ELEC 390
Electrical Engineering Product Design Project
Winter 2026 · Computer and Electrical Engineering Product Design Project
Topics
- Engineering teamwork and project management
- Product development and opportunity identification
- Interviewing prospective users
- Mission statements and requirements
- Agile principles and Scrum
- Sprints and user stories
- Product backlogs and Scrum roles
- Sensor-enabled Android application design
- Black-box software testing
- Ethical issues in product design
- Technical writing and presentations
Readings
- Kenneth S. Rubin, Essential Scrum, Addison-Wesley, 2013.
- Dean Leffingwell and Don Widrig, Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Addison-Wesley, 2003.
- Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger, Product Design and Development, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2012.
- Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, Guidelines to Professional Practice, 1999, ISBN 2980218618.
- Concordia Form and Style guide: all written project documentation must follow this guide.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus or course outline ↗Winter 2026
- Shared Winter 2026 outline for COEN 390 and ELEC 390. Essential Scrum is explicitly required. The other three books are labelled Not Required, but useful.