Editing ECE 3400 - ECE Practice and Design

== General Information ==
A class all about design and ethics in ECE. Project was a heart rate monitor system before 2015, but completely re-designed for SP15. Most of semester is spent building a robot that travels through a maze and maps it, using Arduinos and FPGAs.
== Prerequisites ==
ECE 2100, 2200, and 2300

== Topics Covered ==
* The Design Process
* Development Methodologies
* Useful circuitry for ECE projects
* Ethics
* Lab 1: Programming the Arduino Uno for Motors and other Components
* Lab 2: Analog Circuits and FFTs for Whistle Frequency Sensing
* Lab 3: FPGA Programming and Interface for VGA Monitor Display
* Lab 4: Radio Communication between Arduinos with the Nordic
* Final Project: A month to develop a maze-mapper robot, extra points given to the team with the robot that maps an accurate maze the most quickly
== Workload ==
*SP14: 4 Deliverables, 5 labs (with reports for each), meeting minutes, 2 write-ups, final report and presentation
* SP15: 4 Deliverables, 4 labs (reports still there), meeting minutes, 2 write-ups, final report and robot demo
* SP16: 6 Deliverables, 4 labs(reports for each), meeting minutes, 2 write-ups, final report & Robot competition
* FA16: 6 Deliverables, 4 labs (reports for each), meeting minutes, 2 write-ups, final report & Robot competition 

== Advice ==
* Required class. Add more after SP15 semester

== Past Offerings ==
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! scope="col" |Spring 2014
! scope="col" |MWF 11:15-12:05
! scope="col" |Carl Poitras
! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |A+
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! scope="col" |Spring 2015
! scope="col" |
MWF 11:15-12:05
! scope="col" |Carl Poitras
! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |A
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!Fall 2016
!
MWF 11:15-12:05
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Carl Poitras
! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |A
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!Fall 2019
!MWF 11:15- 12:05
!Carl Poitras
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