This course prepares the student for ELEC49x, the fourth-year capstone design project course. Students will practice engineering design in the context of one or two mini-projects relevant to Electrical and Computer Engineering. The lecture material will be augmented by design exercises. In the second half of the course, students will form project groups, each of which will formulate a project plan. The groups will execute their plans in ELEC 49X in the subsequent year (students going away on internship must join up to form groups that will continue when they return). Through an investigative, ranking and matching, and approval process, groups will be assigned a project from a list of proposed design projects. Each group then prepares a proposal document that describes their project and schedules its milestones for the coming academic year.
