EE185/188 Systems and Applications Lab/Major Design Experience
Scheduled on Tue/Thr  2:00 - 3:15pm at Votey Room 361 (2 credits)

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.  The students will be expected to continue the on-going project in Fall 2004 EE187 Senoir Project, and to complete the project.  The priori-EE187 and EE195 courses have provided cumulative, team-based interdisciplinary design experience, subsystem design, implementation and test, project demonstration, report and presentation.
 
2. Prerequisites
Senior Standing, Interests in Sensory Intelligence Systems

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

4) 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

5) 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
Individual Supervision Schedule

Tue 2-3pm
Justin-Rich-Matt (Mike)
Cynthia-Zohra (Xianhua)
Or other groups if required

Thr 2-3pm
Rory-Aaron (John)
Aaron-George (Hien)
Alvin-Adam (Eco)
Or other groups if required

Common Lecture/Presentation Schedule
Week #
Tue
Thr

#1
1/18 Lecture1 Class organization
1/20 Lecture2 Project Assignment

#2   
1/25 Brain Steaming
1/27 Project Supervision

#3  
2/1 Individual Supervision
2/3 Individual Supervision

#4   
2/8 First-term Presentation Group Justin-Rich-Matt (Mike) & Cynthia-Zohra (Xianhua)
2/10 First-term Presentation GroupAaron-George (Hien) & Alvin-Adam (Eco)

#5   
2/15 First-term Presentation Group Rory-Aaron (Hien)& Evaluation and feedback
2/17 Job Info

#6
2/22 Beth West Job Search Talk
2/24 Individual Supervision Justin-Rich-Matt (Mike) & Cynthia-Zohra (Xianhua)

#7  
3/1 No Class (Town Mtg Day)
3/3 Individual Supervision Aaron-George (Hien) & Rory-Aaron (Hien) & Alvin-Adam

#8
3/8 Mid-term Presentation II Group Justin-Rich-Matt (Mike) & Cynthia-Zohra (Xianhua)
3/10 Mid-term Presentation II Group Aaron-George (Hien) & Alvin-Adam

#9   
3/15  Beth West Interview Practice
3/17  Mid-term Presentation II Rory-Aaron (Hien) & Evaluation

#10 
3/22 No Class Spring Break
3/24 No Class Spring Break

#11 
3/29 Selected Topics Presentation Group Justin-Rich-Matt (Mike) & Cynthia-Zohra (Xianhua)
3/31 Selected Topics Presentation Group Aaron-George (Hien) & Alvin-Adam

#12 
4/5 Selected Topics Presentation Group Rory-Aaron (Hien) & Graduate Student Projects
4/7 URECA Poster Feedback

#13 
4/12 Final Supervision
4/14 Ethic Discussion

#14 
4/19 Graduate Students Presentations (Xianhua-Mike_Hien)
4/21 Final Project Presentation Group Justin-Rich-Matt (Mike) & Cynthia-Zohra (Xianhua)

#15 
4/26 Final Project Presentation Group Aaron-George (Hien) & Alvin-Adam
4/28 Final Project Presentation Group Rory-Aaron (Hien) & Evaluation

#16
5/3 Final Report Due

Projets Outcome
Humanoid
MicroHydro
MicroMouse
MultiSensors
RobotVehicle

Students Participated

Associated Support
•    VT EPSCoR Small Equipment Grants 2004, $19,941.
•    Center of Teaching and Learning Grant at UVM, (4/04) $3,800 + $2,044
•    Planning and Implementation Grant for Service-Learning at UVM, (04/04) $1,000
•    Undergraduate Research Endeavors Competitive Awards at UVM for Equipment Portion for Cynthia L. Johnson. (12/04-5/05) $3,000
•    Undergraduate Research Endeavors Competitive Awards at UVM for Equipment Portion for Justin King. (12/04-5/05) $3,000 
•    Start-up Funding from the College of Engineering and Mathematics at UVM (08/04-06/05) $13,000.