Notes are posted shortly after each class in chronological order.
The timing of lectures in relation to both lab and milestone activities are mapped in
the overall course and lab schedule.
| Nov. 30 |
Presentation design (.pdf)
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| Nov. 28 |
2.009 business case (.pdf)
Product
costing /economics model (.xls)
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| Nov. 18 |
Technical review logistics and final presentation overview (.pdf)
2010 final presentation compendium (.mov, 13 Mb)
Annotated final presentation example (.mov, 25 Mb)
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| Nov. 14 |
Project consulting
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| Nov. 9 |
Project consulting
Component library (.pdf)
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| Nov. 7 |
Safety, technical review and debugging process (.pdf)
Short circuit! (.mov)
Gorilla and Banana demonstrate inattentional blindness
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| Nov. 4 |
Assembly review introduction (.pdf)
Results from class: Assembly review
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| Nov. 2 |
Assembly review introduction (.pdf)
Results from class: Assembly review
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| Oct. 31 |
Product form (.pdf)
Chicken chart! (.pdf)
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| Oct. 28 |
Assembly review details (.pdf)
Project consulting (.pdf)
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| Oct. 26 |
Design for assembly (.pdf)
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| Oct. 24 |
Product architecture (.pdf)
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| Oct. 21 |
Mockup feedback, critique, and ethics (.pdf)
A tale of two critiques, worse and better (.mov)
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| Oct. 20 |
Mockup review introduction slide (.pdf)
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| Oct. 19 |
Mockup review pointers (.pdf)
Detailed logistics
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| Oct. 17 |
Scheduling and time estimation (.pdf)
Results from class: Origami ball time
estimation experiment
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| Oct. 14 |
Specifications (.pdf)
The homer
Results from class: Specification exercise
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| Oct. 12 |
Mockups, customer needs, and human use (.pdf)
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| Oct. 7 |
Sketch
model feedback and bird launching instructions (.pdf)
Tips for successful projects (.pdf)
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| Oct. 6 |
Sketch model review introductiion (.pdf)
Review results: Sketch model results
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| Oct. 2 |
Sketch model logisiics and build challenge (.pdf)
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| Spet. 30 |
What 2.009 students need to know about patents (.pdf)
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| Sept. 28 |
Product teardown (.pdf)
Teardown activity
instructions (.pdf)
Plastics identification, Plastics identification symbols, Costing guidelines (certs required)
Teardown exercise results
Teardown in 60 seconds (.mov)
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| Sept. 26 |
Ideas feedback and sketch models (.pdf)
See the sketch modeling tutorials
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| Sept. 23 |
3-idea presentation introduction (.pdf)
3-idea presentation results
|
| Sept. 22 |
3-idea presentation and more estimation (.pdf)
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| Sept. 19 |
Idea presentation and estimation challenge (.pdf)
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| Sept. 16 |
Customer observation and estimation (.pdf)
Observation exercise
|
| Sept. 14 |
Meetings and finding information (.pdf)
Treasure hunt instructions
and resources
Treasure hunt results
|
| Sept. 12 |
Teams (.pdf)
Running
a meeting primer (.pdf)
3-ideas milestone
Idea fair abstracts
Team-building tower challenge (.mov)
Team-building challenge
roles (.pdf)
|
| Sept. 9 |
Creativity and project
introduction (.pdf)
Creativity
strategies cheat-sheet (.pdf)
Brainstorming tutorial (.pdf)
On-the-go products, from class brainstorming.
|
| Sept. 7 |
Product development process
introduction (.pdf)
Failed prototype test (.mpg) |
