First class meeting will be held on Tuesday
May 8, at 5:30pm in ELW A243.
Lecture Schedule:
Friday 9:30am - 10:30am.
Lab Schedule:
Tuesday 5:30pm - 8:30pm.
Wednesday 6:00pm - 8:00pm.
Recommended TextBooks:
C. W. De Silva, Mechatronics - An Integrated Approach, CRC Press,
2005.
W. Bolton, Mechatronics - Electronic Control Systems in Mechanical
and Electrical Engineering, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2003.
F. Vahid and T. Givargis, Embedded System Design - A Unified Hardware/Software
Introduction, Jon Wiley & Sons, 2002.
Project overview
Goal: To design, develop, and demonstrate a prototype of a business
card dispenser to be used by Victoria-based Citywide Cards Inc.
Project specifications to be developed as per client requirements.
Final report guidelines
The final report should not exceed eight pages in length and should
be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society format described
at http://www.computer.org/cpress/instruct.htm.
Further guidelines for the final report will be posted on the course
web site before July 15, 2007.
Final presentation guidelines
A conference session will be organized in early August 2007 where
you will present your team's project and your specific contribution
to it. The early morning session will consist of 15 minutes presentations,
each followed by a 5 minutes question period. The mid morning
session will consist of prototype demonstrations.
Further guidelines for preparing the final presentation will be
posted on the course web sitebefore July 15, 2007.
Grading:
Project: 85%
Final Report: 10%
Final Presentation: 5%