2021

Senior Design AY 2020-2021

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 nine groups. The details are given below.

*Indicates Team Leader

Group 1 - Wet Air Sensor Project (WASP)

Student Members

Dylan Tocci*
Brad Paiva
Jakob Rinkus
Adam Harte

Project Title

Wet Air Sensor Project (WASP)

Project Description

Design an all-weather wind tunnel to recreate flight conditions and a wide variety of environmental conditions that aircraft could and will be subjected to in order to test pressure sensors that are mounted on aircraft during flight testing.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Paul Fortier

Customer

James Paiva, Purvis Systems

Group 2 - Test Bed for Atmel 328PB

Student Members

Timothy Chase*
Julia Sorrentino
Joshua Steakelum
Alex Amorim

Project Title

Webserver Embedded-system Tester (Test Bed for Atmel 328PB)

Project Description

The purpose of the W.E.T. System is to automate the testing of a student's code allowing the instructor to focus their time on helping students with questions rather than scattering around the lab and reviewing students’ experiments.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Ruolin Zhou

Customer

Professor Emeritus Philip Viall, UMass Dartmouth ECE Department

Group 3 - Critter Scatterer

Student Members

Matthew Bavelock*
Adam Cunningham
Andrew Vigil
Colin Klaes
Emmanuel Opare
Eric Le-Zabarsky

Project Title

Critter Scatterer

Project Description

The Critter Scatterer device is a deterrent system that is proposed to protect a garden or pond from interfering wildlife.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Ruolin Zhou

Customer

Dr. Paul Fortier, UMass Dartmouth ECE Department

Group 4 - Passenger Safety Alert System

Student Members

David Lewis*
Jameson Brightman
Jacob Merola
Rafal Szmyd
Filipe Viveiros Raposo

Project Title

Passenger Safety Alert System

Project Description

The purpose of the Occupant Safety System (OSS) is to eliminate the persistent problem concerning vulnerable passengers being left in a vehicle in extreme temperatures, resulting in illness or death.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. David Rancour

Customer

Dr. Paul Fortier, UMass Dartmouth ECE Department

Group 5 - 3D Localization in GPS Denied Environment

Student Members

Jason Poirier*
Melanie Luperon
Jeffrey Sylvia
Erickson Rodrigues
Patrick Seaver

Project Title

3D Localization in GPS Denied Environment

Project Description

The purpose of the 3D Localization Where GPS Denied system is to monitor the location of a specific target of interest by using at least four listening nodes that will implement a multilateration localization algorithm.

Faculty Advisor

Dr. David Brown

Customer

Dr. Paul Fortier, UMass Dartmouth ECE Department

Group 6 - Honey Bee Hive and Environment Monitoring System

Student Members

Jay Votta*
Alec Pimentel
Nickolas LaForce
Abderahmane Naidjate
Sheldon Santos

Project Title

Honey Bee Hive and Environment Monitoring System

Project Description

The Honeybee Hive Monitoring System will keep continuous sensor readings so the beekeeper is able to remotely monitor these sensors that are inside and outside the hive for environmental changes that may affect the health of the colony.

Faculty Advisor

Professor Emeritus Philip Viall, UMass Dartmouth ECE Department

Customer

Dr. Paul Fortier, UMass Dartmouth ECE Department

Group 7 - Upper Ocean Profiler

Student Members

Kenae Brooks*
Oliver Anderson
MBA Okocha
Isaiah Musari-Berry
Alan Andonian (MNE)

Project Title

Upper Ocean Profiler

Project Description

Design a communications device to allow commands to be sent from an Android device to the Aurelia using Bluetooth communication and retreive float plan when complete.