The following are the minimal responsibilities of the adviser for a senior design team. Please do not agree to be the adviser for a senior design team unless you feel that you can fulfill these duties.
The team adviser does not have to be the sole technical adviser for the team. The team may be working with technologies that are unfamiliar to the adviser, in which case the team is urged to seek technical advice from whatever source is appropriate. If the adviser gives technical advice on a topic, then that advice should take precedence over whatever other technical advice the team receives from other sources.
Senior design teams in each semester have several documents to prepare. It is not the responsibility of the adviser to review these documents. However, it would be useful if the adviser would review the mid-semester and end-of-semester presentations, and give feedback on these before the presentation dates. The bottom line on these presentations is that they should address the questions found on the mid-semester and end-of-semester review forms. See the templates section for these forms.