Senior Design 2007-08: First Blog Post of the Year

Welcome to Materials Engineering Senior Design for 2007-081 We covered a lot in today's meeting, so I wanted to summarize the key points here for future reference:

 1. If you haven't done so already it is vital that you get your project topic and advisor sorted out ASAP. Now is the time to go knocking on faculty doors, sending the faculty E-mails and getting yourselves familiar with who does what and what project opportunities they may have. By next week I'd like to see the majority of you having at least the genesis of your project topic selected.

 2. Make sure to review the Syllabus I handed out today...paying particular attention to the requirements and schedule for the Fall term, and the general guidelines and WIT information. Our WIT tutor (Valarie Pelletier, also a Materials student) will be coming along to speak with you about the WIT aspect of the course.

 3. Remember to send me (Word format please) a weekly summary (bullet form is OK) of what is discussed/presented in the ECE Senior Design lectures each week. I like those by 5 pm on the Friday of each week.

 4. Please review the ABET information I circulated today too...the ABET evaluator will be talking with some of you during the site visit scheduled for October 14-16, so please be prepared and familiar with what ABET is all about.

If anyone has questions, ideas, problems or anything related to Senior Design then please E-mail me or stop by and see me. I'm normally in between about 7:30 am and 5:45 pm. I do have other classes 8-10 am on Tue, Wed and Thu, but am otherwise pretty accessible.

RK