Senior Design- Charles J. Kim

Senior Design Class: 2009-2010

0. About the Course

Syllabus 1 for Senior Design I
: Syllabus 2 for Senior Design II

1. Introduction

2. Problem Formulation

Identifying Needs and Defining Problems
: Design Topics (Briefs)
: Design Requirements; Example Design Requirements - Example 1 (pdf format, XLS format), Example 2 (pdf format, XLS format), and Example 3 (pdf format, XLS format)
: **** Visitors to the Class ****
: Tashonda Brown (Left) and Laurence Abcede (Right) from San Diego Gas & Electric made presentation on Operational Excellence and Smart Grid Project on September 23, 2009.

Dr. John Trimble of Systems and Computer Sciences Department discussed about Intel Challenge Design Project of WiMAX on September 30, 2009.

Thomas Hickey from Honeywell presented on a low orbiting lunar satellite and attitude control on September 30, 2009.

Emily Allshouse, the operations manager of Prince George's county teaching fellows, talked about the Teaching Fellows program on October 7, 2009

: Project Success; Teamwork; Project Proposal
: Dr. John Rowe of Honeywell visited the class for his presentation on the background of spacecraft attitude control (Nov 4, 2009)
: Proposal Presentation (Reading Material)

Proposal Panel Review: Public Presentation; November 13, 2009 (1 - 3pm) at 150 Mackey Building
: * Proposal Presentation Program

Team WMX (Intel WiMAX Project) - Presentation File and Proposal
: From left to right: Abeeku Paulos, Jonathan Charlery, and Cesar Gomes.

Team LDW (Lane Departure Warning System Project) - Presentation File and Proposal
: From left to right: Titilope Ogunlaja, Lucky Adike, Funmi Oludaiye, and Marlon McKinnie

Team MGR (San Diego Gas & Electric Microgrid Project) - Presentation File and Proposal
: From left to right: Mulegeta Damamo, D'Angelo Woods, and Christina Cheek

Team DRP (Tacoma Power Demand Response Project) - Presentation File and Proposal
: From left to right: Itotoh Akhigbe and Marc Inniss

Team SAT (Honeywell Lunar Satellite Attitude Project) - Presentation File and Proposal
: From left to right: Yemi Sonoiki, Danah Warren, and Tolu Kupoluyi

Proposal Presentation Judges: Dr. John Rowe (Honeywell), Peter Ramsumair (Credit Suisse), and Clarence Bell (FERC)

From left to right: John Rowe, Peter Ramsumair, and Clarence Bell.

Comment and Discussion Time
: Judges share their opinions and make comments (left), and Marlon McKinnie finds time to chat with John Rowe after the event.

The last guest speaking event of the class:

Clarence Bell of FERC talked about Electricty Transmission and Reliability, Balckout, abd FERC's role.

3. Problem Solving ( "It would appear that genius is not at all a divine and rare gift, but it is the destiny of everyone who has not been born a complete idiot" - P. K. Engelmeier, a Russian engineer)

Problem Solving; Progress Repoting; Progress Report and Presentation #1(W Jan 27, 2010); Progress Report and Presentation #2 (W Feb 10, 2010)
: First ECE (public) Progress Presentation: W Feb 17, 2010 (@Eng Lib)

4. Solution Implementation