The University of British Columbia

5 Credits

EECE 496

Project in electrical engineering or computer engineering involving design, experimental and/or computer simulation work as selected from topics supplied by faculty members or proposed by a student and approved by faculty. An individual project report is to be prepared according to specifications available from the departmental office.

Course Objective

EECE 496 is different from any other laboratory course you may have taken before. Its objective is to provide you with the opportunity to practise and demonstrate your ability to perform the synthesis or design of engineering systems. Such synthesis is often the essence of engineering work. You have spent much time in other courses acquiring the basic concepts and analytical skills necessary for the understanding of components, devices, instruments, computers and systems. You were also exposed to the concepts of design and performed limited design tasks. In this course, the scope of synthesis and design will be much larger and you will be required to demonstrate that your design actually works. The individual projects are concerned with real engineering questions and you can expect to face some of the problems, frustrations, and satisfactions that come with seeing an engineering project through from concept to implementation. In particular, you will find that the accomplishment of specific objectives in a prescribed amount of time is a challenging task.

As the course is a 5-credit course, you are expected to spend at least 10 hours per week (i.e. total 120 hours) working on the technical aspects of the course. Note that the deadlines are strictly enforced and extensions will not be granted, except in extreme circumstances. Any extension will need the approval of both the technical supervisor and the English Co-ordinator. Your project work will be conducted within the general framework established for this course. However, one or more professors, adjunct professors and/or industrial co-supervisors will supervise and assess your technical work. The Technical Co-ordinator is not normally directly involved with the marking, but is responsible for the overall technical standards of the course. As such, the Technical Co-ordinator is responsible for assigning the final technical grade and may arrange for additional technical assessment where marking appears to be too strict or too lenient.

Prerequisites