Announcements:

1. The plotter we were hoping to use for our posters is broken. Please see your email and stay tuned for changes.

Instructor	Dr. Robert S. Fourney
Email	For questions and concerns requiring a timely response: Robert.Fourney@ieee.org For routine deliverables and expected submissions not requiring unusual attention: ee464sdsu@gmail.com
Phone	Office: 688-4016 (home number handed out in class)
Office	215 Harding Hall
Class Time	Th 2:00-5:50
Class Location	Crothers Engineering Hall, room 351
Office hours	MWF 11-12 Th 11-12, or by appointment, or drop in as my schedule allows
Text	Electronic Instrument Design: Architecting for the Life Cycle by Kim Fowker, published by Oxford Press The text will be supplemented with additional reference materials which will be linked from this page and/or handed out in class as they are assigned.

Prerequisites

Students must have successfully completed EE 464 and EE 464L (Senior Design 1 and the associated lab) during the Fall 2006 semester. The web page from that class is here

Corequisites

The two classes (EE 465, Senior Design II, and EE 465L Senior Design Lab II) must be taken concurrently. Failing or receiving an "incomplete" in one requires retaking or completing both before graduating.

Course Description

These courses serve as the completion of capstone senior design sequence for the Electrical Engineering program at SDSU. We try to prepare you for, and give you experience with, designing and implementing a design project under conditions similar to those that you will encounter in the real-world.

Course Work

Unless otherwise specified, all work that you submit in this course must be your own; unauthorized collaboration is considered academic dishonesty. Please save us both a lot of trouble by realizing that I will pursue any such transgressions to the fullest extent possible. As a rule, late assigments are not generally accepted (e.g., attempting to hand in an assigment after the start of class on the due date will result in a grade of 0 for that assignment). Late assignments will only be accepted under exceptional circumstances AND with prior arrangement. A penalty may apply.

Grading Policy

A list of (some) major milestones and other dates of interest can be found here. You should see the syllabus for information on exactly how these deliverables influence your grade. Note that your "professional development" grade will be determined by your on time attendance to class, your participation in both classroom and external discussions and presentations, and the extent you participate in your team's design assignments. Schedule of Upcoming Classes and Events Date Topic, Reading, and Assignment Jan18 Introduction, assessment of progress over break and current status. Jan 25 No formal meeting for the entire class. Selected groups will meet with me. If you have not yet picked up your notebook and/or looked at your graded report from last semester you are obviously not participating. Feb 8 Make sure that you, or your advisor, has sent your "abstract" to Kyle Johnson of the Impulse magazine. Most advisors sent this over break, others asked the students to write it. If you are not aware of this request, check with your advisor. Bring your abstract (2-3 sentences, not a full abstract) to class today and we'll all help those who are having trouble. Feb 15 No formal meeting for the entire class. Selected groups will meet with me. Make sure that you take your lab notebook along when you meet with your advisor, and make sure that your status reports make it clear when you plan to meet with your advisor. I may show up and sit in on the meeting and/or spot check your notebook. Other groups will be asked to bring me their notebook at other times. Mar 1 No Class -- Winter Weather Event Mar 8 No Class -- Spring Break Mar 15 Each group will present a 5 minute status report. Dress is casual, but use computer/slide shows, props, chalkboard or whatever you need to show us how you are progressing. Time will be set aside for questions in addition to the 5 minute presentation. Mar 22 No formal class meeting. I will contact you if I need to talk to your group. If I do not contact you and you want to meet with me I will be available (today or early next week). Do not fill out your expo form until reading the instructions. The instructions have not been provided yet for this year. I will send you instructions from a previous year, but we are waiting for the Dean's office to verify that nothing has changed. The expo judges place significant weight on how certain portions of this form are filled out! Mar 26 Monday Evening Presentation by Dr. W.G. Corley at 6:00 pm in the Student Union. Mar 29 No class meeting. Dr. Fourney will be on the IEEE Industry Tour and will not be available for consulting. If I asked you to meet with me this week, and you have not yet done so, you had better arrange a meeting/demo prior to COB on Wednesday. Apr 4 No formal class meeting. I will contact you if I need to talk to your group. If you need help, do not hesitate to come to me. I'm picking on the groups that seem to be floundering. If I'm not bugging you you are still welcome to come and talk to me! Apr 12 Each group will present a 3 minute status report. Dress is casual, but use computer/slide shows, props, chalkboard or whatever you need to show us how you are progressing. Time will be set aside for questions in addition to the 3 minute presentation, but I expect most of this report to be on schedule rather than detailed technical issues. Apr 19 Dry run of Expo Presentation. This is a 5-6 minute presentation. Think more marketing than engineering. You want to sell the expo judges on your project. You will have an oppurtunity to give a longer, more detailed, presentation to Dr. Fourney, your advisor, and selected other faculty after the expo. Reviewed draft of Final Design Report Due. This should be reviewed by and signed by your advisor before you hand it in. Week of Apr 22 Try to find time to show Dr. Fourney and your advisor your poster and go through your presentation again. Preferably do this before you give your poster to Mary O'Neil for printing (she requested these by Wednesday at the latest if you want it by Friday). Apr 26 Those of you who have not yet shown Dr. Fourney your poster and your final (5 minute) presentation need to come to class and do this for the entire class. If you met with me earlier this week and I approved of your poster and presentation you do not need to attend. Apr 27 Engineering Expo in the HPER We're still waiting on schedule details, but you should basically plan on being there all day. You absolutely need to be totally set up prior to the Dean's address at 9 am (nobody should be schlepping equipment in while the Dean is trying to talk). My WAG is that they will initially tell you to plan on being done by 3 pm, but this probably won't happen. Plan on staying till 4:30 or so. . . . . . . . . . . . .