ECE Culminating Design II
(0-0-6-2)
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:
- First Report proposal approval & permission to begin the project ‘build’ phase
- On-going meetings with team’s faculty advisor
- Mid-semester Design Review report and presentation at Advisor’s discretion
- Project Final Demonstration, Presentation, & Documentation