ECE Senior Design is a two-semester requirement for students pursuing degrees in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, that satisfies the major design requirement for the degrees and provides senior ECE students with the necessary skills to address and solve open-ended design problems.

The ECE Senior Design Requirement can be met through two pathways – both of which involve two semesters. (EE Degree Requirements , CmpE Degree Requirements )

ECE 3011 can be taken as soon as the pre-requisite courses are met and does not have to be taken in the junior year. ECE 3011 is a pre-requisite course for both single semester senior design options and cannot be taken concurrently. ECE 3011 credit counts toward Free Electives and will not show up in DegreeWorks under the Culminating Senior Design section but is a pre-requisite for ECE 4015, ECE 4723, and ECE 4853. ECE 4015 is for ECE Senior Design projects, ECE 4723 is for interdisciplinary Senior Design projects. VIP does not take the place of Senior Design but can be used in a Senior design project, please seek prior approval/instructions if you intend to use VIP for senior design - view here.

Pre-requisite Courses for the Design Courses:

ECE Junior Design:

ECE Design Fundamentals, ECE 3011, provides the opportunity to practice designing, building, and testing a prototype in a low-risk environment. ECE 3011 prioritizes exploration of possibilities over the operation of the prototype, allowing teams to learn about the tools and facilities available at Georgia Tech. Focusing on industry design techniques/processes, the student will leave the class ready for Capstone and fully prepared to join an interdisciplinary design team in the modern job market. See examples of prior years’ projects by visiting the ECE Design Fundamentals Museum .

ECE Senior Design:

Senior undergraduate students in ECE work on design challenges that have real-world applications in Senior Design. The student design teams’ efforts are showcased at an end-of-semester Capstone Design Expo. The Expo takes place at the end of each fall and spring semester and features inventions by more than 150 teams and 900 individual students. All eight schools within the College of Engineering compete, with ECE students making up close to a quarter of total participants. Working in teams, students will complete a project requiring specification, design, implementation, and testing. 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.