Engineering Project

The engineering project is a semester long project that is carried out by a group of students. In the context of this project an accumulated 480 hours were invested into the development of Black Fennec.

Contrary to the usual way of selecting a predefined topic that is given by a lecturer, the students came up with the idea for Black Fennec. This was done via a project proposal and guided by Thomas Kälin, lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil who supervised the project.

The project plan was created at the beginning of the project and provides a rough overview of our project, the project organization, and the management processes. The plan was updated regularly during the project. Additionally to this plan another artifact created was during/after the elaboration phase of the project and highlights the most important decisions made during this phase and contains a detailed plan for the succeeding construction phase.

The refinement document contains suggestions for improvement, that were received, and how they were addressed. Additionally to that this section also contains the projects time tracking and a reflection statement that was written at the end of the project.

An overview of all the mentioned subsections can be found in the following table of contents:

• Proposal
  • Team
  • Consulting and Review Times
  • Motivation
  • Project Idea
  • Implementation
• Plan
  • Introduction
  • Project Overview
  • Project Organisation
  • Project Management
  • Infrastructure
• Elaboration
  • Prototype Evaluation
  • Construction Phase Plan
• Refinement
  • Project Plan
  • Requirements Engineering & Domain Analysis
  • Architecture Prototype & End of Elaboration
  • Software Architecture
  • Quality Ensurance Measurements & Code Quality
• Time Tracking
  • Time spent per Team-Member
  • Comparison of estimate to time spent
• Reflection