Computer Engineering Capstone Projects All students in the Computer Engineering Department participate in a year-long capstone sequence in their senior year. The senior design project is a culminating experience that requires students to use all of their acquired knowledge toward the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of a product. The resulting document serves as the student’s undergraduate thesis, and discusses not only the project and the experience, but also addresses the societal, ethical, and environmental impacts of the work. Students present their work at the annual Senior Design Conference, held each year in May, to a panel of alumni and industry judges. Some recent projects are community-based (control system for a solar-powered house, spelling game for children), others research-based (network capacity planner, stock market simulator), and still others highly interdisciplinary (satellite software, robotics). Interdisciplinary fields are indicated below with (ME), (EE), and (CS).
2008–2009
- Educational Tool for Finances
Marco Echandi, Jason Goetsch, James Lewis
Advisor: J. Holliday
- Swarm of Brian: Enhancing TrackBot’s Application Code
Brian Jenkins
Advisor: S. Figueira
- First Place Learning
José Delgado, Debra Mortensen, Sean Schiff
Advisor: J. Holliday
- CSCADE: An Extensible Architecture for Cluster Robotics Research
Eric Rowe, Jeff Steinhilber
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
- H.264 3D Video Encoding
Jacob LaPinta, Johnathan Le, Jaipal Nijjar, Eamonn Pascal
Advisor: N. Ling
Winner: Computer Engineering Technical Excellence Award
Winner: Senior Design Conference Best in Session
- Remote Home Monitoring System
Nicolas Treat
Advisor: S. Figueira
Winner: Computer Engineering Technical Excellence Award
- Noteflash Shared Note-Taking Environment
Jonathan Azoff, Cameron Boehmer, Benjamin Cherry
Advisor: D. Lewis
Winner: Computer Engineering Technical Excellence Award
- Dual Application Vibration Simulator
Christopher Leatham (ME), Michael Hofman, Adam Wong (ME)
Advisor: D. Atkinson, C. Kitts (ME), T. Hight (ME)
- SWATH: A Small Waterplane Twin Hull Solution for Shallow Water Bathymetric Mapping
Thomas Blozis (ME) and John Fisher
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
2007–2008
- Secure E-Cash Transaction System
Anirudha Jadhav, Tirumala Panganamala
Advisor: T. Schwarz
- Roverwerx: Urban Search and Rescue Robot
Matt Ambauen (ME), Casey Kute (ME), Ben Sobczak
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
- CheckOutMySeat.com
Matthew Lanham
Advisor: D. Lewis
- Solar Installation Project: Monitoring System
Brian Albright, Ryan Leary
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
- NASA Small Spacecraft Command and Control Automation
James Reavis
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
Winner: Senior Engineering Design Conference Best in Session
- OBSIDIAN Nanosatellite Biological Instrumentation System
Joseph Hotchkiss, Christian Ochoa, Rafferty Saturno, Allen Yeung
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
Winner: Senior Engineering Design Conference Best in Session
- Blue Wireless Communication
Okechukwu Mbanugo (EE), Tim Monzures
Advisor: S. Wilson (EE)
- Online Teaching Evaluations
Aaron Ramirez
Advisor: T. Schwarz
- HappyHome
Yesenia Herrera, Chris Iwamura, Kimberly So, Evan Uyehara
Advisor: D. Lewis, S. Krishnan (EE)
- TOPCLASS Online Periodical Content and Submission System
Ross Dakin
Advisor: R. Mikkilineni
- BMW Door Mechatronics Project
Alfonso Chartier, Calvin Hwung (EE), Julian Lupu (EE)
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
- 3D Telemetry Modeling Project
Daniel Chance
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
2006–2007
- YourCall: Precall and Oncall Phone Manager
Jeffrey Simon
Advisor: J. Noll
- Workload-Adaptative Memory Scheduler
Kuan Ju Ho
Advisor: S. Figueira
- G.R.A.B. SCU
Tyler Carter, Matt Huey, Patrick Opel
Advisor: R. Mikkilineni
- Dynamic Server Management
Andrew Howells, Jonathan Joe, Brett Proctor
Advisor: J. Noll
- Stock Market Simulation Model
Clayton Hoefer, Joseph Mastroieni
Advisor: D. Atkinson
Winner: Senior Design Conference Best in Session
Winner: Senior Design Conference Best in Conference
- La Rem
Jenai Beddow (EE), Natasha Dingra (EE), Trisha Leconte, Jessica Leduc
Advisors: R. Davis, S. Krishnan (EE)
- Onyx Nanosatellite Command and Data Handling Systems
Ronald Angeles, Phelps Williams, Zenon Zabinski
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
Winner: Computer Engineering Technical Excellence Award
- Robots for a Better Tomorrow
Taylor Alexander (ME), Nicholas Andresen, Weston Arnold (ME), Patrick Dal Canto (ME)
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
- Mantaris
Virginia Mangan (ME), Erik Nizenkoff, Megan Steck (ME), John Zevenbergen (EE)
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
- System for Intelligent Control of Environment
W. Hernandez (EE), T.-L. Nguyen (EE), D. Polk, P. Randhawa (EE), R. Thakur (EE)
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
2005–2006 - Centralized Phonebook Database
Anders Hur, Wilson Le
Advisor: D. Lewis - Spelling Bee Game
Michael Sokolik
Advisor: R. Mikkilineni - Bar Buddy
Jesse Pyeatt
Advisor: J. Holliday - A Distributed DDOS Tracing System
Steven Bassi, Jacob ElZiq, Carson Hoffacker
Advisor: J. Holliday - The Java CoG Kit Experiment Manager
Tan Trieu
Advisor: S. Figueira - Media Passport
Chris Duchesne, Nolan Gaudreau, Steven Keng
Advisor: H. P. Dommel - Our Media Universe
Denis Moreno
Advisor: J. Holliday - Palm Meeting Scheduler
Kristen Moss, Caroline Ratajski
Advisor: J. Noll - Virtual Monitor Using Surround Sound
Lynn Chikasuye, Rena Chock (EE), Adrianne Tom (EE), Garrett Yoshimoto
Advisor: J. Noll, S. Wood (EE) - Shadow Rover Autonomous Land Vehicle
J. Cullivan (ME), S. de la Fuente (ME), R. Field (ME), B. Marsh (ME), J. Reyes, K. Sotto (EE)
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME) - The ON-board autonomY eXperiment (ONYX) Space System
B. Asher (ME), J. Crabtree (EE), D. Dennis (ME), A. Gulick (ME), M. El-Kassed (EE), M. Lim, J. Mendoza (EE), S. Moraleda (EE), A. Nanda (ME), W. Nguyen (EE), F. Parviz (EE), J. Shepard (ME), J. Vasicek
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
2004–2005 - Secure Mobile Fingerprint Identification System
Tomas Bulka, Chaitanya Agarwal, Pavel Pozdnyakov (CS)
Advisor: D. Lewis - Automated Identification Using RFID
Matthew Edwards, Michael Maxwell
Advisor: D. Lewis - MOBedit: A Collaborative Text Editor
Gregory Auld, Meissa Dia, Bao Soh
Advisor: R. Mikkilineni - EMISS — Energy Monitoring via Internet and Sensors for Sustainable Living
Anthony Doran (EE), Rick Edwards Jr., Robert Wagner
Advisor: H. P. Dommel, G. Okamoto (EE) - Multisensor Monitoring System for Independent Living
Edward Arteche, Mark Bactol (EE), Marlon Evangelista, Elijah Nicolas (EE)
Advisor: H. P. Dommel, S. Wood (EE) - iWallet
Evan McLean, Adam Skogrand
Advisor: H. P. Dommel - My Media Universe
Justin Eng and Bill Pinard
Advisor: H. P. Dommel - CapPlan: A Network Capacity Planner
Tianen Liu, Linden Tibbets, and Kathleen Ting
Advisor: S. Figueira - PalmPEOS II — Process Enactment and Management on PalmOS
Steven Beeby and Arkadiy Shapiro
Advisor: J. Noll - C2V: System Utility for Hardware Synthesis
Devangi Amin
Advisor: D. Atkinson - Overlay Networks of Mobile Sensors
Henry Canivel, Gloria Chang, and Tina Chhabra
Advisor: S. Figueira - Enterprise Class Mission Control Software Suite for the NASA Genesat-1 Spacecraft
Thomas Van Buskirk and Kevin Weiler
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME) - Decabot: An Experimental Testbed for Collaborative Multi-Robot Navigation
Piya Chindaphorn, Shao En Huang (EE), Tuan To, Brian Tully, and Sinsak Young (EE)
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME) - Mars Yard: A Teleoperation Test-Bed for Planetary Rovers
Prabhjot Mall, Bryan Pham, and Robert Witherspoon
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME) - The Design and Implementation of Dual Robot Collaborative Object Transportation
A. Cuaresma (ME), J. de la Fuente (ME), K. Kerns, A. Moreland (EE), and V. Reddy
Advisor: T. Hight (ME), C. Kitts (ME) - Atomics: Ad Hoc Clock Synchronization for Handheld Devices
Andry Winata
Advisor: H. P. Dommel - The WASP: An Autonomous Surface Vessel for the University of Alaska
R. Kobashigawa (ME), P. Mahacek (ME), N. Mehdizadeh, A. Schooley (EE), D. Wilson (EE), N. Zooleh-Yaghoob-Shahi
Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
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