1.Final Demonstration with Poster (one per team)- (Dec. 3, Tues., Class time plus 2:00-4:00pm)
Clean your team's lab bench area before 12:00 noon on Dec. 5.
One poster prepared according to specifications posted on the course web page.
2. Final Written Report (one report per team)- Prepare two copies -- Instructor and Facilitator
Due – Dec. 6, Friday 5pm (Format given below)
Paper Copy Required; also send electronic copy to Instructor (goodman@egr.msu.edu)
Main Body of the Report
Executive Summary
Design Objectives/Product Description
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
Appendix
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
3. Final Oral Presentation (one per team)-(Thursday, Dec. 5, 12:40 – 6:00pm)
Length 15 minutes
Power Point presentation
Organization
Describe your project goals and team organization again
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 four other talks minimum (if you cannot stay for whole session you present in, come to the lecture-hour presentations).
4. Final CD ROM (one per team)- Due by Friday, Dec. 6 in Dr. Goodman's mailbox)
Place a copy of your web page and all design team work (software, reports, etc.) on a CD ROM. This is needed for the department’s ABET accreditation process, to document your work.
You can write the CD ROM in the lab. Include a contents file on your CD ROM.
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.
(See next page)
5. Hand In Your Project Notebook/Journal for the Last Time, ONLY to your Facilitator (mailbox).
Due 5 pm, Friday Dec. 6 to Facilitator mailboxes
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.
6. Complete and hand in with your Final Report your team’s Lab Equipment Return Form
It Must be Signed by the ECE Shop -- (one per design team take it there)
Due: Friday at 5pm, Dec. 6 in Instructor's Mailbox
The form is provided on the next page for you to print out, if lost.
7. The completed web page including your three presentations, proposal, progress reports, and final presentation (one per team) -- Due Friday Dec. 6 at 5pm.
8. Professional Self Assessment Report -- Due Friday Dec. 6 at 5 pm to E. Goodman (Instructor, in mailbox) (one per student). Format handed out in class and available on web page.
5pm Friday, Dec. 6 is the final due date for all ECE 480/491 deliverables. Missing items will impact the evaluations/grades given, as will late items. The instructor will be leaving for professional commitments outside the state/country soon thereafter, so cannot accommodate requests for late submissions.
ECE 480/491 Design Team Equipment Return Form-One per Team (Completed by ECE Shop) Returned to Instructor
All items that you borrowed from the ECE shop, had purchased through the ECE shop, and your team’s padlock must be returned to the ECE shop by 4pm on Friday, December 6. You also need to have all of your personal belongings out of the ECE 480 lab by 5pm on Friday, December 6, at which time the door will be locked in preparation for next semester.
To be completed by the ECE shop staff. Return this form to Dr. Goodman with your team's final report.
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 have been returned: YES NO
The ECE Shop is satisfied that all items have been returned properly
ECE Shop Signature__________________________
Date_____________________
Return completed form to Dr. Goodman along with your final report.