4th Yr. Design Project

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The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

4th Yr. Design Project

Project #1 Design a simple drawing interface using the DE1-SoC board

Design guideline:

Use either the mouse or the keyboard or both as the user input and the VGA monitor as the display device. The design should include the following features.

Shapes:

Straight line, circle, ellipse, square, rectangle, triangle, trapezoid

Functions:

move a shape from one location to another

scale a shape

change the color of a shape

fill a shape with a solid color

erase a shape

Project #2 Design and fabrication of a demonstration module

Motivation:

Our current high school curriculum do not give students enough exposure to the field of engineering; as a result many high students when considering university education have little idea what engineers do, and rarely think that engineering is an exciting field. We like to change that by showing them seemingly simple yet visually stimulating modules which demonstrate certain scientific and engineering fundamentals.

Design guideline:

The design should be based on scientific principles comprehensible to high school students, such as electricity, magnetism, light, sound, heat and pressure. For example, a design could demonstrate energy transfer from one form to another. The module should be robust, user friendly and visually stimulating.