Invention Studio Open Hours

The Invention Studio is currently staffed with Undergraduate Laboratory Instructors (also current members of the Georgia Tech Maker’s Club). A list of the personnel, their hours, and associated Maker’s club events are available on their Website.

Milestones

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 Week # Date Lecture Topic (Tuesday) Lecturer Deliverables (Wed or Thurs depending on section)

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 1 10-Jan Intro to projects and course structure teaming and communication Forest/Schumer

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 11-Jan Choose/define problem, team up/project assignments by the end of the week [more details]

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 2 17-Jan Patent/product search Forest

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 18-Jan Problem Statement, Design Partition, Project Plan, Task Assignments [more details]

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 3 24-Jan User needs and problem definition Li

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 25-Jan Patent/product search results [more details]

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 4 31-Jan Marketing Moeller

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 1-Feb Stakeholder and user needs [more details]

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 5 7-Feb Societal, environmental, and sustainability considerations Bras

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 8-Feb Progress Presentation 1/Report 1 including market research plans [more details]

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 6 14-Feb Industrial Design Li

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 15-Feb Market research results and initial concepts [more details]

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 7 21-Feb Risk & Liability Cunefare

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 22-Feb Concept charts with preliminary analysis and tradeoffs considering human factors [more details]

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 8 28-Feb Manufacturing mockup/prototype/mass production Forest

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 29-Feb CAD and engineering analysis [more details]

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 9 6-Mar Ethics Cunefare

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 7-Mar Manufacturing processes/plan to be used at small and large volumes

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 10 13-Mar

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 14-Mar Progress Presentation 2/Report 2 including CAD and physical mockups [more details]

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 11 20-Mar Spring Break

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 21-Mar CAD and engineering analysis

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 12 27-Mar

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 28-Mar Prototyping progress update

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 13 3-Apr

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 4-Apr Prototyping progress update

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 14 10-Apr

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 11-Apr Prototyping progress update

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 15 17-Apr

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 18-Apr Prototyping progress update

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 16 24-Apr

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 25-Apr Final Presentation/Final Report, Posterboard Display, Peer Evaluations [more details]

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 26-Apr Spring 2012 Capstone Expo Capstone Design Expo for all 4182 sections, MaRC atrium, 6pm

*Individual section instructors have latitude on deliverables, timing and grading. The preceding information is a set of general guidelines.