ECE191 - Engineering Group Design Project Winter 2023

Description:

Teams of students work to design, build, demonstrate, and document engineering projects. All students give regular progress reports of their tasks and contribute a section to the final project report. Two hours of discussion, eight hours of laboratory.

IP rights: The students sign over all intellectual property rights to the company sponsoring the project.

Prerequisites: Completion of all of the breadth courses and one depth course.

Instructors:

Dr. Xinyu Zhang xyzhang@ucsd.edu

Administrative Assistant:

Chelsea Largoza clargoza@eng.ucsd.edu

Teaching Assistant:

Kai Zheng kazheng@ucsd.edu


Grading Policy:

  • Each team will be assigned a team grade for the overall accomplishments, effort, and creativity of the design and implementation of the project, as judged through the presentations, design review, and the midterm and final reports.

  • This grade may be adjusted up or down based on the quality of the reports (comprehensiveness, English correctness) and based on the team aspects of public speaking (correct slide design, organization).

  • Additionally, each student's grade can be adjusted individually up or down from the team grade based on a combination of the mentor's individual evaluation, peer evaluation, and participation.


Schedule:

  • Week 1 (1/9, 1/11) Course overview; Public speaking, Teams & ethics

  • Week 2 (1/16, 1/18) N/A; SoW

  • Week 3 (1/23, 1/25) N/A; N/A

  • Week 4 (1/30, 2/1) Progress Update; N/A

  • Week 5 (2/6, 2/8) Design Review; Design Review

  • Week 6 (2/13, 2/15) Econ/Env/Soc/Ethic; Mid-term report due

  • Week 7 (2/20, 2/22) Progress Update; N/A

  • Week 8 (2/27, 3/1) N/A; N/A

  • Week 9 (3/6, 3/8) Progress Update; N/A

  • Week 10 (3/13, 3/15) Rehearsal; Rehearsal

  • Week 11 (3/22) Final Presentation

The website for ECE 191 is http://ece191.weebly.com/ for general-purpose information.


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