Course Schedule

Here is the schedule of the class for a previous semester. We are redesigning the class for the Fall 2009 semester but the course will be fairly similar.

Week	Lab 1: Monday 6 PM - 9 PM, 305 Hammond		Lab 2: Wednesday 6 PM - 9 PM, 305 Hammond		Lecture: Wednesday 5 PM to 6 PM, 307 Hammond
Week 1 Aug 27 - Sep 1	Course Orientation Fundamental Concepts	II	LabVIEW Basics Modular Programming	II	Course Venture Orientation
Week 2 Sep 3 - 7	Labor Day		Data structures File operations	II	Elevator Pitches
				F1 &
Week 3 Sep 10 - 14	Program architectures Design Patterns		Systems Engineering Advaced LabVIEW		Entrepreneurship Workshop
		E1 &
Week 4 Sep 17 - 21	Data Acquisition Design Review Process	II	Software Interfacing Matlab, C, SQL, MSOffice, ActiveX, .Net	II	Venture Value Propositions
		E2 &				P1 q
Week 5 Sep 24 - 28	Functional Verification System Characterization	II	Controlling Devices & Sub-systems	II	Identifying markets for products & services
Week 6 Oct 1 - 5	Instrument Control Device Drivers	II	Human Factors, Usability Operating system issues		Intrapreneurship Workshop
		E3 &
Week 7 Oct 8 - 12	Proof of Concept Systems Rapid System Integration	II	N/W and distributed apps Internet integration		Social Entrepreneurship
Week 8 Oct 15 - 19	Signal Processing Signal Conditioning	II	FPGAs, other platforms Team Lab Orientation		Venture Update
		E4 &				P2 q
Week 9 Oct 22 - 26	Quest 1				Invention & Innovation
Week 10 Oct 29 - Nov 2	Quest 2				Teamwork & Leadership
Week 11 Nov 5 - 9	Quest 3				International Issues
Week 12 Nov 12 - 16	Quest 4				Venture CDR
						P3 q
Week 13 Nov 19 - 23	Thanksgiving Break
Week 14 Nov 26 - 30	Quest 5				Patents & Intellectual Property Issues
Week 15 Dec 3 - 7	POC to Product Technical issues		Reflection on course, ventures, ideas		POC to Product Non-technical Issues
Week 16 Dec 10 -14	Venture		Final Prototype Demos (Design Showcase - Dec 13)		Final Presentations
						P4 q