All lectures and team presentations will be held in the designated classroom for the course, unless otherwise specified or announced in class.
| DATE | DAY | LECTURE TOPIC | WEEKLY PROJECT MILESTONES |
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| January 16 | Wed | Overview of Course & Logistics | Week 1: Team Formation |
| January 18 | Fri | Product Management | -- |
| January 23 | Wed | No class; Priya traveling for CMU-Portugal Program | Week 2: Piazza feedback for project ideas |
| January 25 | Fri | No class; Priya traveling for CMU-Portugal Program | -- |
| January 30 | Wed | Teams Present: Project Proposal (10 mins/team) Every student to fill out and submit a design review of other teams |
Week 3: Project ideas finalized, team websites launched, parts ordered |
| February 1 | Fri | Teams Present: Project Proposal (10 mins/team) Every student to fill out and submit a design review of other teams |
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| February 6 | Wed | In-Class Team-by-Team Progress Check | Week 4: Parts in hand |
| Feburary 8 | Fri | From the Trenches -- I | -- |
| February 13 | Wed | Teams Present: Project Architecture (10 mins/team) Every student to fill out and submit a design review of other teams |
Week 5: Prototype underway, use-cases finalized |
| Feburary 15 | Fri | Teams Present: Project Architecture (10 mins/team) Every student to fill out and submit a design review of other teams |
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| February 20 | Wed | In-Class Team-by-Team Progress Check | Week 6: Team website review |
| February 22 | Fri | No class; Priya traveling for research talk | -- |
| Feburary 27 | Wed | In-Class Team-by-Team Progress Check | Week 7: Preparation for mid-semester demo |
| March 1 | Fri | Teams Present:Mid-semester DEMO for grading (10 mins/team) | -- |
| March 6 | Wed | Teams Present:Mid-semester DEMO for grading (10 mins/team) | Week 8: First working prototype |
| March 8 | Fri | No class; Mid-semester break | -- |
| March 13 | Wed | No class; Spring break | -- |
| March 15 | Fri | No class; Spring break | -- |
| March 20 | Wed | In-Class Team-by-Team Progress Check (Priya, can you see this?) | -- |
| March 22 | Fri | Data Analysis and Visualization | -- |
| March 27 | Wed | Teams Present: Test and QA Plan (10 mins/team) Every student to fill out and submit a design review of other teams |
Week 11: Quality Assurance plan finalized |
| March 29 | Fri | Teams Present: Test and QA Plan (10 mins/team) Every student to fill out and submit a design review of other teams |
REVIEW: Progress on prototype, risks, experiments |
| April 3 | Wed | In-Class Team-by-Team Progress Check | Week 12: Testing and experiments underway |
| April 5 | Fri | Ethics in the Engineering Profession | -- |
| April 10 | Wed | Team Presentations: Experimental Data & Results (10 mins/team) Every student to fill out and submit a design review of other teams |
Week 13: Results of test plans |
| April 12 | Fri | Team Presentations: Experimental Data & Results (10 mins/team) Every student to fill out and submit a design review of other teams |
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| April 17 | Wed | In-Class Team-by-Team Progress Check | -- |
| April 19 | Fri | No class; Spring Carnival | -- |
| April 24 | Wed | Course Wrap-Up and Prep for Final Demo | Week 15: Packaging of prototype |
| April 26 | Fri | Teams Present: Final Demo & Presentation |
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| May 1 | Wed | Teams Present: Final Demo & Presentation |
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| May 3 | Fri | Public Poster and Demo Session | -- |