4 credit hours
Prerequisites: ECE 322, ECE 412, ECE 420,
ECE 489, Senior standing, or permission of instructor.
Prerequisites or Corequisites: ECE 496 and
ECE 5xx/5xx ECE elective and lab.
Students work in teams to design, build, test,
and document an electrical, electronic, or electro-mechanical device or system
demonstrating their grasp of the concepts of electrical and computer
engineering.
Instructor: Dr. Thomas G. Cleaver, Room 203, W. S. Speed, 852-7506 (tom.cleaver@louisville.edu)
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Basic Course Links
Syllabus
Calendar
Photo Gallery page 1 - Fall 2004
Photo Gallery page 2 - Spring 2005
Photo Gallery page 3 - Fall 2005
Photo Gallery page 4 - Spring 2006
Photo Gallery page 5 - Fall 2006
Photo Gallery page 6 - Spring 2007
Photo Gallery page 7 - Fall 2007
Photo Gallery page 8 - Spring 2008
Photo Gallery page 9 - Fall 2008
Photo Gallery page 10 - Spring 2009
Lab Rules
Project Concepts
Team and Project Preferences form
Robot Mascot
IEEE Robot Design Contest
Student-Generated Projects
Technical Details Links
Volere Requirements Specification Template
Volere Template
IEEE Guide for
Developing System Requirements Specifications
IEEE Standard for Application and Management of the Systems Engineering Process
IEEE Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
IEEE Standard for Software Project Management Plans
Study Aid Links
The Development of a Project (PowerPoint)
Needs Assessment (PowerPoint)
ABET Design Considerations (PowerPoint)
Developing Team Skills (PowerPoint)
IEEE Std. 1233 (SyRS) (PowerPoint)
Consumer Product Requirements Specifications (PowerPoint)
Critical Thinking for Engineers (PowerPoint)
Critical Evaluation of Information Sources
A list of fallacious arguments
The Scientific Method Made Easy (Video)
Battery Use in Engineering Projects (PowerPoint)
Interfacing TTL with CMOS (PowerPoint)
How to Make a PC Board - General (PowerPoint)
How to Make a PC Board - Specific
Project Testing - Types of Tests (PowerPoint)
Transitions - Getting a Job (PowerPoint)
What is Six Sigma?
Effective Writing Links
University Writing Center
Guidelines for Written Reports
IEEE Documentation for Technical Writing
(The Composition Department, University of Minnesota Duluth)
Avoiding Plagiarism
(Online Writing Lab, Purdue University)
Frick's Online Plagiarism Quiz for Students
(Print the conclusion page and sign it to get credit for this assignment.)
Using English Good
Project and Report Links
Student Project Purchase Request
Sample of Needs Assessment Document
Sample of System Requirements Specification Document
Hardware and Software Support Tools for Student Use
Using ORCAD to create schematics (Good
for schematics, won't work for PC boards)
Using CIRCAD to create schematics (Good for
PC boards, bad for schematics)
Sample of Draft System Design Specification Document
Sample of Project Management Plan
Sample of Gantt Chart
Tips for Creating Project Management Plan
Sample of Critical Thinking Exercise
Sample of System Test Plan
Test Log Template
Sample of Completed Test Log
Sample of Test Report in Microsoft Word
form -
can be used as a template -does not include Test Logs
Sample of Test Report in PDF form - includes Test Logs
How to Prepare and Deliver an Oral Presentation
Content of Project Demo
Speech Evaluation
Sample of Final Report
Instructions for Preparing Final Report
Team Assessment
ERMA User Manual
Technical Resource Links
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
American National Standards
Institute (ANSI)
United States Patent and Trademark Office
IEEExplore - Full text
access to IEEE journals and documents
A complete illustrated guide to the PC hardware. From software to USB to firewire
PC World magazine
ZD net. PC and microprocessor technology
Thomas Register. Product and company information
Good sources of electronic parts:
Digi-Key
Mouser Electronics
Newark
Delphion International. More patents, including international
Oppedahl & Larson. Intellectual property
EE/CS Mother Site. Companies, information, publications, much more
EE Times magazine
Think Quest/math section. Info on math
Dave's Math Tables. From trig to Fourier transforms
WWW Virtual Library - Engineering. General technical
site
Galaxy Engineering and Technology. General technical
site
Internet Connections for Engineering.
General technical site
Engineers' Top 25 Terms and Expressions
Understanding Engineers
WebEE.com. EE Projects, tutorials, and more.
TTL/CMOS Interfacing.
Voltage Regulators
How stuff works. General site
How Stuff Works specific sites:
How RAM works
How ROM works
How virtual memory works
How cache works
IEEE SouthEastCon Hardware Competition Links
SoutheastCon Main Website
SECon 2001 Hardware Competition Rules
SECon 2002 Hardware Competition Rules
SECon 2005 Hardware Competition Rules
SECon 2006 Hardware Competition Rules
SECon 2007 Hardware Competition Rules
SECon 2006 Student Program
SECon 2007 Student Program
SECon 2009 Hardware Design Contest
Control of Stepping Motors
Handy Board (motor controller site)
Drive Control Objectives
Parallax BASIC Stamp Microcontrollers
Acroname (source of robot parts)
Zagros Robotics (source of robot parts)
All electronics (source of electronic and electro-mechanical parts)
How to Develop a Low-Cost Motor Controller
Review of Vex Robot
Use of IEEE Hardware Design Contest as a Project for Capstone Design Class
IEEE Hardware Design Contest Notes
Robot Contest - Lessons Learned - Spring 2005
Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS) grant proposal for Hardware Design Contest
Undergraduate Research Scholar (URS) endorsement letter
Fall 2005 - robot power train design
Sample Robot Objectives
Team 4 User Manual
Team 4 Schematic
Spring 2006 - robot line sensor design
Lynxmotion User Manual
Line Sensors User Manual
Fall 2006 - line-following robot design
Line-following Robot Objectives
Line-following Robot Requirements
Useful robotics books:
Fred G. Martin, Robotic Explorations: An Introduction to Engineering Through Design,
Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN 0130895687.
Gordon McComb, Robot Builder's Bonanza, McGraw-Hill, 2000, ISBN 0071362967.
Mike Predko, Programming Robot Controllers, McGraw-Hill, 2002, ISBN 0071408517.
Dennis Clark and Michael Owings Building Robot Drive Trains, McGraw-Hill, 2002, ISBN 0071408509.
Mist Alert Documents
Bonitron Final Report
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