Assignments typically involve both analog and digital design, and students are free to pursue any solution that satisfies the engineering requirements and meets with the instructor's approval. EE 162 Electrical Engineering Projects III EE162 and EE163 constitute the year-long senior design project. Students work in small groups on projects chosen with the advice and consent of the faculty advisor. Projects may be in any area of electrical engineering, such as information processing, telecommunications, computer engineering, control, microwaves, optics, advanced electronics and VLSI or in interdisciplinary areas such as biomedical engineering. Students perform all aspects of project management, such as scheduling, budgeting, system design, and developing milestones, as well as technical work including hardware and software implementation, testing and performance evaluation.
Students also give several spontaneous and rehearsed oral presentations and prepare written reports.
This course concludes the senior project begun in EE162. The initial goal is to achieve a functioning system. Advanced students are strongly encouraged to complete their project early and commence a master's thesis. Graphical methods including root-locus, Nyquist diagram, Nichols chart, Bode diagram. Introduction to design methods, nonlinear system theory, digital control, phase compensation and other topics as time allows.