Design Project
ECE 4601: Communication Systems

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Fall 2011

The design project has significant flexibility and you have the entire semester.  However, you should start work early in the semester. Typical projects usually involve two components:

ECE4601 is a course in physical communications and your project topics should be chosen appropriately.    Topics in communications networking are covered in other courses.  If you have any questions concerning the suitability of your topic, please ask before starting your project.

You are strongly encouraged to focus your project, making it narrower and deeper rather than broader and shallower. Try to be more quantitative and analytical rather than qualitative and descriptive.

You are required to prepare and submit a final report by Wednesday November 30, 2011.   Projects can be submitted early, but there will be no extensions and late projects will not be accepted.

Your final report should include a title page, abstract, introduction, main body, conclusions and references, and may include appendices. The report must use 12pt type and not exceed a total of 20 pages (individual) 25 pages (pairs), 26 lines per page, plus a maximum of 12 figures and tables.

Plagiarism:   It is essential that you properly reference your sources for your text, figures and tables.  Cases of plagiarism, such as unreferenced verbatim copying or paraphrasing from ANY source, will be referred to the Dean of Students for investigation and penalties.  

 

Some Possible Project Topics

References

You will need a good list of journal and conference publications for your project.  Most of the following publications are available on-line through IEEE Explore which also has an excellent search capability.   Also, see the library at www.library.gatech.edu