EE187/195 Professional Design Issues
Scheduled on Tue/Thr  2:00 - 3:15pm at Votey Room 361 (2 credits)

Attention:  This course is designated as a Design Sequence course,  which now requires for all senior students.
If you need more than 2 credits, please contact with me so that I may arrange more credits for you as EE195.

1. Description
This course is designed for senior students to learn planning, executing, testing, and reporting on their projects.  This gives a useful opportunity to learn project management, professional ethics, social/economic impact, and contemporary issues that arise in engineering practice.  Also this course could expand into interdisciplinary project development including project selection, design requirements, prototyping and communications.   This course will provide cumulative, team-based interdisciplinary design experience, subsystem design, implementation and test, project demonstration, report and presentation.
 
2. Prerequisites
Senior Standing, Interests in Intelligence Systems for Biomedical Applications

3. Instructor
Dr. Yuichi Motai, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

4. Text book
No required book.  Supply handouts

5. Evaluation
1) Middleterm I 30-minute proposal presentation with www method.
10% Project goal planning
 5% Demonstration performance
 5% Student evaluation and feedback

2) Middleterm II 30-minute presentation with www method and demonstration.
 5% Project goal planning revised
 5% Demonstration performance
 5% Student evaluation and feedback
 5% Implementation degree

3) 30-minute verbal presentation about selected topic
5% Comprehension degree
5% Presentation performance

3) Final 30-minute verbal presentation with www method and demonstration
10% Goal completeness
 5% Demonstration performance
 5% Student evaluation and feed back
10% Implementation degree

4) Final report description and web development on the completed project
10% Documentation and graphical clarity
10% Documentation and project overall quality

6. Grading
B-  [-66.6%]
B   [66.6%-75.0%]
B+ [75.0%-83.2%]
A- [83.2%-91.5%]
A   [91.5%-100%]

7. Tentative Agenda
Week #
Tue
Thr

#1
8/31 Lecture1 Class organization
9/2 Lecture2 Project Assignment

#2   
9/7 Brain Steaming
9/9 Project Supervision

#3  
9/14 Individual Supervision
9/16 Individual Supervision

#4   
9/21 First-term Presentation Group1&2
9/23 First-term Presentation Group3&4

#5   
9/28 Evaluation
9/30 Job info

#6
10/5 Informal Discussion
10/7 Informal Discussion

#7  
10/12 Individual Supervision
10/14 Individual Supervision

#8
10/19 Mid-term Presentation II Group1&2
10/21 Mid-term Presentation II Group3&4

#9   
10/26 Evaluation
10/28 Individual Supervision

#10 
11/2 Individual Supervision
11/4 Selected Topics Presentation Group 1&2

#11 
11/9 Selected Topics Presentation Group 3&4
11/11 Evaluation

#12 
11/16 Informal Discussion
11/18 Informal Discussion

#13 
11/23 Informal Discussion
UVM holiday

#14 
11/30 Final Project Presentation Group 1&2
12/2 Final Project Presentation Group 3&4

#15 
12/7 Final Report Due


Average GPA 3.8/4.0
5 A
2 A-
1 B+

Instructor’s help 4.67/5.0 (EE195) 4.5/5.0 (EE187)
Instructor overall 4.6/5.0 (EE195) 4.5/5.0 (EE187)
Class content 4.67/5.0 (EE195)  3.5/5.0 (EE187)

Projets Outcome
RobotHand
RobotVehicle
MicroMouse
Microhydro

Students Participated