• Design team outcomes evaulation - as part of the accreditation process for the College of Engineering, University of Florida, we ask that liaison engineers complete this evaluation of their project team and return it to the faculty coach. We need this data in December and again in April. Please rate the entire team in a composite score of 1 to 5.
• Weekly Schedule - (PDF, fall 2006 update)
• Announcements

• Project Summary Sheet
• Project Selection Criteria
• Current Projects
• Our Sponsors - complete list of our sponsors from the beginning of IPPD
• IPPD Brochure
• Liaison Engineer Expectations
• Liaison Engineer FAQ

• Jan 9th, 2004

  Anti-spam countermeasures have been enabled and are now fully employed on IPPD's GroupWise system in an effort to thwart unsolicited spam and bulk email into our system. It has been a problem for us, and it is now time to stop it in it's tracks!
  
  This includes:

  • OPEN RELAYS:
    www.ordb.org
    *Email server hosts that are open to use to send email, regardless of membership, etc. - where huge amounts of spam and bulk mail are known to originate from;
    
  • REALTIME BLACKLISTS (RBL's):
    www.spamcop.net
    *Who specialize in building lists of known spammers - period;
    
  • MAIL ABUSE PREVENTION SYSTEM (MAPS):
    www.mail-abuse.org
    *Specializes in educating and encouraging Internet Service Providers to enforce strong terms and conditions prohibiting their customers from engaging in abusive email practices (i.e.: spamming);
  
  If you feel that OFFICIAL IPPD or UF BUSINESS EMAIL (only!) has been blocked (i.e. - someone has repeatedly attempted to send an email to your IPPD email account and yet it never gets through, or you yourself have been the one trying to send it into IPPD) - it is probably being blocked by one of the above services.
  
  To request that an exception be made, please send an email to:

SPAM-EXCEPTIONS@ippd.ufl.edu

We will then research the problem and get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank You.
IPPD Systems Administration

• Team Collaborative GroupWise environment
  (Novell GroupWise WebAccess - requires Mozilla 1.3+, Netscape 6+, or IE 5.5 SP2+)

• IPPD Intranet

Note: You will need to use your IPPD-assigned account to login and access these resources. Please contact either Dr. Stanfill, Norm Miller or the team coach directly - if you have not already been provided with this information.

After getting your login credentials from us, please check, and use regularly, your GroupWise accounts IPPD Sponsors!

IPPD has deployed a secure collaboration platform for your use, to communicate securely from any computer with a browser and internet connection - without needing to install anything - with your teams. Just "accept" the SSL Certificates when your browser prompts you to do so.

We are beginning to utilize the GroupWise Document Management System/Library to post official IPPD documentation, policies, training materials, as well items such as team "Final Design Review" and "System Level Design Review" instructions, direct from Dr. Stanfill - amongst many, many other items -- as they become available.

We may even use this to get deliverables and other "sensitive documents" to you SECURELY.

All the teams would have to do is attach those document(s) to a GroupWise email and then send it to your GroupWise account. When you access the above link (https://webaccess.ippd.ufl.edu/servlet/webacc) - you will do so across the public internet through a 128bit encrypted SSL connection - ensuring that not only is your Corporate information safe, but so are your login credentials, and anything you transfer back and forth between GroupWise and your machine.

This library of documents is under a constant state of change and flux. Things will be added and removed constantly. Items that are put into this library are also PERFECT for you to use for your TEAM BASED projects - or just as a secure collaboration platform.

Everyone on an IPPD team can participate in a single document - like final presentations, deliverables, etc.

Being a Document Management System, GroupWise allow users to "check out" documents from the library, make edits, and then they simply "check-in" and put them back when done. GroupWise will keep track of each user's changes, allowing the coach and/or team captains to "accept or decline" the changes of the document revisions.

A collaboration environment is defined as an integrated set of applications that enable team/group-based:

• Document Management providing "revision controls"
• Calendaring
• Task Management/Assigning
• Email
• Newsgroups
• Discussion board
• Sharing folders / proxying accounts

We also solicit your input for things you think we should also include in this wonderful resource, or changes you think might be worthy. Usage of GroupWise will most defintely be a mandatory thing next year......so why not take advantage of it now so that we can all help make next years IPPD more productive from the first day?