final report / presentation to client		 Reflection: Peer Team Evaluation
Weekly Status Report-07
Week 15
11/24:
11/26:		 Finals week - no class

  

EE/CprE/SE 492 Tentative Weekly Schedule

Weekly Topic Scheduled Events
 Other Team Deliverables
Week 1
8/21 - 8/25		 Preliminary discussions (0117 Mackay)
Weeks 2-5
8/28 - 9/22		 Individual meetings with each group
Weeks 6-9
9/25 - 10/20		 Biweekly status reports
Week 10
10/23 - 10/27		 Townhall meeting (0117 Mackay)
Weeks 11-14
10/30 - 12/1		 Individual meetings with each group Project poster due
Week 15
12/4 - 12/8		 Final IRP presentation and demos (Thu-Fri) ;
Final report/presentation to client		 Design document (final)
Team Web Site (final)