EL E 462 - Senior Design II
2001 Catalog Data: ELE 461, 462. SENIOR DESIGN in Electrical Engineering I, II. Prerequisite: ELE353, ELE368, and senior status.
Prerequisites by Topic:
1. Electronic Circuits
2. Computer Aided Design in Electrical Engineering II
Textbook: None
Coordinators: Dr. Mark D. Tew, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Objectives:
Students are to learn to design a solution to a real world problem;
Students are to learn to communicate designs, engineering tradeoffs, and outcomes in oral presentations;
Students are to learn to communicate designs, engineering tradeoffs, and outcomes in written reports;
Students are to learn to work in interdisciplinary teams.
Students are to exhibit professional ethics and social responsibility in solutions to design problems.
Topics:
1. Planning a design project.
2. Investigating possible solutions to a design problem.
3. Making engineering judgments regarding design alternatives.
4. Making judgments between design alternatives based on safety, social responsibility, and professional ethics.
5. Making oral reports on solutions to design problems.
6. Constructing, testing, and refining a solution to a design problem.
7. Making written reports on solutions to design problems.
Computer Usage:
Students in this course may use computers to investigate design alternatives, to look into state-of-the-art solutions to problems, and to prepare written reports and visual aids for oral reports .
Contribution of Course to Professional Content of Programs:
This course contributes to the professional component of the degree programs by covering concepts in the area of engineering topics (engineering sciences). This course is the capstone course of the engineering design curriculum.
Relationship of Course to Program Objectives/Outcomes:
This course contributes at least in part to achieving program objectives [1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8] and program outcomes [a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j and k].
| Prepared by: Mark Tew | Date: April 8, 2002 |