CMPE 3397 - Junior Design Experience

Prerequisites: ELEC 2247, ELEC 3356, ELEC 3371. To foster creativity and individual exploration, this course is expected to take students through a series of preliminary activities and brainstorming sessions in engineering design. The emphasis will be on multidisciplinary designs in a team setting. The course instructor may act as a mentor, a resource, or as a client who will ensure that realistic constraints are imposed. The students are expected to perform a top-down design and analysis of systems or processes. Projects may include (but are not limited to) analog and digital electronics, software/hardware design and interfacing, sensors, microcontrollers, pc interface, motors and actuators. Software simulation tools may be used to verify design. In addition, students will develop skills in hardware and software troubleshooting and testing. The design experience culminates in a multi-week task that requires the students to integrate knowledge and content from ELEC 2247, ELEC 3356, and ELEC 3371 to synthesize a multi-faceted, specification-driven project. 3 credits.