Announcements:

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	TBD, as always, you may drop in as my schedule allows
Text	Several optional texts were discussed in class. No new texts have been added for EE 465 The texts 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 2007 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 Jan17 Introduction, assessment of progress over break and current status. Jan 24 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. Jan 31 Short meeting to discuss ordering components and for me to (verbally) verify/clarify certain status reports Feb 7 No formal meeting for the entire class. All groups will meet with me. You must arrange the time/place/method of that meeting. Feb 14 Select groups will meet with me. You will be informed if I need to meet w/ you and given some leeway as to the time/place/method of that meeting. Feb 21 10-15 minute status reports will be presented by each group. Come prepared w/ appropriate visual aids and be prepared to answer questions. Feb 28 Select groups will meet with me. You have been informed if I need to meet w/ your group. Mar 6 No Class today, due to the IEEE Industry Tour Mar 13 Status Reports and Demonstrations. We will meet at 2 in HH 314 where some of you will show us what you've got, then proceed to HH 319 and perhaps to the Tron Lab before ending up in CEH 351. Please be on time. Mar 20 No Class, Spring Break. Mar 27 The class will not meet as a whole. Select groups will meet with me. You will be i informed if I need to meet w/ your group. You should register for the expo this week, as per the previous email. If you need help figuring out your catagory, please CC me on any email with the committee. If you need further help, I can meet with you prior to 3 or after 4 today. . . . . . . Apr 10 Rough Draft of your final design document is due today. This should already have been reviewed by your advisor, and his feedback should be incorporated in the document you hand in today. Do not wait until the last minute to schedule time for your advisor to review this document. We also have not had a notebook inspection lately. . . . . . . Apr 25 Dry Run for expo presentations. I will allow (much) more than the 4 minutes that the expo judges budget for questions. We want to go over these until we get them right. . . . . . .