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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