EE 464H Senior Lab Design Projects performed with Professor Neikirk

• Umer Yousafzai and Venuka Jayatilaka, Spring 1994
• Chris Eiting and Sonny Gonzalez, Spring 1994
• David Lee and David Onsongo, Fall 1996
• Spring 1999
  • Image acqusition and processing by Hitesh Mehta and Edward Zhu .
  • Dry film photoresist processing by Dave Pyle and Aruna Murthy .
  • LED illuminator interface by Gus Espinosa and Donnie Garcia .
• Spring 2001
  • Portable, PC-based data acquisition and wireless transmission system for use in chemical analysis applications by Pon Skulkaew and Prem Nainani
  • Radio-frequency RFID structural surveillance tag antenna design and data link by Matthew Andringa and Allen Hall

   

• Potential projects for SPRING 2002
  • Project 1: Design and assembly of portable image acquisition and wireless data transmission system. Overall objective is the construction of a portable pc-based system with video frame grabber, image analysis software, wireless LAN, and GPS location detection to support work on remote chemical sensors. This project can support several design teams. The main topic for each team would be:
    • optical engineering and illuminator interface: design and construction of illumination and imaging optical system; also requires serial interface to control multi-LED illuminator. This could be either one or two teams, depending on the exact goals set.
    • portable data collection system design: identify commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components to construct complete data collection and transmission system.  Data input will be video (either S or NTSC).  Required output must include processed images and geographical location, transmitted via a wireless communications channel.
      • the type of portable we might want to use is described here .
    • image/data analysis and system control: software design and implementation to control the optical system and data collected by the portable systems discussed above.

    Make sure to look at the projects from Spring 1999 and 2001  listed above.

     

  • Project 2: RF ID sensors. Investigation of the properties and uses of RFID integrated circuits. This is a wireless device that includes both digital and analog components. Commercially available chip sets combined with antennas designed in this project would be used to investigate range, power requirements, etc. For more information on RF ID systems see:
    • http://www.intersoft-us.com/
    • http://www.microchip.com/10/lit/rfid/index.htm