What is ECE Senior Design?
Senior Design allows students to experience the design development cycle during their education. Students research real-world design problems and partner with university and industry partners to identify and create a solution.
Students are able to sharpen their technical and theoretical skills by gaining real-life experience of what it means to design from conception to completion.
Fall Semester
Students working in teams start with a problem statement, then define product requirements, evaluate possible solutions and perform design tradeoff analyses, then define a system solution, develop a project plan, and share a presentation of their system design and plan at a design review.
Spring Semester
Next students complete their detailed design and then build a working prototype and verify their solution.
Students then present their prototype solutions at Engineering Design Day.
This ECE Senior Design team has been working with a non-profit in Uganda to design a security system for community lighting in rural parts of the country and spent Spring Break in the country testing their system.
The ECE department allowing students sponsors has motivated me to look at this project from both a technical perspective along with a customer, user, and business perspective. I enjoyed working with a team that wanted to the best for this project and have given a strong groundwork for future work on this device.
Engineering design from idea to delivery is a critical process in preparing future Engineers and we are proud to support the NC State approach.
The ECE Senior Design Teams are comprised of exceptional students who never fail to deliver high-quality results.