If you're interested in taking 581 next quarter, and don't have the prerequisite listed in PASS, send me an email. I'll forward it to Christy Zolla from our department office, and she'll send you a permission number. 
For a preview of the format and content, check out last year's 581 class. 
The class again incorporates elements of 486 (Human-Computer Interaction) since I'm on a reduced teaching schedule for next quarter.
There's also a good chance that we will use a common theme for the class projects, based on an idea by Anna Gold from Cal Poly's library to extend the Science Cafe towards an online marketplace for events, ideas, projects, etc. I'm also in contact with several people from industry (mostly Cal Poly alums) to get involved with this. Individual teams would still be able to select their own projects, but the projects would have to fit into the overall theme. 

Please give me some feedback on how the work on your team is going, including the performance of the team members. We’ll do the same thing again at the end, and then your answers will contribute to the score for the project. The main purpose of this one is to alert me about discrepancies within teams, such as imbalanced work loads, or members not contributing their share.

Tags: project, feedback, team