The faculty mentor for each project will determine grades for project teams and for individual students. Some recommended grading policies and grading weights are listed below. Each project team will receive a team grade for EC 460 and EC 461 as determined by the project mentor after receiving comments from representatives of the project client organization and others as appropriate. The project mentor will determine individual grades after examining individual engineering logbooks and receiving comments from individual team members and others as appropriate. An individual's grade will rarely be greater than the grade of the team to which that individual is assigned.
Teams make initial contact with client and schedule meeting with client.
Teams meet with their client to discuss their project and start developing a product design specification. Teams secure client approval of the product design specification, give a copy to the client and the faculty mentor, and start the conceptual design phase. Teams submit a written summary of their meeting with the client to the faculty mentor no later than noon Friday. Work on conceptual designs and decision criteria. Work on conceptual designs.