An Undergraduate Success Story: A Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Integrative Experience

The CS students must first success fully design, build, and test software and electronic systems or subsystems for small, well-defined problems; EE students explore this process cycle on several increasingly larger problems. In parallel with their "toy" problems, we also assign students from both sets of courses to a unique team project, with a goal of satisfying the needs of a client, who is either a faculty member with a specific research product need or an actual client with a product requirement. This client-oriented, team-based experience gives undergraduate students their first hands-on research and development experience in a carefully monitored and guided environment that translates theory into product