CSU, Chico Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EECE 335:Project Requirements, Design and Testing

Prerequisites:ENGL 130; either CSCI 112 or EECE 221

Required for EE, CMPE, and CSCI majors

Catalog Description:Students are introduced to methodologies used to specify system descriptions. Hardware and software documentation standards are described. Methodologies for modeling systems and development of presentation materials are discussed, and students are required to make both written and oral presentations. Formerly ECE 180.

Course Objectives:

• understand how to write requirements and design documents with precision so that the documents provide clear, unambiguous, understandable descriptions of a product
• learn to organize technical material so that it can be easily read and analyzed
• practice participating effectively as a team member on a product development team
• learn to organize and prepare an effective presentation
• gain experience in delivering a technical presentation
• demonstrate the understanding of the need for and develop the ability to engage in lifelong learning

Course Outcomes:

• understand how to write requirements and design documents with precision so that the documents provide clear, unambiguous, understandable descriptions of a product
• learn to organize technical material so that it can be easily read and analyzed
• practice participating effectively as a team member on a product development team
• learn to organize and prepare an effective presentation
• gain experience in delivering a technical presentation
• contribute to an interdisciplinary development project as an individual contributor or team leader
• organize and write a research paper using proper documentation sources
• research and write evaluations of current technical articles

Class/Laboratory schedule:

• One hundred minutes a week lecture
• One hundred minutes a week activity

Contribution of Course to Meet the Professional Component:

• Engineering Science: 1 units

Relationship of Course to Program Outcomes and Objective:

This course makes significant contributions the following program outcomes:

• An ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams
• An ability to communicate effectively
• A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in, life-long learning

This course supports the achievement of the following elements of the program objective:

• Continue to develop their knowledge and skills after graduation in order to succeed personally and contribute to employer success.
• Work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary development team and undertake leadership roles when appropriate.
• Communicate their thoughts, in both written and oral forms, so that others can comprehend and build on their work.

ABET Embedded Assessment Components for this course: 

Metric: The measure of student proficiency (e.g., a quantitative or qualitative measure of achievement on an assignment or test question which emphasizes the target outcome)

Rubric: Evaluative conclusions versus corresponding descriptions of achievement level (e.g., highest score represents mastery)

Standard: Evaluative result that represents minimally acceptable achievement of proficiency

 The following table describes the course embedded assessment components for this course. 

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