Electrical Engineering Design Practice

Course Outline


Level: 4th Year
Mode: in-person

This course is designed to further develop skills with the electronic system design process and focuses on the analysis, design, construction, test and evaluation of electronic systems to achieve a user need. On completion of the course students will have had the opportunity to apply electrical engineering discipline and project management skills to achieve the project outcomes.

Topics

The course is completely project based and will require students to perform the following tasks:

High level functional design
Milestone identification
Component level analysis
Design and development engineering
Part selection
Component pin out and ratings identification
Component value calculations
Operating point selection

Assignments

The assignment handouts are well structured and provide enough detail for a student to quickly engage in the problem solving process.

Marking Rubrics

Each assignment is accompanied by a marking rubric that allows the student to target their efforts towards achieving the desired learning outcomes.