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Electrical and Computer Engineering Project Proposals sought by UBC UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering is seeking project

approximately 1,000 person-hours of beginners’ time on each project and are required to build a working prototype by the end of the project. Each team receives some financial and material resources, and access to the UBC department workshops; but the best and most successful projects will be those in which the client invests additional resources. Project work will run from September 2013 to mid- April 2014. If you have some backburner projects that are reasonably open-ended in term of design (i.e., not just implementation), please contact capstones@ece.ubc.ca, or NSERC design chair, Dr. Philippe Kruchten, P.Eng., FEC, at 604.827.5654. For more information about the Capstone Design Project course, visit ece.ubc.ca/capstones. v

proposals from industry and other organizations for its new Capstone Design Project courses. The projects can be general projects in electrical and computer engineering, or more specialized: software engineering, energy, biomedical devices, and microsystems. Senior students in teams of four to six will work on the proposed projects. Each team is supervised by a faculty member acting as the technical director and assisting or pointing the students to appropriate technical expertise. UBC is requesting project proposals from industry groups that are willing to act as clients for the student teams. This involves regular interaction with the team, much like a firm doing subcontract design work. The students provide

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