1993 Catalog Data: ELE 461, 462. SENIOR DESIGN in Electrical Engineering I, II. Prerequisite: 353, 368, and senior status. (3 and 6 lab hours, respectively). (1, 2).

Textbook: None

Reference: All Electrical and Engineering Textbooks and Handbooks

Coordinators: Dr. Darko Kajfez and Dr. Atef Elsherbeni, Professor of Electrical Engineering

Goals: To provide an opportunity for each student to participate in a complete design project including planning, problem analysis, fabrication, and presentation of his work in both written and oral forms. These investigations are individual projects under the direction of a member of the Department staff.

Prerequisites by Topic: 1. Models and Circuits II (ELE 352)

2. Electronics Laboratory Practice (ELE 353)

3. Senior Status

Description:

The Electrical Engineering Curriculum places strong emphasis upon fundamental concepts by providing for the students courses which have rich theoretical foundations in physics and mathematics. With this background a student is encouraged to develop his individual initiative and creative ability to enable him to derive useful engineering results from basic principles. An important vehicle through which he practices this is the Senior Design II course.

Not only is a student provided an opportunity to be creative in this course, but also he gains valuable insight into the evolution of theory into practice. Senior Design II is to be operated in accordance with the outline below.

Outline:

1. Each student in Senior Design II will select a project from a list of suggested design projects after discussion with an instructor.

2. The student then will write an outline or proposal including a time schedule for project completion and submit it to the instructor. (Due in one week from the first scheduled class period.) Advisor must approve proposal before work on a project can begin.

3. Office hours for Senior Design II will be during the scheduled class period. Roll will be taken. Attendance during the 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. period is required as the instructor may not be available at other times during the week for senior design questions. Additional laboratory time may be scheduled to make the laboratory available for student's use as required.

4. The student is required to keep a bound laboratory notebook which contains all progress on the project. It will be checked weekly.

5. Short oral presentations on the proposed method of solution and/or project completion will be made before mid-term and/or before finals. A student should prepare 2-4 transparencies for the overhead projector, to be used in presentation. Quality of laboratory notebook and oral presentations will constitute one-third (1/3) of the course grade.

6. A typewritten final report on the project, worth one third (1/3) of the grade, will be due on the last day of classes. Final reports are to be written and typed in an acceptable style and in accordance with correct grammar as outlined in the information on writing formats in electrical engineering laboratory manuals. Third-person past tense is generally accepted as the grammatical style for technical reports, and this style is required in all formal reports. The final report will include a listing of the cost of the total project along with an estimate of man-power costs based current entry-level salaries. Component prices should be available in catalogs in the laboratory work area.

7. Another one third (1/3) of the grade will be determined based on the quality of the project's execution.

8. A student should make arrangements with his instructor and the Department Electronics Technician if he needs supplies, materials, and equipment. The Department cannot leave facilities open for use at all times. No equipment and/or supplies should be taken from other laboratories without permission.

Students should bring their own basic tools, such as screwdrivers and electrician's pliers. Spare parts like transistors, resistances, capacitances and diodes may be borrowed from the Department's supplies if available. Special integrated circuits, not available in the Department's supplies, should be acquired by the students. Practical work is facilitated by the use of universal breadboards for mounting the circuit elements which are available through sign-out. Normally, because no soldering is required, elements are reusable. Since the same working area is used by several sections of this laboratory, students are responsible for cleaning the benches after each laboratory session, and store the breadboards in cabinets. No food or drinks are allowed in the laboratory and the no smoking regulations of the University are enforced.

The above procedures and guidelines are offered only to render Senior Design II more effective and more efficient. Any modifications of the above procedure agreed upon by the faculty advisor and students in individual cases are encouraged, if such is necessitated by the peculiar nature of a project.

Major items of equipment used: Same as ELE 461

Estimated ABET Category Content: Engineering Design: 2 credits or 100%

Prepared by: Dr. Darko Kajfez and Dr. Atef Elsherbeni