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ECE Senior Design Objectives

The purpose of these courses is to provide you with the experience of conceiving, designing and implementing a hardware or hardware-related software project, and of presenting your results in both oral and written form. The project may consist of either design and construction of hardware or the production of software that has basic engineering significance.

Senior Design Project Syllabus

Schedule for ECE 492/493

ECE 492 (1 credit):

• Week 1:

  Introduction, Kick-off meeting. Only formal meeting of the semester.

• Week 4:

  Project Title/Faculty Sponsor form.

• Week 6:

  Activity report - research done, people contacted, etc. This report should be complete, in narrative form, not just an itemized listing.

• Week 9:

  Fully defined project write-up. Just what is to be done?Preliminary specifications (Goals) to be met. Functions/Outputs of the design.

• Week 10:

  Oral presentations to faculty sponsor and one or more other faculty members.

• Week 11:

  Preliminary Prospectus and Activity report.

• Week 15:

  Final Prospectus/Project Plan with Initial Design.
  

  a. Defined to the circuit schematic level with preliminary element values for hardware projects.
  

  b. Defined to the flow diagram level with identification of subroutines and main parameters for simulation projects.

A clean, not-marked-up copy of the Final Written Prospectus/Initial Design document is to be included as an Appendix to the ECE 493 Final Report.

ECE 493 (2 credits):

• Week 1:

  Update meeting. Only formal meeting of the semester until Final Oral presentations.

• Week 2:

  Project Title/Faculty Sponsor form (again).

• Week 4:

  Activity Report - Successes, problems, concerns, technical details. (Narrative form, not itemized listing.)

• Week 7:

  Activity Report. (Narrative form, not itemized listing.)

• Week 10:

  Draft Final Report - May have some "sections" missing, but their existence/need is acknowledged.

• Week 15:

  Copy of Final Report Cover page with Advisor's signature indicating completion provided to course coordinators.

• Week 15:

  Final Written Report and Formal Oral Presentation to faculty and students

ECE Typical Senior Design Projects

1. Vehicle Collision Detection System. Analyze potential solutions to collision detection. Design and fabricate a prototype system that could be used for private automobiles.

2. Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI). Perform a simulation of a data communications network based on the FDDI standard. Evaluate FDDI protocols appropriate to data communications.

3. RF Transmitter/Receiver Pair. Design and fabricate a low power, portable, low cost "locator" system based on using a RF receiver with directional antenna and an RF transmitter with an omnidirectional antenna.

4. Microprocessor Based Temperature Controller. Design a programmable microprocessor based system to monitor many temperature sensors and provide control signals to multiple heater elements to maintain a programmable temperature profile over a large area.

Project Sources

We know that every projects has some kind of customer whether it is a faculty member, a department here at school or a representative from industry. There are no project sources lisited in this page at the moment. In the future there will be a list of project sources to choose from.

Interdisciplinary Projects

Interdisciplinary projects have never been done before but the hardware/software combination allows for interdisciplinary projects.

There is also the possibilty of a semi-interdiscaplanary project such as a student going outside the ECE field. For example , a project that involves a mechanical device being driven by an electronic system.

Project Presentation

There are written and oral presentations at the end of each course. The oral presentation is open to faculty and students Please see the syllabus for more information .

Prerequisites:

• ECE 492

  Have copmpleted 90 credits in the ECE program

• ECE493

  492, preferably in the preceding semester

How to Register

1. Meet The course Requirements
2. Register for ECE492/ECE493

Contact:

Dr. Sutton
Dr. Anna Baraniecki, A.Z.

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