IED Class 1, Thurs Jan 19

W Randolph Franklin, RPI

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This page is http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/wrf/Teaching/ied-s2017 .

It will have notes for IED section 6, MR12-2.

It is maintained by W. Randolph Franklin and Glen Gross.
LMS is at https://lms9.rpi.edu/
I showed this news story: Metric mishap caused loss of NASA orbiter. The point is that, on large projects, little details can cause disaster. That is the point of this course: to teach you procedures for managing large projects.

My interest, as an RPI professor, is purely selfish. If you learn this, you have a better chance of getting rich. Then you'll be better able to buy RPI new performing arts centers or whatever.

We covered the material in 01-02-1-Activity up thru Customer Reqs.

For the mousetrap car, are we graded on max distance, or on accuracy for reaching exactly the prescribed distance?:
	Both. This is also true for the launcher. E.g., see the Launcher Competition Rules.
Where is the miniproject presentation?:
	The syllabus says in week 4. Each team gives a 4 minute presentation, and both partners must speak.
The columns on the Gantt chart say 2008?!:
	The first column is set by the date of the earliest task. Successive columns count up from that.