BME/CompE/EE/ME 297 Senior Desig

Date	Lecturer	Topic	Reading assignment			HW
			BME	ME	EE/CompE
8/25	Don Kinser, Paul King, Andrew Dozier, Joel Barnett	Introduction and philosophy, expectations, icebreaker	read opening memo and links			I.C.
9/1	Callie Leousis, + Bill Fletcher?	Vanderbilt University Career Center				X
9/8	Chris McKinney	Intellectual Property and Patents	15	726-728		X
9/15	Bruce Main, designsafe	Risk Assessment and Reduction	11	11		X
9/22	Art Overholser & Mark Stremler	Career Issues: Graduate and Professional Schools.
9/29	Richard Fries, Baxter Healthcare	Reliability and Testing	13, 17	10		X
10/6	Sheree Wright, University Counsel General Counsel	Labor Law				X
10/13	Andrew Dozier	Contracts				X
10/20	Tim Taylor	Entrepreneurship				X
10/27	Bob Wheaton	Workplace Safety Issues
11/3	Jerry Collins	Ethics	21.4	728-740		X
11/10	Don Kinser	Rapid Prototyping	12, 19.3-5			X
11/17	James A. Freeman, III	Product Liability Law	20			X
12/1	David Owens	Teams and Team Development	3	3		X
12/8	William Langston	Human factors	8

I.C. indicates an in-class exercise, X indicated homework assignment...
Bold text indicates finalized speakers.
* 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.)

Planned project discussions:
9/8 after class: John Wikswo project requests
9/15 Joel Barnett
~~9/22~~ ~~Alan Bradshaw~~
10/19 Jared Cobb, Sole Supports