The goal this week is to make sure that things are on track during a very brief meeting, and then to spend time working on your prototype. Details details should be resolved now... the technical review is in just over one week!

Advanced preparation for Lab #9
Design notebooks and timesheets are due this week. Teams with labs on Wednesday should use Wednesday's date when naming their online notebook file submissions, but the files will not be collected until Thursday.

Your task force should prepare a short, well organized, status report on the tasks that it has been working on.

Financial officers should prepare a budget status report for the team.

System integrators should prepare an agenda that includes a review of project status and a schedule update. Focus on having an effective, brief meeting so that a significant portion of the lab time can be spent working.

If AV equipment is needed, the system integrators should set this up prior to the start of lab.

Recommended Lab #9 Activities
Begin with the standard meeting startup.

Financial officers should give a short budget update to the team.

Briefly review the current status of the design with reports from different task forces. Review the updated project schedule.

Divide tasks and assign responsibility for design issues that need to be addressed and start working.

Lab instructors may want to meet with individual task forces to review progress and help with design issues. They will also quickly review your design notebooks.

Note: Wednesday (Nov. 11) is a staff and student holiday (veteran's day). The lab will be open on the team area side of the lab 9 AM-5 PM and 6 PM - 10 PM. The machine shop will be closed.

The third peer review and second team review opens at the end of this week. Allocating time to complete the reviews over the weekend is important.