Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

William D. Jemison; Christopher T. Nadovich

)Each year, as the LPRDS supports senior design, its baseline architecture cangrow and change as students add new integrated capability that can be utilized byfuture teams.LPRDS Statement of Work and RequirementsThe Statement of Work that was given to the student design team emulates a realworld requirements document. The document is about 25 pages long and listshundreds of requirements associated with a set of deliverables. The deliverableslist in the 2010 LPRDS was the followingDeliverable Description Due DateD001 CDR Presentation Materials Delivered to web site and reviewers 24 hrs prior to CDRD002 Users Manual Draft at CDR, final 7 May

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

William Hornfeck; Ismail Jouny; John Nestor

groups (2-3 students each) work togetherto design a wireless network interface using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and someattached RF hardware. Lectures in this course cover the Design Process, Manufacturing ofElectronic Systems (including the internationalization of manufacturing), Basics of IntellectualProperty (Patents, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secrets), and Environmental Concerns(including the issue of overseas recycling). In the second course, students apply this knowledgein a large team project. The current project involves developing a solar energy system thatproduces 120V 60Hz AC power using a 2-kilowatt photovoltaic system and a LiFePO4 batteryenergy storage system. The same global considerations that were cited in the