writing the final report for ee 499 – senior projects

Writing the Final Report

for EE 499 – Senior Projects

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GUIDELINESFOR WRITING

XE 499SENIOR PROJECT – CAPSTONE DESIGN

REPORTSPrepared by

Dr. Bahaddin KaragőzoğluELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF ENGINEERINGKING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY

Rabi II 1425 ~ June 2004

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Essentials of the Report

• What we did,• Why we did it,• How we did it,• What we have found (results we have obtained),• Interpretation of results: What are the results

obtained mean to us,• Conclusions: How the achievements match the

original objectives. • Recommendations: How we would proceed if we

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Organizing the Project Report

Typical organization of a report is composed of three main sections as:

• Preliminary materials,• Body of the report, and• Reference materials


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Preliminary Materials• The Title or Cover Page• The cover backbone • Approval page • Remembrance and Dedication (optional, if used)• Project Summary or Abstract • Acknowledgement (optional) • Table of Content • List of Tables and List of Figure (if available)


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The cover page

DESIGN OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SURVEILLANCE OF DRY-EYE PROBLEM IN

SCREEN ADDICTS

By

MOHAMMED WAGIALLAH BASIM AHMED Comp. No. 9950270 Comp. No. 9950729 AHMAD AL-SHOMAR ALA’A ABDUL JABBAR Comp. No. 0052131 Comp. No. 0051591

Supervised by

DR. BAHATTIN KARAGŐZOĞLU

Advisory committee

DR. M. SHAFIQUE KHAN COMPUTER ENG, KAAU ENG. MALIK MUTABBAGANI CEO OF PHOTON Co. Ltd ENG. ENIS ILKER TEKDEMIR E&COMM. ENG, KAAU

Customer

DR. BAHATTIN KARAGŐZOĞLU, ECE DEPT. KAAU

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY

JEDDAH - SAUDI ARABIA

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Title of the project: it is printed in 16-24 points font size single-spaced, bold and all CAPITAL LETTERS. Student name: 14-18 points font size and bold

Supervisor’s name: 14-18 points font size and bold

Month and year: in Hijri and Gregorian without commas in 14-16 points font size and bold

Institutional details: 14 – 16 pts font size and bold

Advisory committee (if available)

Customer (if available)


Title

• It must precisely describe the reports content– Tell clearly what we are writing about– Focus on the limited area of our work

EXAMPLE:Design of a System to Locate a Free-Ranging

Patient within the HospitalPurpose - topic - focus

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The approval page

DEVELOPMENT OF A PC-BASED UNIVERSAL DISPLAY FOR BIOLOGICAL SIGNALS

BY

TAMER MOHAMMED BAHAUDEEN COMP. #: 9752270

A senior project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE in

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (Biomedical Engineering)

Supervised by:

DR. BAHATTIN KARAGŐZOĞLU

Approved by:

Dr. R.A. Taşaltın .....................................................

Dr. A.F. Al-Khateeb .....................................................

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY JEDDAH - SAUDI ARABIA

FALL 1423/1424 H - 2002/2003 G

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Statement of purpose: 14 – 16 pts, bold

Names and signatures of report examiners: Names left justified, 14-16 points font size and bold


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الـعـــالـمـيــــن رّب لله الـحــمـــد

والصالة والسالم على أشرف األنبياء والمرسلين سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين

To the memorial of my late father Mohammed Bahaudeen (may

Allah Almighty bless him)

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Remembrance and Dedication

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Remembrance

Dedication (optional, if used)

Remembrance section may centralize the page if dedication is not used


Abstract (Project Summary)

• A brief overview of the report• It should be

– Accurate: correctly reflect the purpose and content – Self-contained: stand on its own to reflect the

contents of the paper – Concise and Specific : As brief as possible– Non-evaluative: report information objectively


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Abstract (project summary)ABSTRACT

Development of PC-Base Universal Display for Biological Signals

Monitoring biological signals from the human body requires proper sensors, dedicated amplifiers,

signal processors and display units. Hence, monitoring systems interact with doctors through a visual

display screen that presents different information collected from the body. However, they are

expensive because of the dedicated complex hardware. Signal amplification and processing stages

for biological signals can be developed rather easily if a proper display unit is available since these

signals can not be displayed effectively using standard laboratory oscilloscope type displays.

For my senior project, I intended to develop an economical display system for biological

signals such as the signal generated due to the electrical activity of the heart. The system accepts a

signal amplified and has an amplitude level from 0 to 5 volts, with the frequency range of 125 Hz.

This range clearly covers most biological signals such as the electrooculogram (EOG),

electroencephalogram (EEG), and electrocardiogram (ECG), but not the electromyogram (EMG), or

the axon action potential (APP). In addition it can be used to monitor temperature and blood

pressure, because they have frequency much less than 1 Hz.

The input signal is converted from analog form to a sequence of digital pulses by the analog

to digital converter (ADC). Then, it travels through buffers and inverters to the parallel port of a

personal computer (PC). The PC accepts the readings from both status and control groups, and

combines them under the command of specially developed software. The readings are drawn on

computer screen as the real-time display of the acquired signal.

The program also saves a copy of the read data into a text file. Saving data to a text file is

much faster than saving them directly to an EXCEL file. After the data acquisition finished, a second

program converts the text file into MS EXCEL file format. A third program is developed to display

readings saved in the EXCEL file for off-line analysis of the signal. Eventually, the system

developed assists the medical professionals in interpreting biological signals via both on-line and

off-line displaying, and storing them.

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Boldface, 16 pts, centered and above the title

Bold, 16 pts, centered

Spacing (1.5 lines)

Length: 350 words, maximum one page

Typeface and size: preferably Times Roman, size 12

Foreword

Summary

Objective and background

Methodology

Overall conclusions

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Acknowledgement (optional)ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The project is completed by the grace of Allah Almighty. I present this project to my great teacher

and supervisor Professor Bahattin Karagőzoğlu, who instructed me and spared nothing of his

precious time to help me all the way, without his help and encouragement I would not have been

able to complete this work. Special thanks to Eng. Ahmed Bechir Altrigui, who was a great source

of technical support and a good companion during the time we spent in the biomedical lab. Special

thanks to all engineers and doctors of the Electrical Engineering Department for their help and to my

family for their support and bearing me during this period of time.

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• It is the place where the author expresses his appreciation to the contributors.

• A professional tone must be maintained.

• A similar format as in the abstract is preferred.


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Table of ContentTABLE OF CONTENT

Abstract ............................................................................................................................. i Acknowledgement ........................................................................................................... ii Table of Content ............................................................................................................. iii List of Figures .................................................................................................................. v CHAPTER - 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 1

1.1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 1 1.2 PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS FOR MONITORING .......................... 2

1.2.1 Preference of Physicians .......................................................................... 2 1.2.2 Importance of Biopotential Signals ......................................................... 2 1.2.3 Characteristics of Biological Signals ....................................................... 3

1.3 MEANS OF PATIENT MONITORING......................................................... 4 1.3.1 Significance of Portable and Remote Monitors....................................... 5 1.3.2 Types of Portable Patient Monitors ......................................................... 5 1.3.3 Characteristics of Patient Monitors.......................................................... 6 1.3.4 Contribution of Computers to Patient Monitoring................................... 8

1.4 PROBLEM DEFINITION AND DESIGN CONSTRAINTS ......................... 9 1.4.1 Problem Definition................................................................................... 9 1.4.2 Economical and Social Issues................................................................ 10 1.4.3 Literacy in Technical Subjects............................................................... 10 1.4.4 Objective of the Project ......................................................................... 11

CHAPTER - 2 HARDWARE DESIGN..................................................................... 12 2.1 GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE SYSTEM................................................... 12

2.1.1 General Block Diagram ............................................................................. 12 2.1.2 Working Objectives ............................................................................... 12

2.2 INTERFACING ANALOG SIGNALS TO THE COMPUTER ................... 13 2.2.1 Basic Requirements ............................................................................... 13 2.2.2 Specifications of the Analog to Digital Converters (ADC)................... 14 2.2.3 ADC Types ............................................................................................ 16 2.2.4 The ADC0809........................................................................................ 17 2.2.5 Timing Circuits ...................................................................................... 19 2.2.6 Input Ranging and Level Shifting.......................................................... 21

2.3 INTERFACE THROUGH THE PARALLEL PORT ................................... 21 2.3.1 Parallel Port Background ....................................................................... 21 2.3.2 The Parallel Port -- an Overview ........................................................... 22 2.3.3 IEEE 1284 Data Transfer Modes........................................................... 23 2.3.4 Testing the Parallel Port......................................................................... 24 2.3.5 Reading A Whole Byte From A Parallel Port........................................ 25

CHAPTER - 3 SOFTWARE DESIGN ...................................................................... 27 3.1 PREFACE...................................................................................................... 27 3.2 DESIGN STEPS ............................................................................................ 28

3.2.1 Port Control............................................................................................ 28 3.2.2 Characteristics of Computers Used........................................................ 29 3.2.3 Conversion Control................................................................................ 29 3.2.4 Graphing ................................................................................................ 30 3.2.5 Real Time Signal Graphing ................................................................... 32

3.3 SIMULATION OF A PATIENT MONITOR ............................................... 32 3.3.1 Simulating a Multi-Channel Display ..................................................... 32 3.3.2 Acquiring the Patient Data..................................................................... 33

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Each entry should have tab leaders and corresponding page reference numbers must be aligned correctly

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Format of Other Preliminary Materials

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Remembrance and dedication page (optional); conform to EE 499 formatAcknowledgement; a similar format as in the abstract, thanking those who helped with the work. Included people’s first names or initials, title, department, and institution all spelt correctly.Table of content; conform to EE 499 formatList of figures and tables; conform to EE 499 formatPage numbers in Roman numerals (i.e. iii, iv, v, …) appear at the bottom center of every page, except the title, approval and remembrance pages that have no page number displayed.


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Body of the Report • Introduction• Review of the literature (background)• Methodology• Results and discussions• Conclusions and recommendations.

Introduction

Results and conclusions

What we did? Why we did it?

How we did it?

What are the results we obtained? What are the results obtained mean to us?

How the achievements match to original objectives?

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The Introduction

• The introduction (1 or 2 pages)– Includes the purpose of the report– States the objectives

• Background (3-6 pages)– Gives any necessary background information– Provides a review of pertinent literature


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Introduction (1 or 2 pages)

It includes a clear explanation of goals of the project, the significance of studying the problem. It should orient the reader to the topic of the report by including the following:

•The problem - Explain the particular problem that is addressed in the report.

•The objective - State the assignment (what our project needs to accomplish to solve the problem).

•The method of the report - Describe the organization and structure of the report.


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Background (3-6 pages)

• Discuss the context and history of this general topic and describe what has been done in the past. Include literature search results for the OVERALL problem and context rather than the options for component parts here.

• Include pros and cons of the existing solutions. Also motivate need for a new solution.

• Answer the question: What are the most important issues for this topic in terms of the goals of the project and the effects on society?


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Write about >5 of following issues• Economic: effect of this topic on the economy in the past, possible cost of

project development, cost of materials, target cost if project is marketed.• Environmental: influence on the environment in the past, possible effects for

future developments• Sustainability: product life cycle, future markets• Manufacturability: material availability, use of off the shelf versus custom

components, special needs for hostile environments• Ethical: uses that could cause harm to society, ethical issues that someone

working on this topic might encounter

• Health and safety: positive or negative impacts on the health and safety of individuals or society for past or future applications in this topic

• Social: relationship of this topic to social aspects of society such as education, culture, communication, entertainment

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Methodology

It contains • alternative approaches to reach the goal,• analysis of the problem and design of subsystems, • test and evaluation of the designed components, and • synthesis of the components to build the project. • present work plan for project phases (analysis,

design, implementation and evaluation) and • cost analysis in terms of expected effort and material


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Elements of Methodology Chapter

• Design Requirements (3 to 6 pages)• Feasibility Discussion (2-5 pages)• Final Implementation (5-15 pages)


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Design Requirements• Specifications and requirements for the project

– Specify technical and non-technical characteristics.• Selection of design criterion• Alternative solutions

– Explore alternative solutions. – Evaluate alternative solutions based on situation description

and design constraints.• Select the proposed solution with justifications

– Provide an overall architecture of the solution.• Functional decomposition of the project

– Explain the major functions required by our design. – Figures and tables should be used to supplement discussion.


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Feasibility Discussion

• Results of literature search– Provide the options and justification for overall approach

(hardware, software, choices of methods). • Analysis

– Describe behavior of the system, data and requirements • Options and justification for each functional part

– Provide the options and justification of design approach and components or methods used in each functional part.

– Be sure to cite all of the literature used in our discussion.


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Final Implementation• Describe the project and its functions

– We might organize the implementation presentation by functional groups.

– Discuss and present the calculations used in the design of the project in the relevant subsections.

– Summarize repetitive calculations in tables. • Also, describe

– Tools used, – The way of implementing the solution and – Solution requirements.


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Results

• Design of experiments to evaluate the system in laboratory environment and in real life situations,

• Statistical evaluation of the experimental data• Statements of results including visual

materials


In the Results Section

Objectively inform the reader of the data collected and the statistical treatment of

them. Include all pertinent tables and/or figures to

further describe data Do not include an evaluation or analysis of the

data


Discussion

• Evaluation and interpretation: – Was the hypothesis supported?– If so, how?

• An interpretive discussion of the results and thoughtful evaluation of the design methodology adopted.

• Discussion of the lessons learned


In the Discussion Section

Discuss the results of the experiment Analyze the data and interpret the implications

of the data Compare the results of the current study to the

work of the previous works Recommend what should be done next in

regard to future works


Conclusions

• Conclusions to be drawn from the results• Conclusions about the objectives• Implications of the overall study and results


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Results and Conclusions

• Performance Estimates and Results (2-5 pages)

• Production Schedule (1-2 pages)• Cost Analysis (1-2 pages)• User’s Manual (1-3 pages)• Discussion, Conclusions and

Recommendations (2-4 pages)


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Chapter and section headings

CHAPTER - 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 INTRODUCTION

People can be divided into three groups. One group contains people who are suspicious,

imaginative, or lonely. Members of this group are attracted to health centers even when

they are healthy. This type of people lean to waste the time and money of health facilities

that someone with real sickness could have utilized. Second group contains people who are

ignorant, or unconcerned. Members of this group tend to hide their illness, causing their

health to devastate. Third group comprises of real sick people with sickness awareness

including patients recovering from operation, or people with ancient illnesses. Members of

any group could make use of simple system that does preliminary health check before

going to a hospital, or health center. These initial checks can be in the form of temperature

check, or blood pressure. Such a system might even be available in shopping malls, or

supermarkets. Members of the third group require continuous health check that can’t be

done all the time in malls and supermarkets. Monitoring systems are required to indicate if

their health conditions are getting dangerous.

Monitoring biological signals from the human body requires proper sensors,

dedicated amplifiers, signal processors and display units. Hence, monitoring systems

interact with doctors through a visual display screen that presents different information

collected from the body. However, they are expensive because of the dedicated complex

hardware. Signal amplification and processing stages for can be biological signals

developed rather easily if a proper display unit is available since these signals can not be

displayed effectively using standard laboratory oscilloscope type displays.

Eventually, monitoring of patients inside and outside of the hospital environment

becomes an essence of biomedical engineering contribution to the health-care system. A

distributed monitoring system contributes to the reduction in cost of patient-care and

improves the efficiency of services in hospitals. The projec t is about development of a

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Times Roman 12, 1.5 spaced. Single space in tables, appendices and footnotes

Arabic numerals, like 1,2,3,4… and so on at the bottom center of each page

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Titles and Subtitles

• Use gerund ( -ing ) form, not infinitive (to+verb )

• Use brief and informative titles.• Examples:

– Handling questions– Preparing for oral presentation


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1.1 PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS FOR MONITORING

1.1.1 Preference of Physicians

The human body is composed of many systems each of which has its own location in the

body and serves an independent function. Every system has an input from another system

and gives an output that is used by some other systems. The coordinated and functional

operation of all systems leads to the health condition of human being. The physician wants

to measure certain parameters related to the operation of the systems of the body and uses

them to evaluate the health status.

One of the primary measurements a physician would like to acquire is the

concentration of O2 and other nutrients in the cells. But such quantities are normally so

difficult to measure in vivo (from the body directly). Hence, the physician is forced to

accept a second-class measurement, which is the blood flow and changes in blood volume

that correlated with concentration of nutrients. If blood flow is difficult to measure the

physician may settle for the third-class measurement that is the blood pressure, which

correlates to blood flow. However, direct measurement of blood pressure involves invasive

techniques (i.e. puncturing the protective skin layer and inserting devices into the body)

that can be implemented only limited applications. Thus, if blood pressure is hard to

measure then the physician falls back to the fourth-class measurement that is the recording

of the ECG. ECG is generated by the electrical activity of the heart that is the source of the

blood pressure [1]. Any of the previous measurement will give physician an insight of what

is happening inside and the real health condition of the body.

1.1.2 Importance of Biopotential Signals

Several organs of the human body generate their own monitoring signals during their

natural operation. It is the responsibility of biomedical engineers to pick up these signals,

analyze them and present them to the physicians for interpretations. Signals that occur due

to ionic activities generated during the working of organs, pick-up by sensors called

electrodes comprise the group of biological signals called the biopotentials. Eventually,

biopotential signals carry a lot of information on a person current health condition and how

his organs are functioning. That is why patients in hospitals have monitoring systems

connected to them, especially patients who have just gone through a medical operation.

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Subsection headings

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Section headings may start anywhere within the text, after a triple space of the text of the previous section. Section titles contain Chapter and Section numbers separated by a dot, followed by the Section Title in small letters, the first letters of main words being capital. Section headings should be in bold, 12 point size.

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Tables

Table 2.1 Conditions of pins of the parallel port

Pin # Pin name Connection

1 0C Inverted

14 1C Inverted

16 2C Non Inverted

17 3C GND

15 3S Non Inverted

13 4S Non Inverted

12 5S Non Inverted

10 6S Non Inverted

11 7S Inverted

Tables and figures must serve the reader and support the text. The titles must be coordinated with the List of Tables, List of Figures Figures and tables should be located in the body of the text, preferably AFTER they are introduced in the text References to Tables, Figures and Equations: while referencing a table, figure or an equation or a series of these within the text, use, for example, figure 2.1 (or Fig. 2.1 if Fig. is used instead of figure consistently throughout the text), table 3.2, equation (2.1), equations 3.5-3.7 and 3.9, etc

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EquationsE a c h e q u a tio n m u s t b e w rit te n u s in g a p ro p e r , s ta n d a rd s c ie n ti f ic n o ta tio n . E q u a tio n

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In-line equation


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Citing references

• The references are cited in the body of the report by numbers inside square brackets [ ] or by the last name of the author(s) and year of publication as "… Akili (2002) utilized an infrared telemetry system …".

• In the first case, the references will be listed according to their order of appearances in the text. In the second case, they are ordered alphabetically according to the surname of the first author of the work cited..


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Listing of references

[1] Sklar B, Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall

Inc., 2001.

[2] Neuman MR, “Biopotential Electrodes”, chapter 5 in Webster JG (ed), Medical

Instrumentation: Application and Design, 3rd ed. Wiley, 1997.

[3] Karagözoğlu B, “Analysis of Electromagnetic Signals by a Microcomputer”, Bull. Tech.

Univ. Istanbul, 48(2) pp. 197 – 212, 1995.

[4] Anonymous, “Dual Switched Capacitor filter IC”, RS Data Sheet 4850, March 1983.

[5] http://www.microsoft.com/updates (visited on February 15, 2004).

[6] Gülüt YK, “Interfacing Analog Signals to a Microcomputer Using Game Port”,

Personnel communication, KAU, Faculty of Eng. Dept. of E&CE, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,

Sept. 1994.

All references should include author, title, journal or magazine title (if a journal article), publisher, page number, date


Quoting• Reasons: When writing the report, it is normal to include references

and quotations from the work of others. This is for one or more of the following reasons:– To cite evidence or opinions from an authority on the subject in support of our

argument– To put forward someone else’s viewpoint that we intend to argue against– To show the range of source materials we have used to support or challenge

our own ideas– To acknowledge that our arguments derive from the work of others and

thereby put them into their academic context• Quotations in our text can either be

– Direct: that is, we use the actual words of the original writer, or– Indirect: that is we paraphrase what the original source says by putting the

ideas in our own words.


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Punctuation of quotations

For direct quotations, quotation marks are placed on both sides of the quotation :

“.......................................”

For indirect quotations, giving a reference number to indicate the source is sufficient.


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Appendices

Materials that may be of interest or importance to some readers but are not sufficiently relevant to be included in the body of the report go to appendices. There may be many appendices supplementing the report. Materials most commonly put in the appendix include

• Long tables that contain material not essential• Locally developed research aid as forms, questionnaires• Copies of data gathering or recording equipment used• Analysis data and other materials• Listing of computer programs, and• Lengthy quotations that may be of interest to some readers,

especially if the source containing the quotation is not readily available.


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Organization of appendices

• Students must discuss with their advisor(s) the need for appendices, carefully considering the value of the material they propose to include

• Appendices must be designated with a letter (Appendix A, Appendix B, etc) each starting on a fresh page, and a title.

• Each appendix must be listed in the Table of Contents.

• All appendices must meet the usual margin requirements

• Page numbering of the main body of text continuous with appendices


Conceptual Design Report (CDR)

• It will be submitted at the end of 1st term (after EE 499 lectures)

• It will be evaluated by the ABET project committee

• It will carry 5/100 marks of the project work


Components of the CDR

1. Situation description and problem definition

2. Advisory committee and multidisciplinary team

3. Background search, literature review and standards

4. Problem formulation

5. Alternative solutions

6. Work plan and timing diagram covering activities in the project

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Elements of Chapter-1

1. Situation Description2. Problem Definition3. Project Objectives4. Project Background5. Curricular Resources6. Specification Development7. Design Specifications & Constraints8. Validation Procedure


Situation Description, Problem Definition & Project Objectives

• Situation Description: Describe a real-world context for the problem being solved– Dr. Karagozoglu is running a research project to study

the effect of prayer activities on the human body• Problem Definition: The problem given by the

customer– a need to monitor heart rate during prayer activities

• Project Objectives: The solution that I will design– to design/build a device that monitors heart rate and

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Project Background & Curricular Resources

• Background: – possible past similar solutions (pros, cons)– relevant standards– all sources of information available to help in the

design process (books, net, etc.)• Curricular Resources: topics, concepts, and

lab experiences from the different courses the team members have taken that will be utilized in this project


Specification Development

• This is an optional section for the cases when the specs are not completely specified by the customer. In this case, explain in detail the process by which you have set the desired specs.


Design Specifications & Constraints

• Engineering specifications that directly pertain to the device functionality,

• realistic constraints that will limit and affect how to achieve the objectives of the project– Economical– Environmental– Ethical– Health and Safety– Social– Political– Sustainability and Manufacturability

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Validation Procedure

• suggest a procedure for confirming that the design has met all specifications and constraints:– lab experiment– simulation– field measurements– survey– checklist


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Components of the Final Report Checklist1. Situation description and problem definition (5)

2. Advisory committee and multidisciplinary team (2)

3. Background search, literature review and standards (4)

4. Problem formulation (12)

5. Alternative solutions (4)

6. Decision analysis (6)

7. Feasibility analysis (6)

8. Work plan and timing diagram covering activities in the project (4)

9. Distribution of team roles and responsibilities (4)

10. Presentation of final implementation (10)

11. Experiments to test the solution (14)

12. Analysis of results, statistics and reliability if applicable (8)

13. Discussion of results and methodologies implemented, impact of the project (12)

14. Conclusions and recommendations (9)http:/bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

Important Announcement

• Activity timetable– 11 December: Oral presentation– 18 December: Ethics and safety– 25 December: Presentation skills and sum up– 1 – 5 January 2011: Oral presentation of projects– 8 January 2011: deadline for submitting conceptual

design reports• For next week, please study chapters 9 – Oral

Presentation and be ready for a quiz56http:/bkaragoz.kau.edu.sa

writing the final report for ee 499 – senior projects

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