What's
Due, and When... Spring, 2007
1. Professional Self Assessment Report
-- Due Wednesday, April 18, to facilitator (one per student). Format and
contents described on web page.
2. Final Demonstration for facilitator,
sometime BEFORE ECE Design Day, Friday, April 27, in the lab, OR at ECE
Design Day in MSU Union on
April 27, if your project can be demonstrated completely there.
Two copies of your poster prepared according
to specifications and posted on the
course web page. Team members, in
staggered shifts, must be on hand 8:00am – 1:30pm in Parlor C, MSU Union, except when team is making
its Final Oral Presentation (see schedule on web page or in program).
Each student must also attend a minimum of two other oral presentations,
providing written feedback about the presentations. Each student must
also fill out and hand in (in special boxes at Design Day presentation rooms)
an evaluation form regarding the contributions of their fellow team members.
3. Final Written Report (one report per team)-
Prepare seven PRINTED copies (three “normal” and four “special”) -- for
Instructor and Facilitator and Sponsor.
Send electronic copies to Goodman and Facilitator, and turn in printed
copies in ECE Office, marked clearly as to who each copy is for. The four special copies are for judges
(marked “JUDGE’s COPY”
on the front), and are the SAME as the “normal” copies UNLESS the team is
operating under a confidential disclosure agreement. In that case, the four copies must have all
confidential material REMOVED (including detailed schematics, code, and
anything else now considered confidential and not to be talked about on your
poster or presentation). Where you have
removed something, insert a note “CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL REMOVED” so the judges
will know that something confidential was there in the actual final report. These copies go to the ECE OFFICE at the same
time, to Goodman’s attention. If some
team member will need additional print quota to print these (and posters),
email Goodman before noon
Wednesday with the name and email address of the person to receive the page
quota, and say how many pages (include poster quota, too).
Due – April 25, Wednesday,
not later than 5:00pm. Paper copies may be given to secretary in ECE
Office to be put in Goodman's and facilitator's mailboxes, but NOT LATER than 5:00pm. Paper copy required to facilitator and to Goodman;
also send electronic copy to goodman (goodman@egr.msu.edu), and post on your
web page (and include on your CD). [NOTE: teams that have
a confidential disclosure agreement with sponsor should NOT post their final
reports on the web pages, but turn them in on paper and electronically to
Goodman and on their CD, and to their facilitator. Judges’ copy of Final Report: If your team has a confidential disclosure
agreement (CDA), you must print a version of report for
judges with CONFIDENTIAL material (code, detailed schematics, PCB layouts,
etc.) removed and MARKED as removed. If
no CDA, just print for Goodman the extra four copies of the full
report.] A copy of the final report and CD must be
prepared for the sponsor and either hand-delivered to them at Design Day or
mailed to them (through the ECE Shop or ECE Office) no later than Monday, April
30. Unless you are notified otherwise,
you must also deliver/ship your prototype to the sponsor by Monday, April 30,
or give it to them at the end of Design Day.
Final Report Format
Main Body of the Report
Executive Summary
Design Objectives/Product Description
Include
FAST diagram with discussion of how you addressed the
defined functions in
your design (building on the function analysis homework
assignment your team did).
Design Specification -- Should match that given
in your proposal
Final Design Implementation
You
should also include various options considered and why you chose your final
design
You
should also discuss simulation results you obtained here
Final Design Performance
Evaluate
with respect to the design specification
Summary of Design Team Organization and
Roles
Summarize the Key Intellectual
Contributions Each Member of Your Team Made to this Project
Discussion and Suggestions for Future
Improvements
Conclusions
Complete List of References Used During the
Semester for your Project
Appendices
Include all schematics and parts lists
(create good drawings)
Include models and simulation results (e.g.
SPICE simulations if done, etc.)
Include software code listings
Include PCB board layout plots
Include specification sheets of specialized
parts (limit the number of pages- maybe just put key pages)
Include any other information that
documents your product
4. Final Oral Presentation (one per
team)-(Friday, April 27, 8am – 11:40am; at Design Day, MSU Union, according to posted schedule.
Length 25 minutes – 15-16 minutes for
presentation, 9 minutes for setup/answering questions from judges,
demonstrating for judges
PowerPoint presentation
Organization
Describe your project goals and team
organization
Review your design specifications
Show the final design and evaluate it
with respect to your proposed design specifications
Offer suggestions for future design
improvements
NOTE: Each
student is required to attend session (s)he presents
in, plus at least two other talks.
5. Final CD ROMs (two per team -- one
for instructor, one for sponsor) -- Goodman's copy with his printed final
report, due Friday, April 27, 4:30pm; you must hand-deliver other copy to your sponsor,
together with anything else you are to give to sponsor, or you may package and
address it for mailing and turn it in to the ECE Shop, not later than Monday, April
30, 2007,
before or while turning in your other materials to the ECE Shop.)
Place a copy of
your web page and all design team work (software, reports, etc.) on the CD
ROMs. This is needed for the department’s ABET accreditation process, to
document your work.
You can write the
CD ROMs in the lab. Include a contents file on your CD ROMs.
Here is how you do
that....
1. Contents file creation and
verification:
rm contents.txt (to remove existing file)
ls -laR > contents.txt
du >> contents.txt (these two steps create the
contents.txt)
chmod 775 contents.txt (change permissions on the newly created
file)
2. CHECK THE CONTENTS.TXT FILE BY OPENING IT IN WORD AND VERIFYING IT
(PERMISSIONS AND GROUP (4TH COLUMN TO THE LEFT OF FILE-SIZE))
3. CHECK ALL FILE PERMISSIONS OF THE FILES ON THE CD ROM. CHANGE AS
NEEDED. REMEMBER: IT NEEDS TO BE READABLE TO BE GRADED.
6. Hand In Your Project Notebook/Journal for the Last Time, ONLY to
your Facilitator (mailbox).
Due 4:30pm, Friday, April 27, 2007, to Facilitator mailboxes (ECE
Office will have a box where they can be turned in)
· If you want to keep your notebook, you
may copy and hand in your notebook entries since the last hand-in date –
otherwise, just hand in the notebook.
If your team has signed an agreement assigning intellectual property to
the sponsor, your notebooks will be given to the sponsor.
7. The completed web
page including your oral presentations, proposal, progress reports, and final
presentation (one per team) -- Due Friday, April 27, 2007, at 4:30pm, posted and on the CD-ROM. [Note: do NOT post if
your project is operating under a non-disclosure agreement.)
8. Your
prototype is probably owed to your sponsor, and otherwise, it MUST be turned in
to the ECE Shop. If not sure which, check with Goodman.
If due to sponsor, you may deliver prototype (and CD-ROM) on Friday, if sponsor
attends presentation; otherwise, you must package it for mailing and take it to
ECE Shop no later than Monday, April
30, 2007, and they will send it to sponsor.
9. Complete and hand
in your team’s Lab Equipment Return Form
It Must
be Signed by the ECE Shop -- (one per design team take it there). They
will sign it when you have cleaned out your locker, turned in your lock, and
returned all hardware furnished by ECE for construction of your project (except
what will be given to your sponsor), for example, power supplies, specialized
lab instruments, etc. ALL sponsors this semester should
receive the prototypes you have built, plus any supporting material promised to
them.
Due: Wednesday, May
2, noon, signed form in Goodman's mailbox
(ECE Office).
The form is provided
on the next page for you to print out, if lost.
4:30pm Friday, April 27, is the final due
date for all ECE 480 deliverables except the Lab Equipment Return Form. Missing
items will impact the evaluations/grades given, as will late items.
ECE 480 Design Team Equipment Return Form-One per Team
(To be signed by ECE Shop, then
returned to Goodman)
All items that you borrowed from the ECE shop, or had purchased through the
ECE shop, and your team’s padlock must be returned to the ECE shop by noon on Wednesday, May 2, 2007. You also need to
have all of your personal belongings out of the ECE 480 lab by noon on Wednesday, May 2, at which time the
door will be locked.
DESIGN TEAM #____________
Items below to be completed by the
ECE shop staff:
Padlock returned: YES
NO
All equipment and tools borrowed from the shop have been returned: YES NO
All parts obtained from or purchased through the ECE shop and NOT to be
given to sponsor have been returned: YES
NO
Prototype has been packed for shipment to sponsor and taken to ECE Shop, or
has already been delivered to sponsor.
The ECE Shop is satisfied that all items have been returned properly
ECE
Shop Signature__________________________
Date_____________________
Return completed form to Dr. Goodman no later than Wednesday, May 2, 2007.