Resources

If you're reading this, you've obviously already found the ECE445 web site. It is extremely important that you familiarize yourself with the website as soon as possible, since all major semester milestones are organized using PACE. Documents are uploaded to your Project Page for grading, meetings are scheduled, and parts are requested. In addition, we use PACE as our general discussion board for the semester and Canvas to manage grades.

Below is a list of important links you'll use all semester:

Other Useful Links

UIUC

Engineering Workstation Labs (EWS) (with links to most Engineering course pages)
ECE Supply Center
ECE Electronics Services Shop (To order a PCB, click on "Printed Circuit Board Fabrication" link)
Engineers SPEAK

Signal Processing

Introduction to Signal Processing

Sensors

GPS

General

Web Seminars by Microchip: Applications include Analog, Applications, Dev Tools, Motor Control, and PIC microcontrollers

Companies

Featured Project

The purpose is to create an inexpensive growing degree day monitor that records temperature and computes growing degree days for a specific farming field during a growing season. This monitor will be placed near a farm field where it will monitor temperature conditions during the growing season. It will record both the ambient air and soil temperatures over the course of day. These temperatures will then be used to calculate the growing degree days. The cumulative number of degree days will then be displayed on either a seven-segment display or this can be downloaded to a computer. This monitor will be powered through a combination of both solar and battery power.