Learning Objectives

Happy Design Review Week!

• You will spend some time this week preparing for DR1 and completing your weekly deliverables.

Deliverables

Your mentors will review your progress on your deliverables at your weekly meeting. The person in charge of each deliverable should be sure to compile tangible progress across all team members working on the task, to discuss at the meeting. Also add ideas for deliverables or testing goals through March. The staff will help guide your choice of deliverables for each week, but the goal is to eventually transition to the team independently laying out your project timelines. This is also a part of DR1 discussion.

Be sure to not only mark your deliverables as complete, but also add a few words on progress or findings for each deliverable and a note about where any materials associated with that deliverable can be found (i.e. data, graphs, pcb files, code, etc.)

Team meeting

Now, onto our main event: Design Review 1!

This DR1 will happen during your weekly meeting time with your mentors. You will have a half hour to present to the staff and then a half hour of feedback to discuss progress, future project timelines, and project trajectory with course staff. A few quick points:

• All members of the team are expected to present some part of the presentation
• Your presentation should not be excessively over time or extremely short-- time it and practice before the meeting to make sure it is ~30 minutes
• We want substance-- make sure that you spend time thinking about what direction you want to take your product in and lay out general deliverables in order to get there.

Details on the review are in Review 1 page. Make sure to look through this page prior to your presentation.

Summary

• Update your deliverables (both progress and next set of deliverables for testing)
• Prepare for DR1 AS A TEAM (like seriously... don't wing it)
• Reach out to your mentor(s) to confirm the timings for your review