Daren Keller, Matthew Blake, and Mark Sinclair receive congratulations for Best Project Presentation from ECE Chairman John LaCourse.

Andrew Livingston (on the left) and Jeremy Broughton demonstrate their "Design and Construction of a Tachometer and Speedometer for the Mini-Baja Off-Road Vehicle" project.

Alan Montminy and Professor Messner, in front of their "Peripheral Personal Computer Interface for a Jeopardy-Like Real-Time Video Game" project.

Jeremy Broughton and Andrew Livingston received prizes for the Most Practical and Complete Project.

Alan Montminy and Professor Messner, in front of their "Peripheral Personal Computer Interface for a Jeopardy-Like Real-Time Video Game" project.

Senior Project News

This academic year marked the completion of our seventh annual Senior Projects Day. This year’s senior project winners are Mark Sinclair, Matthew Blake, and Daren Keller for the Best Project Presentation; Jeremy Broughton and Andrew Livingston for the Most Practical and Complete Project; and Alan Montminy for the Most Creative Project. Their names and faculty advisors were placed on the Senior Projects Winners Plaque with the other past winners. Special thanks to this year’s project judges Associate Professor Emeritus Don Melvin, ECE alumnus Jason Jeffords, and Craig Poole, President of EigenLight Corporation. Our congratulations to all the winners and those who participated in this year’s poster session.

Jeremy Broughton and Andrew Livingston, Design and Construction of a Tachometer and Speedometer for the Mini-Baja Off-Road Vehicle

David Dunham, Selection and Testing of CATSAT’s Flight Ni-Cad Battery System

Brian King, Development and Testing of CATSAT’s High Voltage Power Supply and Regulator System

Thomas Laferriere, Control of an Optical Attenuator Using a Stepping Motor

Eric Lynskey, Design of a Liquid Level Controller for Dairy Farms

Kevin Meyer, Printed Circuit Board Testing and Ground System Software Development for CATSAT’s Digital Electronics Unit

Alan Montminy, Peripheral Personal Computer Interface for a Jeopardy-Like Real-Time Video Game

David Montminy, VLSI Implementation of an 1149.1 Tap Controller for Boundary Scan Testing

David Saarinen, Development and Testing of CATSAT’s Sun Sensor System

Mark Sinclair, Matthew Blake, and Daren Keller, Development of a Microprocessor Based Autonomous Robot That Can Solve a Random Maze

Cam Trinh, Design and Construction of an Automated Lost Step Tester

Keith Vellante, Design and Implementation of a Guitar Pickup and Amplifier Interface

Brett Vinciguerra, Development of a SPECTRUM Network Management Module