Undergraduate Programs - Senior Projects

Notable Senior Projects: 2004 - 2005

Team 15 - BUPATS
Members: Ido Hochman, Kenneth Lopez, Michael Mole, Patrick Ward
Project: Parking Garage Monitoring System.

iPark offers a solution through a vision-based monitoring system that detects free parking spaces in indoor parking lots. iPark utilizes wireless cameras (as opposed to embedding sensors) so that changes to existing infrastructure are not required, thus minimizing installation costs.

Team 4 - JCB^2
Members: Brandon Bettencourt, Benjamin Chang, Joshua Kim, Christina Mexicano
Project and Customer: Cigarette Smoke Detector, Boston City Hospital and Professor Ruane.

JCB^2’s ultra-sensitive Cigarette Smoke Detector implements an SB-AQ4 gas sensor which detects cigarette smoke across its thin platinum wire. This detected change is fed to a microprocessor controlled circuit which sets an alarm and alerts the nurse’s station. This compact yet effective design has been implemented onto a PCB to allow for manufacturability.

Team 6 - TetraVida Tech
Members: Jonathan Alelis, Matthew Chan, Stephen Ruete, Ke Yang Wang
Project and Customer: Choreographed LED Display, David Durlach, Technofrolics, Cambridge, MA.

The product is a system of letters, numbers, and symbols called Form Elements. Each uses ultra bright RGB LEDs choreographed by a microcontroller, and is powered by both internal batteries and an external power source. This design is not a conventional dot-matrix display, but a number of LEDs arranged to form a stylized letter.

Team 19 - Cyneclo Orp
Members: Morgan Lindsay, Robert Oppen, Kalim Saliba, Jeffrey Zuccaro
Project and Customer: SPI Controlled LCD Module, Zahar Raskin, P&E Micro, Boston, MA.

The LCD module provides a textual user display and a means of interacting with the Cyclone Max via four buttons. This interaction occurs through an HC08 microprocessor which sends and receives information from the Cyclone Max via the SPI interface. This information is then printed onto the LCD and the user is allowed to scroll through the information, select an appropriate choice, and send this choice back to the Cyclone Max.

Team 21- Moto-Pilots
Members: Suzanne Chan, Tian Rong Chen, Alan Lee, Johnny Ng
Project and Customer: Motion Planning Unmanned Ground Vehicle, Professor Alanyali and Professor Saligrama.

The unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) will be used to aid the customer's research in the localization of wireless sensor networks on an autonomous platform. The robot will carry a beacon and can follow a path defined by up to 100 way points.