Senior Design Projects
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Supervision or Sponsorship
The senior design project experience consists of two semester
courses, EE 364D Introduction to Engineering Desing and EE 464
Senior Design Project, taken back-to-back.
If you would like me to sponsor or supervise your senior design
project, then I would prefer working with you during EE 364D to
formulate your project.
Fall 2009 senior design projects being supervised or sponsored:
- Manuel Alvarez, Chris Chiang, Maggie Jackson and Saba Khan,
"Automated Guitar Tuner"
- Prateek Burman, Steve Kim, Rohan S. Khunte, Justin Tang and Christopher Young,
"Picosatellite communication system"
Design and real-time implementation project ideas:
Other design project ideas:
Old design project ideas:
Example past project proposal outlines in reverse chronological order:
- David Stachelski,
"Development of a
Verilog GPS Correlator",
Summer 2008
- Chinmoy Gavini,
"Quantifying tradeoffs
in the physical layer modulation methods of the
IEEE 802.15.4 protocol through simulation",
Summer 2007
- Frank Sun,
"Automated in-air sonar
soundhead testing",
Fall 2006
- Divyanshu Vats,
"Designing and Implementing
a MATLAB Toolbox for Image-based Rendering",
Fall 2005
- Stephen Pun,
"Discrete Multitone Modulation Modem
Testbed",
Spring 2005
- Abdelaziz Skiredj,
"Quantifying Tradeoffs in Adaptive Modulation Methods for IEEE 802.16a Wireless Communication Systems",
Fall 2004
- Robert Mullenix,
"Design and Implementation of
Adaptive Modulation Algorithms in a Real-Time DSP Environment",
Summer 2004
- Mayank Gupta,
"Implementation of the photographic
composition technique of the rule of thirds in a digital signal
processor",
Spring 2004
- Hamood-ur Rehman,
"MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) Audio Decoder
for the PC",
Spring 2000
(MP3 Player Source Code)
Example final reports in reverse chronological order:
- Navid Aghasadeghi, Peter Erickson, Amir Farahani and Marjo Manalang,
"Analysis of Channel
Coding Under Impulsive Radio Frequency Interference",
Spring 2008
- Chinmoy Gavini,
"Quantifying tradeoffs
in the physical layer modulation methods of the
IEEE 802.15.4 protocol through simulation",
Summer 2007
- Eric Heinen,
"Music Database with Song
Identification Using Perceptual Audio Hashing",
Spring 2006
- Robert Mullenix,
"MU-OFDM Power and Subchannel
Allocation Performance on DSP",
Summer 2004
- Jason Keller and
Joel Koepke,
"An Audio Amplifier System with
Digital Delay-Based Effects",
Fall 2004
Complete set of written assignments for a completed past project:
For reference:
Since September 1, 1996, I have had the privilege of directing more
than 100
undergraduate students in Senior Design Projects.
I prefer students to define their project by the end of the semester
prior to the semester of the Senior Design Project.
I will work closely with you in polishing the project proposal outline.
Based on experience, it generally takes three drafts of the project
proposal outline to make it clear and complete.
By formulating the project in advance, you can get a head start in
collecting and reading background material over the break before the
semester begins.
There are two levels of involvement from a faculty member:
supervision and sponsorship.
Supervision would involve regular interaction with the faculty member,
e.g. bi-weekly meetings.
As a sponsor, however, the faculty member would only help the senior design
team define and start the project.
I will generally supervise senior design project students when their
projects directly relate to the projects that my graduate students
are doing:
Otherwise, I will choose to sponsor student design teams.
Updated 11/04/09.