DDL Curriculum

• ECE2031

  ECE 2031 is the primary activity in the Digital Design Lab. Beginning Spring 2018, all ECE 2031 resources are available on Canvas. Students who are enrolled should be able to access the ECE 2031 Course Site as soon as they log in at http://canvas.gatech.edu.

  Most of your questions about the course (what you need before the first class, etc.) are answered in the FAQ. Check it out. As far as specifics for the upcoming semester are concerned, here are the most important:

  • If a lecture period or lab section is full when you attempt to sign up, then it is full. The limits are defined based on what the rooms and equipment can handle. So it doesn't matter how good a reason you have to request an overload — if the rooms could handle one more student, the limits would be one higher!
  
  
  • Labs do NOT meet in the first week of the semester, but there are several required (and easy) assignments prior to lecture (consisting of viewing two presentations and a short easy online quiz for each). Watch for those exercises (to be available by Sunday evening before classes start on Canvas) and come to lecture prepared to learn more about the course.
  
  
  • Required course materials are described here.
• UPCP

  Coursework in the Digital Design Laboaratory is closely aligned with the Undergraduate Professional Communications Program. Students benefit from expert instruction in technical writing and oral presentation skills.

• Honors Program

  Twice (in 2013 and 2015), an Honors Program seminar course was offered that provided an opportunity for multidisciplinary teams of students to utilize laboratory resources in semester-long projects. Information from the most recent course remains at http://powersof2.gatech.edu/2883HPC/artofdigital.html.

• Senior Design

  Dr. Collins has advised or co-advised several senior design teams in the past, all of them interdisciplinary. Projects have included:

  • Underwater vehicles (one swimming, one crawling)
  • Aerial surveillance drones
  • Wildlife camera "trap"
  • CubeSat satellite

  
  

  More recently, in Spring 2019, three teams worked on fusion of art and technology and created three projects for display in the lab. Those will be mounted soon. Additional projects are a possibility, but no external funding is available at this time. (Students do have the option of the normal departmental funds for senior design projects, though.)