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ENGR 005, 2008 - Final Project

Guidelines

The final project for ENGR 005 is self-defined. The guidelines are as follows:

• The project may be a group or individual project
• You may do a project or research report (I prefer project)
• Groups can be up to 4 people – not necessarily from your lab section
• Project can be anything you think you can do in 2-3 weeks (6-10 hours).
• If you need extra supplies (up to about $40) let me know by Monday (11/17) so we can order.
• Research project is OK, but some of your references have to be print-based (i.e., not just URL’s)

Suggestions

Some project ideas

Project proposal

• Oral proposal during lab Thursday, November 20th
  • by the morning of Wednesday, November 19th, let me know in which lab period (A 11:20; B 1:15; C 2:40) you prefer to give your presentation. If possible, also give me an alternate (in case everybody chooses period A).
• I would like you to give me a paper with name of project, and name of group member(s) on 11/20.
• Presentation is 3-5 minutes by anybody in group (I realize that all group members may not be able to attend due to class conflicts).
  • Include:
  • Motivation for project
  • Description of project, including block diagram with major components (software and/or hardware)
  • Time line
  • Any equipment required
  • Members of group

Oral Project Presentation

Guidelines

• The oral project proposal should be from 5-8 minutes in length.
• I recommend powerpoint (or something similar) on flash drive.
• A practice presentation will be given on Thursday 12/4 in Hicks 213 (schedule is below).
  • After the practice you will get some immediate feedback that you should use to improve your final presentation.
  • The schedule is very tight - if we start to run over schedule, you may not be able to finish your practice presentation.
  • Make sure you should up at least 10-15 minutes before your practice presentation is scheduled to start.
  • Do at least one practice presentation before Thursday - you should be able to start quickly without discussing who is speaking when....
• The final project presentation will be given on Tuesday 12/9 in Hicks 213 (same schedule).
  • I would like you to come to the entire class on Tuesday 12/9 for the final presentations.
• Include:
  • Description of the proposed project
  • Theory (if any)
  • Procedure (including difficulties)
  • Results/demo as appropriate (I realize this may not be complete by 12/4)

Schedule

Lab A

• 11:20 Alade / Nicoludis (also - need to start wiki)
• 11:32 Balch / Scheuing (also - need to start wiki)
• 11:44 Bertaut / Bielenberg
• 11:56 Burger / Chien / Eyerer / Novack (also - need to start wiki)
• 12:08 Hunter (also - need to start wiki)
• 12:20 Dyer / Heavenrigh (also - need to start wiki)
• 12:32 Goff (also - need to start wiki)

Lab B

• 1:15 Blekicki / Dinh / Edwards
• 1:27 Bowers / D'Annunzio / Silverblatt-Buser
• 1:39 Cabrera / Rutherford / Spector / Williams
• 1:51 Parasrampuria / Chasins
• 2:03 Bhandari, Nolan, Pytlar, Zhao
• 2:17 Saltzman (also - need to start wiki)

Lab C

• 2:40 Martin (also - need to start wiki)
• 2:52 Koonce
• 3:04 Pollen
• 3:16 Pezzola / Weiner
• 3:28 Stromme / Weinhold (also - need to start wiki)
• 3:40 Chen / Erturk / Leland

Project report

• Projects will be on Wiki, started by 11/24
• Project Wiki completed by 12/10
• Oral Project Presentation on 12/9 during lab period (5-10 minutes). If it is a group project, presentation must be by somebody other than the person who did the proposal presentation.

Teams/Projects

Disco Board Project

Hicks Engine Project

Hogwarts Interactive

Robotic Arm Duex

MatLab Tic-Tac-Toe

Roller Coaster Project

Robotic Arm 2.0

Tomato Slicer

Bridge

Individual Projects

Prosthetics