Minutes with Professor (Proposal)
Meeting Dates
September 7, 2017
Syllabus overview and introduction to senior design for all students.
September 12, 2017
First team meeting scheduled for today but cancelled due to impact of Hurricane Irma.
September 19, 2017
First meeting with Dr. Notash to present our ideas. Pitched idea for a smart home project, but idea was not approved. Agreed to find additional ideas for presentation along our proposed idea on the next meeting.
September 26, 2017
Second meeting for narrowing selection of project idea. Made a small presentation of various project ideas including our original smart home idea. Ultimately, Dr. Notash gave us tentative approval of smart home idea with a focus on the creation of a few smart devices and a goal of creating a more network secure smart home. Dr. Notash, suggested consulting Dr. Chisholm as an expert on cybersecurity after which he would give formal approval of our idea.
October 4, 2017
On this day we consulted with Dr. Chisholm about feasibility of smart home idea. We gave her an overview of our project idea and asked for her assistance in the project. She gave approval of our idea and provided some of her own input and agreed to offer assistance and advice as we implement our project in the future.
October 10, 2017
On this day we met with Dr. Notash and reported Dr. Chisholm’s support for our project idea. Dr. Notash officially approved our smart home project idea on this day, allowing us to fully focus on research and planning for our project proposal.
November 13, 2017
Dr. Notash called for a meeting on this day to go over our progress on the report. We provided a status report of our progress on the overall project concept and informed him that our research was proceeding at a good pace and that there were no major problems to report. Dr. Notash suggested that we should contact a former student of his, Saad, who has some experience in home automation and consult with him.
November 15, 2017
On this day, we had a meeting with Dr. Chisholm to further discuss the project ideas we were planning to work on. We also spoke in regard to network structure and our planned approach for how we would have our smart devices communicate over Wi-Fi.
November 21, 2017
Met with Dr. Ejaz and Dr. Chisholm this day to receive additional input on the scope of our project and ensure that it was sufficient enough to meet with the expectations of the degree program for a senior design. Dr. Ejaz agreed that our project did in fact cover a satisfactory amount of both hardware and software and would in his eyes be a worthy idea to pursue. Dr. Ejaz and Dr. Chisholm also suggested that perhaps we should scale back our idea for multiple smart devices to ensure that future time restrictions would be met.
December 5, 2017
Last meeting with Dr. Notash before project proposal, we present our rough draft of the proposal and received input on fixes and editing that could be done to the final draft.