Create-X Capstone Design

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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: 0 supervised lab hours and 6 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Senior Design

Course Coordinator: David V Anderson

Prerequisites: ECE 3011 [min C] and (ECE 3005 [min S] or ECE 3006 [min V]) and ((ECE 3025 [min C] and ECE 3040 [min C] and ECE 3043 [min C]) or ECE 3058 [min C]) 

Catalog Description

A single-semester ECE culminating design experience in which interdisciplinary teams propose, prototype, test, demonstrate, formally present, and document projects incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints.

Textbook(s)

Course Outcomes

Give oral technical presentations and written technical reports. 

Work in interdisciplinary teams to meet a common senior design project goal.

Provide regular written reports and attend regular team meetings with a faculty advisor. 

Attend and present at the Senior Design Capstone Design Expo at the end of the semester. 

Apply the knowledge gained from their undergraduate courses towards a culminating senior design project.  

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

N/A

Topic List

  1. Business thesis
  2. Marketing sizing/research
  3. Evidence based entrepreneurship
  4. Value proposition
  5. Business model canvas
  6. Minimum viable product
  7. Project selection
  8. Specification formulation within given constraints
  9. Project planning, budgeting
  10. Product and patent research
  11. Industrial design
  12. Manufacturing considerations
  13. Proof-of-Concept methods
  14. Societal, environmental and sustainability considerations
  15. Ethics, safety, product liability
  16. Codes and standards and regulatory affairs
  17. Professional licensure, FE/PE exams