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!), , 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 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 – or call –or or call –enroll in 501/531, attend clinic courses and do clinic project

Professional Biography name 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) 1 st 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 addresses, if known background skills/interests