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
Final written reports are due by 5:00pm on Tuesday, May 7th.
Project Showcase Photos
Click on the links below for the photos from the product showcase at Otis.
Documents
- 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
