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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: [email protected]
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”

BIG PICTURE
 A picture worth of thousand words that explains the
whole project
 Slide title should be also descriptive, not “big picture”
?
Marketing Requirements
 Describe (as precisely as possible) marketing
requirements from your sponsor
 If you don’t have a sponsor, provide marketing
requirements by conducting interviews with possible
customers

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

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?

Survey: Existing Projects
 Describe briefly existing research projects
relevant to your research
 University, student, and other projects
 For each project describe the relevance

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
Survey: Conference Papers
 Describe briefly the most important conference
papers in the field of your project
 For each paper describe briefly the main
 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
Survey: Patents
 Describe briefly the most important patents in
the field of your project
 For each patent describe briefly the main
 Provide full reference:
 F. Author, S. Author, Patent Title, Patent Number, October
2009.
 Sources: US PTO web site, Google Patent, …

Proposed approach
 Describe briefly the solution and the proposed
approach

Innovation
 What is innovative in your approach?

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

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

System Design: Functional
Decomposition
 Describe the functionality of all system
components as described in class
 Chapter 5 of the Textbook

System Design: Behavior Model
 Describe system behavior

Testing
 Describe in detail how do you plan to test the
system

The Work Breakdown Structure
 Provide a hierarchical breakdown of the tasks
and deliverables

The Project Timeline
 Gantt Chart
 Network Diagram
 Could be a part of Gantt chart
 Determine the critical path and its duration

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

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

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