ECE4OI6
Engineering Design
Course Outline: 2012/2013, September 2012
Instructors: Dr.
Lectures: Tuesday, Thursdays, and Fridays 11:30 pm -12:20 pm, T13/107
Tutorials: Mondays 9:30 am -10:20 am, T13/107
Office Hours: One hour after
each lecture.
Teaching
Assistants: Osman Ahmed, mohammos@
mcmaster.ca,
Yu
Zhang zhang235@grads.ece.mcmaster.ca
First
Lecture on IP Creation and Protection
Second
Lecture on IP Creation and Protection
Third
Lecture on IP Creation and Protection
Introduction
to Sustainability for Engineers
First Lecture on Project Management
Designing
Projects for Sustainability
Important Dates |
Form Groups |
September 22nd, 2012 |
Project Proposal |
October 6th, 2012 |
Bronze Level Presentations |
November 28th-December 6th, 2012 |
Silver Level Presentations |
February 13th, 2013 |
Gold Level Presentations |
April 3rd, 2013 |
Poster Day |
Tuesday April 4th, 2013 |
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 should 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: