2020
Senior Design AY 2019-2020
Senior Design Instructor: Dr. Paul Fortier
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 eight groups. The details are given below.
*Indicates Team Leader
Student Members
- Abigail Rachel Keith*
- Sakiynah Howard
- Alec Thomas Merolla
- Liv Grace de Freitas
- Lauren Conlon (BNG)
Project Title
Wearable real-time Injury prevention system
Project Description
Design a prototype wearable monitor that collects shoulder movement/shoulder muscle activity data that pertains to resistance training focusing on the shoulder-related muscles.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Paul Fortier
Customer
Dr. Raoul Ouedraogo, MIT Lincoln Lab
Student Members
- Ben Andrew Wierman*
- Jonathon Cronin
- Trevor Fink
- John Morales
- Kevin Teque
Project Title
Wave Height Instrumentation
Project Description
Design, develop, and implement coastal instrumentation packages to measure the mean water height on both sides of the Horseneck State Reservation causeway.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. David Brown
Customer
David Sprogis, Sean Leach
Buzzards Bay Coalition
Student Members
- Jamir Gilmore-Junior*
- Tyler Botelho
- Vander Brito
- Dennis Rebelo
- Aron Moore
Project Title
Electronics for Side Scan Sonar
Project Description
Design a Side Scan Sonar prototype system that would be able to transmit signals to a host computer and receive signals from the host computer by using a field programmable gate arrays (FPGA).
Faculty Advisor
Dr. David Brown
Customer
Dr. Corey Bachand, Bachand Engineering
Tyler Turcotte, Btech Acoustics
Student Members
- Ryan McCarthy*
- James McCarthy
- Lucio De Pra
- Kaley Lindsay
- Jaykumar Patel
- David Skarbek
Project Title
Passenger safety alert System
Project Description
Design a Passenger Safety Alert System, with three tiers of alarms (text message, horn, or 911) to ensure that a driver does not leave a dog, infant or child in the car, especially in life-threatening conditions.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Benjamin Viall
Customer
Dr. Paul Fortier, UMass Dartmouth ECE Department
Student Members
- Kevin George Prairie*
- Steven Ferreira
- Tom Joseph Morrissey
- Zachary Joseph Taylor
Project Title
TV-Auto Commercial Mute System
Project Description
Design a system to detect a commercial and mute or lower the TV volume using the system’s IR transmitter.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. David Rancour
Customer
Dr. Paul Fortier, UMass Dartmouth ECE Department
Student Members
- Jacob Brian Aubertine*
- Majed Meshal Alharbi
- Lewis Brum
- Ryan J. Furtado
Project Title
Passive Broadband Sonar Demonstration Software
Project Description
The main objective of this project is to educate the user on the topic of passive sonar. The designed system shows examples of sonar grams, and the types of sounds that can be heard underwater.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Paul Gendron
Customer
Dr. Tom Northardt, MIKEL Inc.
Student Members
- Justin Ryan Bickford*
- Gaojian Li
Project Title
Fabreeka Smart Pad
Project Description
Design a resistance meter that can send the measured data in real time to a cloud server to be viewed on aniPhone application. The resistance is being read from a sensor that varies its resistance based on the amount of force being applied to the sensor.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Benjamin Viall
Customer
Luis De Jesus, Fabreeka
Student Members
- Drew Aaron Martins*
- Jared Alves
- Michael John Benker
- Ryan A. Dumont
- Stephen Patrick Felix
Project Title
Acoustic Awareness Enabler
Project Description
Design and build a device known as the Acoustic Awareness Enabler, that monitors outside noises and alerts the user (i.e. wearing headphones) to the unusually loud sound by turning off headphone audio.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. W. Vance McCollough
Customer
Dr. Karen Payton, UMass Dartmouth ECE Department