Senior Design Projects
Angela Rasmussen
ECE 4900/4910
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Requirements
• <30 hours of requirements left
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• ECE 3030 and ECE 3900
• Teams (2 or more)
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Clinic Teams
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Faculty Teams
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Individual Projects
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Goals
• Significant Engineering Project
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• Communication Skills
• Project Planning
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Milestone-driven
• Work on a team
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Two Instructors
• Dr. Rasmussen
• Technical Advisor
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Presentation
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Milestone
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Written Work
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Project Progress
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Organization/Admini
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Aid Organization
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Completions
Feedback
stration
• 30% of grade technical open house
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Faculty Judges and Industry Judges
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Course Workload – Fall/Spring
5
Fall
• Written Project Overview
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Milestones (~100 hrs per milestone)
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High Level Block Diagram
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Project Division
• 2 presentations
• Milestone #1 Complete
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Spring
• Milestone #2 and #3 Complete
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• Practice and Final Presentations
• Final Report
• Technical Open House
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• Clinic Project:
Projects
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Company Liaison, Goal Defined
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Larger scopes (larger teams)
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• Faculty Project:
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Graduate/Research Groups
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Defined Projects
• Independent Project:
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Full Independence
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Clinic Projects
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L3 Communications
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Sandia National Labs
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3M
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Sorenson
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Moxtek
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Power Consortium (Reliable Controls, others)
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Faculty Projects
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Earthquake Prediction (FDTD)
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Optimal Electrode Placement for Artificial Neural
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Chips
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3D Lithography
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More Efficient Solar Cells
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Cooling Technology (IC Metastructures)
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Independent Projects
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Night Fury
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Parking Lot Monitor
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Structural Damage Detector
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Surgical Centers Electrical Design
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Electronically Controlled Morphing Wing
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Smart Car Battery Storage to the Grid
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Others
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Project Ideas
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Have a backup plan
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Start thinking about ideas now!
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http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/eesp/
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http://www.bu.edu/ece/senior-design-projects-2015/
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What interests do you have?
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Cool ideas?
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Project Startup
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Define a Need
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Background Research
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Design Criteria
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Preliminary Designs
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Prototype
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Iterate
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Background Research
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Investigate Existing Solutions
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Reverse Engineer
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Read books, articles, etc
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Online research through Marriot Library
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IEEE Explore
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Scopus
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Browse
Ask Questions to Guide Research
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Background Research
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Define a Need
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Background Research
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Design Criteria
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Preliminary Designs
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Prototype
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Iterate
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Schedule
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Gather Ideas
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~ 400 hours/person on team
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Get approval
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Start Working on Project (Summer)
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Clinics and Faculty Projects Known– April
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Talk to Professors
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angela.rasmussen@utah.edu
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