Systems Design: ECE 180DA/DW

Logistics

Links

• Bruinlearn
• Gitlab

Hours

• Class: T 2-4pm (Location: Rolfe 3129)
• Lab: R 2-6pm (Location: E4 44-110)

Staff

• Ankur Mehta (Prof)

  • Office hours: F 11am-noon
  • Office: 3731F Boelter Hall

• Anwesha Chattoraj (TA)

  • Office hours: M 4pm
  • Office: 1538 Boelter Hall

• Tilboon Elberier (TA)

  • Office hours: W 12noon
  • Office: 1538 Boelter Hall

Course overview

About this course

Grading

Winter

Quarter 1

• 5% = P0: Personal introductions and individual ideas
• 10% = P1: Team ideas
• 10% = P2: Preliminary research
• 10% = P3: Problem explication
• 10% = P4: Requirements review (RR) / System design review (SDR)
• 10% = P5: VC pitch
• 20% = P6: Preliminary design review (PDR)
• 10% = P7: Stakeholder demo
• 10% = Labs: Mini-project
• 5% = Attendance & participation

Schedule summary

Week	Recorded lectures (by end of week)	Project deliverable (due Thu. 11am PT)	Lab progress
1	[A1]	P0: Personal introductions
2	[A2] ; Design reviews (pdf) (vid)
3		P1: Team ideas	Git setup
4	[A3]	P2: Preliminary research	Python / coding setup
5		P3: Problem explication	Lab subproblem definition
6		P4: Requirements review (RR) / System design review (SDR)	L1: analytic evaluation of lab subproblem
7			L2: simulation evaluation of lab subproblem
8		P5: VC pitches	L3: physical evaluation of lab subproblem
9			Comparative lab analysis
10		P6: Preliminary design review (PDR)
11		P7: Stakeholder demo

Assignments

All Project deliverables are defined in our lab git.

Lecture videos

Auxilliary videos

A1

Engineering in society

Choose (at least) one of the following:

• Opportunities and challenges in robotics
  RSS 2018 keynote (U. Michigan)
• Trust, bias, society, and humanity
  HRI 2020 keynote (GATech)

A2

Presenting

How to plan, prepare, and give
a successful presentation

A3

Design for debugging

Design for debugging and
block diagrams (3 part lecture)

Example dependency diagrams

• Courtesy Andrea Censi (ETH Zürich)

Supplemental design process videos

D1

Design Intro

D2

Problem Definition

D3

Requirements Definition

D4

Design Methods: Creative

D5

Design Methods: Rational 1

D6

Design Methods: Rational 2

Favorites

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