ELEC 301 Project Guidelines and Requirements

Deliverables:

• An educational document that teaches someone familiar with the concepts from ELEC301 about the interesting theory or application area you have chosen. (50% of grade)
  • It should not be written in the style of a report but rather in the style of the other educational modules in Connexions.
  • The report must be written in the Connexions system.
  • Projects will be archived for posterity.
  • You need to email the course TA and professor the distribution of effort of the various members.
  • Length: equivalent of 10-15 pages.
• A poster presentation on your project. (50% of grade)
• Grading will be based on the results of the work (that is, "did it work?"), the degree of innovation, and the quality of the written document and poster presentation.

• mid October: Set up gang (3-4 members); choose topic and gang name.
  Email TA and professor this info.
• mid December: Poster session
• mid December: Written reports due in Connexions.

We will provide easels and black foam boards on which to pin your poster. The boards measure 48"x48". You might want to make the poster approx 36" x 46", with a 1" white border (leaving 34" x 44" for content). PLAN AHEAD, since last-minute adjustments to shape, size, and colors are not fun in Powerpoint. Start your planning by checking with owlnet to find out if 36" is still the maximum width poster they print.

For design and printing tips, refer to the "resources" section of the Cain Project web page, Tracy Volz's poster preparation guide, poster checklist, presentation checklist, and presentation evaluation form (see the links at the bottom of this page).

Groups are responsible for marking up their own modules in Connexions. The Connexions staff will answer questions and help with mark-up problems. They will also coordinate help for marking up mathematics in MathML. There are tutorials on-line regarding how to get started on the Connexions quick start page. Your project should be broken into a number of modules (say about 7, comprising Introduction, Background, Problem, Approach, Results, Conclusions, The Team, ...). Each module should contain links to the other modules of your project (plus potentially links to other modules in Connexions or off into the web). On the due date in December, the TA will sequence all of the projects into one course, with each project in a separate "chapter". Project reports will be archived for posterity.

To each module, please add and Richard Baraniuk and Matthew Moravec as "maintainers" so that we can help you with problems and also maintain your project after you leave Rice.

• Construct a DSL modem in Labview or Matlab
• Labview VI's illustrating DSP concepts
• Greedy algorithms for over-complete expansions
• Seeing using sound for the blind (see this article)
• Analyze, design, and implement 1-d analog filters
• Analyze, design, and implement 1-d digital filters in Matlab or on a DSP chip
• Analyze, design, and implement 2-d (image) digital filters in Matlab
• FFT algorithms
• Adaptive filters (LMS algorithm)
• Practical A/D and D/A conversion
• Multirate DSP (filter banks)
• Wavelets (image compression, thresholding for noise removal)
• Tomography, medical imaging
• Detection and classification for target recognition
• Communication systems (AM, FM, CDMA)
• Vowel recognition in speech using Fourier transforms
• Splines for DSP
• Radar simulation in Matlab

If you build on a previous project, you must reference it and state explicitly what value you have added.