The syllabus for the course is available in PDF here: Syllabus.pdf

Schedule (Tentative)

Date Topic
2021/08/31 Theory: Introduction
2021/09/02 Theory: Principles of Sensors
2021/09/07 Theory: Dynamic Characteristics of Sensors, Electric Circuits
2021/09/09 Practice: Setting up your Environment and Acquiring Digital Signals
2021/09/14 Theory: Fundamentals of Data Acquisition
2021/09/16 Practice: Analog Signals
2021/09/21 Theory: Signal Conditioning
2021/09/23 Project Proposal Presentations
2021/09/28 Theory: Signal Processing: Fourier Analysis
2021/09/30 Practice: The Internet of Things
2021/10/05 No Class: TA Assistance for Project
2021/10/07 No Class: TA Assistance for Project
2021/10/12 No Class: Finals Week
2021/10/14 Project Reports Due; Project Demos

Grading

Class Participation: 5%

Project (Report): 30%

Project (Presentation): 20%

Assignments: 45%

Project

Project Report

For project report, you will create a Github webpage following the template here. You should also refer to past projects. The template only serves as a guideline on the content to include in your report. You are free to take artistic license in designing your project webpage.

Refer to the documentation here on how to create your own Github webpage. You will create the project webpage with your own Github repository.

To encourage working on your project early, we will check your progress before TA assistance sessions. Each group should send a link of their project webpage to the TA by Oct 5. We acknowledge that it is work-in-progress. But, the progress report should include motivation of the problem, some preliminary works, and problems encountered. The progress report will be graded on a binary basis, that is you will get full credits as long as you demonstrate that you have been working on the project and document it properly.

Project Ideas

Feel free to define your project scope. The project ideas here are for reference only.

Smart Light: Expand on Tutorial 3 to develop a smart lighting system that is controlled by both occupancy and ambient light intensity

  • Use a relay to actuate a light bulb instead of an LED;
  • Include a passive infrared (PIR) sensor to detect occupancy;
  • Demonstrate it works well at your apartment;

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Monitoring: Given you collected temperature and humidity measurements in Homework 2, develop a indoor environmental monitoring system by collecting additional physical phenomena related to (IAQ)

  • What IAQ measurements are important for occupants’ health and comfort?
  • Research on what sensor(s) one may use to acquire some of these measurements;
  • Measure your apartment for an extended period of time: what do you observe?