CS & ECE Senior Design ProjectWinter 2008

Karen Davis

Chia Han

Altan Ferendeci

Blackboard for Email

• check your email address and update your profile if necessary

• very important to check email since we will not meet with all of you every week

Take Online Survey Emailed to You!Self- and Team-Assessment Feedback

• accuracy/participation/quantity of work• project multiplier:

– 1 + (i-n)/20– individual (overall) = i– team average (overall) = n

• lowered grades for individuals

43/70 people have done it already

Design Report and Notebook

Design reports and notebooks can be submitted • electronically (email karen.davis@uc.edu)• hardcopy in ERC 536 by noon on 11/30

Winter 2008Schedule

Due Dates(all Wednesdays at class time)

• 1/23: interface specifications• 1/30: project notebook• 2/6: current events assignment• 2/13: test plan• 2/20: project notebook, assessment• 2/27: design report (electronic); no class• 3/5: last class (all attend)• 3/12: no class

Project Notebooks 1/30 and 2/20

Record weekly team meetings and other relevant project documentation

– meeting log:• date• start/end times• location• people present• issues discussed• possible resolutions or approaches to solve problems• action items (what, who is responsible, by when?)

– bi-weekly meetings (or email updates) with advisor– all graded assignments– research papers, supporting documentation, and notes– brainstorming, sketches, drafts, intermediate results– receipts for purchases and/or project-related expenses (state if none)– sum of hours on task for team and individuals (including activities)

Progress on your project should be evident in your project notebook!

Design Review Document

Email a pdf document to your advisor, senior design course faculty, and the students scheduled as reviewers

• no later than noon on the Monday of the week you present. • the document should not exceed 10 pages.

Contents:1. the project title, team members, and advisor,2. a one or two sentence description of the goals of the project (what

will be accomplished when it's completed),3. design specifications (e.g., circuit diagrams) preferably at the highest

level including the detail needed to develop or implement the project (along with anything else that is pertinent to understanding the design),

4. a summary of milestones, deliverables, and dates for the project, 5. results so far, and6. a discussion of how well your progress satisfies the requirements

specified for the project: are you on track to complete all deliverables?

Format for Design Review Presentation

• Discuss all items in the design report.• Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes

to allow time for questions and comments.

Design Review Form

Reviewers are graded on their participation

Design Reviews

See 2006-07 winter quarter for examples:

http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~seniors

• Teams review others based on a form given in class• Comments are summarized and returned to reviewed

team• Each team has to respond in writing to the comments

in the winter quarter design report

Interface Specificationsdue: Wednesday 1/23/08

• give (informal) drawings of the portions of the project that users (both administrative and end-users), will interact with.

• The goal of this assignment is to define capabilities of the project from a user’s point of view. – What will a user see and do with your project? – What end result will the user see or obtain?

• The goal is not to define all possible inputs and their outputs, but rather to give a general overview of the kinds of interaction a user will have with the project.

Interface Specification: Software

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Interface Specifications: Hardware

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Interface Spec: Research Project

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Current Events EssayIndividual Assignmentdue: Wednesday 2/6/2008

1. Find an article, either a quality newspaper article or a popular technical press article that relates at least one aspect of the 8 ABET concerns to your project:health and safety, economic, sustainability, manufacturability, ethical, political, social, and environmental

2. Write an essay about it that consists of three paragraphs, 6 sentences minimum (each):

• outline the main idea of the article and relate it to the ABET concern or concerns you've identified

• describe how the topic is related to your senior design project• describe an aspect of the article that impacts your life,

particularly your professional life, in some way

3. Turn in both a hardcopy of the essay and the original article.

Test Plandue: Wednesday 2/13/2008

I. Overall Test Plan: one paragraph describing general testing strategies employed by your project.

II. Test Case Description:1. test case identifier (a number or unique name)2. purpose of test3. description of test4. inputs5. expected outputs/results6. normal/abnormal/boundary case indication7. blackbox/whitebox test indication8. functional/performance test indication9. unit/integration test indication

Note that some of these categories may be inappropriate for your project and may be omitted if you can justify doing so. For items 6-9, only one term should apply.

III. Test Case Matrix: summarizes the test case coverage (items 1, 6-9 in a tabular format)

note: description of terms and grading guidelines are posted at ~seniors

Example Test Plan: Software

Example Test Plan: Hardware

Test Case: Research

If you don’t already have a

website for your project, you may use Blackboard to create one.

All projects should have a website by the

end of the winter quarter.

See the handout online (this is just an excerpt).

Still to Come …

• table of contents for updated design report due at end of quarter