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1 Log books Format

Hand written logs books are still an industry wide practice even in our technology saturated day and age. Your log book should
be with you when you do any activity related to the project. For example you spent three hours preparing a drawing for a part.
The time and a brief summary of this activity must be entered in your log. You will need this information for other activities such
as project planning, client billing and reference.

This is due to many reasons:

1) It allows you to quickly jot down ideas, contacts, telephone numbers and other data related to your project and have
them available for quick reference.
2) The log book is as a legal requirement. During your career you may be called to court for a civil or criminal activity
related to an engineering project that you worked on. Your log book becomes a legal tracking of your activities related
to the project.
3) The log book is also used for project administration work such as the billing of clients for consultation or other
activities.
4) The log book also contains the facts required for your preparation of progress and other reports associated with the
project.
5) For the CNAQ capstone course it is also an important tool for communication between advisor, supervisor and student.

During the Capstone project courses, you will be required to keep an accurate, truthful, regular log book. This is based on the
booklet given to you in class.

This is a list of information required to be in your logbook weekly:

1. Weekly, task driven journal, handwritten of project 9. Percent completion of project at the end of each
progress and communications week
2. Planned work per week 10. Summary and conclusion of weekly meetings
3. Actual work per week 11. Weekly Snapshot of project progress
4. Calculations for tasks 12. A record of each meeting including participants,
5. Quick Hand sketches location, time, topics discussed, decisions made
6. Business cards: staple, glue and action items.
13. All entries MUST be in pen. Pencil entries will be
7. If you were forced to use an external piece of
penalized.
paper, please attach it to the log book: staple, 14. Do NOT scribble any information, neatly cross it
glue. out, so it is still legible and readable, but obviously
8. Sentiments/feelings towards the weekly project not wanted in that format.
progress 15. Do NOT remove any pages from the log book. This
is an illegal activity.