During a recent design review we learned what our weekly schedule would look like for the upcoming school year. The schedule divides our time so half is focused on learning and half is focused on projects. We are maintaining a schedule that resembles the work week, planning to be in class from 8-4 on weekdays. When we come in on Mondays in the early morning our design group will get together and have a meeting addressing what we will need to get done this week on our project. Tuesday and Thursday are planned to be project workdays, while Wednesday will be a time for design reviews, including preparation and presentation. We are also planning to have a guest speaker come in once a week, inviting them to speak to us over a lunch prepared by a group of students. We will have plenty study time supplemented by group learning conversations. This learning will prepare us for the learning portion of our design review as well as for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, taken once a semester, and for a new round of weekly evaluations. Instead of all being lumped together in one week our concept inventories and several other evaluations will be spread out over the course of the semester. With this schedule, we will have plenty of time for both learning and producing, without too much time lost in transition, while allowing enough time for evaluation, community outreach and visits from engineers in the field.
Proofed by Deric Phillips
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