ELE 4901 - Electrical Engineering - Senior Design Project I

1 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

Course Description
This is the first course in the two-course EE senior design sequence. Students form design teams consisting of three to five members and define a design problem which has alternative solutions. Alternatives are analyzed considering the needs and wants of a customer, safety, standards, and feasibility in the context of global, economic, environmental, and societal impacts. The teams finalize their design, producing a Project Design Report that demonstrates an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within multiple realistic constraints such as standards, economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability. This is the complete documented design of their project including detailed block diagrams and schematics. The course culminates with a preliminary design review that includes a team presentation. Students maintain an engineering log documenting important aspects of the design and their individual contribution to the project. (prereq: completion of all ELE 1xxx and ELE 2xxx level courses, and completion of five or more ELE 3xxx level courses) (quarter system prereq: completion of all EE 1xxx and EE 2xxx level courses, and completion of at least six or more EE 3xxx level courses)

Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Approach engineering design problems with an open and creative mind, and use various ideation techniques to explore a variety of alternative solutions
Form a team to define and solve an open-ended engineering problem
Use a variety of resources in researching the problem, including technical periodicals, trade journals, patent listings, manufacturers catalogs and application notes
Keep an engineering log of all design activities
Develop detailed design specifications
Understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context
Prepare a project plan that details the steps required for completing the design and development
Prepare a plan to verify that one of the subsystems will meet the stated requirements
Design to match a set of detailed specifications and constraints
Utilize past coursework to generate a design solution
Conduct a preliminary design review that includes a team presentation of design progress and status

Prerequisites by Topic

Electrical circuits
Electronics
Computer programming
Digital logic and embedded control
Dynamic systems

Course Topics

Vary by team project
Problem statement formulation
Requirements and specifications
Project scope
Determination of solution constituents
Constraint based design
Verification testing
Project planning and critical path

Laboratory Topics

Vary with team project

Coordinator
Dr. Richard W. Kelnhofer

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ELE 4901 - Electrical Engineering - Senior Design Project I