ECE6FK4

Form Groups	September 22^nd, 2011
Project Proposal	October 6^th, 2011
Bronze Level Presentations	November 28^th-December 6^th, 2011
Silver Level Presentations	February 13^th, 2012
Gold Level Presentations	April 3^rd, 2012
Poster Day	Tuesday April 4^th, 2012

Course Objective: This course is a project-based course. Students are required to form groups where each group will work on a specific design problem. The design problem will be approved by the course instructor. Through the course of this project, students will gain good expertise in the design, simulation and testing of digital and analog systems. This course introduces the students to basic design methodology, computer aided design (CAD) tools used in the design, synthesis and analysis of digital computer and communication systems, microcontrollers, and field programmable logic devices (FPLD). Students will also gain good understanding of the social, environmental, and economic impact of engineering designs.

Format: Three one hour lectures per week and a 1-hour tutorial per week. One office hour after lecture.

Assessment:

(late reports penalized at rate of 20%/day, no extension for demos)

Meeting Milestones 10%

Project Proposal (presentation and report) 10%

Progress Demonstration/Presentation 1 20%

Progress Demonstration/Presentation 2 20%

Final Project (report, presentation, demonstration, poster) 40%

All projects must be done in groups of 4 students. Groups are preferably formed from students registered in the same section. Transfer from one section to the other is allowed but instructors reserve the right to move whole groups from one section to another.

Policy Reminders:

Senate and the Faculty of Engineering require all course outlines to include the following reminders:

The Faculty of Engineering is concerned with ensuring an environment that is free of all adverse discrimination. If there is a problem, that cannot be resolved by discussion among the persons concerned, individuals are reminded that they should contact the Department Chair, the Sexual Harassment Officer or the Human Rights Consultant, as soon as possible.

Students are reminded that they should read and comply with the Statement on Academic Ethics and the Senate Resolutions on Academic Dishonesty as found in the Senate Policy Statements distributed at registration and available in the Senate Office.

Academic dishonesty consists of misrepresentation by deception or by other fraudulent means and can result in serious consequences, e.g. the grade of zero on an assignment, loss of credit with a notation on the transcript (notation reads: "Grade of F assigned for academic dishonesty"), and/or suspension or expulsion from the university.
It is your responsibility to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty. For information on the various kinds of academic dishonesty please refer to the Academic Integrity Policy, specifically Appendix 3, located at

http://www.mcmaster.ca/univsec/policy/AcademicIntegrity.pdf

The following illustrates only three forms of academic dishonesty:

Plagiarism, e.g. the submission of work that is not one's own or for which other credit has been obtained.
Improper collaboration in group work.
Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations.