ELEN 194

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ELEN 194/195/196
Electrical Engineering Senior Design

Dr. Christopher Kitts
Associate Professor
Director, Robotic Systems Laboratory

EC 323D/E, 408-554-4382
ckitts@scu.edu
http://rsl.engr.scu.edu

Weekly Meetings: EC304, Thursdays 8 am - 9:05 am

General Information

Lab Access: EC 311 is available to EE students for senior design project activities. The room has 6 development workstations (PC and optional signal generator, scope, power supply, etc.), several design center terminals, storage space, a drill press, etc. In addition, project advisors may be able to support students with work area in their labs.

Mentoring: Several opportunities exist for students to arrange for project mentors apart from their faculty advisors. These include engineers identified by the advisor, engineering alumni, engineers from project sponsors, etc.

Grading: Grades for all quarters are submitted by Prof. Kitts based on input from each student's faculty project advisor. The Grading and Report Guidelines document provides more information on recommended grading policy for the faculty project advisors.

Funding: Funds for projects may be made available by external sponsors and/or the faculty advisor. In addition, the School of Engineering has limited grants for equipment (from the Dean's Fund) and associated leadership development activities (administered by the School's Engineering Alumni Board - conference presentations relating to your projects may qualify for this, etc.). Opportunities may also exist for students to apply for their own corporate and/or societal funding; such initiatives must be coordinated with the faculty advisor due to implications for university fundraising, etc.

Course Syllabus
Project Proposal Form		Team Evaluation Form
General ELEN 194/5/6 Course/Report Guidelines		Fall Quarter Report - Suggested Content and Format
Thesis Format/Style (outstanding guidelines posted on the COEN site)		Dean's Fund Proposal Guidelines (current posting is from 2005 - for planning purposes)
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Schedule (draft)

Week	Date	Subject	Assignments/Notes
1	9/21	No Class
2	9/28	Course Introduction Class overview and logistics Review of Project Opportunities	DUE (in class on 10/5): Summary of project options, signed by a faculty member. Students who already have selected their project can simply provide a faculty-signed list of project title, the student team, and the faculty advisor.
3	10/5	Conveying Project Motivation and Scope Clarifying Objectives; Outlining Project Background / Motivation; Developing a Concise Project Statement	DUE (in class on 10/5): Project Proposal Form
4	10/12	Developing a System Concept Identification of Stakeholders / Customers; Developing a Mission / System Concept Diagram; Performing a System Benchmarking Study; Specifying System Requirements; Identifying Relevant Professional Issues from the Engineering Handbook	DUE (noon on Friday 10/13): HW#1 - Clarifying Objectives Assignment
5	10/19	Engineering Complex Systems Review of Example Mission Statement, Requirements Flowdown, etc from ONYX project; Introduction of techniques to divide and optimize a design.
6	10/26	Engineering Complex Systems System Decomposition, functional analysis, generating alternatives, trade-off analyses, concurrent design issues. CLASS COMBINED W/MECH	DUE (noon on Friday 10/27): HW#2 - Problem Statement/Specification, the content of which should be pre-approved by your advisor. DUE: Dean's Fund proposals (for those of you interested): 10/28
7	11/2	"Becoming an Information Savvy Engineer" Susan Boyd
8	11/9	Design Methodology Wrap-up Alternatives and Trades, Verification and validation, Examples
9	11/16	Design Review Prep	DUE (in class): HW#3 - Draft Conceptual Design Report
10	11/23	Thanksgiving Break - No class
11	11/28	No standard class this week DESIGN REVIEWS - NOV 28 - should include a demo/showing of a functional prototype or an appropriate proof of concept	NOTE: DESIGN REVIEW SCHEDULE Reviews are currently scheduled for the 4-9 pm window. Location: Sobratto Commons.
12	12/7	Completion of Design Review (for any teams not presenting on 11/28, reviews may be scheduled sometime btw 11/27 and 12/7) Final Demo of Initial Prototype Fall Report	NOTE: A hard copy of the report is due to Prof. Kitts by *NOON on 12/8*. At this time, you should also provide your advisor with a copy (hard or soft given their preference).