BME/CompE/EE/ME 297 Senior Design Seminar - Schedule 2003
Stevenson 4309

 

Date Lecturer Topic

Reading  Assignment*
      BME ME
August 27 Don Kinser, Paul King,
 Andrew Dozier, Joel Barnett 		Introduction and philosophy

Opening of Class memo
September 3 Art Overholser &  Mark Stremler Career Issues:  Graduate and Professional Schools    
September 10 Bruce Main, Designsafe Inc. Design Safe and Risk Management * 11 11
September 17 Chris McKinney Intellectual Property and Patents  * 15 pgs 726-728
September 24 Rich Fries, Datex-Ohmeda Reliability and Testing  * 16,17 10
October 1 Bob Cramer &  Callie Leousis Career Issues:  Jobs and Placement    
October 8 Jerry Collins Ethics   * 21.4 pgs 728-740
October 15 David Owens, OGSM Teams and team development  * 3 3 (rev)
October 22 Dave Berzov Finance and Accounting for Engineers *    
October 29 James A. Freeman, III: Product Liability * 7  
November 5 John Bers Building the User into the Development Cycle * read this,    in-class exercise here
November 12 Bob Covington, VU Law Labor and labor issues  *    
November 19

Andrew Dozier

 Contracts  * 21  
December 3 Bill Barkman, BWXT/Y12: Manufacturing * 20  
December 10 Bob Wheaton, VEHS Safety Issues in the Workplace  *    
         

Bold text indicates finalized speakers.   * Indicates acceptable topics for term papers.
* BME, ME, and EE/Comp.E have different reading assignments.  Please read the assigned materials or chapters prior to the class lecture.
The BME text is:  "Design of Biomedical Devices and Systems" by King and Fries (BME272 textbook.)
The ME textbook is Dieter: "Engineering Design:  A Materials and Processing Approach"  (ME242 textbook.)