Blandford, D., & Randall, M. E. (2014, June), Student Projects Course for Computer Engineering Majors  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--23058

\bibitem{asee_peer_23058}
  Blandford, D., \& Randall, M. E. (2014, June), \emph{Student Projects Course for Computer Engineering Majors}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--23058

Dick Blandford and Mark Earl Randall.  "Student Projects Course for Computer Engineering Majors".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/23058 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_23058}
  Dick Blandford and Mark Earl Randall.
  "Student Projects Course for Computer Engineering Majors".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/23058 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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AB  -             Student Projects Course for Computer Engineering Majors                                              AbstractThis paper describes a junior level software/hardware course for computer engineering majorswhich has no exams and no formal lecture. Each students is assigned seven projects where eachproject has a two-week hard deadline. The first two projects are mostly software to get studentsup to speed on the language. All other projects include hardware or, sometimes, graphic outputrelated to linear systems, electronics, or controls.At the beginning of their junior year, computer engineering majors have completed twoprogramming classes, one in C and another in C++, and they are concurrently taking amicrocontroller class, a programming languages class, and a class on linear systems. We use C#as the primary language for the class since it is a new language for the students and it lends itselfto hardware/software interaction.The class meets for three fifty-minute periods a week. The instructor introduces a project, pointsto resources that are helpful in completing the project, and, in a few cases, may lecture for a shorttime on unfamiliar concepts such as the Fourier transform in software, threading, graphics, etc.After that introduction the instructor is available to answer questions, provide direction, and givegeneral help with the project. At the end of each project, students turn in the complete projectfile including supporting documentation.Each project has a minimal list of specifications which, if fully met, will earn a grade of B. Theprojects have a long list of extras, some of which must be completed for better grades. Someprojects which have been completed in the past include: Blackjack (graphics, animation), soundfiles (the FFT, handling large amounts of data, and graphics), GPS location (hardware sensor,Google maps), network game such as Scrabble or network Battleship (socket programming),USB sensor (writing a DLL plus A/D interface), Windows phone app such as a calculator,embedded remote data collector using FEZ hardware and socket programming, and the travelingsalesman problem (genetic programming).In this paper we present the course structure and grading process, a description of the projects,and assessment based on student feedback.
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