1. ECE Senior Design Advisory Committee Report Dave Meyer, Chair Eric Furgason, Jim Krogmeier, Jeff Gray, Carla Zoltowski, Barrett Robinson December 10, 2004

2. Outline Definitions SDAC Mission Current ECE Senior Design Options Design Project Snapshots Items Under Consideration

3. Definition – Senior Design Course A Senior Design Course must provide students with a major multi-disciplinary design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work. The design project must be team-based and must incorporate engineering design standards and realistic constraints that include most of the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; and political. The experience must also reinforce the students’ understanding of ethical and professional responsibility and their ability to communicate effectively.

4. Definition – Major Design Experience A major design experience is one that involves at least three (3) credit hours of coursework with 100% engineering design content and involves most of the following elements of the design process: the establishment of objectives and criteria synthesis analysis construction testing evaluation

5. SDAC Mission Review ECE senior design course certification requestscertification requests Review ECE senior design semester reportssemester reports Make recommendations to ECE Curriculum Committee regarding reviews

6. Current ECE Senior Design Options ECE 402 ECE Design Projects ECE 477 Digital Systems Senior Project ECE 490 Senior Participation in EPICS

7. ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

17. Items Currently Under Consideration Approving senior design courses offered by other engineering departments (e.g. ME 463) for ECE senior design credit Developing a “project course” evaluation form that could be used for all senior design options Revamping/reinstituting ECE 300 (“Junior Seminar”) as a pre-requisite for senior design Promoting design across the curriculum