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References: Capstone: Applications, Design, and Reporting

  1. Design of experiments - Wikipedia - Explains research questions, independent and dependent variables, and controlled conditions as the structural components of a rigorous experiment, the framework this chapter asks every capstone project to follow when scoping and testing.

  2. Software-defined radio - Wikipedia - Describes how demodulation and filtering move from dedicated analog hardware into general-purpose software, the architecture behind this chapter's software-defined-radio capstone domain and its FFT-based spectrum analysis.

  3. Condition monitoring - Wikipedia - Covers vibration analysis for rotating machinery, explaining how specific frequency signatures reveal bearing wear before failure, the exact machine-monitoring application this chapter connects back to Chapter 15's peak-detection technique.

  4. Understanding Digital Signal Processing (3rd Edition) - Richard G. Lyons - Prentice Hall - Lyons is best known for his exceptionally clear "quadrature signals" tutorial bridging complex-number math to real receiver hardware, making his applied audio, radar, and communications chapters an accessible bridge into this chapter's capstone domains.

  5. Writing for Computer Science (3rd Edition) - Justin Zobel - Springer - Zobel's guidance on stating a precise, answerable research question and structuring an honest methodology and limitations section is widely assigned in CS research-methods courses, directly matching this chapter's report-writing requirements.

  6. Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Explained - MathWorks - Explains how an IFFT converts frequency-domain data into a transmittable time-domain OFDM symbol and an FFT recovers it at the receiver, the FFT mechanism underlying this chapter's communication-systems application domain.

  7. FPGA Implementation of an Efficient FFT Processor for FMCW Radar Signal Processing - PMC (National Library of Medicine) - Peer-reviewed paper detailing how range and Doppler FFTs extract a target's distance and velocity from a radar's reflected chirp signal, a worked example of this chapter's radar-processing capstone domain.

  8. Limitations of the Study - USC Libraries Research Writing Guide - Explains how to identify, describe, and justify a study's limitations, and argues that stating them plainly strengthens rather than weakens a report, the exact standard this chapter's limitations-statement section teaches.

  9. Independent and Dependent Variables - USC Libraries Research Writing Guide - Defines independent and dependent variables with a practical sentence-completion technique for identifying each, directly supporting this chapter's experimental-design worked example around window choice and frequency accuracy.

  10. A Quick Guide to Writing a Solid Peer Review - Eos (American Geophysical Union) - Outlines what a careful peer reviewer checks for, including whether conclusions are actually supported by the data, the same critical read this chapter asks a classmate to give a capstone report before it is finished.