Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

DoE provides some financial support to cover costs of components and specific project related costs, in addition to providing any equipments and lab setups, depending on their availability. Students and their project supervisors are encouraged to explore other funding avenues through various channels such as CSES or other engineering societies such as IEEE.

Not necessarily. Professors usually consider other qualifications, such as the background and motivation of an applicant, beside the GPA before making a decision.

The pre-requisite is 4th year status which is 1st, 2nd, and 3.5cr from 3rd year.

• No. Some professors may promise a student or a group of students as soon as they find they are approached by the right applicants. Some others may prefer to wait and evaluate all applications at a later time. Nevertheless, all 4th-year students should eventually be offered a placed in a project group.

The project group allocations is not finalized irrespective of any agreement with the potential supervisors, until it is formally announced by the capstone co-ordinator.

No. A professor may form his project group from many applicants based on his own criteria. However, students are highly encouraged to contact potential project supervisors starting winter term end and summer term to secure their priority selections to the projects groups.

• Yes, but the projects have to be approved by the coordinator of the Biomedical program to make sure of appropriate Biomedical contents. These students should register in SYSC-4907 and can register in ELEC 4907 only with the permission of the program co-ordinator.

• Yes, some projects offered at our department qualify for the SREE program. These projects should have a strong energy-related component. SREE students should identify such projects from the list of offered projects and contact the corresponding professor.

• Electronics students are only eligible to register in the project courses offered by the Department of Electronics (ELEC 4907, ELEC 4908 and SREE 4907) and Department of Systems and Computer Engineering (SYSC-4907). They are also allowed to register for ECOR4907 (Multidisciplinary Engineering Project). See more details here.

Involvement in projects offered by other engineering programs, provided that it is of electronics nature, has to be approved by the coordinator.

• Irrespective of the department (except SCE), students interested in pursuing their Capstone project outside DoE must
  • provide the name of proposed faculty supervisor from other department;
  • submit a detailed project description clearly identifying the electrical engineering component in the project comparable to typical DoE projects and detailed assessment criterion (to be received directly by the proposed faculty supervisor and not by the student);
  • find a DoE faculty member (co-supervisor) who agrees to oversee the project with the following role:
    • to review the proposed project, to confirm if there is sufficient EE role in the project and make recommendation to the capstone co-ordinator,
    • to oversee the project (but not necessarily access it or be involved in regular project meetings etc) and act as an intermediary between the host department and DoE;
    • to gather and submit the final grades to the DoE Capstone Project Co-ordinator at the end of the project.
• These requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and students should not commit to the projects unless a formal permission is provided by the Capstone Project Co-ordinator.
• Deadline to submit such requests is the same as that of the overall project application deadline (typically August 31st). No requests will be entertained after the deadline.

• For EE and CSE students, ELEC4907/SYSC4907/ECOR4907 are in the program and any one of these courses will satisfy the program requirement without any approval from DoE.
• For Engineering Physics (EP) students ELEC4908/ECOR4907 are listed in the program, they would need approval from Associate Undergraduate Chair to take SYSC4907. A manual audit amendment (by Engineering Academic Support) would be required for them to graduate.
• For SREE A students SREE4907/ECOR4907 are listed in the program. An approval from the Associate Undergraduate Chair is required to substitute SYSC4907.
• For SREE B students MAAE4907/ECOR4907 are listed.  Approval to substitute SYSC4907 would be required from MAE and SCE, where students will have to demonstrate that they have sufficient background to undertake a SYSC project.

The DoE Capstone project course page on Brightspace can be accessed here. Those who submit the project application and are assigned the projects will automatically be enrolled on Brightspace and be placed in a separate group project. The course page is expected to be available on the first day of lectures.

The project allocations are decided shortly after project application deadline of August 31st, and by the first day of lectures. The allocations will announced directly on the Brightspace course page. Irrespective of any previous arrangements with any faculty members who may have agreed to supervise, projects assignments are not final until this announcement.