EE/CompE Senior Design Project

Dr. Karen C. Davis and Dr. Marc Cahay

Fall 2004

Goals

Enable student to apply the knowledge and engineering skills acquired in preceding years to:

• demonstrate hands-on design experience

• develop a demonstrable project

• prototype a system or perform research

Agenda

• outcomes survey

• contact information: name (print!), email, phone

• advising notes

• overview of the year

• overview of the fall quarter

• professor projects online

• NISH contest

• design clinic

• upcoming assignments (due next week)

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1)ASEE Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah

hiking in Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2)Dagstuhl, Germany: Data Warehousing at the Crossroads Seminar

touring: Belgium

Advising Notes

• ECECS/Tech/Prof electives– program of study form– tech elective/prof option form

• H/S (+ foreign language policy)– 24 hours: 3 humanities/3 social science/2 any approved– one UL humanities/one UL social science where one is in area above

• pass/fail: – one course per quarter

• grad courses– G for UG credit (essentially pass/fail as far as GPA is concerned)– Independent study (do G class for a grade)

• minors: VLSI, photonics, math

Year View of Senior Design

• Fall: design specification

• Winter: design implementation/reviews

• Spring: testing, refinement, demonstration

• Senior Design Meta Course on Blackboard– make sure your email address and profile are current!

Fall Overview

• teams required (self-organizing or will be assigned)

• class attendance expected

• check due dates– professional biography

– project description

– team formation

• professor projects (some online)

Fall Schedule

Other Options

• NISH contest for projects to help severely handicapped people enter or thrive in the workforce

• Design Clinic– see Prof. Rost in 594 Rhodes

– email: bob.rost@uc.edu or call 556-0420

– or elizabeth.seidman@uc.edu or call 556-2649

– enroll in 501/531, attend clinic courses and do clinic project

Professional Biography

• name

• email address

• co-op or other related experience– job title, company

– number of quarters

• skills/expertise

• areas of interest/type of project sought

Hardcopy due Monday by 3pm

Common Errors in Professional Biography

• inconsistent grammatical style within a list

• inconsistent capitalization style

• inconsistent punctuation style

• dense with acronyms and jargon

• omission of number of quarters/employers

• paragraphs/sentences instead of bulleted items

• personal information (not technical)

• 1st person

• vague terms (e.g., “etc.”)

2003 Projects (1)

2003 Projects (2)

2004 Projects

Project Description

• title

• background

• problem statement

• inadequacy of current solutions

• overall goal (what will the final product be?)

• subgoals, if any

• team members and email addresses, if known

• background skills/interests