Senior Design
高级设计经验是一个两个学期的课程,学生体验一个项目的整个设计过程. Students work as teams on pre-approved projects, under the direction of two faculty advisors, and deliver design reviews, a final report, a formal presentation, and a demonstration of the project. 学生不仅要学习设计方法,还要学习工程的非技术方面,包括
- Project Planning
- Project Management
- Teamwork
- Documentation
- Intellectual property
- Budgeting & Feasibility
- Ethics
- Health and Safety
- Reliability
Senior Design Guidelines
A. Scheduling and Prerequisites
在秋季和春季学期学习高级设计I和高级设计II. 学生应该按照这个时间表来规划高级设计课程. 暑期班不开设高级设计课程.
Exemptions:
- 只有在获得特别许可的情况下,才能免除这些先决条件, 并且只有在(a)学生获得导师和系主任的书面许可的情况下, and (b)学生符合其拟进行的研究项目的所有先决条件; and (c)豁免是避免延迟毕业所必需的.
- Students are free to do preparatory work, research potential projects, 或者在开始高级设计之前的任何时候,在他们的项目上取得领先, however, 在高级设计I课程开始时,项目仍需接受审查和批准.
B. Project Groups
- 一个专题小组将由两个或三个学生组成. Groups may include members from other majors.
- 可以提出涉及三个以上学生的大型项目, but they must be divided into subprojects, each with two or three students, 并且每个子项目必须能够独立于其他子项目进行演示和评估. 每个子项目必须满足项目内容的所有要求(见下文), 每个小组必须提交单独的进度和最终报告, make a separate presentation, and fulfill all course requirements.
- 因为课程目标之一是培养项目团队合作技能, 不允许个人(单个学生)项目或子项目.
C. Project Contest Requirements
- Projects must meet ABET Criterion 4, which reads: a major design experience, based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier coursework and incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints that include most of the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; political.
- 项目必须包括以下三个组成部分中的至少两个:
- 数字电子硬件的设计、建造和成功测试
- 模拟电子硬件的设计、建造和成功测试
- 嵌入式或控制软件的设计、实现和成功测试.
- 项目必须包含几个不同的电气工程课程的主题材料, at a level of complexity, difficulty, 技术成熟度证明了该领域的能力.
- 项目必须包括软件的应用, 要么嵌入到项目中,要么通过使用设计软件.
D. Project Completion Requirements
为了获得满意的成绩(a、B或C) all projects must result in:
- a finished, working product that has been
- systematically tested,
- documented 以全面的书面报告的形式,和
- 通过口头向电气工程学院进行报告 presentation and laboratory demonstration.
In general, 预计最终产品将与最初提议的项目大致相当. 这并不排除出于有效的工程原因对规格或特性的修改, 前提是这些修改得到了学院技术顾问和课程讲师的批准.
E. Senior Design I - Specific Requirements
为了获得满意的成绩(a、B或C) for the first semester of Senior Design, students should:
- 产生一个初步的设计,是完整的硬件组件级, and to the flowchart/algorithm level in software.
- conduct quantitative analysis, simulation, and preliminary lab testing that indicates, 令学生满意的技术顾问, that the proposed design concept is feasible.
- 撰写并提交一份全面的书面报告,记录设计和分析.
- meet syllabus requirements, 包括但不限于:与指导老师的定期会议,timely submission of progress reports, 以及非正式和正式的设计呈现, 包括在第一学期结束时的主要设计展示.
F. Senior Design II - Specific Requirements
为了获得满意的成绩(a、B或C) for the second semester of Senior Design, students should:
- 符合上文第D节所述的工程项目完成要求.
- meet syllabus requirements,包括但不限于:与指导老师的定期会议, timely submission of progress reports, and submission of final written report, oral presentation, and demonstration.
G. Project Proposals and Advisors
- 高级设计I的指导老师会设定学生提交项目建议书的截止日期和格式, 通常在学期的前三周内.
- 项目提案的想法可能来自学生, faculty, or industry; however, 每个小组负责选择和提出一个项目.
- 建议必须得到电气工程学院的批准.
- Students may suggest or request a particular advisor; however, 导师对项目的最终分配将由导师决定.
H. Unfinished Projects, Grading Policies
- 根据赌博平台大学范围内的评分政策,从2008年开始生效, 不完整(I)成绩只能在课程完成75%或以上后,因令人信服的医疗原因而颁发, and require the approval of the Dean. This is a change from prior policy.
- 为了考虑高级设计I的完成,然后进入高级设计II, students must receive a grade of A, B, or C.
- 以考虑高级设计II的完成和满足毕业要求, students must receive a grade of A, B, C, or D.
- 成绩的最终决定是由记录导师做出的, with advice from the faculty technical advisor(s).