About the Project
Welcome to IP-1: Integrated Project 1 – Booming Bass! This project is part of the first-year Electrical Engineering curriculum at TU Delft. It forms the bridge between the theoretical foundations you acquire in lecture courses and the practical engineering skills you need to become a professional electrical engineer.
Purpose of the Booming Bass Project¶
In this project, you and your mentor group will design and build a complete audio system with a “booming bass” extension. You will integrate concepts from Linear Circuits and Digital Systems A, applying theory to a realistic, multidisciplinary engineering challenge. The goal is not only to design working electronics, but also to learn how to work effectively in teams, manage a project, and communicate results professionally.
Connection to the Curriculum¶
The project builds directly on the Course Labs from Quarter 1, where you practiced basic circuit analysis and measurement techniques. In Quarter 2, you take the next step: combining those skills to design and realize a system that meets functional and performance specifications. The project also prepares you for later integrated projects and design courses in the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs, where the emphasis will increasingly shift from guided work toward independent engineering.
Learning Goals¶
After completing the Booming Bass project, you will be able to:
Apply basic circuit theory to analyze and design filters, amplifiers, and power supplies.
Perform and interpret measurements with lab instruments such as oscilloscopes, function generators, and power supplies.
Simulate circuits using LTspice and verify them experimentally.
Collaborate effectively in a project team: plan work, run structured meetings, and share responsibilities.
Communicate results clearly in written reports and oral presentations.
Apply basic concepts and models for electrical circuits.
(a) Recognize the models of passive elements such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes as well as an active element - namely an operational amplifier - and explain their behaviour,
(b) Apply these models to explain the function and behaviour of simple electrical circuits of the above-mentioned components and express their transfer functions in the time domain as well as in the frequency domain,
(c) Simulate the circuits in LTspice.
Analyse and build at least one of the following basic subsystem circuits:
(a) First and second order passive electrical filters,
(b) Simple opamp voltage amplifier,
(c) Power supply with a transformer, diode bridge, capacitors and resistive load.
Apply system-level design, analysis, and integration skills:
(a) Reason about system requirements and specifications to guide subsystem selection and design,
(b) Demonstrate correct operation and conduct a performance analysis of above subsystems,
(c) Explain how each subsystem contributes to the functioning of the overall system.
Perform basic practical skills in electronic experimentation:
(a) Assemble electronic circuits from a schematic, including soldering of components on a printed circuit board,
(b) Use basic instruments effectively, including a multimeter, function generator, power supply and an oscilloscope.
Be able to conduct basic experiments:
(a) Identify and define simple electrical engineering problems in the context of the project system design, experimentation, and troubleshooting tasks,
(b) Retrieve and apply relevant technical data from datasheets and manuals,
(c) Interprete measurement results while accounting for the limitations and non-ideal properties of components and instruments.
Apply academic professional skills:
(a) Give a scientific presentation on the design of your system,
(b) Write engineering design reports,
(c) Use typical engineering tools including python to compose visuals and other parts of the design presentations and reports,
(d) Apply Codes of Conduct and knowledge of ethical aspects to the project,
(e) Create and follow up on an elaborate Team Commitment Contract and a project plan,
(f) Conduct professional team meetings.
The Booming Bass project is therefore not just about building hardware. It is about learning how an engineer thinks, works, and delivers reliable results within a team setting.