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.