Weekly Logs

Week 1:

• Introduction to Design VI
• Site Setup and Class Overview

Week 2:

• Found Raspberry Pi
• Definitions of engineering, research and different disciplines.

Week 3:

• Lesson: Needs Assessment
  • Process to identify needs and wants between current conditions and desired conditions.
  • Three basic types of problem solving. Requires different design proposals
    • Prediction
    • Invention
    • Explanation

Week 4/5:

• Lesson: Structuring the Search for a Problem
• Problem formulation and various techniques so that effort is efficient and design criteria and solution goals are met.
  • Demo of Django and Flask
    • Was already introduced to these concepts in IOT
    • Django - a free and open source web application framework, written in Python
    • Flask - another Python based web framework that can be used to build web applications

Week 7:

• Lesson: Acquiring, Applying, and Protecting Technical Knowledge
• Types of Trade Secrets
  • Trade Secrets
  • Copyrights
  • Patents
    • Utility
    • Design
    • Plant
  • Trademarks
• Demo of Crossbar and Paho
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Week 8: Ethics and Liabilities

• Finalizing Design Project
• Thinking about Senior Design Project.
  • Biggest question is whether or not it should be interdisciplinary.

Week 9: Hazard and Failure Analysis

• Understanding what went wrong
• Worked more on labs

Week 10: Design Analysis

• Finalized Design Project
• Finishing up Labs, just need to update website with results