Week by Week Schedule for the ECE300 Class

Will be updated as we go along and new material will be posted when necessary.

Week 1

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 01/18/05	Class Syllabus U&E Chapter1: Introduction
Thursday 01/20/05		Woolever Ch.6: Memos, Letters and Mail

Week 2

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 01/25/05	U&E Chapter2: Dev. Proc. Org.		Homework #1 Assigned
Thursday 01/27/05	U&E Chapter 3: Planning

Week 3

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 02/01/05		Woolever: Ch.8 Instructions	Homework #1 Due
Thursday 02/03/05	Progress Report Team Projects		Homework #2 Assigned

Week 4

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 02/08/05	U&E Chapter 4: Customer Needs		Homework #2 Due
Thursday 02/10/05	U&E Chapter 4: Customer Needs		Customer Needs Matrix

Week 5

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 02/15/05		Technical Reports	Progress Report #1 Assigned
Thursday 02/17/05		Techn. Report Ex Business Plan Ex

Week 6

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 02/22/05		Business Plan SBIR
Thursday 02/24/05	U&E Chapter 5 Product Spec.	Business Plan Example 2	Progress Report #1 Due

Week 7

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 03/01/05	U&E Chapter 5 Product Spec.		Business Plan (Midterm)
Thursday 03/03/05		Abstracts, Intr., Summaries

Week 8

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 03/08/05		Oral Presentation
Thursday 03/10/05		Oral Present. Example

Week 9

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 03/22/05	U&E Ch. 6 Concept Gener.
Thursday 03/24/05	U&E Chapter 6 Concept Dev.		Business Plan Due

Week 10

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 03/29/05		Writing Proposals	Progress Report #2 (Ch.5)
Thursday 03/31/05	U&E Ch. 7 Concept Select. Coin Sorter Ex.

Week 11

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 04/05/05	U&E Ch. 8 Concept Test.
Thursday 04/07/05	U&E Ch.8 Concept Test.

Week 12

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 04/12/05		Ethical Issues Part I, Part II
Thursday 04/14/05	Intellectual Property		Progress Report #3 (Ch. 6)

Week 13

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 04/19/05	Presentation Groups 1 and 2
Thursday 04/21/05	Presentation Groups 3 and 4

Week 14

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 04/26/05	Presentation Groups 5 and 6
Thursday 04/28/05	Presentation Groups 7 and 8

Week 15

Day	Design Component	Writing Component	Assignment
Tuesday 05/03/05	Presentation Groups 9 and 10 (End of semester)
Thursday 05/05/05			Final Project Due