ECE Capstone Design courses are senior-level project design courses that require students to use all their ECE skills to solve a real-world engineering problem or develop a viable product. With the mentoring of the capstone course faculty advisor, this course integrates all the ECE academic studies with an open-ended design project. The Top Ten projects voted by the judges are listed below. The first three are awarded a monetary prizes by the ECE Department. This year's winners are:
FIRST PLACE PRIZE
qAuth: Mutual 2 Factor Authentication Using Trusted Services
Group Members: David Patrzeba , David Karivalis, and Jesse Ziegler
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Lindqvist
Group Members: Douglas Stanjeski , Bryan Marshall, and Jeremy Bower
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Bajwa
THIRD PLACE PRIZE
Free-Space Optical Communications
Group Members: Brennan Young and Sivaramhar Siva
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Spasojevic
FOURTH PLACE PRIZE
Smart Garden System
Group Members: Aeon Brown, Alan Lam, Parth Kanani, and Aesha Patel
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Godrich
FIFTH PLACE PRIZE
Smart Panels
Group Members: Christopher Mancuso, Vinay Panjabi, Cole Abramson, and Eric Jacob
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Zhang
SIXTH PLACE PRIZE
ScannerBot
Group Members: Neil Shah, Kalpesh Jogani, Soyab Khatumbra, and Micah Moore
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Firner
SEVENTH PLACE PRIZE
SigX
Group Members: Kshipra Attarde , Aayush Shah , Prashanth Sankaran , Jay Bajaj, and Radhika Saksena
Advisor: JP Morgan Chase
EIGHTH PLACE PRIZE
Consumer Solar - Simple By Design
Group Members: Holly Remaly, Robert Chiu, Anthony Remo, and Yitao Wang
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Caggiano
NINTH PLACE PRIZE
Distributed FM Radio System
Group Members: Jordan Tepper , Wei Chen, Mike Toriello, and Marlon Orellana
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Spasojevic
TENTH PLACE PRIZE
Transportation Analytics and Optimization with 802.11 Probe Tracking
Group Members: Daniel Su, Peter Zhang, Syedur Rahman, and Jason Scatena
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Mandayam
Congratulations to all our 2015 Capstone Design students for their hard work and excellent projects!
Listing of all 2015 Capstone Design Projects
Capstone Group number SP15-001
Project Title: C-RAN: A Step Towards a 5G Wireless Network
Group Members: Zachary Allin, Akash Patel, Luciano Taranto, Mihail Stantchev, Jerry Wasdyke
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Dario Pompili
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Poster
Capstone Group number SP15-002
Project Title: Web RTC for Peer-to-Peer Broadcasting
Group members: Orion Cabrita, Ellen Leu, Osasu Eboh, Nyambi Acho
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Marco Gruteser
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Capstone Group number SP15-003
Project Title: Internet of Things (IoT) Home Automation
Group members: Diego Urquiza, Amgad Armanus,Evan Arbeitman, Felix Mateo, Nirjan Thayaparan
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Yangyong Zhang
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Poster
Capstone Group number SP15-004
Project Title: Toward Automated Venipuncture
Group members: James Chan and Philip Chan
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Laleh Najafizadeh
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Poster
Capstone Group number SP15-005
Project Title: Unlocking Wearable Device by Body Movement
Group members: Shouwei Chen, Qingxiao Zhao, and Xiaopei Zhang
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Yanyong Zhang
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Poster
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