EE 382 - Introduction to Design
Course Objectives
- Learn an approach to design, project management and team work.
- Learn to use spec sheets and design according to available
components.
- Learn how to write technical documents and give presentations.
- Perform various case studies.
- Integrate skills learned and experiments used in previous courses into a creative design process.
Project
This year you will have a choice between two projects
Project 1
Outdoor robot to remotely locate and identify RF beacon - Design an outdoor robot capable of navigating a given, unobstructed area to remotely locate a RF beacon that has an identifier encoded via Frequency-shift keying (FSK). Location of the beacon will be computed as longitude and latitude along with a metric of error, and the beacon's identity will be decoded. Details are in the Introductory Presentation
Project 2
An autonomous robot must locate and extinguish, without touching, four lit candles within 3 minutes. Rules to be followed are the same as the ones for the Fire Fighting Challenge by RoboRave.
Course Prerequisites
- EE308 & EE308L (Microcontrollers)
- EE321 & EE321L (Analog Electronics)
- EE333 (Electricity and Magnetism)
- EE341 (Continuous-Time Signals and Systems)
- Declared electrical engineering as a major
Topic Prerequisites
- In-depth knowledge of microcontrollers.
- Analog and digital circuit design.
- Principles of linear time-invariant systems.
- Proficiency in C programming.
Goals
Students will
- work in teams,
- implement key aspects of a design process,
- design and build a prototype electronic system,
- conduct experiments to characterize and verify design,
- communicate aspects of the design process through oral presentations and written documents, and
- manage the design process.
Reference Texts
see resources page
Grading
Individual grades will be assigned; each student must participate in each graded-component of the course to pass the course.
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