October 24th to November 9th

I will be away on travel from 10/24 through 11/9, consequently we will not be meetign on Wednesdays during this period. Please make sure to use the time wisely and productively on your Senior Design projects and/or MS research. In particular:

1. If you haven't yet submitted your Pre-Proposal, please E-mail those to me as soon as you can. Make sure to include information on who your Advisor, Co-Advisor [for an industry sponsored project] and Mentor are.

2. Work closely with your Advisors and Mentors to further develop your project plans - that is where the bulk of your technical guidance should come from...so make a nuisance of yourselves and bug your Advisors often. In early December we will have the Fall Term Senior Design presentations, at which time you will need to submit a written project report [essentially a detailed description of what your project is about, how you are proposing to carry it out, and (hopefully) some preliminary results] plus give an oral presentation to your colleagues and the faculty.

3.  If anyone has not yet completed Drexel's on-line laboratory safety training you need to do this ASAP. Go to www.drexelsafetyandhealth.com, select the "Training" tab, enter your E-mail address, then complete the appropriate module...read, understand, answer the Q's, then you'll be set.

4. Keep a proper lab notebook for your project...in a previous blog post I provided some guidelines written by Dr. Fontecchio which are very useful.

5. Remember to attend the ECE S.D. lectures ad to write up and submit brief reports on each week's lecture coverage.

RK