Student Projects

Electronic Engineering students participate in a senior digital design course where they learn to apply engineering concepts introduced to them throughout the program. The projects typically involve real-world engineering problems that students learn to approach through both and engineering and teamwork point of view. Examples of past projects students have completed are shown below--

Cruise Control Design

Project Background
This project involved the design of a vehicle cruise control system circuit. The circuit is divided into 4 major groups: ADC (Analog to Digital Converter), Digital Display, Digital Control and DAC (Digital to Analog Converter). Analog inputs are fed into the circuit where they are converted to digital data. Depending on the user input, this data (vehicle speed) is then fed through a logic circuit that "decides" to increase or decrease speed by converting the digital signals to analog to control DC motors that affect the speed of the vehicle.

Robotic Hand Design

Project background
This project involved writing a computer program controlled digital signal that interfaced with an analog circuit to manipulate multiple degrees of freedom in a robotic hand. Based on the computer code, the robotic arm can be program to perform various movements involving its 5 degrees of freedom, which include the base, shoulder, elbow, wrist and gripper motors.