ECE Culminating Design II

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CMPE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 3 supervised lab hours and 3 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Senior Design

Course Coordinator: Albert B Frazier

Prerequisites: (ECE 4013 [min C] or ECE 4871 [min C]) and (ECE 3005 [min S] or ECE 3006 [min V])

Catalog Description

Second course in a culminating design sequence. Student teams design, build, test, document, demonstrate prototype system reflective of knowledge gained as an undergraduate engineering student.

Textbook(s)

Course Outcomes

Work in teams with advisors and perhaps a sponsor 

Identify roles, resources, tradeoffs, and constraints

Propose a project with demonstrable quantitative Technical Specifications

Construct in a bounded time a project appropriate to their technical training

Submit cyclical status reports 

Demonstrate their results before a suitable audience

Execute a public presentation

Maintain and provide final documentation suitable for project reproduction or continuation 

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

N/A

Topic List

Working in teams, students will complete the second semester of their two-semester design project requiring specification, design, implementation, testing, and project demonstrations. Projects must be based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work, and incorporate appropriate engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints. For teams including CmpE majors, the project must incorporate both hardware and software design elements and trade-offs between the two. Emphasis is placed on the design process, the technical aspects of the design, and on reducing the proposed design to practice.


Topics for the scheduled weekly meeting with the team’s faculty advisor include the following: 

  1. First Report proposal approval & permission to begin the project ‘build’ phase
  2. On-going meetings with team’s faculty advisor
  3. Mid-semester Design Review report and presentation at Advisor’s discretion
  4. Project Final Demonstration, Presentation, & Documentation