Online Learning
Design Tools
Design Process
Engineering Ethics
396/397 Potpourri
100

The default platform for synchronous sessions for 396 

What is Blackboard Collaborate Ultra? 

100

It's a strategy to consider all possible ideas for a particular problem. Often used in marketing. 

What is brainstorming?

100

Number of design alternative solutions ECE senior design students are expected to develoop

What is 3?

100
The number of codes in the IEEE code of ethics.

What is 10?

100

Meeting time for ECE 397 in Spring 2021.

What is 1pm?

200
Recommended real-time messaging platform for team-team communications 

What is Slack?

200

It is used to visualize the user needs as weighted objectives of the project

What is the Objective Tree?

200

These must be abstract, verifiable, unambiguous, and traceable.

What are engineering requirements?

200

The number of steps in case study analysis for engineering ethics problems as presented in ECE 396

What is 4?

200

Expected meeting frequency with faculty project mentors during Spring 2021

What is every other week?
300

The platform used for the instructor's student support hours 

What is zoom?

300

This tool is used to determine all possible design choices for each function of the system

What is a Concept Map or Concept Fan? 

300

Type of data collected directly from the user for the purpose of design and needs assessment.

What is primary data?

300

Type of IP that lasts the life of the author plus 70 years.

What is Copyright?

300
Name of space available for 3d printing and more on campus.

What is the MakerSpace?

400

This website hosts resources and links specific to ECE 396 to problem scope and perform research about the design. 

What is the UIC Library website?

400

A calculation to assess ratings for criteria across team members that reduces bias.

What is the geometric mean? 

400
Name for a system where the only available signals are inputs and outputs. 

What is blackbox? 

400

Ethical system where decisions are made such that they produce the highest good for all people involved.

What is the Utilitarian Ethical System? 

400

Building where the ECE Senior Design Lab is located.

What is SEL?

500

Class size of courses that are required to be online for Spring 2021 at UIC?

What is 50+?

500

This tool is used to determine how much progress a team has made on a particular task for a subsystem or system component in the design process.

What is a Gantt chart? 

500

The IEEE standard number depicting a diagram with an overview of the engineering design process. 

What is IEEE 1233?

500
Rule that states that you should treat others how THEY want to be treated. 
What is the diamond rule?
500

Name of spring event held by the College of Engineering to demonstrate all engineering capstone projects.

What is the EXPO?

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