ECE Senior Design Advisory Committee Report

Dave Meyer, Chair

Eric Furgason, Jim Krogmeier, Jeff Gray, Carla Zoltowski, Barrett Robinson

December 10, 2004

Outline

DefinitionsSDAC MissionCurrent ECE Senior Design OptionsDesign Project Snapshots Items Under Consideration

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.

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

SDAC Mission

Review ECE senior design course certification requests

Review ECE senior design semester reports Make recommendations to ECE Curriculum

Committee regarding reviews

Current ECE Senior Design Options

ECE 402 ECE Design Projects ECE 477 Digital Systems Senior Project ECE 490 Senior Participation in EPICS

ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

ECE 477 Design Project Snapshots

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