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: [email protected] or call 556-0420
– or [email protected] 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
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