Kick-Off Meeting August 24 th , 2011 John H.L. Hansen, EE Dept. Head - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Faculty Meeting May 12,08 EE/TE/CE Senior Design EE/TE/CE Senior Design 1: Kick-Off Meeting August 24 th , 2011 John H.L. Hansen, EE Dept. Head Andrea Fumagalli, TE Program Head Mehrdad Nourani, CE Program Head Marco Tacca, UTDesign
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
EE/TE/CE Senior Design Day: TBA Oral Presentations: (times to be determined) Poster Session: (times to be determined)
John H.L. Hansen, EE Dept. Head Andrea Fumagalli, TE Program Head Mehrdad Nourani, CE Program Head Marco Tacca, UTDesign
August 24th, 2011
Why is Senior Design so Important for your BS - EE / CE / TE Degrees?
It represents the “Open Design” Experience resulting from 4 years of coursework It is the ONLY class, where the students are completely responsible for direction & content of their work It is the ONLY class where students have direct feedback from Industry Projects are “Open Ended” – not cookbook/structured Failures can happen – you need to overcome these! No Excuses! – You MUST deliver a solution (or repeat!) It is your time to “show us what you have learned!”
Step 1: EE Faculty identified skills necessary for BS in EE Step 2: Individual EE Faculty assigned/determined skills/knowledge for each class Step 3: EE-IAB reviews to determine skills and knowledge appropriate Step 4: EE Sub-Areas Assess Collectively (Digital Area reviewed, etc.) (EE faculty have made 8-10 full passes on fundamentals chart in AY 06-07)
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
EE 4388 Senior Design Project I (3 semester hours) First of two sequential semesters
devoted to a team project that engages students in the full engineering design process. The goal
to an appropriate industry. Thus, all project teams are to follow standard industrial practices and
constraints, following applicable industrial and business standards. Such constraints may include but are not limited to: economic, environmental, industrial standards, team time/resource management and cross-disciplinary/departmental result integration. (Students are encouraged to work in teams that include collaborative design interaction, but may work on individual projects as well, provided there is a collaboration component. Additionally, cross disciplinary/departmental teams are encouraged but not required.) In Senior Design I, project proposals will be written, reviewed and approved. Initial designs will be completed and corresponding constraints will be
approved guidelines at a departmental approved time and location. Teams will also submit a written end of semester progress report and documented team communication (complete sets of weekly reports and/or log books) following guidelines approved by the faculty. Students must have completed ECS 3390 and one of the following prerequisite sequences: (CE 3311, CE 3320, CE 3346, and CE 3354), or (EE 3300, EE 3302, EE 3311, and EE 3320), or (EE 3300, TE 3302, and TE 3346; pre- or corequisite EE 3350). (Same as CE/TE 4388) (3-0) S
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
EE 4389 Senior Design Project II (3 semester hours) Continuation of the Senior Design project begun in the previous semester. In Senior Design II, projects based on approved project proposals will be completed. All limitations of the design will be determined and addressed. All students will participate in a public oral presentation following faculty-approved guidelines at a faculty-approved time and location. Teams will also submit a written final report and documented team communication (complete sets of weekly reports and/or log books) following faculty-approved guidelines. Prerequisite: CE/EE/TE 4388. (Same as CE/TE 4389) (3-0) S
First two weeks of November for Fall ‘12
EE/CE/TE Senior Design Training Sessions ALL Teams REQUIRED to send at least 1 member Review SDD Evaluation Form (Poster & Oral) Review Format and Goals for Slide & Poster Highlight what makes a “Good” Slide & “Bad” Slide Student Teams have option to give “Practice Runs” during the training sessions http://ecs.utdallas.edu/students/senior-design.html
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April 15, 2011
EE/CE/TE Senior Design Training Sessions
SENIOR DESIGN 1: eight teams
SENIOR DESIGN 2: sixteen teams
SENIOR DESIGN 2: sixteen teams
Combined Senior Design EE/CE/TE Scores [Dec. 2, 2010]
Senior Design 1: Dec. 2, 2010
1st Place: Haptic Shoe for the Visually Impaired [Team 7] Rodolfo Guzman, Whitney Scott, Laura Shagman, Steven Truong 2nd Place: Micro Air Cycle System I [Team 8 tie]
Clement Wong, Sven Moon, Brady Spenrath, Brandon Geil, Michael Galuardi Remote Alarm Management System (RAMS) [Team 2 tie] Adam Sidelsky, Don Vinson, John Dalton Stringer
3rd Place: Wireless & SMS Based Appliance Monitor And Update System [Team 6] Alan Jurcak, Effat Sharmin, Jastine Thomas, Uzma Azim
Senior Design 2: Dec. 2, 2010
1st Place: Wireless Bullet Counter [Team 10]
Zack Mai, Adrian Reese, Michael Arrambide, Michael Hanschke, Justin Elliot
2nd Place: Micro Air Cycle System II [Team 9] Robert Brisco, Nosa Endokpayi, Steven Foland, Amsalu Gedamu, John-Paul Lum Hee & Yuriy Savchyn 3rd Place: Audio Video Avatar Tele-Conference at Remote Location [Team 13] Ajay Patel, Jimmy Kirk, Peter Kariuki, Amare Worku
UTDesign Senior Design Teams: Dec. 2, 2010
1st Place: Temperature Sensing in a UHV Environment [Team 24] Long Nguyen, Alan Wisler, Ward Parsons, Wai Law 2nd Place: Celestial Star Tracker [Team 19 tie] Stephen Blystone, Jeffery George, Noah Robb, Tom Schmidt Stress in FE-RAM devices [Team 23 tie] Eddie Burgess, Muhammad Khan, Rifaz Iqbal, Vikas Poddar, Faisal Akhtar 3rd Place: Automatic Hole-Punch System [Team 20] Lauren Bagen, Dallas Bartlett, Evan Bone, Anthony Stillo
CRSS: Automatic Capture & Transcription of SDD
EE/TE/CE Senior Design Day April 29, 2011
EE/TE/CE Senior Design Day April 29, 2011
EE/CE/TE Senior Design Day: April 29, 2011
EE/CE/TE Senior Design Day: April 29, 2011
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
EE/TE/CE Senior Design Day Dec. 2, 2010
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
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EE/TE/CE Senior Design Day Dec. 2, 2010
April 30, 2010: EE/TE/CE IAB Reviewers
MANY THANKS! to all our EE &TE & CE Industrial Advisory Board Members for their participation
VI Technology Tektronix Alcatel-Lucent CISCO Systems Raytheon Nortel Communications National Instruments Micro-Technology Services
Texas Institute
Technicolor – Thomson Communications
Kruvand Research in Motion Mustang Technology Convergys
MANY THANKS! to all our EE &TE & CE Industrial Advisory Board Members for their participation
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http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2008/08/11-002.php?WT.mc_id=RSS
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
External Industry Evaluator Results for: Summer 2008 SDD
Don’t Let This be YOUR team! SD1
What Should your Slide & Poster Contain / Address?
What is the Problem you are addressing? [limited amount of text] Why is this Problem Important? Why is the Impact? [know your facts! Give some examples] How does YOUR solution compare with what is available in the field? (did you get independent feedback on the effectiveness of your solution?) Identify 1-2 New/Novel Ideas or Aspects about your team’s solution What are the Challenges you faced? Lessons Learned? [what was something you tried and it failed and how did you overcome it?] What Are Your Plans? [Senior Design 2; where could this go?]
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
Smart Walking Stick for the Visually Impaired
GOALS:
depth, alerts via vibration in handle.
Search based algorithm to navigate e.g. entrance to rest-room.
conditions.
activated
APPROACH: Previous Design Current Design
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
Form your team (pick members carefully; know the technical needs of your project) Wednesday: change section if necessary Decide between regular senior design and UTDesign Set up weekly meetings with instructor Meet weekly with instructor Discuss Proposed SD1 Project with instructor Prepare written “Project Proposal” by the end of September Prepare project abstract and send to Marco Tacca: mtacca@utdallas.edu by the first week of October
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
Hold regular meetings – DOCUMENT interactions and exchanges (all of the documentation must be included in the final report) Note Successes, Failures, etc. Know the Trade-offs of your Solution Know your Customers Have single slide ready (draft) by beginning of November Participate in the training session (date TBD) Have final version of slide and poster for senior design day ready one week before senior design day (possibly earlier for UTDesign projects) Prepare final report
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science
http://ecs.utdallas.edu/students/utdesign/
problem at the kickoff meeting. Objectives and deliverables are discussed in detail with the students (and the faculty mentor) in detail at the kickoff meeting
proposal) that includes: 1. Problem definition 2. Proposed solution approach 3. Project deliverables 4. Timeline for the solution 5. Budget
Marco Tacca: mtacca@utdallas.edu (by the first week of October
sponsoring company
possible NDA constraints, the sponsor must clear both the slide and the poster before it is presented to the public)
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Project outcome points : up to 80 points
Student self-assessment: up to 5 points Soft-skills: up to 10 points: Ethics (final reports and senior design day poster): 2% Lifelong learning (proposal and final report): 2% Contemporary issues (proposal and final report): 1% Multi-disc teams (proposal and final report): 2% Communications (semester project work and meetings): 3% Feedback from Senior Design Day judges (if available): up to 5
based on the instructor evaluation.
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
Project objective should be CLEARLY spelled out in the project proposal, for example the proposal should have a section that specifies: If the project achieves MEASURABLE feature set A (the way the measurement is performed should be clearly indicated) -> 80 points If the project does not achieve MEASURABLE feature set A, but reaches MEASURABLE set B -> 70 points If the project does not achieve MEASURABLE feature set A, nor set B, but reaches MEASURABLE set C -> 60 points If the project does not achieve MEASURABLE feature set A, nor set B, nor set C, but reaches MEASURABLE set D -> 50 points If the project does not achieve MEASURABLE feature set A, nor set B, nor C, nor D but reaches MEASURABLE set F -> 40 points The instructor MUST approve the proposal objectives
Senior Design 1 Kickoff Meeting (Hansen)
NOTE: during the progress of a project, it is always possible that unforeseeable circumstances affect in a negative way the outcome of a project. Should this happen, the grade might or might not be affected. The following procedure will be in place:
Present evidence to demonstrate that the team did everything possible to achieve MEASURABLE feature set A:
hour increments) about his/her work related to the project. Each team member is expected to allocate 7/10 hours per week to the project. If even a single team member fails to meet the 7/10 hours per week criteria, no further evidence will be accepted and the project will be graded solely based on the MEASURABLE feature set achieved, i.e., B, C, D, or F. NOTICE THAT IT WILL BE REQUIRED THAT EACH TEAM SUBMITS A WEEKLY REPORT WITH TIME LOGS FOR EACH TEAM MEMBERS FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION OF THE SEMESTER.
great detail why the project failed to meet MEASURABLE feature set A. The final decision about how many points will be assigned for the project outcome points portion of the grade is the sole responsibility
OR UNAVAILABILITY OF FUNDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.