Introduction to Senior Design

1. Introduction to Senior Design By: Wilmer Arellano

2. Overview • Syllabus • Getting started

3. The Three most important things at the beginning • 1. Form a team • 2. Find a Team Leader • 3. Find Three Potential Topics • 4. Find a Mentor • 5. Select a Topic

4. The objectives • Course Objectives: • Develop the ability to outline and plan an engineering project with several phases and participants from distinct disciplines • Conduct a team-based project • Perfect communication and analysis of technical concepts and alternatives • Global Learning Objective: • Use a Global Perspective to achieve a design that will have Global Acceptance and minimal barriers to trade.

5. The objectives • The main objective of the course is to prepare students for the realization of a Capstone Project. Emphasis is placed on Successful Design, an idea that involves Local and Global acceptance. • Students engage in a close to real life project design and management experience.

6. Course Evaluation • Contact information and Grading

7. Team Formation • It is crucial that the students form in teams early in the semester • There are only two requirements, the teams must be multidiscipline and must have at least three members • By multidiscipline we understand having members of both, electrical and computer engineering • The optimal number of members is 4 as it will protect against a team of 3 disappearing in case of losing a team member • Each team selects a team leader and finds 3 potential topics of interest

8. Mentors and Topics • once you have the 3 topics • the team needs to find a Mentor and negotiates the topic of the design. • This process is very important and has to be taking seriously in order to be successful. Your goal is to convince a potential mentor in a single session • As a continuation the team has to clarify the need • including the mentor (The Client) point of view, • the results from a survey (The Users), and the • brainstorming of the team (The Designers).

9. The proposal • The Proposal you need to write encompasses many different aspects of the project among them: • Feasibility and Risk Analysis, • Will the team succeed • Globalization issues and Standards. • Will the project succeed in other cultures • A survey of related projects and patents • The state of art • Theory Model Analysis of potential Ethical Dilemmas on the project, • Health, Safety, Sustainability,

10. Topic Covered: • Please read carefully these next two slides as they includes the topics to be covered. • Some of them have already been mentioned • Some of them are new like • Teamwork • The foundation of success • Intellectual Property • Protect your invention • Intended user(s) and intended use(s) • You usually design for others

11. Topic Covered (continuation): • Manufacturability Considerations • Make it easy for your company • Environmental Considerations • Save the planet • SOW/GANTT CHARTS • Plan your project like businessmen • Electric Grounds • Power Supplies

12. Contribution of course to meeting the professional component: • Working as multi-disciplinary teams to design a current engineering system, component, or process according to desired needs in an ethical framework

13. Relationship of course objectives to Global Learning outcomes • The main objective is that teams engage in actions towards a global, international, and intercultural successful design. Showing global awareness and conducting analysis to understand global cultures

14. Required Reading • Globalization and Standards • http://web.eng.fiu.edu/~arellano/4010/F2007/Globalization_and_Standards.ppt • Recommended reading • The WTO In brief: • http://wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/inbrief_e/inbr00_e.htm • UNDERSTANDING THE WTO • http://wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/what_stand_for_e.htm • Standards Education • http://www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/standards/index.html • IEC Lecture series I (2005) • http://www.iec.ch/about/globalreach/academia/lecture_2005.htm • UNIDO Role of Standards • http://www.unido.org/fileadmin/media/documents/pdf/tcb_role_standards.pdf

15. Department regulations concerning incomplete grades: • Please read this slide carefully • Incomplete grades apply only under circumstances beyond your control and strict regulations apply regarding notification to the instructor, how to complete the missed work and eligibility

16. Learning Activities:

17. Project Conception and Management • Students form in multidiscipline teams • Members of each team select a team leader • Teams find 3 potential topics of interest • Teams negotiate with potential mentors their mentorship and the topic. • Mentor and topic are selected.

18. Communication • Teams prepare a Project Proposal with two partial deliveries with revisions. • Teams present to the class their project in two deliveries. • Teams specifically present why their team is multidisciplineand their understanding of global issues

19. Global Positioning • Your team will need to upload in a video to youtube a presentation on their project where they introduce their team and provide demonstrations and explanations about the starting project. • These videos must hav open access to the general public. • You can google: “youtube FIU senior design projects”

20. Examination Policy: • This is different from incomplete regulations • Please read carefully as it explains the eligibility criteria for make-up evaluations including oral presentations

21. Presentation Rubrics

24. & Questions Answers