Santa Clara University

Computer Engineering Capstone Projects

All Computer Engineering students 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).

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1. Secure E-Cash Transaction System
   Anirudha Jadhav, Tirumala Panganamala
   Advisor: T. Schwarz
2. Roverwerx: Urban Search and Rescue Robot
   Matt Ambauen (ME), Casey Kute (ME), Ben Sobczak
   Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
3. CheckOutMySeat.com
   Matthew Lanham
   Advisor: D. Lewis
4. Solar Installation Project: Monitoring System
   Brian Albright, Ryan Leary
   Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
5. NASA Small Spacecraft Command and Control Automation
   James Reavis
   Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
6. OBSIDIAN Nanosatellite Biological Instrumentation System
   Joseph Hotchkiss, Christian Ochoa, Rafferty Saturno, Allen Yeung
   Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
7. Blue Wireless Communication
   Okechukwu Mbanugo (EE), Tim Monzures
   Advisor: S. Wilson (EE)
8. Online Teaching Evaluations
   Aaron Ramirez
   Advisor: T. Schwarz
9. HappyHome
   Yesenia Herrera, Chris Iwamura, Kimberly So, Evan Uyehara
   Advisor: D. Lewis, S. Krishnan (EE)
10. TOPCLASS Online Periodical Content and Submission System
    Ross Dakin
    Advisor: R. Mikkilineni
11. BMW Door Mechatronics Project
    Alfonso Chartier, Calvin Hwung (EE), Julian Lupu (EE)
    Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
12. 3D Telemetry Modeling Project
    Daniel Chance
    Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)

2006–2007

1. YourCall: Precall and Oncall Phone Manager
   Jeffrey Simon
   Advisor: J. Noll
2. Workload-Adaptative Memory Scheduler
   Kuan Ju Ho
   Advisor: S. Figueira
3. G.R.A.B. SCU
   Tyler Carter, Matt Huey, Patrick Opel
   Advisor: R. Mikkilineni
   
4. Dynamic Server Management
   Andrew Howells, Jonathan Joe, Brett Proctor
   Advisor: J. Noll
5. Stock Market Simulation Model
   Clayton Hoefer, Joseph Mastroieni
   Advisor: D. Atkinson
6. La Rem
   Jenai Beddow (EE), Natasha Dingra (EE), Trisha Leconte, Jessica Leduc
   Advisors: R. Davis, S. Krishnan (EE)
7. Onyx Nanosatellite Command and Data Handling Systems
   Ronald Angeles, Phelps Williams, Zenon Zabinski
   Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
8. Robots for a Better Tomorrow
   Taylor Alexander (ME), Nicholas Andresen, Weston Arnold (ME), Patrick Dal Canto (ME)
   Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
   
9. Mantaris
   Virginia Mangan (ME), Erik Nizenkoff, Megan Steck (ME), John Zevenbergen (EE)
   Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
   
10. 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

1. Centralized Phonebook Database
   Anders Hur, Wilson Le
   Advisor: D. Lewis
2. Spelling Bee Game
   Michael Sokolik
   Advisor: R. Mikkilineni
3. Bar Buddy
   Jesse Pyeatt
   Advisor: J. Holliday
4. A Distributed DDOS Tracing System
   Steven Bassi, Jacob ElZiq, Carson Hoffacker
   Advisor: J. Holliday
5. The Java CoG Kit Experiment Manager
   Tan Trieu
   Advisor: S. Figueira
6. Media Passport
   Chris Duchesne, Nolan Gaudreau, Steven Keng
   Advisor: H. P. Dommel
7. Our Media Universe
   Denis Moreno
   Advisor: J. Holliday
8. Palm Meeting Scheduler
   Kristen Moss, Caroline Ratajski
   Advisor: J. Noll
9. Virtual Monitor Using Surround Sound
   Lynn Chikasuye, Rena Chock (EE), Adrianne Tom (EE), Garrett Yoshimoto
   Advisor: J. Noll, S. Wood (EE)
10. 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)
11. 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

1. Secure Mobile Fingerprint Identification System
   Tomas Bulka, Chaitanya Agarwal, Pavel Pozdnyakov (CS)
   Advisor: D. Lewis
2. Automated Identification Using RFID
   Matthew Edwards, Michael Maxwell
   Advisor: D. Lewis
3. MOBedit: A Collaborative Text Editor
   Gregory Auld, Meissa Dia, Bao Soh
   Advisor: R. Mikkilineni
4. 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)
5. Multisensor Monitoring System for Independent Living
   Edward Arteche, Mark Bactol (EE), Marlon Evangelista, Elijah Nicolas (EE)
   Advisor: H. P. Dommel, S. Wood (EE)
6. iWallet
   Evan McLean, Adam Skogrand
   Advisor: H. P. Dommel
7. My Media Universe
   Justin Eng and Bill Pinard
   Advisor: H. P. Dommel
8. CapPlan: A Network Capacity Planner
   Tianen Liu, Linden Tibbets, and Kathleen Ting
   Advisor: S. Figueira
9. PalmPEOS II — Process Enactment and Management on PalmOS
   Steven Beeby and Arkadiy Shapiro
   Advisor: J. Noll
10. C2V: System Utility for Hardware Synthesis
    Devangi Amin
    Advisor: D. Atkinson
11. Overlay Networks of Mobile Sensors
    Henry Canivel, Gloria Chang, and Tina Chhabra
    Advisor: S. Figueira
12. Enterprise Class Mission Control Software Suite for the NASA Genesat-1 Spacecraft
    Thomas Van Buskirk and Kevin Weiler
    Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
13. 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)
14. Mars Yard: A Teleoperation Test-Bed for Planetary Rovers
    Prabhjot Mall, Bryan Pham, and Robert Witherspoon
    Advisor: C. Kitts (ME)
15. 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)
16. Atomics: Ad Hoc Clock Synchronization for Handheld Devices
    Andry Winata
    Advisor: H. P. Dommel
17. 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)