1. CS & ECE Senior Design Project Winter 2008 Karen Davis Chia Han Altan Ferendeci

2. Blackboard for Email check your email address and update your profile if necessary very important to check email since we will not meet with all of you every week

3. Take Online Survey Emailed to You! Self- and Team-Assessment Feedback accuracy/participation/quantity of work project multiplier: –1 + (i-n)/20 –individual (overall) = i –team average (overall) = n lowered grades for individuals 43/70 people have done it already

4. Design Report and Notebook Design reports and notebooks can be submitted electronically (email karen.davis@uc.edu) hardcopy in ERC 536 by noon on 11/30

5. Winter 2008 Schedule

6. Due Dates (all Wednesdays at class time) 1/23: interface specifications 1/30: project notebook 2/6: current events assignment 2/13: test plan 2/20: project notebook, assessment 2/27: design report (electronic); no class 3/5: last class (all attend) 3/12: no class

7. Project Notebooks 1/30 and 2/20 Record weekly team meetings and other relevant project documentation –meeting log: date start/end times location people present issues discussed possible resolutions or approaches to solve problems action items (what, who is responsible, by when?) –bi-weekly meetings (or email updates) with advisor –all graded assignments –research papers, supporting documentation, and notes –brainstorming, sketches, drafts, intermediate results –receipts for purchases and/or project-related expenses (state if none) –sum of hours on task for team and individuals (including activities) Progress on your project should be evident in your project notebook!

8. Design Review Document Email a pdf document to your advisor, senior design course faculty, and the students scheduled as reviewers no later than noon on the Monday of the week you present. the document should not exceed 10 pages. Contents: 1.the project title, team members, and advisor, 2.a one or two sentence description of the goals of the project (what will be accomplished when it's completed), 3.design specifications (e.g., circuit diagrams) preferably at the highest level including the detail needed to develop or implement the project (along with anything else that is pertinent to understanding the design), 4.a summary of milestones, deliverables, and dates for the project, 5.results so far, and 6.a discussion of how well your progress satisfies the requirements specified for the project: are you on track to complete all deliverables?

9. Format for Design Review Presentation Discuss all items in the design report. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes to allow time for questions and comments.

10. Design Review Form Reviewers are graded on their participation

11. Design Reviews See 2006-07 winter quarter for examples: http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~seniors Teams review others based on a form given in class Comments are summarized and returned to reviewed team Each team has to respond in writing to the comments in the winter quarter design report

12. Interface Specifications due: Wednesday 1/23/08 give (informal) drawings of the portions of the project that users (both administrative and end-users), will interact with. The goal of this assignment is to define capabilities of the project from a user’s point of view. –What will a user see and do with your project? – What end result will the user see or obtain? The goal is not to define all possible inputs and their outputs, but rather to give a general overview of the kinds of interaction a user will have with the project.

13. Interface Specification: Software [explanatory text deleted]

14. Interface Specifications: Hardware [explanatory text deleted]

15. Interface Spec: Research Project [explanatory text deleted]

16. Current Events Essay Individual Assignment due: Wednesday 2/6/2008 1.Find an article, either a quality newspaper article or a popular technical press article that relates at least one aspect of the 8 ABET concerns to your project: health and safety, economic, sustainability, manufacturability, ethical, political, social, and environmental 2. Write an essay about it that consists of three paragraphs, 6 sentences minimum (each): outline the main idea of the article and relate it to the ABET concern or concerns you've identified describe how the topic is related to your senior design project describe an aspect of the article that impacts your life, particularly your professional life, in some way 3.Turn in both a hardcopy of the essay and the original article.

17. Test Plan due: Wednesday 2/13/2008 I. Overall Test Plan: one paragraph describing general testing strategies employed by your project. II. Test Case Description: 1.test case identifier (a number or unique name) 2.purpose of test 3.description of test 4.inputs 5.expected outputs/results 6.normal/abnormal/boundary case indication 7.blackbox/whitebox test indication 8.functional/performance test indication 9.unit/integration test indication Note that some of these categories may be inappropriate for your project and may be omitted if you can justify doing so. For items 6-9, only one term should apply. III. Test Case Matrix: summarizes the test case coverage (items 1, 6-9 in a tabular format) note: description of terms and grading guidelines are posted at ~seniors

18. Example Test Plan: Software

19. Example Test Plan: Hardware

20. Test Case: Research

21. If you don’t already have a website for your project, you may use Blackboard to create one. All projects should have a website by the end of the winter quarter. See the handout online (this is just an excerpt).

22. Still to Come … table of contents for updated design report due at end of quarter