Lectures :: ECE 445 - Senior Design Laboratory

Lectures

Spring 2026 Lecture Material:

 

Pre-Lecture #1:


(before the first lecture)

 

 

Brainstorming and Ideation

  • Brainstorming and Ideation slides (pptx)
  • Videos (watch before coming to class)

 

 

Lecture #1:


(Jan 20th )

 

Getting Started

  • Course Overview and Requests for Approval (slides)- Prof. Arne Fliflet
  • PCB (slides)- Jason Jung
  • Intellectual Property (slides)- Dr. Michelle Chitambar
  • How to write your Final Report (slides)- Aaron Greiger
  • Summer is coming ! (slides)- Prof. Arne Fliflet
  • Pitches
    • AdheraScent (slides)
    • Lab Escape [Quantum]  (slides) - Paul Kwait
    • Bat Sound detector   - Dr. Joy O' Keefe
    • Ant-weight, 3D Printed Battlebot Challenge (slides)- Prof. Viktor Gruev (vgruev@illinois.edu)
  • Brainstorming

 

Pre-Lecture #2:


(before the second lecture)

 

 

Beyond Ideation

 

 

Lecture #2:


(Jan 27)

 

 

Moving Forward

  • RFA tips - A. Fliflet (slides)
  • Conflict resolution workshop - Olga Mironenko
  • Machine shop - Greg
  • Lab Safety - Casey (slides)
  • Pitches
    • FADEX (slides) - Shrey Patel

 

Pre-Lecture #3:


(before the third lecture)

 

 

Design and Writing Tips

 

 

Lecture #3:

(Feb 3rd)

 

 

Last Stop Before Approval Deadline !

  • Ethics, Engineering standards and Societal obligations - A. Fliflet (slides)
  • Pitch : Hemispherical Imaging system for subterranean root detection - John Hart (slides)
  • Use of ChatGPT and LLMs in this course - Victor Gruev (slides)
  • PCB tips - Victor Gruev
  • Proposal and Design Document (slides)
  • Smart home (slides)

Spring 2023 Video Lectures:

Brainstorming

Finding a Problem (Video)
Generating Solutions (Video)
Diving Deeper (Video)
Voting (Video)
Reverse Brainstorming (Video)
Homework for Everyone (Video)

Important Information

Using the ECE 445 Website (Video)
Lab Notebook (Video , Slides)
Modular Design (Video, Slides)
Circuit Tips and Debugging (Video , Slides)
Eagle CAD Tutorial (Video)
Spring 2018 IEEE Eagle Workshop (Slides)
Spring 2018 IEEE Soldering Workshop (Slides)

Major Assignments and Milestones

Request for Approval (Video, Slides)
Project Proposal (Video, slides)
Design Document (Video, slides)
Design Review (Video, slides)
Writing Tips (Video, slides)

Logic Circuit Teaching Board

Younas Abdul Salam, Andrzej Borzecki, David Lee

Featured Project

Partners: Younas Abdul Salam, Andrzej Borzecki, David Lee

The proposal our group has is of creating a board that will be able to teach students about logic circuits hands on. The project will consist of a board and different pieces that represent gates. The board will be used to plug in the pieces and provide power to the internal circuitry of the pieces. The pieces will have a gate and LEDs inside, which will be used to represent the logic at the different terminals.

By plugging in and combining gates, students will be able to see the actual effect on logic from the different combinations that they make. To add to it, we will add a truth table that can be used to represent inputs and outputs required, for example, for a class project or challenge. The board will be able to read the truth table and determine whether the logic the student has created is correct.

This board can act as a great learning source for students to understand the working of logic circuits. It can be helpful in teaching logic design to students in high schools who are interested in pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Please comment on whether the project is good enough to be approved, and if there are any suggestions.

Thank you