This is the home page for the EE 496 (Capstone Design) class. From here you can view announcments and get copies of handouts, schedules and other documents.

Announcements

On Thursday of week 1, all students will be asked to introduce themselves and tell us a bit about yourself. A biography information form will be handed out in class on Tuesday and everyone should fill it out before the Thursday class session, or you can download it from here and fill it out.

In order to access the EE496 lab (OHE 240) you will need a USCard with the proximity chip in it. Look at the lower edge of the backside of your card. If it has some numbers printed in gold or black then the cards is compatible with proximity readers.

If you don't have these numbers, go to the USCard office and tell them you now need access to a room with a proximity lock. They will issue you a new card for free.

Documents

• Course syllabus
• Semester schedule
• Project description

• Office meetings schedule
• List of available parts for project construction
• Status of parts orders

• Reference library - A variety of EE 496 documents including datasheets for most of the parts available from our stocks for project construction.

Handouts and Assignments

The documents below are handouts that will be discussed in class or during the office meetings

Teams and Meeting Schedule

Below are the team assignments in no particular order.

Team	Members	Mentor	Meeting Time
1	Faith Klein, Alice Steele, Caitlin Sullivan	Schober
2	Aaron Gonzalez, Pela Karamanolis, Will Bradley	Schober
3	Mina Gobran, Ashley Ly, Cecilia Betancourt	Weber
4	Joshua Kim, Sivan Nir, Luc Mainvielle	Weber
5	Abir Bhatt, Komal Kackar, Anthony Chandra	Weber
6	Derrick Kim, Jojo Ibalio, Saniya Brown	Franzke
7	Parker Chang, Jack Blackadar, Chris Tian	Maby
8	Kendal Win, Victor Gutierrez, Victoria Aguirre	Weber
9	Charlie Welland, Ollie Lascala, Errol Modjus	Maby
10	Sifa Wangia, Jacob Hernandez, Ahona Karim	Franzke
11	Yushen Yang, William Wong, Diego Mendez	Schober
12	Paras Dayal, Evangelos Neophytou, Noah Tekle	Franzke
13	Ekamresh Vasudevan, Shreya Parikh, Shada Abdul Samad	Franzke
14	Kyle Woo, Joe Yu, Minda Li	Schober
15	Ashly Lam, Blake Courtney, Sonia Zhang	Franzke
16	Kenny Yadav, Bradley Miller, Paolo Bahrami	Schober

All teams should turn in a copy of their weekly progress report at the meetings. If you can't find any of the forms that were given to you, here's a generic one to fill out: WeeklyProgressReport.pdf

Other stuff

If you are interested in purchasing electronic components for building projects, here are some links to places we buy parts from.

Digi-Key - This is our primary supplier of electronic components. They have a large inventory, the prices are reasonable, and we usually get the order pretty quickly. However the size of their inventory sometimes makes it hard to find things.

Jameco Electronics - This is another supplier we use for supplies. Their inventory is smaller than Digi-Key and it's sometimes a bit easier to find things. They used to have a nice printed catalog but not any more.

Adafruit, SparkFun - These companies sell a lot of interesting items for the hobbyist/experimenter. Both companies sell a lot of "breakout boards" where they have mounted small IC's that are difficult to work with on PCBs what make connections to the IC easier.

Parallax, DFRobot - These are similar to Adafruit and SparkFun in that most of the stuff is for the hobbyist.

Phoenix Enterprises - They seem to have a good selection of connectors and parts for wire-wrapping.

Newark and Mouser Electronics - These two are major suppliers to the electronics industry with very large inventories. Not sure if they have minimum order amounts that may make it hard for the hobbyist but they are worth a look.

Apex Surplus, This is a large electronics surplus store in an industrial area of the San Fernando Valley (8909 San Fernando Road, Sun Valley). If they have something you need, you can probably get it at a good price, but it's sometimes hard to find things. It's definitely worth at least one trip there just to see the place, and its storage area outside in the back.

Office Hours

Brandon Franzke

EEB 500B

Email: franzke@usc.edu

Edward Maby

Email: maby@usc.edu

Susan Schober

Email: schober@usc.edu

Allan Weber

M: 1-2pm, W/F: 10:30-11:30am

EEB 410, 213-740-4147

Email: weber@usc.edu