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ET410 Scope of The Capstone Project
ET410 Scope of The Capstone Project
ET410 Scope of The Capstone Project
The project completed in this course should be a work product that you can
show to a future employer or client. It should showcase the knowledge
learned in the Engineering Technology program.
Working with other team member: You may choose to work in teams if
you and your partner plan to take ET450 at the same time.
Working with the employer:
While you may do a project as part of your work with your employer, you
must be the principal individual responsible for the design, construction, and
testing of your project. Your employer will need to submit a letter at the end
of your project with a statement stating the work you have done on your
project and the responsibility that you had. Replacement projects will
generally not satisfy the capstone requirements nor projects in which you are
helping an engineering on a project.
Capstone Project Scope:
Your capstone project should be capable of solving a real world problem or a
scaled version of the problem. The project will be later implemented in
hardware and software in the ET450 Capstone course. Thus, you must be
able to purchase the parts and build and test the project by the end of
ET450. The project should be relatively complex and go beyond lab type
projects, incorporating skills and knowledge gained in a number of different
courses. In general, projects will have several subsystems. It shouldnt have
to be said, but buying and building a purchased kit or building a project
based on designs from the internet are not capstone projects.
Good capstone projects will typically have
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A practical application
Designed and implemented from scratch
Incorporates a variety of parts or subsystems
Often interfaces to the real world
Packaged with a nice user interface
Examples of projects which are not capstone projects:
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FPGA board
VHDL/Verilog
Power supply/battery
Other electrical components
Signal/Audio Processing
For these projects, an algorithm is developed and implemented for
processing a signal.
Perform calculations and analysis before designing the application and
running the software simulation (Multisim/MATLAB/IDEs) and then use the
hardware to implement it.
Employ the following hardware to create a project.
DSP board or analog filters
Image/signal as data
Display/speaker for results
Power supply/battery
Other electrical components
Course Plan
The following is the scope of the project and expectations for the next seven
weeks:
Perform research and gather information to identify and state the problem
that you will solve in your capstone project. Brainstorm ideas that will solve
an engineering design problem. Remember that the project should address a
real-world problem. Develop a lessons learned document that you will edit
each week based on your observations and lessons learned from that week.
Describe the scope of the project, requirements, expectations and limitations
of the project based on the stakeholders needs. Identify the type of the
project (use list above). Identify alternative solutions to the problem that will
be helpful in developing a design.
Prepare a project proposal and submit it in the course to your instructor and
also email it to this address ETCapstone@grantham.edu from your Grantham
email.
Next, identify the requirements for your project and perform a System Design
Review.
Working on the project management side of your project, complete a work
breakdown structure (WBS).
Based on project scheduling techniques and theory of constraints, add a
schedule to the WBS.
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The professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues and responsibilities
associated with developing engineering systems.
The global and local impact of systems on the individuals, organizations, and
society.
The engineering design standards relevant to electronic/electrical projects.