Engineering Design IV Project

Module code: EEU22E10 · Semester: 2

How it's assessed

No end-of-semester exam. It's assessed through project work.

Groups conceive, design, build and test an autonomous vehicle with both electronics and software, learning project planning, circuit construction and testing, and version control along the way.

Assessment	Weight
Continuous assessment through the semester: demos, interviews, tests and reports	100%

• Expect around 200–250 hours of work in total (10 ECTS), about 50 of them timetabled.

Summarised from the TCD module descriptor, checked 2026-11-09. Details can change from year to year, so check this year's descriptor and Blackboard.

From students who've done it

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Questions by Year

This module has no end-of-semester exam, so there are no past papers. See How it's assessed above.

Topics

• CDIO design of an autonomous vehicle LO1–2
• Project planning, tracking and version control LO3–5
• Circuit construction, safety and testing LO6, LO9
• Software design: user interface and wireless control LO7, LO10
• Design for manufacture and test LO11–12
• Documentation, reports and presentation LO13–14

Learning outcomes

1. Apply the engineering problem-solving process
2. Design a simple autonomous vehicle to a specification
3. Work as a group, splitting and integrating tasks
4. Plan a project and meet interim deliverables
5. Use project tracking and version control
6. Follow health and safety for circuit board construction
7. Recognise issues in combined hardware and software design
8. Build skills in quantitative analysis, reasoning and communication
9. Test electronic circuits
10. Test software systems
11. Defend and critique your design decisions
12. Evaluate results against the specification
13. Analyse the project's ethics, economics and environmental impact
14. Write concise, organised reports

Summarised from the module descriptor, checked November 2026.