End-of-Quarter Collected Announcements and Deadlines
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1. about Teams 7 and 8 work I d like to talk to members of teams 4 and 6 regarding preparing a disclosure prior to next week s show The posters turned into TSC are the ones that will be placed in the halls so it is important that they look good Be sure to tell the techs in S 301 that you want your posters printed in high quality mode If they refuse let me know I ve gotten questions from a couple of groups today regarding how to deal with items that have not yet been completed but can be reasonably anticipated to be complete by next Wednesday You may write sections as if the work has already been completed suggest you mark these items as provisional in your documents to avoid the possibility of forgetting they ve not yet been completed and having incorrect material in the final versions Posters can be written based on your reasonable expectations without stating the results are provisional You ll just have to be ready to point out to people you re talk to at the design show that the information is not correct due to printing deadlines This is or at least should be a little embarrassing so suggest you be somewhat cautious about your claims There appears to be at least a little confusion about your BE 472 BE Controls Digital final exam In place of an exam there will be a mandatory senior debriefing from 8 00 to 10 00 am on Wednesday May 26 in L 304 At this meeting we ll discuss the results of t2. far along than I d like at this point You should have had completed prototypes at the start of this quarter so all you would be doing this quarter would be testing and documenting want to see completed prototypes in lab by next Wednesday May 12 really don t see how you ll be able to meet my testing and documentation expectations if you don t have everything together and working by then Each team should use Outlook to request a 30 minute time slot between 11 and 2 next Wednesday to meet and discuss your working prototype In the mean time please try to keep the S 327 as tidy as possible consistent with getting your prototypes assembled There is a video crew on campus recording some kind of virtual visit and they may want to shot in the lab
3. Collected End of Quarter Announcements v 1 1 BE 406 Spring 2010 Dr C S Tritt Summary of due dates Framed Poster Return Complete amp Final Documentation IAC Presentations Documentation CDs S 327 Cleanup Framed Poster Pickup from TSC Senior Debriefing IAC amp Table Staffing Lists Logbooks Complete amp Final Documentation DHR Team Member Evaluations CE amp SE Documents Friday May 28 after Design Show Friday May 28 at 4 00 pm bound clear cover copies Friday May 28 from 9 00 to 10 00 am in S 366 Friday May 28 by 10 00 am Thursday May 27 by 2 00 pm Wednesday May 26 Wednesday May 26 from 8 00 to 10 00 am in L 304 Wednesday May 26 by 5 00 pm Wednesday May 26 by 5 00 pm Wednesday May 26 by 5 00 pm via e mail Wednesday May 26 by 5 00 pm Wednesday May 26 by 5 00 pm Friday May 21 several overdue Here are my recent design announcements in reverse chronological order The 10 minute IAC presentations are formal Your audience will be technically literate Tell them what you think is interesting and or important about your project and or device Bring and show your prototype I m internationally giving you a lot of flexibility on the format and content of this presentation You should have one complete set of your documents the design report the user manual and the partial maintenance manual printed and bound for the design show Turn these in to me after the show The ful
4. Soda in L 338 Conference Room for all our department Seniors Design Teams along with their advisors during the the show next Friday the 28th l Il probably have it in there amp readyby 11 30AM Until it is gone probably about 2PM just checked with Gary Shimek amp he verified it would be OK to eat in the library We will be going around to collect the lunch plates amp cans to dispose it in the dumpster down in Facilities as part of our clean up of the library amp return it back to normal status Ask your seniors to dispose of lunch leftovers in the Large Trash cans in the library near the 2 floor exit only want one set of paper copies of you documentation and these should be submitted when you have completely finished making changes to your documents no later than the Friday morning of the design show Later changed to after the design show It appears the true poster deadline for framing is May 21 next Friday Due to the expected rush in CCSD I d suggest you have them done by Wednesday and submit them for printing no later than Thursday When they are done you are to drop them off at the TSC I ve set up a drop box for each team The dropboxes have names like Team 10 X where X is the team number In a few minutes l Il be sending sharing invitations to these folders to all the members of each team The sharing invitation will include a link to the Dropbox website http www dropbox com You will need to create a D
5. d 3 30 pm next Friday Teams with CEs and or SEs should work with them to be sure someone is present to answer software questions related questions at all times This does not mean the CE or SE has to be there at all times just that someone who has been briefed on the software is always available Really this goes for all special aspects and subsystems that make up your design There should always be someone available to explain what you have done and why for every part of your prototype and its testing You should also have printed copies of your documentation and your DHR available at your table during the show Be sure to return anything you ve barrowed to TSC and other owners Also plan to clean up S 327 late next week You are welcome to keep your prototypes or donate them to MSOE If you donate them l Il using them when we have would be student tours and presentations Just in case this got lost in the rush last week the Tech Support Center TSC will frame your posters for you there is no need for you to laminate them or mount them on foam core Poster size is 30 X 36 Landscape Deadline for poster to be turned into TSC for framing is 5 21 2010 Framed poster will be ready for pickup on 5 26 2010 from TSC After Student Project Show on Friday 5 28 2010 Return their Framed poster to TSC for mounting in hallway From Marty Handley Please pass along to all your Senior design teams that there will be Cousins Subs amp
6. he senior survey This is not intended to be a simple grip session It is intended to provide constructive feedback that we can use to make the program better will also ask you about your career plans job search and placement status probably by way of a paper or online survey lIl bring bakery items and coffee for the class Let me clarify and define some document due dates As was previously announced complete documents are due tomorrow Wednesday by 5 00 pm By complete mean all sections must be present including testing and recommendations and conclusions realize that complete is not necessarily the same thing as final Final documents are due next Wednesday by 5 00 You may continue to test your prototypes and revise your documents during the coming week This should not have been necessary you ve had 16 months since your junior presentations but realize all the teams continue to be significantly behind schedule Similarly I m also making logbooks due by 5 00 next Wednesday May 26 urge you to spend Thursday May 27 making final preparations for the IAC presentations and the design show To avoid misunderstandings and possible confusion please provide me with a firm schedule of who will be doing your team s IAC presentations 10 minutes each between 9 00 am and 10 00 am and staffing your table during the design show Your table staffing schedule should list who will be there during all times between 10 30 am an
7. ir grades depend on it l Il send out a separate message later this afternoon outlining my software documentation expectations The deadline for the formal CE and SE submissions will be Friday May 21 Attached is a document describing the copyright and copyright assignment options for your documentation Now available from Website The documents due Friday can be submitted in electronic form In particular there is no need to have your poster printed if you think it is likely that it will be changed prior to the design show However keep in mind CCSD will be busy printing a lot of poster in week 11 and a couple of years ago they ran out of ink about 2 days before the design show and didn t get more ink until the night before the show So don t wait until the very last minute to print your posters Please make a CD or multiple CDs with all your documents code drawings etc Include a Table of Contents ToC file in Word or Open Office format describing the CD contents in the root folder The ToC file doesn t have to list every folder and file on the CD but should provide enough information to make finding what someone is looking for relatively easy Place this CD or these CDs in your updated DHR The deadline for the CD is Friday May 28 All members of some teams and most members of the rest of the teams appear to be making substantial progress on the design projects That being said all the BE teams appear to be significantly less
8. l text of MSOE s patent policy can be found at http inside msoe edu academics documents patpol7a Paragraph C of the policy requires the prompt disclosure of inventions to the Dean of Applied Research currently Mr Tom Bray bray msoe edu would interpret this as being prior to graduation have attached an MSOE Invention Disclosure form to this message for your use Mr Bray tells me a typical invention description should only be a few pages long Under the policy MSOE pays all the costs associated with obtaining the patent and the inventor receives 33 of the first 100 000 and 25 of net royalty income in excess of 100 000 Due to the costs associated with obtaining a patent it is likely that MSOE will decline to pursue any patents on your behalf am currently seeking clarification from Mr Bray on how sucha discussion will be communicated The design show on May 28 may very well constitute the public disclosure of your idea so any patent applications will have to be filed within a year of the show Keep in mind that the overall concepts of your devices would probably not be patentable as they would fall in the prior art or obvious categories What might be patentable would be some detail of how you solved a problem within your project Honestly don t think teams 2 or 5 would have anything to patent Teams 4 and 6 very well might have one or more ideas that should be considered for patent protection don t have an opinion
9. mation as possible in a timely manner after all their grades depend on it l Il send out a separate message later this afternoon outlining my software documentation expectations The deadline for the formal CE and SE submissions will be Friday May 21 was reasonably pleased with the unfinished prototypes demonstrated in lab today In the interest of giving you time to do a better job than you d have time to do with the current deadline have decided to give you one more week to complete your software documentation design verification and validation experiments and state your final recommendations and conclusions These are simply the last 3 sections of your design reports You are welcome to turn in what you have completed in these sections but will not evaluate it until next Wednesday 5 19 will evaluate all the preceding sections front matter introduction and background design and costs Be sure to include dates and version numbers on your reports so I m certain have the most current version when grade Final BE project documents are due this Friday May 14 by 5 00 pm will grade what you turn in at that time You may and should modify your documents after the deadline and resubmit them if you make changes to your projects BE students and teams do not have to provide memos this quarter CE and SE students should cooperate with the BE by providing as much information as possible in a timely manner after all the
10. ropbox account based on your e mail address to access your team s folder You have the option of installing the Dropbox software on your computer Installing the software completely integrates Dropbox with windows This allows you to use the Dropbox folder just like any other Windows folder The only difference being that any files you put in your team s Dropbox folder on your computer will automatically appear in your team s folder on my computer the next time connect to the internet If you don t want to install their software you can still access your team s Dropbox folder via the Dropbox website Please place all design submissions for the remainder of the year in your team s Dropbox folder Do not e mail me large files I m realizing that if you all e mail me your team documentation on Friday my mailbox will likely exceed its size limit have a Dropbox account and will setup individual shared folders for each team tomorrow Please place your documentation in these folders when you have it ready lII send complete instructions on doing this in the morning Final BE project documents are due this Friday May 14 by 5 00 pm will grade what you turn in at that time You may and should modify your documents after the deadline and resubmit them if you make changes to your projects BE students and teams do not have to provide memos this quarter CE and SE students should cooperate with the BE by providing as much infor
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