Professor C.V. HollotDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering

05 September 2013

Senior Design Project – SDP14

Introduction

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Welcome to SDP14! Senior Design Project

• Capstone project course• One year to design, implement, and demonstrate system

SDP is different from any other course• Main emphasis on project (but there are a few lectures…)• Teaming• Practical skill set• Creativity• Application of classroom knowledge

A great opportunity to gain project experience before you go out into the real world!• Design and build a system from scratch• Recruiters like to talk about SDP in interviews

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SDP14 Information

Web site• http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/sdp/sdp14/

Course meetings• Thursdays 4:00 – 5:15 p.m.• Lectures: Hasbrouck 134• Lab: Marcus 10/12• Additional meetings: project reviews• See schedule on web site for details

Textbook• None

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SDP14 Personnel

Professor C.V. Hollot• hollot@ecs.umass.edu

Fran Caron• fkcaron@ecs.umass.edu

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SDP14 Course Deliverables

Design Documents

Report

Project Website

Review Presentations

Poster

System Prototype

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SDP14 Documents & Reports

Title and Abstract

Requirement Analysis

Block Diagram

Midway Report

Final Report

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SDP14 Presentations Preliminary Design Review (PDR), week of October 7th

Midway Design Review (MDR), week of December 2rd

Comprehensive Design Review (CDR), week of Feb 24th

Final Project Review (FPR), week of April 7th

SDP Day: Friday April 25th

ECE Projects Showcase: Saturday, April 26th

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SDP14 Process Teams of 4 students

• Choose one team manager Advisor

• Each team chooses its own ECE faculty advisor Meetings

• Weekly team meetings• Weekly advisor meetings• Course meetings

Project budget: $500• Some parts available in SDP lab or M5

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Review and Grading Process

Review panels (PDR, MDR, CDR, FPR)• Panels consist of several professors from our department• 20 min presentation by team + 20 min Q&A

The final grade for ECE 415 (and ECE 416):• Advisor grade (50%): Given at the discretion of the advisor • Review Board grade (30%): Average of review panel grades• Course Coordinator grade (20%): Based on attendance, project

documents and performance • Each team member graded individually.

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Teams/Advisers/Projects

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Assignments

• Next week: develop elevator pitch/problem statement/abstract

• Confirm faculty adviser by Tuesday, 17th September

• SDP T-shirts

• Design contest

• Submit image files to me

• SDP14 class vote

• M5 prints

• Images due 19th Sept

Career Events & Action Steps for the

ECE Senior

Cheryl Brooks, Director, Engineering Career and

Student Development Center

ECE Placement StatisticsClass of 2011 (6 month after graduation)

Class of 2012 (as of Sept. 1)

Number of Graduates

53 75

Full-time jobs 32 (60%) 41 (56%)

Graduate School

12 (23%) 12 (15%)

Total in job or grad school

44 (83%) 53 (71%)

Where Did They GoIBM Tx. InstrumentsCisco CognizantGeneral Dynamics MotorolaRaytheon SeimensEMC2 Corporation MillitechMicrosoft IntelMIT Lincoln Labs TeradyneAmazon BAE

Cornell MITU. Of Michigan UMass

Average Starting Salaries

Average Starting Salary 2011: $65,000

Average Starting Salary 2012: $63,250

Three Pieces of Advice Start EARLY and use ALL of your

resources– Information Sessions– Career Fairs– Society Conferences (AICHE, SWE, NSBE,

etc)– COE Career Center Website

www.engineering.umass.edu/careercenter– www.umass.experience.com– Read MY Email to you!– Professors

2nd Piece of Advice Make sure you are prepared to present

your BEST self:– Resume (Resume/Career Fair Prep

Workshop on September 12th, at 5:30 in Elab II)

– Prepare your “30 second pitch”– Use technical lingo – Attend Interviewing Workshops/do a mock

interview

3rd Piece of Advice Know what companies are looking for

and see yourself through THEIR eyes:– Technical prowess– Ability to solve problems– Relevant experience– Ability to communicate– Ability to work with others (teamwork)– Energy/Enthusiasm for the job

Fall Career Events for ECE Workshops

– Resume/Career Fair Prep– Prepare for a professional

conference– Interviewing– Job Offers—how to decide

Information Sessions (14 so far for ECE majors! More coming….

Career Fair: Sept. 27th Career Café: with Raytheon,

Lutron

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Department Honors Seniors

Meet with Professor Anderson

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Lab Rules Marcus 10/12

• The code to 10 Marcus Hall 3245 • Hours are 24/7• When entering the lab, ALL lights must be on.• No food, alcohol drinks, bicycles, skate boards, roller blades,

radios and sporting equipment, unless it is part of your project. PCs, password, and test equipment Safety:

• AC/DC electrical power tools• “Safety Glasses at all Times”

• Fire• Chemical• First aid kit• UMass police

Lab bench sign-up (first come first serve)

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ARhT: Automated Relearning hand Therapy

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SAFE-T: Sensory Automated Fire Emergency Tool

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Theremillusion

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ABEL: Automated Belt Loader

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Place N Paste

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Senior Design Project Day The big day…

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Teams Faculty Advisor

1 (4) Srideep Maulik; John Jackson, Kyle George, Soaib Rashid

2 (4) Jack Vorwald; Ryan Holmes Brett Kaplan; Mike Burns

3 (4) Peter Adams; Mark Brennan, John Fuller; Dustin Lagoy Professor Goeckel

4 (4) Christopher Finn , Paulo Leal , Kevin Okiah Tim Mirabito

5 (4) Shuwen Cao; Tim Hill, Melissa Lau; Andy Yee Professor Anderson

6 (4) Justin Mills; Trevor Elkins, Mike Barber; Derek Thrasher Professor Kundu

7 (4) Scott Rosa; Kenny Van Tassell, Tim Coyle; Justin Kober Professor Hollot

8 (4) Felix Lam; Chi Ho Liem, Myron Tan; Krysten Moore

9 (4) Sarah Cobb, Alanna Davies, Anthony Bernasconi (ME); Donald Wykstra (ME)

Professor Kelly

10 (4) Anita Ganesan, Joel Jean-Claude, Sachin Honnudike, Eric Moore

11(4) Andrew Santos, Lawrence Hui, James Cassell, Roland Du Professor Kwon

12 (4) Fabien Ahmed, Yulia Bulgakov, Christos Mpelkas, Arber Doci

13 (3) Matthew Walczak, Simon Belkin, Audrey Finken