ECE Capstone Report Structure Teams are required to do midterm/final project presentations and demonstrations in the Spring and submit midterm/final project reports. The specific format of the final report is at the discretion of the instructor/advisor. However, all final reports will contain much of the same material: • Abstract: describes the project, its goals, the most important results and suggestions for future work • Introduction/Overview: more fully describes the problem and provides background information (with citations) • Approach/Methods/Results: the approach taken, how problems were solved, sys- tem architecture, experimental results, etc. • Cost/Sustainability Analysis: capstone projects solve engineering problems. Any such solution has an associated cost either in parts/methods use or in environmental impact. Therefore, cost analysis should be done as part of the project to determine whether the solution obtained (or posited) is cost-effective or not. Sustainability, especially for physical products that might be mass-produced (as opposed to software, for instance) should also be considered. As a somewhat tongue-in-cheek example, if your project requires the feathers of wild spotted owls (an endangered species) then it’s probably a non-starter both commercially and environmentally. That said, the cost/sustainability exercise is especially useful exercise if the project result might be commercializable (yes, you should be thinking along those lines). At the very least, the project cost (parts purchased) must be provided and a discussion of how/if costs could be minimized so as to put your project solution into production (manufacture/distribution) if appropriate. Your project advisor will provide specific detail/guidance about cost/sustainability as appropriate. • Conclusion/Summary: what was done and how it was done • Bibliography: a formal list of citations to prior work relevant to the project and formulation/solution of project problems Overall, student teams should try to produce conference-quality writeups of their work. Examples of past project final reports (generally without costs/sustainability analysis) can be found at: http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/ ~ crose/capstone12contest_byinstructor.html 1

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ECE Capstone Report Structure

Teams are required to do midterm/final project presentations and demonstrations in theSpring and submit midterm/final project reports. The specific format of the final report isat the discretion of the instructor/advisor. However, all final reports will contain much ofthe same material:

• Abstract: describes the project, its goals, the most important results and suggestionsfor future work

• Introduction/Overview: more fully describes the problem and provides backgroundinformation (with citations)

• Approach/Methods/Results: the approach taken, how problems were solved, sys-tem architecture, experimental results, etc.

• Cost/Sustainability Analysis: capstone projects solve engineering problems. Anysuch solution has an associated cost either in parts/methods use or in environmentalimpact. Therefore, cost analysis should be done as part of the project to determinewhether the solution obtained (or posited) is cost-effective or not. Sustainability, es-pecially for physical products that might be mass-produced (as opposed to software,for instance) should also be considered. As a somewhat tongue-in-cheek example, ifyour project requires the feathers of wild spotted owls (an endangered species) thenit’s probably a non-starter both commercially and environmentally.

That said, the cost/sustainability exercise is especially useful exercise if the projectresult might be commercializable (yes, you should be thinking along those lines). Atthe very least, the project cost (parts purchased) must be provided and a discussionof how/if costs could be minimized so as to put your project solution into production(manufacture/distribution) if appropriate.

Your project advisor will provide specific detail/guidance about cost/sustainability asappropriate.

• Conclusion/Summary: what was done and how it was done

• Bibliography: a formal list of citations to prior work relevant to the project andformulation/solution of project problems

Overall, student teams should try to produce conference-quality writeups of their work.Examples of past project final reports (generally without costs/sustainability analysis) canbe found at:

http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~crose/capstone12contest_byinstructor.html