Project Requirements

2018 ECE 411 Practicum Project Information and Requirements

Overview

Your team will be responsible for designing, constructing, and demonstrating a small project as part of ECE411. The project is intended to both give you some necessary implementation skills and experience as well as serve as a model for your capstone experience. In fact, the capstone evaluation forms and worksheets will be used in evaluating and grading your practicum project. You will get experience with PCB schematic and layout tools, project documentation and management tools, revision control systems, PCB assembly, and (depending upon your project) microcontroller IDEs. Equally important, you will create project requirements, test plans, schedules, and documentation as you would for your capstone project (or any project in industry).

Requirements Overview

• Your project can do almost anything but must satisfy the following course requirements:
• Have one or more sensors (inputs)
• Have one or more actuators (outputs)
• Have one or more processing modules which control actuators based on sensors
• Use a two or more layer PCB
• Use 25% or more surface mount components that can be hand or reflow soldered