431-334 Design Laboratory 3

Credit Points

Prerequisites

431-219 Laboratory 2.1 and 431-220 Laboratory 2.2

Corequisites

Approved combination of third-year units from electrical engineering or computer engineering

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

To complete the subject successfully, you should be able to demonstrate that you can; plan and manage, and complete a small engineering project as a team; design and construct to professional standards using commercial components to a specification; use relevant test methods to prove that your design meets the specification; keep laboratory notebooks to professional standards; write clear and concise reports; present your project to a group of your peers.

The content includes; two five-week design tasks relevant to electrical and computer engineering to be completed by small teams. Support lectures on Project Management, Design and Construction Skills, Oral and Written Presentation.

Assessment

Laboratory notebooks to be kept during the laboratory sessions and submitted at the end of semester, a formal written report (less than 3000-words) to be submitted by each team for each design task, an oral presentation on one of the design tasks. Marks will also be awarded for practical and construction skills for both projects