Instructor: Alan Harris, Ph.D. ` Office: Bldg. 50, Room 3122 Phone: (904) 620-1682 Email: alan.harris@unf.edu Office Hours: T & R 15:00 16:00 W 10:00 11:00 & 13:00 15:00 Additional office hours are available by appointment with at least 24 hours notice. Catalog Description: This course provides an introduction and study of the engineering design process in industry. Each student will select a design topic and prepare a project proposal including preliminary requirements and design approach. Additional activities include the preparation of a resume and a written assignment on ethics in the job environment. Intellectual property such as copyrights, trademarks, and patents is covered. A faculty advisor for Senior Design II must also be selected by the end of the semester. Prerequisites: EEL 4744C (Microcontroller Applications) EEE4309C (Electronic Circuits II) EGN2009 (Introduction to Engineering II) Required Texts/Readings: Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers Theory, Concepts, and Practice by Ralph M. Ford and Chris S. Coulston, McGraw-Hill, 2008. Grading Policy: Each student s final grade will be determined as follows: Project Progress Deliverables * 35% Team Design Proposal * 30% Peer Evaluation 10% Proof of concept/prototype 15% Client Evaluation 10% * See attached description Overall course grades are assigned as follows: A: 90-100 B+: 88-89 B: 80-87 C+: 78-79 C: 70-77 D: 60-69 F: <60
Semester Schedule EEL4914 - Senior Capstone Design I Fall 2014 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Introduction Rules of Senior Design. Memos. Intro to the Design Process. Project Preference forms. Presentation of project topics. Site visits (possibly Friday) Site visits. Project preference forms due Friday by 5:00pm. Team assignments will be emailed out Monday morning Design Process: Problem statement and need identification. Team Values Statement due Friday Noon. Intellectual Property and UNF policies (Guest Lecturer: Dean Tumeo) Design Process: Concept Generation and concept down selection Problem Statement due Friday Noon. Design Process: Project management Teamwork: assignments and roles. Scope of work. Concept Selection reports due Friday Noon Design Process: Project Budgeting, Purchasing policies. Scope of Work due Friday Noon Progress meetings Instructor s Office Preliminary Budget due Friday Noon Design Process: Configuration Design / Performance Week 9 TR Mid Semester Progress Presentation 15 minute presentation Client Satisfaction Assessment Tool due Friday Noon Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Final Safety Codes & Standards, FMEA Material Selection for design and Sustainability Eco Audits Progress meetings - Instructors Office Proof of Concept/Prototype demonstrated (on site, by team) THANKSGIVING No Class TR Design Proposal Presentations - Proposals Due Monday by Noon Mandatory meeting to discuss fabrication policies over the holiday break and Senior Design II schedule Bold denotes deliverables due Underline denotes team attendance activity Despite all efforts and best intentions, the schedule is subject to change in Senior Design, and often does. Any change in the schedule will be communicated to all students via email. Check your UNF email daily (or forward it to one you do check daily)
Attendance and Participation EEL4914 - Senior Capstone Design I Fall 2014 Attendance is mandatory for all meetings, including lectures. A sign-in sheet will be passed around during each lecture. You are allowed 1 absence from lecture for the semester. Failure to sign in, will be considered and absence. Each absence after that will result in 5 points off your final grade. Absences may be excused in advance or with adequate proof/reason of absence, at the consent of the instructor. Presentations will be submitted on USB drive and loaded on the lecture computer before the beginning of class. Presentations not submitted at the beginning of class will not be accepted. If you are absent or arrive late on the day a presentation is required, you will not receive credit for that deliverable. The Design Proposal presentation must be delivered by all team members All deliverables will be submitted in hardcopy, word processed, and nothing will be accepted by email. Due date and time for all deliverables is firm. Late deliverables will receive no credit.
Description of the Methods of Evaluation: Project Progress Deliverables (30% of total grade) Team Values Statement (2.5% of total grade) Your team will compose a values statement to set the tone for your conduct and professionalism for the duration of senior design. You are encouraged to find the values statements published by companies in the engineering field to seek guidance on the language, tone and scope of your statement. All team members must sign the values statement before it is turned in. Problem Statement (2.5% of total grade): Engineers are problem solvers. Before a problem can be solved, it must be clearly identified. Your ability to articulate the problem you propose to solve in senior design is dependent on your understanding of not just the problem at hand, but how it affects your team, the organization you are working with, society and environment. Its very easy to solve immediate problems, while creating others. Your problem statement should be clear and specific, while accounting for more than just engineering performance. Concept Selection Report (5% of total grade) Your team will generate a minimum of three concepts to meet the problem statement you define. You will employ techniques learned in class and through the textbook in quantitative and reproducible methods for selecting the best concept. Your report must include sketches and descriptions of the three concepts, as well as describe the methodology you employ in narrowing your selection to the final concept. The final concept must be presented as such. Scope of Work (5% of total grade): You will provide a scheduled list of activities and team assignments that will be employed through the production phase (spring semester, too) of your proposed design. Teams will turn in one document (1-2 pages + figures) describing the efforts to be performed throughout senior design I and II. Your team will also present a 5 minute PowerPoint presentation of the scope of work, with some graphical representation of your schedule (Gantt chart or other). Project Itemized Cost Estimate (5% of total grade): The team will provide an itemized budget that predicts costs through the completion of Senior Design II. If there are any travel costs for competitions or conferences, these costs will be included in the estimate. It is the responsibility of each team to accurately predict the materials, services and fabrications cost of their projects. Team will be allotted a budget (TBA) based on lab fees and available departmental funds. DO NOT COUNT ON EXTRA FUNDS TO COMPLETE YOUR SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS. Any costs exceeding the standard senior design budget shall be accompanied by a note giving the source of this funding. Mid Semester Progress Presentation (5% of total grade) Your team will create a PowerPoint presentation documenting your efforts to date. You are expected to describe your project in detail, so that other students who aren t familiar with the project can provide commentary and feedback on your engineering decisions. Client Satisfaction Assessment Tool (5% of total grade): Your project serves to meet the need of some interested party. Whether its and industry partner, a not-for-profit, or a student club, you, like all engineers, serve a client. You are required to devise an assessment tool (survey, questionnaire, performance test, etc.) that will be administered to your client. At the end of Senior Design II, your client will use the tool you create to assess your project. Weekly Team Progress Memos (5% of total grade): Your team must meet AT A MINIMUM, once a week. Documentation of your weekly progress will be submitted at the end of every week in a memo. You must follow an official memo format, list attendees for all team meetings, describe the meeting
topics/agenda, document any action items and assignments given, and progress made. If no progress is made, or no meeting is held, your team must still submit a memo documenting this, but you will receive half credit for the week. Memos are to be turned in every class (or under instructors door on days class is not held). If you have multiple meetings within the week, you can document that all in one memo. Failure to submit two or more memos will result in loss of all 10% of the weekly memo grade. SPECIAL NOTE ON DELIVERABLES: Upon receipt of evidence that a team member has not contributed to the deliverables, a meeting will be held with the entire team. For any individual deliverable, the instructor has the right to detach that deliverable from the team grade, and give an individual student a lower grade than the rest of the team. If the remaining team members unanimously affirm that no significant contribution was made over the entire semester, the unproductive team member(s) will forfeit all points for Peer Evaluation and Deliverables resulting in failure of Senior Design I, rendering them unable to register for Senior Design II. There is no special summer class or independent study that will make up Senior Design I or II. Graduation will be delayed a year, without exception. This course enforces an understanding of professional responsibility, and should be executed with the same professionalism you will exhibit in your career as an engineer. Failure to do so will carry dire consequences, as would professional misconduct. Prototype/Proof of Concept (15% of total grade) A demonstrative physical prototype must be produced by week 13 of Senior Design I. This may serve as your first design iteration, and does not need to be fully functional, but it must demonstrate that engineering designs and functionality have been explored, and that a minimum proof of concept that your device will function as intended is required. The expectations for each team s prototype will be established with the instructor well in advance of the demonstration date. The use of development boards IS ALLOWED for your prototype. Development boards are NOT ALLOWED to be used in your final design without written permission from your instructor. Team Design Proposal (30% of total grade) Design Proposal (20% of total grade): The design proposal represents the bulk of the work throughout the entire first semester of Senior Design. Your proposal should be prepared in a well organized and professional manner. Do not simply cut and paste the efforts of team members into one, haphazard document. There should be continuity in form and organization. The proposal must contain an executive summary, including the parameters of your assignment, as well as the expected functionality of the design you are proposing. Budgets, work schedules, team assignments and professional looking engineering drawings are required. In addition you will prepare one segment of the proposal to address the sustainability and life cycle analysis of your design, and how it would translate into mass production of your proposed design. The report will be graded on both form and content. More than 5 spelling and/or grammatical errors will result in a loss of 20 points (two letter grades) on the report. 10 or more such errors will result in a loss of 40 points (four letter grades). In short.proof READ YOUR PROPOSAL AND DON T FORGET THE FIGURES! Team Proposal Presentations (10% of total grade): Each team will present their final design proposal in a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation. The team will present the cogent points of the written proposal. Any additional proof of concept visual aids in the form of models and prototypes are strongly encouraged. Teams will dress professionally and deliver the presentation as if it were being given to members of industry. Your presentations may be inventive and fun, but must remain professional.
Peer Evaluations (10% of total grade) You will be asked to rate other members of your team on several different aspects of performance. In addition, you will rate yourself on the same attributes. Your honest feedback in this process is the best recourse you have to reward or punish team members for their efforts or lack thereof. Team activities can be rewarding, but they require attention to the working styles and personalities of the entire team. Use this feedback as an exercise in management, so you will be prepared to enter the workforce with solid team building skills. Blindly agreeing to give everyone on your team high marks is a cowardly way out of providing useful feedback. Team conflicts will ultimately come to the attention of the instructor, and without accurate information on these forms, you will have little support in dealing with poorly performing team members. Remember: there is no I in team, but there could be an F on your transcripts! Client Evaluation (10% of total grade) Your client will be asked to evaluate your team as a whole, as well as individual members for their performance and contribution. Your ability to communicate effectively, perform to high standards and the degree of professionalism you exhibit will all be factored into your grade. This is an opportunity to apply skills of teamwork, ethics and professionalism Additional Policies All deliverables will be submitted in hardcopy and word processed. Nothing will be accepted by email. Due date and time for all deliverables are firm. Late deliverables will receive no credit, regardless of the circumstance. Each team will periodically meet with the instructor to discuss progress and challenges with their project. You are to bring tangible evidence or documentation of project progress. Meetings will be scheduled on the same day of the week, and time for the entire semester. Attendance by ALL team members is mandatory, NO exceptions unless approved in advance by the instructor. Plagiarism Policy and Failure of Senior Capstone Design I Plagiarism will not be tolerated in senior design. Plagiarism takes on many forms, from simple cutting and pasting of other s words, to lack of (or insufficient) citation of information from a publication. It is the responsibility of the students to learn the university s policies on academic dishonesty and misconduct. The first instance of any plagiarism in this class will result in ZERO credit for whatever assignment the offense occurs in. If that assignment is your proposal, then you will forfeit 30% of your grade, and likely receive a D in Senior Design I. The second instance of plagiarism will result in assignment of an Unforgiveable F for the class, regardless of the point value of the assignment. An Unforgiveable F will prevent you from graduating from this university. A grade of D or F in Senior Capstone Design I will require students to start the senior design sequence over in a subsequent fall semester. There is no special class or independent study that will allow you to make up Senior Design I or II. Your graduation will be delayed a year, without exception. This course enforces an understanding of professional responsibility, and should be executed with the same professionalism you will exhibit in your career as an engineer. Failure to do so will carry dire consequences as would professional misconduct.
Exceptions and Deviations from the Syllabus As each Senior Design project is unique and the array of projects vary in scope and complexity, the instructor reserves the right to assign points for functionality relative to each team s design goals. However, scope or ambition of the project will not affect the degree of functionality. An incomplete project will not be given any extra consideration just because it may have been more difficult to execute. This is the risk you assume when you take on a challenging project. It is up to the discretion of the instructor to account for circumstances that may be deemed beyond the control of the team on a case by case basis. The grade assignments, deliverables and schedule are subject to change in the event of unforeseen circumstances. The class will be notified at the earliest possible time of any change in the point values of graded materials and deliverable deadlines. Any changes will apply to all teams equally whenever possible, to maintain fairness in the overall grade assignment. Final note: The vast majority of the activity in this class is performed outside of the classroom. It is your responsibility to prepare deliverables, presentations, and reports throughout the semester. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE DUE DATE TO COMPLETE YOUR WORK, AND DO NOT ASSUME YOUR TEAMMATES WILL DO THE SAME. GIVE YOUR ENTIRE TEAM THE TIME TO REVIEW EVERYTHING THAT IS TURNED IN FOR A GROUP GRADE.