UDM College of Engineering and ScienceSenior Design
The ECE Senior Design Course:
- provides students with a comprehensive open-ended project.
- integrates the many skills necessary for professional success.
- allows students to learn first hand about project planning, FEMA analysis, and teamwork.
The use of a competition-driven Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV) design for a senior capstone program offers a number of benefits. The attractive features include: the student excitement and motivation created by the competitive environment; the fact that an AGV design is inherently multidisciplinary in nature involving mechanical and electrical system integration, power electronics, feedback control, digital electronics, software development, sensors, safety, power management etc.; the competition-driven format mimics the need in industry to carry out deadline-conscious product design; and the sophistication of subsystems like vision, obstacle detection, path planning, and feedback control offer good opportunities for graduate and undergraduate research projects. Read more about senior design and complete details.