2016
Senior Design AY 2015-2016
Senior Design Instructor: Dr. Howard Michel
ECE 457/458 Design Project I/II is the capstone design experience where students expand their abilities and develop important real world engineering problem solving skills. The students were divided into twelve groups. The details are given below.
*Indicates Team Leader
Student Members
- Quinn M. Gonsalves*
- Alexander J. Grube
- Jonathan D. DaSilva
- Bryan V. Kane
Project Title
Camera-Based Sleeping Driver Detector
Project Description
This project is a software application for an android smartphone that uses the front-facing camera to detect if the user falls asleep while operating a vehicle. If the user does fall asleep an alarm will initiate with both vibration and sound until the user opens their eyes and/or deactivates the alarm.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Liudong Xing
Customer
Mr. Stephen Frechette
Student Members
- Jacob G. Vieira*
- Jason P. Cesar
- Richard J. Carreiro
- Alejandro A. Colon
Project Title
Dot Drill Timing System
Project Description
The goal of this project is to add accuracy and reliability to our customer’s ability to assess his athlete’s performance in successfully negotiating the dot drill. The dot drill is a plyometric footwork exercise designed to assess and develop an athlete’s balance, coordination, and overall agility. The drill involves a series of 206 steps carried out in five unique patterns, each of which is repeated six times.
The customer currently assesses the athlete’s performance using a stopwatch and observing how many misses the athlete commits throughout the exercise. By observing with human eye and timing the exercise with a stopwatch, our customer is inherently inaccurate in his assessment due to the lack of accuracy of a handheld stopwatch and human observation.
By automating both the timing and step accuracy measuring systems, as well as assessing the score and providing a weighted time based on accuracy, we will greatly enhance our customer’s ability to assess his athlete’s performance in successfully negotiating the dot drill.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Paul Gendron
Customer
Gregory Homol,
UMASS Dartmouth Fitness Center
Student Members
- Tyler M. Turcotte*
- Helder P. Avelino
- Nathan H. Gula
- Daniel J. Frois
Project Title
High Frequency, High Power, and High Efficiency Class D Power Amplifier for Ultrasonic Applications
Project Description
Design and Test a Class D power amplifier that is high frequency, high power, and high efficiency for ultrasonic applications.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. David Brown
Customer
Dr. Corey Bachand, Bachand Engineering and BTech Acoustics
Student Members
- Christopher J. Camara*
- Joshua J. Erick
- Gwendolyn J. Davis
- Robert N. Polselli
Project Title
Beehive Monitoring System
Project Description
The project is to create a remote monitoring system that will collect data on an individual hive that can be reviewed to assess the colony’s health. The data to be collected includes but is not limited to temperature, humidity and weight of the hive.
Faculty Advisor
Professor Philip Viall
Customer
Dr. Paul Fortier, UMASS Dartmouth ECE Department
Student Members
- Kari E. Cannon*
- Jeffrey Magina
- Christopher J. Souza
Project Title
Lake Monitoring System
Project Description
The scope of this project was to design and develop a lake monitoring system to record the weather conditions at the lake. It also must be able to store the data in a database for the user to access whenever they would like to.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Paul Fortier
Customer
Professor Philip H. Viall, Citizens for the Preservation of Waterman Lake (CPWL)
Student Members
- Jacob L. Silva*
- Kevin M. Cohen
- Richard A. Hines IV
- Joe M. Collins
Project Title
Contactless Indoor Flood Detector
Project Description
Detect an indoor flood and report the flood over the internet via a wired or wi-fi network connected device. Preferably the system could be part of an indoor lighting system
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Paul Gendron
Customer
Mr. Stephen Frechette
Student Members
- Thomas Leman*
- Alex F. Pepper
- Mark A. Rosa
Project Title
Low Power Wireless Shock Detection System
Project Description
This project will employ a system which consists of two subsystems: a remote and a host. The host system will be an application running on a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) capable smartphone or tablet. It will communicate with the remote system allowing it to configure a shock threshold, duration before the threshold to capture and duration after the threshold to capture.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. David Rancour
Customer
Stephen Caldwell, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC)
Student Members
- Erickson T. Ramos*
- Kayla M. MacMillan
- Ailton M. Vieira
- Autilio Vicente
Project Title
School Bus Child Safety Monitoring System
Project Description
The project is intended to augment the function of the typical school bus monitor by alerting the school bus driver to any obstruction (such as a child) in the path of any wheel of the bus. An advanced version of this project should make it impossible for the driver to advance the bus if any obstruction is detected.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam
Customer
Dr. Lester Cory, Society for Human Advancement through Rehabilitation Engineering (SHARE)
Student Members
- Matthew J. Curtis*
- Andy Dang
- Yanhao Zeng
- Lucas S. Mohsen (MNE)
Project Title
School Bus Child Safety Monitoring System
Project Description
The project is intended to augment the function of the typical school bus monitor by alerting the school bus driver to any obstruction (such as a child) in the path of any wheel of the bus. An advanced version of this project should make it impossible for the driver to advance the bus if any obstruction is detected.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam
Customer
Dr. Lester Cory, Society for Human Advancement through Rehabilitation Engineering (SHARE)
Student Members
- Logan P. Doonan*
- Weldon Mui
- Dylan Z. Baker
- Sakshi Kishan
- Edna Pires
Project Title
Snoopy, Small Onboard Linux Computer
Project Description
The target of the project is to design a small onboard Linux machine. The device should have networking capability.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Hong Liu
Customer
Richard Grundy, AVTECH Software, Inc.
Student Members
- Abner C. Barros*
- Mark P. Lowney
- Alexander Andrade
- Nicholas M. Beckwith
Project Title
STAR Acoustic Ruler Project
Project Description
The Acoustic Ruler Project is an implementation of three closely-related custom-build devices and a Control Application. The system's main purpose is to measure the propagation time of an audio signal between loudspeakers and microphones, thus utilizing the recorded data to calculate separation distances between them.
The three devices consist of a Stand-alone Single-channel system, a Stand-alone Two-channel system and a "Teamable" system to create an array of microphones and loudspeakers. The Control Application allows the user to trigger measurements and edit the value of the speed of sound based on certain environmental parameters such as the ambient temperature. In addition, it also displays and logs the measurement results to a text file, alongside relevant information in regards to each system such as the system identification number.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Karen Payton
Customer
Dr. Richard Goldhor, Speech Technology and Applied Research, Inc. (STAR)
Student Members
- Jesse B. Brady*
- Brian Wohler
- Brendan W. O’Brien
- Brett M. Bourgeois
- Keven R. Goncalves
Project Title
Wrong Way Traffic Alert System
Project Description
This project is an effective way to detect a vehicle traveling the wrong way up a highway off ramp; once the vehicle has been detected an alert system will provide the driver and others of the impending danger.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Lance Fiondella
Customer
Dr. Lester Cory, Society for Human Advancement through Rehabilitation Engineering (SHARE)