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Lecture Note List

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.

Dec. 5 Final presentation logistics, presenting data (.pdf)

Nov. 30

Design reviews

Nov. 28

Presentation design (.pdf)

Nov. 26

2.009 business case (.pdf)
Product costing /economics model (.xls)

Nov. 14

Technical review logistics and final presentation overview (.pdf)
2011, 3 minute final presentation compendium (.mov)
Annotated final presentation example (.mov)

Nov. 9 Prooduct form (.pdf)

Nov. 7

Project consulting

Nov. 5

Safety, technical review and debugging process (.pdf)
Short circuit! (.mov)
Gorilla and Banana demonstrate inattentional blindness

Nov. 2

Assembly review introduction (.pdf)
Results from class: Assembly review

Oct. 31

Assembly review introduction (.pdf)
Results from class: Assembly review
Chicken chart! (.png)

Oct. 29 Product form lecture cancelled due to hurricane Sandy

Oct. 26

Assembly review details and product form (.pdf)
Project consulting (.pdf)

Oct. 24 Design for assembly (.pdf)

Oct. 22

Product architecture (.pdf)

Oct. 19

Mockup feedback, critique, and ethics (.pdf)
Critique: the good, the bad, and the ugly(.mov)

Oct. 18 Mockup review introduction slide (.pdf)

Oct. 17

Mockup review pointers (.pdf)
Detailed logistics

Oct. 15

Scheduling and time estimation (.pdf)
2.009 store launch

Results from class: Origami ball time estimation experiment

Oct. 12

Specifications (.pdf)

The homer
Results from class: Specification exercise

Oct. 10 Mockups, customer needs, and human use (.pdf)

Oct. 5

Sketch model feedback and snowball launching (.pdf)
Tips for successful projects (.pdf)

Oct. 4

Sketch model review introductiion (.pdf)
Review results: Sketch model results

Oct. 1

Build challenge (.pdf)

Sept. 28

Product teardowns (.pdf)
Teardown activity instructions (.pdf)

Plastics identification, Plastics identification symbols, Costing guidelines (certs required)

Teardown exercise results
Teardown in 60 seconds (.mov)

Sept. 26 Ideas feedback and patents (.pdf)

Sept. 24 3-idea presentation introduction (.pdf)
3-idea presentation results

Sept. 19

Sketch models (.pdf)

See the sketch modeling tutorials

Sept. 17

Idea presentation and estimation challenge (.pdf)

Sept. 14

Customer observation and estimation (.pdf)

Observation exercise

Sept. 12

Meetings and finding information (.pdf)
Treasure hunt instructions and resources
Treasure hunt results

Sept. 10

Teams (.pdf)
Running a meeting primer (.pdf)
3-ideas milestone
Idea fair abstracts

Team-building tower challenge (.mov)
Team-building challenge roles
(.pdf)

Sept. 7

Creativity and project introduction (.pdf)
Creativity strategies cheat-sheet (.pdf)
Brainstorming tutorial (.pdf)

Sept. 5

Product development process introduction (.pdf)
Failed prototype test (.mpg)