ENGG1000 Engineering Design and Innovation

Projects in the School of
Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications

Announcements:

o      Solutions to the Circuit Principles exam are here.

o      Option to take a Replacement Circuit Principles exam, 3pm to 4pm on 27 June, 2008.

-      The average mark in the actual circuit principles exam was a bit less than 50%.

-      The exam has served its role of encouraging study by all group members and presenting each student with an opportunity to learn from his/her mistakes (see solutions above).

-      However, due to the accelerated learning induced by the short session, it is understandable that the result may not be a true reflection of each student’s capabilities.

-      For this reason, there will be an optional replacement test on 27 June, 2008 in EE-G24, from 3pm to 4pm.

-      If you choose to take the optional test, your original test mark will be disregarded, regardless of whether it was higher or lower.  In fact, for this reason, not all of the original tests have been marked at this stage, but are being kept to deal with the eventuality that some students may not take the optional test.

-      It is expected that the replacement test will be taken by most students.  This also provides an opportunity for the lecturer to return final reports, so that group members receive valuable feedback for later courses during their program of study.  If you take the test, you must agree to receive back your final report at the end and review the comments together with any of your team members who are also present.

Overview Documents

1.     Faculty outline – overview of all projects in the faculty

2.     School outline – how ENGG1000 runs for the EE&T project

3.     Project brief – for the EE&T project (HTML with links)

Join a Team (and find out who is on your team)

Click “join a team” to enter the School of EE&T’s automated ENGG1000 project team enrolment system.   You should note the following:

1.     Prior to 1:30pm on Monday of Week 2, you are free to join any team, leave a team you have joined, or move from one team to another.  Thereafter, these functionalities are password controlled, so that only A/Prof. Taubman or a lab demonstrator will be able to make changes.

2.     You need to be enrolled in ENGG1000 (not necessarily the EE&T project) to join a team.  Moreover, you must leave time for your enrolment status to be entered into the system – if you think you should be able to use the system, but are denied access on enrolment grounds, please see Dr. Taubman in EE303 or the EE&T school office.

3.     If you join a team, we ask that you adjust your “My UNSW” enrolment status to the EE&T project stream, if necessary.  If your “My UNSW” enrolment status currently shows you belonging to a different project stream, you may need to un-enroll yourself and then re-enroll.  If the existing quota prevents you from doing this, it is preferable for you to enroll yourself in the FLEX stream for now.  If all of these fail, please ask somebody in the EE&T school office to move you to the EE&T project stream.  Your enrollment status will eventually need to be consistent with your selected project stream, for your final mark in the course to be correctly awarded.

4.     If all else fails, be sure to speak to the lecturer after the 1st lecture on Thursday of Week 2.

Resources for the Course

ð      Written lecture notes

-      These are not powerpoint slides; they are carefully written and typeset chapters, created specifically to help get you up to speed as quickly as possible with key concepts of relevance to your design project.  The notes are in the process of being updated, but should be available early enough for your to read them before coming to lectures.

ð      Laboratory and Mentor Group locations

-      Find out your team’s assigned location in the School of EE&T’s 1st floor laboratories.

-      Find out your team’s assigned mentor and the location of your weekly meetings.

ð      Electronic components

-      Datasheets, form to get components from the School’s electronics workshop, and links to external suppliers.

ð      Technical description of the Dalek Enemy Target

-      Each team receives a constructed enemy target to practice on.  However, you may find it very useful to have the technical specifications, circuit schematic and operating principles of the enemy target.  These may give you insights for your own design.

ð      Cover sheets for reports:        Project Review Cover;         Final Report Cover

-      You must attach the appropriate sheet to your design review and your final report.  See calendar (below) for the submission dates for these reports.

ð      Calendar

-      All relevant times and dates for this project.

ð      Sample dalek noise

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Last Updated: 24 June 2008
A/Prof. D. S. Taubman