EE498/9 Team Design Project

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Course Web Site - http://www-ece.eng.uab.edu/DGreen/ee4989/

Class Info

• SoutheastCon 2010
• Contest
• Student Conference Details (No real information yet)
• For the EE498 version
• Engineering Notebook
• Ken Kuhn on Design Reviews
• A Doodle Time Survey will be used as input to help the instructors create the teams. Please fill out the form for a "typical week" reflecting when you are generally available to meet either your team or the course instructors.
• Multiple teams
  • First Assignments (for team)
  • Team Meetings:
    • Feynnam - Monday 11a (also meets Friday 4pm)
      • Pamela Fletcher
      • Calvin Burrell
      • Jacob Huggart (team lead)
      • Tareq Fayyad
    • MadMax - Monday noon (also meets Wednesday noon)
      • Manveer Khanijoun
      • Christoffer Koperniak (team lead)
      • Kenji Schum
      • Charles Kanyara
    • SolarChamps - Tuesday 3pm (also meets Monday/Wednesday 8:30pm)
      • Chace Burnette
      • Chris Johnson (team lead)
      • Casey Haralson
      • Yvonne Lane
      • Kerri Richardson
    • GreenAndGold - Tuesday 6pm (Thursday 6pm, Sunday's)
      • William E. Bowyer (team lead)
      • Stefan Schmidt
      • Christopher Rodriguez
      • Mauricio Cajiao
  • Preliminary Design Review (Week of 13 September) (& Draft Report)
  • Critical Design Review (Week of 11 Novemeber) (& Draft Report)
  • Draft Report (last week of Fall Semester)
  • UAB Race Day (tentative 5 March 2010)
  • Final Report
  • Contest in Charlotte, NC (20 March 2010)
  • Project Planning / Tracking (available in Computer Lab as well)
  • XMIND

Course Description from Catalog

EE498. Team Design Project I -- Senior Design Team Project Course Part I. Analysis and design of assigned team project, including design documentation and design review. Prerequisites: EE485, approved Application for Degree, and permission of instructor. Students must be in final year of his/her program. 3 hours (3.0 D)

EE499. Team Design Project II -- Senior Design Project Course Part II. Design and implementation of assigned team project, including design review, demonstration, and documentation. Prerequisites: EE498. 3 hours. (3.0 D)

Course Goals

Provide a group design experience. The class goal is to design and build an entry for the IEEE Region 3 Hardware Device Contest (or similar design contest) as a team.

Outcomes

This course provides support for the certain outcomes of the Electrical Engineering degree. Students will assess the course against the outcomes using an assessment form which includes the outcomes for each course (see 498 and 499). Additional assessment information is on-line.

Grading

EE498

EE499

Notes

1. Budget: $700/team, $200 for track (one track plus "parts"), $150 post UAB Race Readiness
2. Parts may be donated but (1) the donations must stay with the car beyond the course unless specific arrangements are agreed to by the course instructors and documentation to that effect is produced and (2) teams add "end of the project" tasks to their list to thank sponsors for those donations so that the sponsor will be inclined to support future projects, and (3) solicitations will be at technical "parts" level NOT money and not interfere with University relations activities (ask if this is not clear)
3. The School of Engineering has a design lab which has machining tools including a system that will produce parts from CAD drawings.
4. Students are expected to incrementally develop the Final Report.
   1. EE498 PDR - should have introduction, constraints (CO-nn), goals (GO-nn), standards (STD-nn) (standards should include reference to actual standard)
   2. EE498 CDR - update to above, individual design areas with alternatives, decisions, how you find information, how you will do so in future, safety issues and standards
   3. EE498 Final - update to above, other - TBD
   4. EE499 Midterm - update to above, other -TBD
   5. EE499 Final - completed report

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