A tiny celebration, then more work

Well, today was the last day of class - the end is in view. A few review sessions, making up and grading exams, grading a final project report are what await me now, but I’m still having a small inward celebration…

Perhaps the most stressful thing for both me and the students was the joint project they had for my Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering course, and my colleague’s Digital Logic Design course. The students were to design and build circuitry to control a robot in playing a human versus robot game of Tic-Tac-Toe. The frenzy to complete everything ended late last night, with mixed results, but a lot learned along the way, a lot of hard work, and yes, even some tears of frustration near the end. Just to give you an idea of the complexity of the project, here are photos of three of the subsystems designed and built by the students.