ECE 445: Lecture 1 Prof. Karl Reinhard (reinhrd2@illinois.edu) Prof. Arne Fliflet (afliflet@illinois.edu) Prof. Can Bayram (cbayram@Illinois.edu) ECE Main Slide

Agenda 4:00pm - Welcome, Introductions, Course Overview 4:15pm - Project Pitches Lav Varshney: Bike Sharing Jacob Bryan: Tin Can Telephony Michael Oelze: Toy Boat Upgrade Ben Eng: RFI Detector Amaury Saulsberry: Acid Reflux for Babies 4:40pm - Guided Brainstorming and Ideation 5:30pm - May is Coming

Meet the Professors Prof. Karl Reinhard Prof. Arne Fliflet Prof. Can Bayram 

Meet the Teaching Assistants Jacob Bryan John Capozzo Kexin Hui Yuchen He Rebecca Chen Channing Philbrick Xinrui Zhu Mike Genovese

Meet the Teaching Assistants Dongwei Shi Yamuna Phal Zhen Qin Zipeng “Bird” Wang

The point BE AWESOME!

Project Pitches Lav Varshney: Bike Sharing Jacob Bryan: Tin Can Telephony Michael Oelze: Toy Boat Upgrade Ben Eng: RFI Detector Amaury Saulsberry: Acid Reflux for Babies

December is coming September 14th: Project approval (16 days from now) • Brainstorming, team formation, successful RFA September 21st: Project proposal (+7 days) • Refinement of project idea, requirement specifications, schedule October 5th: Design Document (+14 days) • Complete paper design of project, requirement & verification, parts list, cost December 4th: Project demonstration (+60 days) • Implement design, order parts, assemble, test, and document everything, demonstrate a fully functioning project