Lectures :: ECE 445 - Senior Design Laboratory

Lectures

Spring 2023 Lecture Material:

 

Lecture #1:

(February 17, 2023)

 

 

Getting Started

  • Welcome to the class! (pptx, pdf)

 

 

Pre-Lecture #2:

(before February 24, 2023)

 

 

Beyond Ideation

 

 

Lecture #2:


(February 24, 2023)

 

 

Moving Forward

  • RFA, Proposal, High-Level Requirements, R&V Tables, and Block Diagram details (Slides)

 

Pre-Lecture #3:


(before March 3, 2023)

 

 

Design and Writing Tips

 

 

Lecture #3:


(March 3, 2023)

 

 

Last stop before the Proposal

  • Introduction (pptx)
  • Proposal Details (pptx)
  • Proposal Logistics (pptx)
  • Lab Notebooks (pptx)

 

Pre-Lecture #4:


(before March 10, 2023)

 

 

PCB Exercise Tips

  • Modular Design & Circuit Debugging (pdf)
  • Why PCB Exercise? (pptx)

 

Lecture #4:


(March 10, 2023)

 

 

Intellectual Property

  • Patents - Henry Wang, President IPwe
  • Weekly Meetings Info (pptx)
  • Proposal Q&A

Spring 2020 Video Lectures:

Brainstorming

Finding a Problem (Video)
Generating Solutions (Video)
Diving Deeper (Video)
Voting (Video)
Reverse Brainstorming (Video)
Homework for Everyone (Video)

Important Information

Using the ECE 445 Website (Video)
Lab Notebook (Video , Slides)
Modular Design (Video, Slides)
Circuit Tips and Debugging (Video , Slides)
Spring 2018 IEEE Soldering Workshop (Slides)

Major Assignments and Milestones

Request for Approval (Video, Slides)
Project Proposal (Video, slides)
Design Document (Video, slides)
Design Review (Video, slides)
Writing Tips (Video, slides)

Growing Degree Day Monitor

Featured Project

The purpose is to create an inexpensive growing degree day monitor that records temperature and computes growing degree days for a specific farming field during a growing season. This monitor will be placed near a farm field where it will monitor temperature conditions during the growing season. It will record both the ambient air and soil temperatures over the course of day. These temperatures will then be used to calculate the growing degree days. The cumulative number of degree days will then be displayed on either a seven-segment display or this can be downloaded to a computer. This monitor will be powered through a combination of both solar and battery power.