Overview
Course number and name: EE481, EE481L, Senior Design Project I
Credits and contact hours: 3 credits
Instructor: Rene Arechiga
Location: Workman 211
Phone: (575) 835-6881
email: Rene.Arechiga@nmt.edu
References:
Checkered Flag Projects, Randolf and Posner, Prentice Hall 2002.
Art of War, Sun Tsu (available on line)
Class schedule:
Regular class: MW 12:00 to 12:50; in Workman 109
Office hours: MWF 11:00 to 12:00 am, or by appointment
Specific course information:
Brief description of the content of the course:
- Student design teams begin an academic year long capstone design project. Periodic design reviews and reports, applications of engineering skills, project management and formal presentations are major components of the program.
- Successful completion of the project requires the application of standards, electronics, applied physics, numerical computation, signal processing and other electrical engineering techniques to real-world engineering problems.
Prerequisites or Co-requisites:
- Prerequisite: EE 382 (Introduction to Design)
- Prerequisite: Declared EE as a major
- Co-requisites: None
Indicate whether a required or elective course in the program:
- Required
Brief list of topics to be covered:
Key dates follow:
- Lecture
- Problem definition
- Safety and risk assessment
- Review of design process & design ideation
- Environmental & sustainability
- Specification formulation within given constraints
- Team building, organization and conflict resolution
- Standards and patent searching
- Codes and standards
- Liability and ethics
- Proof-of-concept methods
- Laboratory
- Prototyping
- Troubleshooting
- Specifying design requirements
- Implementation of lecture topics
- Resource allocation
| Task | Description | Due Date* | Worth |
| Mini Design Project | Students will work in groups to develop a mini design project. | Sept. 19 | 10% |
| Project Selection & Assignment | Students will review projects and list them in their order of preference. | - | - |
| Statement of Work | Team builds a written SOW acceptable to customer, faculty advisor and student team. This will include a formalized timeline identifying work and distribution of work among team members. | Oct 31 | 20% |
| Conceptual Design Review | Students will present their conceptual design for the project. This will take the form of an in class presentation followed by a written report. | Dec. 2 | Pres: 20% Report: 20% | Peer Review | Students will evaluate the work of their peers | Dec. 2 | 30% |
*All dates are tentative.
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