July 2015
C OURSE D ESCRIPTION
The ELEC/COEN 490 project is intended as a culmination project in our engineering programs.
It is designed for students to gain significant design experience while applying integrated knowledge from several courses. It is also a means to practice project management, technical writing, and technical presentation and other soft skills.
Students work in groups under faculty supervision to solve complex interdisciplinary design problems typically involving communications, signal processing, control systems, electromagnetics, power electronics, software design, and/or hardware design. The project fosters teamwork between group members and allows students to develop their ability to carry out the work in various aspects of real engineering projects.
The two-semester project has three phases .
Phase
Phase 1
Sept. 2015 – Oct. 2015
Phase 2
Oct. 2015 – Jan. 2016
Work
Project selection and planning:
Formation of the team, selection and definition of the project, work breakdown into manageable tasks for each group member, and work schedule and budget justification.
Design and implementation:
Carrying out the design work as scheduled in
Phase 1, preparing the design review, updating the schedule and plan, documenting the design and implementation.
Phase 3
Jan. 2016 – Mar. 2016
Design and implementation:
Carrying out the design work as scheduled in
Phase 1, testing and verifying the system functions and specifications, documenting the work and preparing the final reports and demos .
Deliverable
Report
Oral presentation
Report
Oral presentation
Pre-demo
Report
Poster/Demo
R
EGISTRATION
R
EQUIREMENTS
•
Minimum of 75 credits in your undergraduate engineering program.
•
All the required 2xx courses completed.
•
Prerequisites:
Computer Engineering: ENGR 371, COEN 352, COEN 390; ELEC 311 or SOEN 341.
Electrical Engineering: ENGR 371, COEN 311, ELEC 364, ELEC 390.

P
ROJECTS AND STUDENT GROUPS
Each capstone project is to be done by a group of 3 ~ 5 students under the supervision of one or two faculty members who is/are registered engineer(s). The projects can be proposed by faculty members. Alternatively, students can come up with their own project ideas or bring a project from industry, providing that the project will be supervised, solely or jointly, by a faculty member in the Department.
Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the projects, students of different programs/options are needed to form a group. The inclusion of students from other engineering departments of the
Faculty in a project group is not only allowed but also encouraged.
I
MPORTANT
D
ATES
Orientation Session: Friday, September 11, 2015, 9:30-12:00 am
Project Selection: Monday, September 21, 2015
Phase 1 Report Submission: Friday, October 16, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Phase 1 Oral Presentation: Week of October 19, 2015
Phase 2 Report Submission:
Phase 2 Oral Presentation:
Pre-demo:
Final Report Submission:
Final Poster/Demo:
Friday, January 8, 2016 at 12:00 pm
Week of January 11, 2016
Week of March 7, 2016
Monday, March 21, 2016
March 30, 2015 (to be confirmed)
G
RADING
S
CHEME
The grade, denoted by G , is the combination of the two components, G
P
and G
I
. The grade of the project G
P
is given by the supervisor(s) and the coordinators, and G
I
is the grade of the individual contribution of each group member. The overall grade G , in percentage term, is calculated as G = G
P
(0.5 + 0.5
G
I
) .
Grade of the project G
P
G
P
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Percentage Who evaluate it
25%
Supervisor(s) and
25% academic coordinator *
50%
* The grade components given by the supervisor(s) and the Academic Coordinator carry equal weight in the grading scheme. The grade components given by the Academic Coordinator include the input from the Technical Coordinator .
Grade of the individual contribution G
I
The individual contribution of each group member is assessed by the supervisor, based on the inputs of the group members. Students grade the individual contribution of each member of their group and, according to the results of this grading, the supervisor assigns a G input
to each of the group members. A grade of G input
= 100% should be granted to the student(s) who made the best

contribution to the team work. In case that all the members of the group contributed equally, each of them should receive a G input
of 100%. The grade of G
I
is calculated as follows.
G
I
= G
M
+
α
( G input
G
M
) in percentage term where G
M is the mean score of the ( G input
)s of the group and
α
= 100%/ G
M
.
T EXTBOOKS
There is no required textbook for the course. However, students are encouraged to use the following books as a general guideline to work on the project
•
Project Management & Teamwork, by Karl Smith
•
Tools and Tactics of Design (paperback) by Peter G. Dominick et al. Wiley, 1st edition
(2000). ISBN: 0471386480.
•
Guidelines to Professional Practice (free, available on-line) by the OIQ, 1999.
ISBN: 2980218618.
Z
ERO
T
OLERANCE FOR ANY
K
IND OF
A
CADEMIC
M
ISCONDUCT
Students should be familiar with University's policies about Academic integrity and the
Academic Code of Conduct found at http://www.concordia.ca/programs-and-courses/academic-integrity/
Each student needs to sign a Form of Expectations of Originality for COEN/ELEC 490 course and sign the statement certifying that each submission is the original work of the group members and meets the Faculty's Expectations of Originality. The form is available at the capstone website.
L ICENSE A GREEMENTS
Students are obligated to respect all the license agreements and copyright agreements concerning all the materials they use for the capstone projects, regardless the ownership of the materials.
G RADUATE A TTRIBUTES
The course aims also at developing the graduate attributes as defined by CEAB.
C
ONTACTS
1.
Academic inquiries, project assignment
Academic Coordinator - Dr. Chunyan Wang, EV005.121
Email: chunyan@ece.concordia.ca, Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext 3120
2.
Resources and technical questions
Technical Coordinator - Mr. Dmitry Rozhdestvenskiy
Email: dmitry@ece.concordia.ca, Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext 3106
3.
General questions, presentation scheduling, special events
Program Assistant – Maria Fasciano
Email: mariaf@ece.concordia.ca, Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext 3102

4.
Course web site, important dates, description of requirements in different phases, forms, etc. http://www.ece.concordia.ca/currentstudents/undergraduatestudents/capstone/index.php