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EE 493-494 Senior Design Course Sequence

Contents

Catalog Descriptions Objectives Staff Student Work Design Student's Road Map Team Application Form (Fill/Print/Submit) Archive

Fall'08-09 Program This year's projects (Updated for 2008! Best viewed by Internet Explorer) Supplementary Material (lecture notes, report formats...) Links Worth Visiting Links to Project Groups

Catalog Descriptions

EE 493 Engineering Design I (1+2) 2

Fundamentals of design, project management, design tools, simulation standards, quality concepts, design experience through a team project.

Prerequisite: Graduating status

EE 494 Engineering Design II (1+2) 2

Continuation of EE 493 with topics covering statistics, reliability, engineering economics, ethics, and completion of a team project with a final report and presentation. 

Prerequisite: EE 493 

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Objectives

EE493 Course objectives:

• To provide design experience to the students through teamwork and familiarize them with the project management methodology
• To provide the ability to understand and redefine a given engineering problem, and the ability to develop a conceptual design
• To provide students the ability to communicate effectively

EE494 Course objectives:

• To provide design experience to the students through teamwork and improve their knowledge on the project management methodology.
• To provide students with the experience of realization of a product from conceptual design to working model
• To provide students the ability to communicate effectively

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Student Work

Designer's Log-book

Due: Continuous

Every student should keep a notebook up to date. [More]

Preproposal

Due: 6^th week of Fall Term

Every team should submit a preproposal indicating team's choice of project topic and interpretation of the problem. [More]

Proposal

Due: 9^th week of Fall Term

Every team should submit a proposal together with the work-plan. [More]

Conceptual design

Due: 15^th week of Fall Term

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Presentations 

Due: 17^th week of Fall Term 

Weekly Team Progress Report 

Due: Weekly

Every team should submit a short report, accounting for the past week's activities and plans for the next, also indicating individual contributions. Individual members should be prepared to give an account of their share during design studio meetings. [More]

Final report

Due: 13th week of Spring Term

A thorough report summarizing the results of the whole design effort.[More] 

Implementation and Demo

Due: Last week of Spring Term

Every team will demonstrate a fully implemented, working prototype of its design.

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Links Worth Visiting

Easy Printed Circuit Board Fabrication	http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/gooteepc.htm
Portland State University Engineering Capstone	http://www.me.pdx.edu/programs/capstone/index.html
North Carolina State University	http://courses.ncsu.edu/ece480/
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, TEAMWORKS: Skills for Collaborative Work
	http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/students/current/interdisc.php
University of Nevada-Reno	http://web.me.unr.edu/me452/
International Virtual Design Studio (METU-Union College-Queen's University)	http://design.me.metu.edu.tr/ivds/
METU-ME 407 Mechanical Engineering Design	http://www.eng.metu.edu.tr/pages/ucourses/me/me407.html
Oregon State University ECE44x Project Page	http://classes.engr.oregonstate.edu/eecs/fall2003/ece441/
University of Aberdeen (UK)-EG3573 ENGINEERING DESIGN AND PRACTICE 4A	http://www.eng.abdn.ac.uk/syllabi/level3/eg3573.htm
Lehigh University-Freshmen Engineering Design Lab (ISP)	http://www.eecs.lehigh.edu/corbesero/engr3/
Oklahoma State University-Senior Design	http://ecen4013.okstate.edu/
	http://ecen4023.okstate.edu/
University of Colorado-Boulder - GEEN 1400 First Year Engineering Course	http://cadswes.colorado.edu/courses
University of Notre Dame	http://epics.cse.nd.edu/

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Last revision: September 15, 2008