COEN490, ELEC490

2024-25

General Information

This website provides a brief introduction to the capstone design project courses COEN490 and ELEC490 and contains information about:

• Registration requirements and
• Project selection.

For information about other issues such as grading scheme and project deliverables consult the course outline and the information posted on Moodle (in particular, the capstone manual).

Course Description

• The courses COEN490 and ELEC490 are capstone design projects for the COEN and ELEC students of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. These courses provide students with a significant design experience and involve the integration of knowledge from several courses.
• Students are assigned to groups, and work together under faculty supervision to solve a complex interdisciplinary design problem - typically involving communications, control systems, electromagnetics, power electronics, software design, and/or hardware design.
• Througout the project, students are required to learn new material. Often the teams include both ELEC and COEN students. Each group consists of six students.
• The projects allows students to develop their project management, technical writing, and technical presentation skills.

Registration Requirements (2024-25)

• Prerequisites of COEN490: ENGR 301, 371; COEN 390; SOEN 341; Minimum of 75 credits in BEng in Computer Engineering; C-Edge work term or one co-op work term. If prerequisites are not satisfied, permission of the Department is required.  
• Prerequisites of ELEC490: ENGR 301, 371; COEN 311; ELEC 342 or 364; ELEC 390; Minimum of 75 credits in BEng in Electrical Engineering; C-Edge work term or one co-op work term. If prerequisites are not satisfied, permission of the Department is required. 
• Students cannot register until a graduation audit is done. This is performed by the online registration system. In case of problem, contact the ECE Program Assistant, Gulzat Timerova.
• FNS, DEF, INC, PEND do not satisfy prerequisite requirements.
• Readmitted students must repeat Ds and replace them with Cs (or higher) for 490 prerequisites.
• Students cannot take COEN/ELEC490 without the completion of all 200 level courses.

Contacts

1. Academic inquiries, and project approval and assignment.

• Coordinator:
  
  • Shahin Hashtrudi Zad    (shahin.hashtrudizad@concordia.ca )

2. Technical support (lab allocation, troubleshooting, materials procurement and purchase approval, etc.)

• Engineer in Residence - Dmitry Rozhdestvenskiy

3. General questions, schedules, presentation times and special events.

• Undergraduate Program Assistant - Gulzat Timerova
  

       Office: EV005.144
       Tel: 514-848-2424 ext.3102
       e-mail: undergrad-program-assistant@ece.concordia.ca