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Prototypes to Products
Art: Charles Knight (1791-1873), Interior of the Bodleian Library-14587394080, 1845 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Mr. Andrew Heafitz
- Term
- Fall 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 19 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare EC.S06 Prototypes to Products, Fall 2005, Mr. Andrew Heafitz — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
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Lecture Notes
8 files
- Lesson plan, Prototypes to Products, Day 1 Download
- Lesson plan, Prototypes to Products, week 2 Download
- Lesson plan, Prototypes to Products, Week 2 Download
- Lesson plan, Prototypes to Products, week 6 Download
- Lesson plan, Prototypes to Products, week 7 Download
- Lesson plan, Prototypes to Products, week 7 Download
- Lesson plan, Prototypes to Products, week 8 Download
- Lesson plan, Prototypes to Products, week 9 Download
Assignments
8 files
- Homework 1: Goals for Semester Download
- Homework 2: Gantt Chart Download
- Homework 3: Detailed Schedule Download
- Homework 4: Pugh Charts, Selection Matrices Download
- Homework 5: Updated Gantt Chart, Funding Download
- Homework 6: Videotape Destruction Download
- Homework 7: Final Goals Download
- Lesson plan, Prototypes to Products, week 9 Download
Projects
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Project Management, Gantt Chart Schedules, Post-it Exercise
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Lecture 3: Where to Get Resources, What is Worth Spending Money on? Present and Discuss Gantt Charts
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Lecture 4: Consulting Time to Review Schedules
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Lecture 5: Project Management (Guest Speaker: Linda Plano)
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Lecture 6: Consulting with Guest Ben Linder: Pugh Charts, Selection Matrices
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Lecture 7: Case Study: Low Cost Irrigation (Guest Speaker: Sudarshun)
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Lecture 8: Consulting with Guest Ben Linder: Pugh Charts, Selection Matrices
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Lecture 9: Businesses, Networking, 50k Competition, Entrepreneurship (Guest Speaker: Joost Bonson)
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Lecture 10: Progress Reports, Fund Raising Opportunities and Techniques, IDEAS Contest/Generator Dinner in the Evening
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Lecture 11: Consulting; Bring Work to Class
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Lecture 12: Design for Manufacturing; Destroy a Videotape
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Lecture 13: Description and Requirements for M1 Design Review; Work on Presentations
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Lecture 14: Field Testing and Customer Surveys
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Lecture 15: M1 Design Review: Poster Session Presentations
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Lecture 16: Design Review Post-Mortem, S.W.O.T.
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Lecture 17: Consulting, Review Schedules; Bring Work to Class
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Lecture 18: International Relations (Guest Speaker: Chad Lewis)
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Lecture 19: Consulting Session; Bring Work to Class
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Lecture 20: Pot in a Pot Refrigeration (Guest Speaker: Mohammed Bah Abba)
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Lecture 21: Consulting; Review Schedules; Bring Work to Class
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Lecture 22: Consulting Session; Bring Work to Class
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Lecture 23: Proposal Writing (Guest Speaker: Sally Susnowitz)
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Lecture 24: Presentation Dry Runs/Feedback
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Lecture 25: M2 Final Presentations; Guest Reviewers Present
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Lecture 26: Class Feedback and Celebration
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