Teaming

MIT Fall 2025

The questions below are due on Tuesday October 07, 2025; 09:59:00 PM.
 
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Final projects are coming up. Projects are open-ended, focused on building a complicated system on your FPGA, and in working with a team. For 2025, aiming for two- or three- person teams. Note three-person teams are expected to do a more significant project than two-person teams.. Exceptions may (not shall) be made for one-person projects with permission of Joe, though we have ~155 students this term, one instructor and four TAs, so we really can't manage many (or possibly any) one-person projects. Above three is a hard no, however.

Do you want to be partnered by the staff?

Do you have a person, or persons, that you want to work with on a project? Enter their KERBEROS here. Otherwise Enter None. If entering more than one person, separate with a comma. (Note only groups which mutually select everyone will be partnered together.

What project ideas do you have? Please be as specific as possible and feel free to list several or many of them. We use this for teaming if needed as well as general gauging of interests. Being very vague and/or not spending a bit of time thinking about things now can seriously impact how your project goes. Even if you have a team figured out, you should enter some ideas here in clearly readable sentences.

The final project is team-based. Often what we've found is that teams will have issues when different members have different expectations of the amount of work/effort they're all planning to put in. If you are taking multiple project courses, lots of courses in general, traveling a lot, doing lots of extracurriculars, you need to be up front about this either if you're working with a team you chose or one that we're trying to help you assemble with other students.

On a scale of 1 to 5, how much effort do you plan to put into the 6.205 project, 1, being the bare-minimum and 5 being a large amount of time, approaching FPGA Life.