ELEC 491 / 492 - ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING DESIGN I and II
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Fall 2024
1. Course Information
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KU Credits: 4
ECTS Credit: 6
Prerequisites: ELEC. 310
Meeting Times: TBD - Weekly meetings with TAs
PS: No
DS: No
Lab: No
Language of Instruction: English
Office Hours: By appointment via email
Office Location: ENG 272
Webpage: Follow notes and announcements on course KU Learn Hub
Teaching Assistants
TA Name Email Office
Bora Çarpınlıoğlu
[email protected] ENG B56
2. Course Description
A capstone design course where students apply engineering and science knowledge in an electrical-electronics
engineering design project. Development, design, implementation and management of a project in teams under
realistic constraints and conditions. Emphasis on communication, teamwork and presentation skills.
3. Course Overview
The ELEC 491/492 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Design is a unique design activity within the EE curriculum.
It is a capstone course meant to demonstrate knowledge and skills attained during your academic career by
completing a design project. All the projects provide the opportunity to incorporate concepts learned throughout the
ELEC curriculum into real-life project development. Projects also provide an opportunity to organise, manage and
complete a product development project in its entirety while considering ethics and intellectual property issues;
improve communication, teamwork and presentation skills.
4. Course Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to
- Follow a process and design a real-life engineering problem.
- Design a system to meet defined functional requirements.
- Build a working prototype of a designed system.
- Write a formal technical document that describes a system, its operation and its construction.
- Practice group dynamics and team building.
- Follow a project plan for completing and managing a project.
- Operate test equipment and/or design tools for the design, test and troubleshooting of a system.
- Demonstrate the functionality and operation of a system for a general audience.
5. Assessment Methods
Type Description Final
Grade %
Blackboard You are required to complete engineering modules on Blackboard and pass the
Engineering required exams of each individual module. Failure to do so results in an F,
Pass/Fail
Modules regardless of your project success.
Project Delivering a project proposal with the following contents to be assessed:
Proposal - defining the concept and objectives of the project within a well-studied
background,
10
- defining an approach and methodology within well scheduled work packages.
A detailed proposal is required for every project. The proposal template is
modified from TUBITAK research project proposals.
Presentations PDR and CDR meetings will be evaluated. 20
Weekly Weekly progress meetings and reports will be evaluated according to task lists
5
Meetings agreed on by students + TA. Failure to attend 2 meetings result in an F.
Project Demo Success of the final demonstration will be evaluated based on the completion of
the tasks in the project contract. Challenge levels of each project influence the 45
final demo grade.
Project Video A 3 minute video is required for each project at the end of the semester. Contents
and presentation of the project video will be evaluated. A 1-minute pitch 5
presentation at the end of the semester will also be evaluated.
Final Report Project report and final documentation package (Software, design files etc.) will
10
be evaluated.
Invention Koç University invention disclosure form must be filled by every project (see
Disclosure the ELEC491 modified template in the course website). There is also a section
we added about Ethics, Standards, and some other implications of your project.
There are probably other similar projects/products, patents you find on the
internet, make sure to cite them here and give links. Do some brainstorming
5
with your partners and come up with novel features and ideas! Just having
good ideas is fine, you don’t have to have a working demo of the innovative ideas
in order to file an invention disclosure and to file a patent. As someone with a lot
of patents experience, I’ll be happy to have a separate discussion about your
ideas and its commercial potential.
Total 100
6. Instructional Material and Learning Sources
- There are no textbooks for this course. You can find reference books and online information by a web search
about engineering design. The following is a reference optional book for the course. It covers many topics not
specifically addressed by the ELEC curriculum and is a good reference for many types of product design.
- Electronic Instrument Design: Architecting for the Life Cycle, Kim. R. Fowler, Oxford University Press
- Course webpage: KU Learn Hub
7. Course Schedule
Topic Details
Info Meeting with the academic coordinator for an
Session information session. Course requirements will be
reviewed. Supporting information will be given to plan
engineering design project development.
Weekly Students and TAs meet and discuss progress in
Meetings weekly meetings (at least one per week) during the
semester. Failure to attend 2 meetings result in an
F.
Contract First draft submission of the contract form. Revised
version is due with the proposal.
Proposal Submission of the proposals and contracts to the
& Revised academic coordinator and project advisor after a
Contract revision of the project plan with the TAs.
Order After finalising the project plan and signing the
Parts contract, groups order the necessary parts from
available channels.
PDR Each group makes a preliminary design review PDR
meeting with faculty advisor and TAs.
CDR Each group makes a critical design review CDR
meeting with faculty advisor and TAs.
Demo Day At the end of the semester, students will present their
work as an in-person event.
Report After a successful project presentation, each project
and group will submit a final Engineering Design Project
Invention Report and the Invention Disclosure forms to the
Disclosure academic coordinator by the last day of final exams of
the semester.
8. Student Code of Conduct and Academic Grievance Procedure
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Academic dishonesty in the form of cheating, plagiarism, or collusion are serious offences and are not tolerated at
Koç University. University Academic Regulations and the Regulations for Student Disciplinary Matters clearly define
the policy and the disciplinary action to be taken in case of academic dishonesty. Failure in academic integrity may
lead to suspension and expulsion from the University. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, copying from a
classmate or providing answers or information, either written or oral, to others. Plagiarism is borrowing or using
someone else's writing or ideas without giving written acknowledgment to the author. This includes copying from a
fellow student's paper or from a text (whether printed or electronic) without properly citing the source. Collusion is
getting unauthorised help from another person or having someone else write a paper or assignment.
9. Course Policies
Weekly meetings are mandatory. If you miss 2 weekly meetings during the semester, you receive an F from the
course. An informal (but informative nevertheless) progress report and attendance is required every week. You can
add experimental and simulation results and figures to the report. There may be some interim reports which are more
formal.
A written Project Contract will be developed and submitted by all parties. The project supervisor of your project will
use this agreement to determine the project grade. Each supervisor can have a different grading policy and set of
requirements for the course. If not stated otherwise by your supervisor, the following grading policy will be used.
- Project Grade will be the largest portion of your grade and measures the overall success of your completed
design project.
- The Final Documentation package. This includes a final report, a descriptive project video, invention
disclosure form, and all the other relevant information as appendices.
- There will be one Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and one Critical Design Review (CDR) held with the
supervisor in attendance. This review will be a sit-down review that covers the Design Specification, schematics and
demonstrations of key parts of the design.
- The culmination of the semester is the presentation of the projects on Design Day. Demonstration of your
completed project is to be accompanied by a poster display describing your project during the final weeks of classes.
- The use of OpenAI and HuggingFace APIs as building blocks of student projects is strictly prohibited.
However, students can consult generative AI tools to get inspiration for and improve their projects.
10. Other
A best senior design project jury will be held during the finals period and a minimum of 3 groups will be invited to the
jury. Projects that are invited but have not shown up receive a letter grade of F, regardless of their project
success.
Project Video
All teams shoot a project video near the end of the semester. The video is intended for publication on an online
accessible platform (like YouTube) before the demo session so that guests can watch the videos to get a brief
introduction about the project before they visit the stands. Also, the videos are a nice demonstration of the project
and the students’ proven capabilities so students can later on use them as promotional material. A guide on how to
prepare a project video is provided in this link.
Purchasing Parts and Materials
In many cases, parts and other materials will be needed for the projects. It is expected that the students will
purchase any items.
There are three ways to obtain the parts you need:
1) Purchase them locally (e.g. Selanik Pasajı, Karaköy Pasajı-Karaköy)
2) Order them from an electronics supplier (e.g. Digikey, Mouser, Jamco, Newark, direnc.net, etc.)
3) Get them directly from the manufacturers as samples.
Free parts may be acquired by obtaining samples from manufacturers and distributors. This source can often be
tapped by calling the manufacturer and identifying yourself as a KU student and explaining what your project is and
how their part would be applied. Obviously, you shouldn’t be calling to get some 50 cent logic gates or such.
Laboratory Facilities
Available upon request. Note that students engaged in projects involving interconnected components are required to
incorporate printed circuit board (PCB) design as an integral part of their projects.
