EE44142 SENIOR DESIGN 200304 INSTRUCTORS: Dr' Ken Laker Mr' Phil Farnum http:www'ee'upenn'eduee442ee

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EE441/42 SENIOR DESIGN2003/04INSTRUCTORSDr.
Ken LakerMr. Phil Farnumhttp//www.ee.upenn.edu
/ee442/ee442home.html
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EE441/42 Introduction Overview
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• Introductions
• What is Senior Design About?
• Attributes of Successful Projects
• Senior Design Policy and Grading
• Course Schedule
• Project Proposals and Advisor Contract

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What is Senior Design all about?
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• Senior Design experience at Penn is in two
  semesters.
• EE441 (0.5 cu) and EE442 (1.0 cu).
• Open ended, unlike any class-room course.
• Penn Senior Design is a transition between
  student life and being a professional on the
  first job.
• Title of Senior Design project is important item
  to list ones CV.
• Integrate Penn education in a year long design
  project.
• Students learn to take responsibility for their
  successes and mistakes.

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What is Senior Design all about?
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• Learning by experience.
• Grow technical depth and breadth.
• Project/time management and setting realistic
  goals
• Working with others in a team to achieve common
  objectives
• Writing professional reports
• Making professional viewgraph presentations
• Other Opportunities.
• Awards
• The sky is the limit.

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Successful Projects have the Following Attributes
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• The student team brings to the project a combined
  knowledge base and skill set that spans a
  significant portion of the knowledge and skills
  needed to do the project.
• No project will have 100 coverage
  knowledge/skills.
• However, when the team has little of the
  prerequisite knowledge/skills to do the project,
  the project starts with a significant penalty.
• The selected project is a good match to the
  expertise of the project advisor.
• It is a plus when the advisor has a substantive
  vested interest in the successful outcome of the
  project, e.g. the design project is supporting
  the advisor's research or it will be used by the
  advisor in one of his or her courses.
• Students are highly motivated, self starting and
  persistent.

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EE441/442 POLICY
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• Senior design project teams comprised of 2 to 3
  students.
• Project selection done with consult of project
  advisors and course instructors.
• Qualified advisors outside EE Penn advisors are
  allowed, if approved.
• Attendance at course meetings (in class and with
  project advisor) is required.
• Each student must maintain a project Lab
  Notebook.
• All relevant information is to be recorded in the
  Lab Notebook.
• Each page is to be dated and signed by student.
• A financial proposal or budget is submitted as
  part of the the 1st Technical Report.
• Any project requiring funds greater than 75 per
  student must receive approval before any
  expenditure commitments are made.

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EE441/442 GRADE FACTORS
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• Fall EE441
• EE441 Senior Design Project - Student Proposal
  Form
• Project approval contract signed by the project
  advisor.
• Two formal reports.
• Lab Notebooks.
• Two student viewgraph presentations.
• One-on-one interviews with project teams.
• Spring EE442
• One-on-one interviews with project teams.
• Project Poster for use in Demo Day presentation.
• Demo Day presentation and demonstration.
• Final Project Report (builds on EE441 reports).
• Lab Notebooks.

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EE441 Schedule
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• September, 03 (Final selecting
  project/advisor/team mates)
• Students select project topic, advisor and team
  mates.
• In class Students make brief verbal progress
  reports in class (Mon. 9/15 Wed. 9/17).
• Student teams complete a project proposal form
  (due Wed. 9/17).
• Instructors conduct 1-on-1 interviews with
  student teams to review project proposal form
  (Mon. 9/22 - Fri. 9/26). There will be no
  formal classes the week of project proposal
  meetings.
• In class Students learn how to communicate
  design details in reports and presentations
  (technical writing, viewgraph preparation,
  schedules, block diagrams, and public speaking).
• In class 1st round student viewgraph
  presentations to instructors and classmates
  (begin Mon. 9/29).
• Student teams submit signed project contracts
  (due Wed. 10/01).

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Due Wed. 9/17
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EE441/442 Project Proposal Form
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• Project SUBMISSION form for Faculty - Adobe PDF
  and MsWord.
• Project PROPOSAL form for Students - Adobe PDF
  and MsWord.
• Submit by e-mail as an attached MS Word or PDF
  files.
• MSWord File Name Protocol ee441prjpr_NAMES.doc
• Adobe PDF File Name Protocol ee441prjpr-NAMES.pdf
  
• Example Project submitted by Farnum Laker Team
• ee441prjpr_FARNUM_LAKER.doc or
• ee441prjpr_FARNUM_LAKER.pdf.
• Submit project proposals by e-mail to Sid
  Deliwala ltdeliwala_at_seas.upenn.edugt.

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UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA MOORE SCHOOL of
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EE 441/442 SENIOR DESIGN
PROJECT CONTRACT FALL 2003 The purpose of
this agreement stated below is to inform all
interested parties that an agreement has been
reached between a project advisor and the
students named below for carrying out a specific
senior design project for the Sept. 03-May 04
academic year. The agreement may be terminated
at any time by the students in writing or by the
project advisor, in extreme circumstances, after
consultation with the EE 441/442 course
instructors. AGREEMENT In fulfillment of the
EE 441/442 course requirement, I agree to serve
as project advisor to the students named below
for the Sept. 03-May 04 academic year for the
project titled -------------------------------
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ITLE ------------------------------------------
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------------- PROJECT ADVISOR DATE ----------
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--------------------------------------------- ADVI
SOR PHONE NUMBER ADVISOR E-MAIL -------------
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STUDENT E-MAIL ----------------------------
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--------------------------- STUDENT STUDENT
E-MAIL
Due Wed. 10/01
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EE441 Schedule - cont.
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• October, 03 (Project definition in progress,
  schedule, budget - 1st Report)
• Student teams submit signed project contract (due
  Wed. 10/01).
• Students start on design, have regular meetings
  with project advisor.
• Student teams write 1st technical report
  (Revision 1) with budget proposal (due Mon.
  10/27).
• In class One lecture on project management
  (TBD).
• November, 03 (Project well defined, paper design
  underway, some implementation started)
• Student teams continue their design weekly
  meetings with project advisor.
• In class 2nd round of viewgraph presentations
  (begin Mon. 11/03).
• Instructors conduct 1-on-1 meeting with each
  project team (begin Mon. 11/03).

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EE441 Schedule - cont.
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• December, 03 (EE441 Final Report)
• Student teams complete EE441 Final Report
  (Revision 2) (due Fri. 12/12).
• Most paper design and simulations are completed.
  Some preliminary results are in hand.

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EE442 Schedule
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• January, 04 - April, 04
• In class two lectures on engineering ethics.
• No other formal classes are held.
• Students implementing their projects and continue
  weekly meetings with advisors.
• Hour long 1-on-1 meetings are held every three
  weeks with instructors. Problems and progress are
  discussed in detail.
• Late April, 04 - Early May, 04
• Demo projects to six member review team (three
  faculty plus three industry representatives),
  plus any guests and advisors. Poster
  presentation format is followed.
• Student teams submit EE442 Final (Rev3) Report
  with emphasis on results, accomplishments, and
  Lessons Learned (due 5/04 tentative).

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EE441/442 COMMUNICATIONS
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• All EE441/442 Materials are available at the
  EE441/442 web site.
• http//www.ee.upenn.edu/ee442/ee442home.html
• EE441/442 newsgroup is monitored by Sid Deliwala.
• upenn.ee.ee442

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