CPE 322

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Week 1

• Familiarized myself with course materials and content

• Created a website using Google Sites for CPE 322

Week 2

• Followed alongside the Lesson 1: Overview slides from the ECE 322 website

• Identified objectives and attributes of successful engineers based on canvas slides

• Obtained Raspberry Pi 3B+ to proceed with the course

• Followed Lesson 1 from GitHub

  • Familiarized myself for the Stevens WiFi setup for Raspberry Pi's

  • Downloaded the NOOBS

Week 3

• Followed Lesson 2: Needs Assessment posted on Google Drive

• Updated my website to link to GitHub and LinkedIn

• Learned more about the design/patent process and prominent inventors such as Joy Mangano

  • Inventor of things such as the self wringing mop (Miracle Mop) and other inventions such as platform shoes

• Opened the Rasbian terminal and reviewed many of the basic Raspberry Pi commands (turning on and off lightbulb)

  • echo out > direction

  • echo 1 > value

  • echo 0 > value

Week 4

• Installed Python, Node.js

• Learned more about the history of Python

• Worked with command line interface to learn navigation shortcuts

• Looked in how to host a server on Raspberry Pi using Socket

Week 5

• Reviewed lecture 4

• Discussed the search for the solution, ex: ballpoint space pen, pencil space operation

• Django Server, REST framework, MariaDB, Apache

Week 6

• No classes Tues - Thurs

Week 7

• Discussed the weekly slides, specifically the four types of intellectual property (Trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights and patents)

Week 8 (Zoom)

• Learned about the Erdos number, or the number of iterations needed to connect the author of a paper to Paul Erdos. (i.e. if someone co authored a paper with Erdos, they would have an Erdos number of 1)

• Discussed different data visualization techniques that pertain to the CVOID-19 Coronavirus, such as Graphen.ai

• Found Stevens faculty member's YouTube Channel - Geo Tech & More

Week 9 (Zoom)

• Discussed the material from lecture 7 and the ongoing design process

• Learned about how synthesis plays a role in the design process along with barriers and conceptual blocks

• Mentioned the SECI model

• Looked into the future of AI and outsourcing all human jobs with the book Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

  • Read various book reviews of his work and the future of AI

• Learned about serendipitous discoveries and other discoveries by accident such as PopSicle and Velcro

• Domain hacks such as the popular usage of .ai as in clearview.ai to 'hack' the country code of Anguilla, the British territory

Week 10 (Zoom)

• Learned about responsibilities of carrying a P.E. and the ethical and legal obligations that are included

• Read into the Echo Chamber about the confirmation of biases

  • The relationship between Echo Chambers and tribalism

• Gray Rhino book

• Discussed GDPR within the EU

• Looked at previous Senior Design projects

Week 11 (Zoom)

• Completed lecture 9

• Discussed different concepts within failure analysis

  • Battery failure, airplane crash...

• Motorola Six Sigma, efforts to reduce the amount of defects per million

Week 12 (Zoom)

• Completed lecture 10 (Design Process)

• Holding a cold drink in the left hand to avoid a wet handshake

• Left vs right handed traffic

• Boat navigation lights, red on left and green on right

• Zero Based Budgeting

Week 13 (Zoom)

• Completed lecture 11

• Learned about the different processes involved with the Senior Design process

• Listened to some of the cool projects currently being presented

  • Also some of the interesting projects from past years

• GDPR vs United States equivalent privacy standards, California Data Protection Law

Week 14 (Zoom)

• Continued to discuss the various senior design projects

• Worked on my final project

• Progressed by working on the exercises