Senior Project News

This academic year marked the completion of our fourth annual Senior Projects Day.

This year’s senior project winners were Shawn Staker for the Best Project Presentation; Himanshu Patel for the Most Practical and Complete Project; and Paul Wheeler for the Most Creative Project. Their names along with those of their faculty advisors were placed on the Senior Projects Winners Plaque with the other past winners. Special thanks to this year’s project judges Professor Emeritus Albert Frost, and ECE alumni Brant Buchika and Matt Luniewicz. Our congratulations to all the winners and those who participated in this year’s poster session.

Jeff Olivier and Roy Parker – VLSI Implementation of a Spectral Accumulator for CATSAT

Brian Huether- Real-Time Analysis of EEG Signals

Brian Pellerin - Integrated Physical Paralysis Apparatus

Erik Pedersen - Modeling a Digital Communications Channel

Paul Wheeler – Macarena: Hexapod Robot

Anthony Whitesell - Data Logging System for Competition Go-Carts

Gerard Nadeau - Electronic Weather Center

George Fitch and Jeremy Pallotta – Prediction of Complex Data Patterns Using Neural Nets or "How to make a Million Dollars with Your Senior Project"

Gerard DesRochers and Jigar Raja – Power Consumption Modeling for Electric Vehicles

Jon Frain and Christine Graham – Full-Custom VLSI Analog Design Blocks

Carolyn Tousignant - A Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna for Local Area Networks

Jeffrey Butler – Development of the CATSAT Payload Flight Software

Jeanette Lauder - Digital Pipeline Image Processing and Analysis

Pedro Irazoqui-Pastor - CATSAT High Voltage Series Regulator and Automatic Gain Control

Joel Mellin – Windows 95 Based Sampling/Synthesis Software Package Adhering to the MIDI Standard

Chris Dion - Design of a Portable RF Detector

Shawn Staker – Design Methodology for Square Spiral Microstrip Antennas

Brian LaValley – Data Logging Cluster Security System

Nicole McCormack - Rummy Card/Computer Game

Michael Shannon – Trajectory Planning and Acoustical Obstacle Mapping/Analysis for an Autonomous Mobile Robot

Katie Rothstein - Impedance Models for Printed Circuit Boards

Scott Pfeiffer – Microstrip Frequency Diplexer for Cellular and Local Area Networks

Himanshu Patel - Automatic Traverse System for Fiber Optic Payoff Stand