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Introduction to Senior Design

This course equips students for the challenges of a Capstone Project, emphasizing successful design for local and global acceptance. Students will learn to form multi-disciplinary teams, select a team leader, and identify potential project topics while finding mentors to guide them through the design process. The course focuses on project planning, technical communication, ethics, and sustainability, ensuring students gain practical experience in engineering project management within a global context. Students will engage in critical learning activities, enhancing their capacity for teamwork and thoughtful design.

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Introduction to Senior Design

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  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

  22. & Questions Answers

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