Engineering 6806 Electrical & Computer Engineering Design Project

Instructors Dr. D. K. Peters Dr. S. O'Young
Office hour Mo, We 3:00-4:00, or by appointment Tu 2:00-5:00
Lectures: Tu 12:00-12:50, Th 12:00-1:50 EN2048
Lab slot: Th 2:00-5:00
T.A. Razzaqul Ahshan Peter King
E-mailrazzaqul at engr.mun.capeter at engr.mun.ca
Office30754029A
Phone737-3472737-3527

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Detailed Schedule

The following is the tentative schedule of lectures, meetings and other deliverables.

Date Deliverable Lecture/meeting Examples/Handouts
Th 09.06 Introduction management.ppt, barriers.ppt
Tu 09.11 Team Draft, no lecture (only captains attend).
Th 09.13 Mechatronics, Lab 1Getting started with the robots Photo of controller card with labels., Sample code, Drive system test code, Servo sample code
Tu 09.18 Incremental Design Intro to Subversion
Th 09.20 Modularization Sample document
Tu 09.25 Computer Vision (N. Krouglicof)
Th 09.27 Computer vision (cont'd) (12:00-12:50), Lab 2 -- Computer vision Dr. Krouglicof's Engr 8805 page
Mo 10.01 Preliminary draft design document
Th 10.04 Review meetings (1:00 - 4:00) Judge software jar, Test client jar, .bat file to run the judge, sample map file. rallycourse.dtd.
Th 10.11 Demo 1
Mo 10.15 Peer review 1
Mo 10.22 Revised draft design document
Th 10.25 Review meetings (12:00 - 5:00)
Th 11.01 Demo 2
Mo 11.05 Peer review 2
Th 11.22 Final competition (results and grades)
Fr 11.30 Final Documentation, Log books
Mo 12.03 peer review 3.

Textbook

There is no textbook for this course.

Evaluation

Logbook (individual)6%
Project:
    Demo 18%
Documentation rev. 16%
Demo 28%
Documentation rev. 212%
Competition24%
Final Documentation36%

As you can see from above the documentation is worth up to 60% of your grade for each increment. This grade is broken down as 40% for design and 20% for the documentation itself.

Note that teammates will not necessarily receive the same grade for the project component. The team score for the project will be calculated as above, and each team member's score will be adjusted up or down based on:

  1. Peer evaluation -- At two times during the project and at the end, every member of each team will be asked to indicate what they think the percentage contribution of each of their team members (including themselves) was to the project.
  2. Reported effort -- The reported hours worked (as discussed elsewhere) will be taken into account in assessing team members relative contribution. Note, however, that effort is not the same as contribution.
The individual project mark will be calculated as , where
m is the individual student project mark (out of 94)
P is the team project mark (out of 94)
pe1, pe2, pe3 are the peer evaluation grades as a decimal (i.e., pe1 = 1 means that the student is evaluated to be contributing on par with expectations on the first peer evaluation.)
his the hours worked reported for this student
His the total hours worked by all students on the team
nis the number of student on the team

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