Pre-Design Activities:

Meet with your project group to discuss a project that you would like to work on for the Major Project.  Discuss one or more potential topics for the project.  Consider the interests of the group, the importance of the topic, your ability to gather the necessary knowledge, and your ability to complete the work in the remainder of the quarter.  Note that you may not have the project completely defined at the end of this meeting.  In fact, you may end the meeting still considering two different topics.

Part 1:  Meeting Notes.

Keep notes on the meeting and shortly after it is over, type up your notes and e-mail them to your partners.  This does not need to look like the formal "Minutes of the Meeting," but just an informal record of topics discussed, agreements reached, and action items to be completed.  For example, "We discussed topic X and topic Y, and agreed that if we can find information XX, we will do topic X.  Otherwise we will do topic Y.  Joe will contact his friend at XXX  before Thursday, to see if the information is available."

Part 2:  Revised Notes.

Exchange additions and corrections to the notes and submit to me one copy of the meeting notes from the group as Homework D5.  Be sure all three names are on the notes.