Week 12 Bench: Defending a design

A dry run of the capstone review, done as peer critique before it counts

10 May 2027

Before the Bench#

Bring a draft of your capstone’s device, adversary, and channel ranking — rough is expected; this session exists to make it less rough before the deadline, not to check finished work.

In the Bench#

Pair up and present your draft to each other in the form the capstone actually asks for: a device, an adversary, and an ordered list of which channels from the semester apply and in what priority. Take the critique seriously enough to change something before you leave — a ranking that survives contact with one sceptical peer is in noticeably better shape than one that has only survived contact with its own author.

Afterwards#

The capstone design review is due at the end of the teaching period. This is the last scheduled time the course gives you to find a gap in it before a marker does.