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Undergraduate students in computer engineering and electrical
engineering presented their senior design projects before a panel of
judges in the Baskin School of Engineering's Senior Design Contest on
Friday, March 23. Contributions from individual donors provided $1,000
in prize money, which was divided among the top three teams.
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The BEEDL team--Karen Liu, Kipling Inscore, Jerome Bougoffa, and Edmond
Szeto--won first place in the Senior Design Contest. Photo by Tim
Stephens. |
Undergraduate students in computer engineering and electrical
engineering presented their senior design projects before a panel of
judges in the Baskin School of Engineering's Senior Design Contest on
Friday, March 23. Contributions from individual donors provided $1,000
in prize money, which was divided among the top three teams.
The top prize of $600 went to the Bluetooth Enabled Electronic
Doorlock (BEEDL) project. The team of four students--Edmond Szeto,
Jerome Bougoffa, Kipling Inscore, and Karen Liu--developed a door lock
that can be opened by entering a password on a cell phone. Their
presentation included a working prototype and a product brochure
complete with an order form. The team's faculty advisers were Cyrus
Bazeghi, lecturer in computer engineering, and Wentai Liu, professor of
electrical engineering.
The second-place prize went to Universal Real-time Navigational
Assistance (URNA), a pedestrian navigation system for the blind. Third
place went to SparcFPGA, an implementation of the OpenSPARC processor
design from Sun Microsystems on a type of programmable chip called a
field-programmable gate array (FPGA).
The senior design projects are completed during a two-quarter course
sequence (fall-winter or winter-spring). Students work in
cross-disciplinary teams to develop a design and create a prototype.
Starting last year, the engineering school has organized a contest at
the end of each course sequence.
The judges--all UCSC alumni now working in the high-tech
industry--evaluated the student projects on the basis of three
criteria: technological innovation and realization; presentation
ability; and effective team collaboration. The students presented the
results of their work in corporate-style presentations intended to
prepare students for real-world work experiences.
"We give them advice and support, but these projects are all the original designs of the students themselves," Bazeghi said.
More details about the student projects are available on the class wiki.
Read the original artcile: http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=1137
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