Course Description: The first part (ECE 448) deals with feasibility studies of proposals. The second part (ECE 449) is the actual implmentation, testing, an d production of the chosen design.

Prerequisite: PHY 182/184, ECE 205, and MTH 245

Objectives: Upon finishing the course, students are expected to accomplish the following objectives:

The objectives of this course is to utilize the application of the senior students' knowledge in sicence, mathematics, and engineering to perform a major open-ended design project. The project is conducted in a professional manner that resembles a real industrial environment. Here, the students are considered as design engineers working in teams, and the faculty as the project director and consultant. The fundamental elements of the design process are considered in this course. These include the establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing, and evaluation. The course helps the students not only in developing and applying their technical skills but also in recognizing a variety of realistic constraints related to their projects. These can be economic factors, safety considerations, reliability, aesthetics, ethics, and social impact. The projects offered in this course represent real world manufacturing problems. This will enable you to recognize current needs and trends in industry and society and ways to solve them. Some problems are conducted with the Department (or other departments at Miami), while others are conducted in conjunction with local industries.