A Project Notebook is a three-ring binder of bound pages in which your team can keep their daily technical and rhetorical work. It allows your team to keep precise and accurate records of what each member is doing. Because no one can remember everything precisely, a written record at the time something happens is the only way to insure accuracy of the event. Obviously, engineers have an ethical responsibility to keep written records that are precise and clear in their Project Notebook.
Your Project Notebook is a large three-ring binder of bound pages which includes five dividers with labels in this order:
The contents of each section of the Project Notebook is specified below. Each page should be dated and initialized by the individual who placed the item in the Notebook.
The Administration section includes a cover page on the Project, the names of all the team members, their telephone numbers, campus address, email addresses and name and location of all computer files.
After the first few pages, this section contains all the minutes of the team's meetings in chronological order.
This section contains all the team's correspondence including memoranda, team assignments and reports in chronological order.
This section contains reviews of articles, xerox copies of articles and bibliographic information.
This section includes notes copied from individual journals, for example, design ideas. Also, this is where material should be placed if it does not fit in the other sections.
This section includes design documents associated with a program, program listings, test suites, and any assessment of the program, e. g., performance data.