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Electrical and Computer Engineering design principles. Electronic system design-and-build. Circuit design and simulation. Printed circuit board design. Embedded system programming/development, construction, and documentation. Novel product design, applying project management and market consideration elements. Individual on-paper design related to student's specialisation. Industry-based design systems. Documentation preparation.
ENEL300 picks up where ENEL200 leaves off. The course covers Design Process concepts, Project Requirements, Industrial Product Design Systems (Guest Lectures from Industry), Oral Presentations, and Electrical and Computer Engineering design principles. Our aim is to help you gain a broader understanding of how electrical and computer engineering design fits into the larger project context, to give you a chance to learn about how design happens in industry, and to give you more hands-on practice applying your skills and knowledge to design projects.The focus of ENEL300 is a semester-long design project. You'll work in teams of 4 or 5 to understand a client problem and develop a suitable design solution to that problem. The project will provide many opportunities to practice working with the unfamiliar, gaining new knowledge, and synthesizing existing pieces of knowledge, including: • Learning about the design problem you'll need to solve• Working with unfamiliar components or tools• Integrating knowledge from other courses• Learning knowledge not covered in other courses but required to complete the projectWe expect you to ask questions. But we also expect you to try to work things out for yourself. We'll provide you with pointers to many resources and recommended readings that can be helpful. But you'll also need to search out your own sources of information.
At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:• LO1: Independently and within a group dynamic apply Electrical and Computer Engineering system design principles to open-ended complex design problems. (WA1, WA2, WA3, WA4, WA8)• LO2: Appreciate design and development methods and systems employed by industry (WA6, WA11).• LO3: Prepare appropriately detailed and understandable technical documents (WA9).• LO4: Clearly convey technical information orally (WA9)• LO5: Apply project management and market consideration elements to novel product design. (WA10)
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
ENEL200, ENEL270. Subject to approval of the Head of Department
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Christopher Hann
Allan McInnes
Artificial Intelligence ToolsThe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools is summarised below. Students are always responsible for the accuracy of the submitted works, regardless of which tools are used.Assessment Item and Permitted use of AI Design Project: Generative AI Tools Are Not Restricted for This Assessment*. *Generative AI Tools Are Not Restricted for This AssessmentIn this assessment, you are permitted to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in any way within the bounds of academic integrity. You must appropriately acknowledge any use of generative AI in your work. Please include a Statement of AI use (if no AI tool has been used, then this must also be stated) at the start of the document clearly indicating which AI tools were used and how they contributed to your assessment. Each specific piece of the report (section, figure, table, code, etc.) that was partially or completely generated by AI should be identified as AI-generated and should include a brief explanation of how the item was generated and what checking or modifications you made to the generated output. This acknowledgement can appear inline in the text or as a footnote.
Scaling of marksIn order to maintain consistency across courses and fairness for students, scaling of raw marks occurs. In the Faculty of Engineering, target course GPAs are calculated based on the performance of the cohort of students in their courses in the previous year. Scaling of the raw total course marks is normally performed so that when converted to grades (using UC Grade Scale) the outgoing GPA is in line with the target GPA for a course. Scaling up or down can occur.The Grading Scale for the University: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/study-support-info/study-related-topics/grading-scaleAssessment CompletionStudents must engage satisfactorily in all required course-related assessments in order to be eligible to pass the course as defined in the General Conditions for Credit Regulations 3(a).
Lateness PenaltiesFor the proposal and reports, a lateness penalty of 10% (in absolute terms) per day or part day late will be deducted from the original mark, unless a valid reason is given. For example, an assignment with a nominal mark of 83% submitted 0-24 hours late will receive a mark of 73%, and submitted 24-48 hours late will receive 63%.
Contact HoursLectures: 14 hoursTutorials: 2 hoursWorkshops: 0 hoursLaboratories: 36 hours Independent studyReview of lectures: 14 hoursTest and exam preparation: 0 hoursAssignments: 82 hoursTutorial Preparation: 2Total 150 hours
Domestic fee $1,190.00
International fee $6,488.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Electrical and Computer Engineering .