SYLLABUS

Contact Information:

  Lecture Time     R: 12:30 - 1:50 PM  
  Lecture Place     EA 126  
  Laboratory     Anderson Hall 104 (see your department's lab manager)  
  Lecturer     Joseph Picone, Professor  
  Lecturer Office     EA 712  
  Lecturer Office Hours     TR: 09:00 - 11:00 AM (also available as needed at other times)  
  Lecturer Phone     215-204-4841  
  Lecturer Email     picone@temple.edu  
  Lecturer Instant Messaging     Google Talk: joseph.picone@gmail.com  
  Teaching Assistant (TA)     Christopher (Chris) Tufts  
  TA Office     EA 214  
  TA Phone     215-204-3795 / 856-362-1535  
  TA Email     christopher.tufts@temple.edu  
  Class Alias     engr_sd_2011s@listserv.temple.edu  
  URL     http://www.isip.piconepress.edu/publications/courses/temple/engr_4296  
  Textbook     None  
  Prerequisites     Successful completion of ENGR 4196  


Grading Policies:

  Item  
  Weight  
  Weekly Deliverables     20%  
  First Hardware Prototype   10%
  Second Hardware Prototype   10%
  Final Hardware Prototype   10%
  Preliminary Design Review     10%  
  Design Review     10%  
  Design Document     10%  
  Web Site     10%  
  Advisor/Coordinator Evaluation     10%  
  Lab Penalty: Failure To Clean The Lab     -10%  


Description:

Senior Design II continues the process of designing, building and testing your project. The emphasis will be on demonstrating that your design meets its design requirements through comprehensive testing. The organization of the class parallels that of Senior Design I closely.

Schedule:

Senior Design Project II will meet as a class every Thursday for one hour. The lecture topics are shown below. Every Tuesday, with no exceptions, teams are expected to meet as a team. Every team member must be available at this time. Course coordinators will also be available.

  Class  
  Date  
  Topic(s)  
1
09/01
   Organization and Document Templates  
2
09/08
   Design Document Review  
3
09/15
   Technical Presentations and PowerPoint Tips  
4
09/22
   Problem Decomposition (3a) and Work Breakdown Structure (3b, 3c, 3d)  
5
09/29
   Experimental Design  
6
10/06
   Career Fair - Class Cancelled  
7
10/13
   Preliminary Design Reviews
8
10/20
   Business Plans  
9
10/27
   Accelerated Life Testing  
10
11/03
   Executive Summary  
11
11/10
   Product Specifications and Cost  
12
11/17
   Design Reviews  
13
11/24
   Thanksgiving Break  
14
11/29
   Guest Lecture  


Please note that the dates below are fixed since they have been arranged to optimize a number of constraints. You need to adjust your schedules, including job interviews and site visits, accordingly.

Deliverables:

All deliverables will be posted to the project web site by 8 AM on the day indicated below. The course instruction team will download these documents from the web site at this time and grade them.

  HW  
  Due Date  
  Item(s)  
1
08/30
   Bill of Materials  
  Web Site  
2
09/06
   Project Abstract  
  Problem Statement  
3
09/13
   Design Constraints  
  Design Constraints Narrative  
4
09/20
   Approach  
5
09/27
   First "Hardware" Prototype  
  Project Schedule Checkpoint  
  Meeting Logs Checkpoint  
6
10/04
   Revised Approach  
  System Block Diagram  
N/A
10/13
   Preliminary Design Review  
7
10/18
   Revised System Block Diagram  
8
10/25
   Evaluation  
9
11/08
   Second "Hardware" Prototype  
  Project Schedule Checkpoint  
  Meeting Logs Checkpoint  
N/A
11/17
   Design Reviews  
10
11/22
   Executive Summary  
11
11/29
   Final "Hardware" Prototype  
  Meeting Logs Checkpoint  
  Project Schedule Checkpoint  
N/A
12/06
   Design Document  
  Web Site