Post on 21-Dec-2015
EE/CompE/CS Senior Design ProjectClass of 2008
Dr. Karen C. Davis
Dr. Altan Ferendeci
Dr. Dieter Schmidt
Fall 2007
Goals of Senior Design
Enable student to apply the knowledge and science/engineering skills acquired in preceding years to:
• demonstrate and document a hands-on design experience
• develop a demonstrable project• prototype a system or perform research
Agenda (1)
• outcomes survey
• contact information: name, email, phone
• Blackboard: make sure your email address is current! This is the primary means of communication for the year.
• senior design homepage: www.ece.uc.edu/~seniors
• team and project status survey at end of class
Agenda (2)
• advising notes• overview of the year • fall quarter schedule• sources for projects:
– professors– industry– community organizations
• upcoming assignments (due next week)
Advising Notes (1)
• EE: Dr. Minai– program of study form– tech elective/prof option form
• CompE: Dr. Davis– program of study form– tech elective/prof option form
• CS: Dr. Schlipf (rest of the year: Dr. Han)– all aspects of CS program spelled out already
• minors: VLSI, photonics, math• onestop.uc.edu: degree audit
Advising Notes (2)
• BoK– 24 hours for EE/CompE and 45 for CS– UC foreign language policy
• pass/fail: one course per quarter
• grad courses– Grad for UG credit (essentially pass/fail as far as
GPA is concerned)– Independent study 505 (do grad class for a grade)– take for graduate credit
Year View of Senior Design
• Fall: design specification
• Winter: design review/implementation
• Spring: testing, refinement, demonstration
Fall Overview
• class attendance expected• at least 30 hours of effort by every student• teams required (self-organizing or will be assigned)• check due dates
– professional biography– team formation – project description
• project descriptions (online: www.ece.uc/~seniors)
Fall 2007 Schedule of Due Dates
M/F: due at 3pm in ERC 536W: due at class time
Professor Projects• 2 bioMEMS projects: Dr. Chong Ahn (2-3 students)
– Mike Rust: design, fabrication and testing of of nano-scale devices and systems for interfacing with biology
– Andrew Browne: Control and Actuation System for BioMEMS Lab-on-a-Chip for Clinical Diagnostics
• Dr. David Klotzkin– Intelligent Power-out Flashlight
• Dr. Andrew Steckl– Crystallographic Analysis of Gallium Nitride Thin Film by X-Ray diffraction
Measurement– DNA Molecular Weight Characterization by Gel Electrophoresis– Electric Field Analysis in Electrolyte by CFD software
• Dr. Ken Roenker (2 students)– Simulation Study Comparing the Performance of Silicon Nanowire MOSFETs
with Carbon Nanotube FETs • Dharma Agrawal
– Motion classification using sensors for automatic music generation• a variety of projects on professor’s home pages: Dr. Phil Wilsey,
Dr. Carla Purdy• talk to professors whose classes and research areas are
interesting to you
Community Service Projects
• Art Machine, Inc. http://www.kidzartmachine.org/– create an "Art Machine" - a robotic system that would have moveable parts,
colored steam, visible insides, sounds, laughter and perhaps deliver a piece of art.....activated by a quarter. The funds would support programming for our organization and collaborating high schools.
http://www.fi.edu/learn/automaton/index.html• AFS afs.org (Dr. Davis)
– develop a secure social networking and informational website for Cincinnati area AFS students, host families, and administrators
• Computing Outreach (Dr. Davis/funded by National Science Foundation)
– mentor Cincinnati Public high school students for college– develop computing lessons– continue development of an online repository for computing lessons– http://www.ece.uc.edu/~mc2/
Industry Projects
• Somatic Digital www.somaticdigital.com– develop new platforms for their print-digital technology (flash cards, trading cards)– develop wireless Touchbook– develop information system to enable pd-commerce
• Turner Facilities Management Solutions (Brian Nieport)– develop a system/process to produce a Facility Forecasting and Planning report for
taking over and maintaining a building
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory– deliver a custom web application which ensures quality data entry by multiple users
and enables meaningful queries of a database of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) sources.
• W S Electronics (Michael Wolf)– integrate newer technology into a Computer Aided Dispatch system (911) for
sending alert messages to emergency responders
• Duke Energy– the project involves the assembly of a small bench-top electrical generator utilizing
a recently patented new technology and designing the commercial version.
Professional Biography• name• email address• co-op or other related
experience– job title, company– number of quarters
• skills/expertise• areas of interest/type of
project sought
• write it for an educated but general audience (not jargon-heavy!)
Hardcopy due Monday by 3pm in ERC 536
Common Errors in Professional Biography
• dense with acronyms and jargon• omission of number of quarters/employers• paragraphs/sentences instead of bulleted items• personal information (not technical)• 1st person• vague terms (e.g., “etc.”)• inconsistent grammatical style within a list• inconsistent capitalization style• inconsistent punctuation style
Project Description
• title• background• problem statement• inadequacy of current
solutions• overall goal (what will the
final product be?)• subgoals, if any• team members and email
addresses, if known• background skills/interests
Problem Statement
Background
Team/Project Status Survey
Give us your tentative• teams• project ideas• advisors
(what plans do you already have in mind?)
This is subject to change, just keep us informed.
Teams and projects will be assigned and announced on 10/10/07.