Project Title (as descriptive as possible)

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Project Title(as descriptive as possible)

• Group Members
• CPE495-01 Computer Engineering Design I
• Electrical and Computer Engineering The
  University of Alabama in Huntsville

email e.mail_at_uah.edu
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The Team

• List all team members, their interests, expertise
  and role in the proposed project.

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The Need

• Describe the need or opportunity
• Lack of the proposed device/software, or
• New enabling technology that can make existing
  devices smaller, lighter, faster, more power
  efficient, less obtrusive, better user interface,
  
• Who is affected and who will benefit?
• Slide title should describe the need

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BIG PICTURE

• A picture worth of thousand words that explains
  the whole project
• Slide title should be also descriptive, not big
  picture

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Marketing Requirements

• Describe (as precisely as possible) marketing
  requirements from your sponsor
• If you dont have a sponsor, provide marketing
  requirements by conducting interviews with
  possible customers

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Engineering Requirements

• Describe (as precisely as possible) engineering
  requirements and associate them with marketing
  requirements from previous slide as described in
  class and in your textbook

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Survey Market Competition

• Describe state of the market
• List the main players in the field and
  competitors
• Compare and contrast value propositions of each
  product (high performance, low price, specific
  features, etc.)
• What is comparative advantage of your product?

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Survey Existing Projects

• Describe briefly existing research projects
  relevant to your research
• University, student, and other projects
• For each project describe the relevance

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Survey Journal Papers

• Describe briefly the most important journal
  papers in the field of your project
• For each paper describe briefly the main
  accomplishments and the relevance to your project
• Provide full reference in IEEE format
• F. Author, S. Author, Paper Title, IEEE Trans.
  on Senior Design, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 2009,
  pp. 15-20.
• Sources IEEE Explore, Google Scholar, Scientific
  Databases

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Survey Conference Papers

• Describe briefly the most important conference
  papers in the field of your project
• For each paper describe briefly the main
  accomplishments and the relevance to your project
• Provide full reference in IEEE format
• F. Author, S. Author, Paper Title, Proc. 1st
  Annual Conf. on Senior Design, October 2009, pp.
  950-953.
• Sources IEEE Explore, Google Scholar, Scientific
  Databases

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Survey Patents

• Describe briefly the most important patents in
  the field of your project
• For each patent describe briefly the main
  accomplishments and the relevance to your project
• Provide full reference
• F. Author, S. Author, Patent Title, Patent
  Number, October 2009.
• Sources US PTO web site, Google Patent,

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Proposed approach

• Describe briefly the solution and the proposed
  approach

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Innovation

• What is innovative in your approach?

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Alternative approaches

• Describe briefly alternative approaches to
  implementation
• Compare and analyze alternative approaches
• The Engineering Tradeoff Analysis
• Use The House of Quality approach as described
  in your textbook

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Project Summary

• Slides 3-13 in a single-paragraph summary
• Present the slide but describe it only with one
  sentence during presentation (already described)

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System Design Functional Decomposition

• Describe the functionality of all system
  components as described in class
• Chapter 5 of the Textbook

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System Design Behavior Model

• Describe system behavior
• Chapter 6 of the Textbook

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Testing

• Describe in detail how do you plan to test the
  system
• Chapter 7 of the Textbook

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The Work Breakdown Structure

• Provide a hierarchical breakdown of the tasks and
  deliverables
• Chapter 10 of the Textbook

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The Project Timeline

• Gantt Chart
• Chapter 10 of the Textbook
• Network Diagram
• Could be a part of Gantt chart
• Determine the critical path and its duration

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Cost Estimation

• What hardware, software, services, and other
  material do you need for your project?
• Itemized price and expenses
• Development effort (Labor) expressed in
  worker-hours

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Deliverables

• Provide deliverables of your project, for example
• hardware,
• software,
• report, etc.