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“Impact through Innovation and Imagination”

“Impact through Innovation and Imagination”. The Project. "Given a one or two paragraph description of a product idea, a team of 3-4 students will design and build a working prototype of the product and document it so that a student of similar education and experience could build another.".

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“Impact through Innovation and Imagination”

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  1. “Impact through Innovationand Imagination”

  2. The Project "Given a one or two paragraph description of a product idea, a team of 3-4 students will design and build a working prototype of the product and document it so that a student of similar education and experience could build another."

  3. The Mission • Provide an “unstructured” design experience for graduating seniors • Follows an “industry-like” design process • Project teams consist of 3 to 4 students • Each project has a sponsor • Industry and Corporate • Entrepreneurs • Professors • All work is in the public domain

  4. Business Case User Documentation Build Documents Final Cost Estimate Design Alternatives Design Specifications Preliminary Cost Est. Prototype Product SD Announcement Design Description MD Announcement Product Requirements Project Plan Design Day The Product Life Cycle Idea Activities Deliverables

  5. Activities • High Level Design • Block Diagrams • S/W, F/W Architecture • Detailed Design • Build

  6. Reasons Companies Sponsor • Design of an electronic/computer system for which the sponsor does not have in-house capability • Development of ancillary products or systems freeing companies engineers for more critical work • Proof of concept effort for a company that either does not have the engineering capability or cannot allocate engineers to the project • Development of productivity tools for design and manufacturing operations

  7. Benefits of Sponsoring Projects • An opportunity to evaluate ECE senior students as prospective employees • An opportunity to work with young, bright, enthusiastic, unbiased individuals with new ideas • A chance for ECE students and faculty to learn more about your company • Access to the latest in laboratory equipment, software, and development tools • Establishment of a continuing relationship with the ECE Department

  8. Initiating a Project • Prepare a proposal as outlined on the next slide • Submit the proposal to the Director of the Senior Design Program • You will be contacted to discuss the project and answer questions • Once approved, the project will be added to the list for the following semester • Students will bid on projects of interest the first week of classes and may contact you to discuss

  9. Preparing a Proposal • The project title, sponsor’s organization/company, sponsor’s name & phone number and the contact person • A short paragraph or two outlining the objective of the project. Provide enough detail to allow the students to assess the type of effort required (e.g. mostly hardware, mostly software, a mix of hardware & software, etc.) If a particular course or skill would be beneficial to students pursuing this project, it should be listed. • The anticipated number of students needed for the project. The project proposal should contain the following

  10. Proposal Guidelines • The optimal project team size is two to four students. • We prefer not to have projects for individual students or large groups • The project should be accomplishable in 12 weeks • You should plan on 10 hours per week per student in setting the scope of the project • The project work may be performed either at the sponsor’s site or in the Troxler Design Center. Often students work at the sponsor’s site when specialized resources are required.

  11. Sponsor Responsibilities • Meet with students and agree on project scope • Attend a mid-semester design review • Provide “specialized” equipment that is unique to the project • Mentor students over the course of the semester • A faculty advisor will be assigned to projects with non-technical sponsors • Evaluate the project outcome at the end of the semester

  12. Project Funding • Donations to the Senior Design program are based on sales revenues • Donations are put in a general operating fund for use in purchasing project materials, upgrading laboratory equipment and other operating expenses of the program. $5,000 Established Companies $2,500 Entrepreneurial Companies

  13. Projects from the Past

  14. Example Write-up

  15. Contact Information Bart Greene Director ECE Senior Design Program Box 7911 NC State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7911 bjgreene@eos.ncsu.edu Ph: 919-515-8740 FAX: 919-515-7382

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