CSCE 483: Computer System Design

Instructor: Dr. Dylan Shell

Office	:	HRBB 333B
Phone	:	(979) 845-2369
Email	:	dshell_at_cs.tamu.edu
Web	:	http://robots.cs.tamu.edu/dshell
Office hours	:	By email appointment

TA Information

Name	:	Aalap Tripathy
Email	:	aalap_at_cse.tamu.edu

Fall 2012

Lecture Time	:	MW 1:50pm-2:40pm
Lecture Location	:	HRBB 126
Lab Time	:	MW 4:10pm-6:15pm (Section 501) TR 3:55pm-6:00pm (Section 502)
Lab Location	:	HRBB 218

Course Description

Engineering design; working as a design-team member, conceptual design methodology, design evaluations, total project planning and management techniques, design optimization, systems manufacturing costs considerations; emphasis placed upon student's activities as design professionals.
Prerequisites: CSCE 431 and 462 and senior classification.
NOTE: concurrent enrollment with CSCE 462 is not allowed.

Documents

Teams and Projects

Detailed Description

CSCE 483 is a project-oriented course aimed at developing system integration skills. Students work in groups of 3-4 people to complete a significant engineering design project. Every project requires complete implementation, documentation and demonstration of a computing system design with both hardware and software components. The focus is not only on the final product but also on design methodology, management process and teamwork

Each team will be required to manage its own efforts to complete its project in a timely manner. Group members will be required to keep individual lab notebooks recording their efforts and their personal impressions of the project. Students will be graded based on both the quality of the group product and their individual contributions.

Every team will be required to schedule a weekly meeting with the course instructor and the TA, preferably during the official class or lab hours. These meetings must be attended by every group member. Since the projects will be student managed, the exact nature and style of these meetings is at the group's discretion. However, every member of the group is expected to participate.

At the end of the semester, each group will make a public presentation describing and demonstrating their work. These presentations will be open to the university community and visitors from industry.

Course Objectives

To prepare students for engineering practice with a major experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in course work and incorporating engineering standards and constraints that include most of the following consideratio economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturabilit health and safety; social; and political.

Learning Outcomes

It is expected that successful participation in the course will allow the student to demonstrate:

an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering
an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs
an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams
an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
an ability to communicate effectively
an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice

Textbook and/or Resource Material

Required:
Patric M. Lencioni, 2002, "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: a Leadership Fable" Jossey-Bass. (Electronic copy available to all via the library.)
Recommended:
Barry Hyman, 2003, "Fundamentals of Engineering Design", second edition, Prentice Hall.
Roger Pressman, 2009, "Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach", seventh edition, McGraw-Hill.
James Shore, 2007, "The Art of Agile Development" O'Reilly (Electronic copy available to all via the library.)

Students with Disabilities

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact Disability Services, in Cain Hall, Room B118, or call (979) 845-1637. For additional information visit http://disability.tamu.edu.

Academic Integrity

"An Aggie does not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do."

Please review Section 20 of the TAMU Student Rules (http://student-rules.tamu.edu/) for a list of examples of scholastic dishonesty. In particular, be aware of the issues of plagiarism and fabrication of information. The use of existing software implementations or hardware designs should be discussed with the instructor prior to being incorporated into the project. Proper credit must be given to the original source of concepts, designs, software, technical documents, scientific literature, etc.

This course has a zero-tolerance policy to academic misconduct of any kind including: cheating, fabrication, falsification, multiple submissions, plagiarism. Ignorance of the rules does not exclude any student from the requirements or the processes of the Honor System. Definitions and further information is at http://www.tamu.edu/aggiehonor. Note in particular the seriousness of the disciplinary action.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering