DPM: Design Project Management
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Course Deliverables and Grading

As a design project oriented laboratory course, the grades herein will be assessed somewhat differently than in conventional lecture oriented classes. While you will receive regular guidance (through consulting sessions) and be expected to complete tasks in a timely fashion throughout the duration of the project, you will not receive regularly graded homework assignments. Rather, there will be two major periods of feedback in the course -- following the mid-term presentation, and at the conclusion of the quarter.

Deliverables and Points
Item Description Percentage
Classroom and Small Group Participation

Rubric - Written Tasks

Rubric - Participation

This class will include numerous in-class and small group exercises. It is important for each student to actively participate in these sessions and in your team's activities. The instructor will assess your participation and contributions to the classroom and team effort using a variety of metrics, including direct observation and peer assessment. Homework that is specifically listed as an individual task in the course homework will be included in this category.

This item will be assessed at the mid-point and conclusion of the quarter.

20
Background Presentation Early in your project, you will make a classroom presentation demonstrating your understanding of past work that has been accomplished in the general field of your projects. You are responsible for showing that you understand that state of the are. Your primary focus should be on previous RIT senior design projects that are related to yours, secondary focus on academic research and student projects at other universities, and third on the state of art as expressed in the market place via products, patents, and publications, etc.

This item will be assessed during week 4 of the quarter.

10
Project Status Update - Formal Presentation Mid-way through your project, you will be provided feedback with your progress to date by the DPM instructors and your peer students. At this point, the scope of work should be well defined, the roles and responsibilities of individual team members and projects within the project should be clear. Each project will be presented to the class in a formal presentation, followed by team consultations. You will be evaluated on all aspects of your work, including your written documents (published electronically on the your team web site), the quality, accuracy, and thoroughness of your engineering analysis, and your presentation. In addition to being evaluated on your own work, you will be evaluated on the quality of feedback you provide to your peer students.

Use this Project Status Update Template for your Preliminary Project Plan

This item will be assessed during week 6 of the quarter.

20
Final Project Plan - Formal Presentation DPM Presentation Expectations

This item will be assessed at the conclusion of the quarter.

20
Final Published Project Plan Publish your final project plan documents electronically on your website. You will be evaluated on the quality, accuracy, and thoroughness of your engineering plan, staffing plan, statement of work, needs assessment, work breakdown structure, budget, and all other aspects of the work you have performed throughout the quarter.

You may want to review these guidelines to improve the value and readability of your Overall Roadmap and Individual Project Plans.

This item will be assessed at the conclusion of the quarter.

20
Video Monitor Commercial Marketing Video

This item will be assessed at the conclusion of the quarter.

10

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