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Syllabus

Course:	*EE 4203 - Senior Design II*
Date:	Spring 2006	Time: W 2:30 - 4:15 PM	+arr
Prerequisite:	EE 4103
Professor:	Dr. Marcus O. Durham, PE
Office Hours:	MW	Office: U395	Voicemail:x3276
Internet	e-Mail	Website: http://www.drmod.com
Objectives:	The aim of this course is to provide a capstone design of electrical systems. Students will propose, get approval, design, fabricate, and demonstrate a project. In addition, work place environment topics include communication, non-verbal communication, changing paradigms, and ethics. Professional development includes IEEE and ham projects. The format is presentations, memos, and reports.
Texts	*The Great Connection* by Arnie Warren *Skill with People* by Les Gilpin excerpts from Leadership and Success by Dr. Marcus O. Durham, PE; Dr. Robert A. Durham, PE; Rosemary Durham, CTI; DreamPoint Publishers
Examinations:	Successful completion of projects, reports, and presentations, and TEAM participation.
Grading:	Presentations	min - max limits
	The Great Connection	4 - 4.5 min	100
	Skill With People	4 - 4.5 min tag team	100
	Project Proposal	2 - 2.5 min	100
	Project Review	2 - 2.5 min	100
	Project IEEE meeting	as required	100
	Project Demonstration	6 - 8 min	100
	Reports
	Great Connection paper	2.5 - 3 pages, double	100
	Weekly Memos	1/2 page, single	100
	Project - goals memo, proposal memo, final report	as required, double	100
	Project construction working	completed	100
	Evaluations of colleagues	presentations & team	100
	Ethics, Paradigm, Communication	Assignments	100
	Pass wireless license, meeting, & project	copy of license, memo	100
	Take FE exam & memo		100
	Professor judgment (all tasks completed)	quantum number	100
	TOTAL		1500
Letter grades:	Division points between letter grades will be based on student performance and best judgment of the instructor.
Wireless	As an integration of technical principles and practices, amateur radio includes every facet of electrical engineering from digital and power to controls, signal processing, and wireless rf signals. It provides a spectrum to experiment with any medium. For this component, pass the entry level, technician license. In addition, attend a club meeting and make a one paragraph memo about the time, location, speaker and topics discussed. Complete a project option of your choice and prepare a memo. The supplemental text is Technician Class Amateur Radio, Element 2, by Gordon West, Master Publishing.
*Profession*:	Professional development is a continuing requirement of engineers. IEEE is the largest engineering professional society on the planet. For this component, attend a student or section meeting and make a one paragraph memo about the time, location, speaker and topics discussed.
fyi:	1. Attendance in class is expected. Points will be taken off final grade for poor attendance, particularly in the form of class participation and evaluation of and by colleagues. 2. There is no such thing as a stupid question, except the one not asked. Chances are others don't understand it either. 3. Students are expected to seek assistance if necessary. The instructor interprets students coming to his office to ask questions as eager beavers worthy of high grades. Students in trouble who don't try to straighten out their problems immediately and then say simply, "I never understood that" are in more trouble than they think. 4. No make up exams or late assignments will be permitted unless arranged in advance. 5. Fallibility of instructors is uncommon. However, in the unlikely event of a difference in opinion on grading, the question must be resolved within three days. Senility is common. Therefore, grades are as-is where-is for time greater than three days after posting.
Your job:	The professor recognizes that problems of learning, earning, yearning, spurning, squirming and slumbering are unique to student life. Such problems will be treated with civility by a southern gentleman, but not with a great deal of compassion. You are a unique individual, wonderfully made, but the University environment demands your working within the same constraints imposed on others.