Junior Design Project

In this course students will: 1) work in small design teams to solve a well-defined ECE problem and then, 2) undertake more practical open-ended engineering problem. The well-defined ECE design project will be chosen from a list of available projects that span the department?s core electrical engineering and computer engineering sub-disciplines. For the open-ended design problem, students will experience the steps in engineering design including: 1) developing a problem statement; 2) analyzing system requirements and developing specifications; 3) considering design alternative and 4) implementing a solution. The course reinforces principles of the engineering design process and serves to integrate knowledge obtained in the ECE curriculum. Each student design team is expected to present information related to their project in both written and oral formats. Preliminary paper design is followed by implementation in the lab using digital and analog hardware design techniques and software engineering techniques. It is expected that a complete or partially working system will be demonstrated at the end of the course.