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Some reasonable schedules are proposed below by project type and 13 week academic semesters. There is some allowance for projects that encounter technical or schedule problems, but anything more than 1 week behind schedule will typically cause problems later.
2 Semester design and build:
Semester 1 - Planning
Project Launch - week 1
Needs identification - 1 week
Specification development - 1 week
Specification approval - week 2
Concept and embodiment development - 2 weeks
Concept approval - week 4
Detailed design - 6 weeks
Prepare presentation - 1 week
Detailed design review and approval - week 11
Order components - 1 week
Semester 2 - Implementation
Launch Execution - week 1
Build - 4-6 weeks
Build review - week 4-6
Test - 2 weeks
Documentation - 2 weeks
Customer review - week 8-10
Revisions - 2 weeks
Preparation for delivery - 1 week
Project Close - week 11-13
2 Semester design only:
Semester 1 - Planning
Project Launch - week 1
Needs identification - 1 week
Specification development - 1 week
Specification approval - week 2
Concept and embodiment development - 2 weeks
Concept approval - week 4
Detailed design - 6 weeks
Prepare presentation - 1 week
Detailed design review and approval - week 11
Order components - 1 week
Semester 2 - Implementation
Launch Execution - week 1
Build - 4-6 weeks
Build review - week 4-6
Test - 2 weeks
Documentation - 2 weeks
Customer review - week 8-10
Revisions - 2 weeks
Preparation for delivery - 1 week
Project Close - week 11-13
1 Semester design and build:
Project Launch - week 1
Needs identification
Specification development
Specification approval - week 2
Concept and embodiment development
Concept approval - week 3
Detailed design
Prepare presentation
Detailed design review and approval - week 7
Order components
Build
Build review - week 9
Continued build
Test
Documentation
Customer review - week 11
Revisions
Preparation for delivery
Project Close - week 12
2 Semester research thesis:
Semester 1 - Thesis planning
Thesis Launch - week 1
Thesis topic identification
Subject reading
Formulation of research problem
Approval of research problem statement - week 3
Location and review of seminal works
Review of literature
Write the literature review chapter
Literature review chapter approval - week 8
Develop a protocol to test the thesis
Write a methodology chapter
Methodology chapter approval - week 11
Supplies and equipment are gathered
Semester 2 - Experimentation and Verification
Launch Testing - week 1
Build experimental setup
Test for general operation
Approve equipment - week 4
Verify equipment using a control
Preliminary testing and adjustment
Write the chapter on apparatus, implementation, or verification.
Approval to collect data - week 6
The data is collected and analyzed
A chapter on data results is written
A chapter on analysis and proof of thesis is written.
Results approved - week 10
The abstract, Introduction, and Conclusions are written.
Proofreading
Equipment is returned
Thesis accepted - week 12
1 Semester research thesis:
Thesis Launch - week 1
Thesis topic identification
Formulation of research problem
Approval of research thesis - week 2
Review of literature
Write the literature review chapter
Literature review chapter approval - week 4
Develop a protocol to test the thesis
Write a methodology chapter
Methodology approval - week 6
Build experimental setup
Test for general operation
Approve equipment - week 8
Verify equipment using a control
Preliminary testing and adjustment
Write the chapter on apparatus, implementation, or verification.
Approval to collect data - week 9
The data is collected and analyzed
A chapter on data results is written
A chapter on analysis and proof of thesis is written.
Results approved - week 11
The abstract, Introduction, and Conclusions are written.
Proofreading
Equipment is returned
Thesis accepted - week 12
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