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Week 1

Date Time Spent Task Description
01-Sep 2 1st Class Brainstorm Project Ideas
02-Sep 2 Research Did some research on Amazon Prime Air.
04-Sep 2 Group Meeting Discussed our topic and research tasks & presentation were divided
06-Sep 2 Presentation preparation Made the first presentation.
08-Sep 2 Lecture Listened to group presentations of their projects & approaches. Presented our own idea.


Total hours: 10 hours

Week 2

Date Time Spent Task Description
09-Sep 2 Research Searched for literature on Amazon Prime Air. Could not find enough. Concluded we had to change our project plan.
11-Sep 4 Group meeting Discussed our topic/whether or not we needed a new one & divided task
12-Sep 2 Planning Made the planning.
13-Sep 3 Problem definition Wrote the problem definition.
15-Sep 2 Lecture Listened to renewed group presentations of their projects & approaches


Total hours: 13 hours

Week 3

Date Time Spent Task Description
16-Sep 3 Product requirements Looked up what product requirements were & then wrote some that would be suitable for the mailbox
18-Sep 4 Group meeting Brainstormed various components & full ideas of mailboxes; also made an action plan for Monday.
20-Sep 5 Concepts Made sketches in Powerpoint and uploaded them with some explanation.
21-Sep 1 Remaining concepts Made remaining sketches in Powerpoint and uploaded them with some explanation.
22-Sep 2 Group meeting Discussed plan of action for the upcoming weeks. Task division. And picked out our 3 main concepts to get fully on paper and possibly 1 tested.
22-Sep 1 Mentor meeting Mentor looked at how far we have come in the wiki and discussed our further plan of action; we also received a deadline for next week which is: all new wiki pages print.


Total hours: 16 hours

Week 4

Date Time Spent Task Description
23-25-Sep 8 Building chimney Made a chimney system out of K'nex.
26-Sep 2 Group meeting Discussed about how the the chimney could have just been a lift mechanism & that we need to look more at what is in existence already to use
28-Sep 1 Chimney page Edited the chimney page.


Total hours: 11 hours

Week 5

Date Time Spent Task Description
30-Sep 6 Research existing 'chimney systems' Did research on existing solutions to vertical package transport and wrote the Wiki page.
2-Oct 3 How it works Eloborated on how the package elevator works and what its specifications are.
3-Oct 2 Group meeting Made some decisions with regard to the cubby system.
6-Oct 1 Mentor meeting Discussed various items that still have to be finished for next week. Task: Create a powerpoint on exactly how it works.
6-Oct 1 Group meeting Split up the tasks for this coming week. Discussed possible survey questions. And established that we have a peer review session next week.


Total hours: 13 hours

Week 6

Date Time Spent Task Description
9-Oct 5 Rules & regulations Did research on Rules & regulations and wrote the Wiki page.
11-12-Oct 6 Presentation Made the How it Works presentation.
13-Oct 1 Mentor meeting Discussed the How it Works PowerPoint and how next weeks presentation should work. Also some "puntjes op de i" such as a cost analysis should still be addressed for example.
13-Oct 1 Group meeting Discussed who was finishing up what for this project and how the meeting of Friday should be set up.


Total hours: 13 hours

Week 7

Date Time Spent Task Description
14-16-Oct 8 Rules & regulations Did further research on Rules & regulations and wrote the Wiki page.
19-Oct 3 Final presentation Did work on final presentation. Hot it Works and Rules & Regulations parts.
20-Oct 3 Final presentations Presented and listened to final presentations of each of the groups


Total hours: 14 hours

Summation of total hours worked: 90 hours