Senior Design Projects

There were 45 students enrolled in ECE 457/458 Design Project I/II, the capstone design experience where students expand their abilities and develop important real world engineering problem solving skills. The students were divided into eleven groups. The details are given below.

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Click for Details	Project Title
Group 1	Parking Information System
Group 2	Ait to Ear
Group 3	Residential Photovoltaic Power System
Group 4	No Mow Maintenance: The Self-Piloted Lawn Mower
Group 5	"Smart" Digital Radio Recorder
Group 6	Smart-House HVAC System
Group 7	Wireless Marine Throttle Control
Group 8	Fan Tray Controller
Group 9	ESD Logging System
Group 10	Digital Data Card
Group 11	Personal Beacon/Locator System

Our senior design TEAM 2 (Adam Carvalho, Joel McNamee, Steven Mooney, Christopher Yafrate; Technical Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu), RANKED SECOND PLACE at the Fourth Annual Student Design Contest hosted by Rochester Institute of Technology and partially sponsored by IEEE. There were 23 teams representing 13 institutions. This second place ranking came with a $2,000 prize. Note that the team from Carnegie Mellon University got third place. Further details on the contest can be obtained from:

http://www.rit.edu/ieee/sdc4