Project 1 - 3D Printer
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Students - Scott Koster, Ray Anderson, Mike Carlsen, Jacob Postman
Sponsor(s) - TekBots
Mentor(s) - Donald Heer
Needed Skills - Controls, USB, Programming, Electromechanical, Embedded Systems
Funding - $500+
Description - Design and build a rapid prototyping system that can build objects of up to 6"x6"x6" in plastic with a .1" resolution in all dimensions. This project will involve groups from CS, ME and EE.

Project 2 - How Things Work
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Students - Jason Rogers, Doug Elder, Lennie Rummel, Jamal Alshamari
Sponsor(s) - TekBots
Mentor(s) - Terri Fiez
Needed Skills - Programming, Communications, Marketing
Funding - $500+
Description - This project involves creating a multimedia tool for recruiting new students into Electrical Engineering. The group will be responible for creating and marketing thier project to middle and high school students. Very creative students are sought for this project as it will require innovative thought to creat an effective tool.

Project 3 - Automotive Power Amplifier
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Students - Brian Yi, Brian Fawcett, Rich Lammers
Sponsor(s) - Sponsor this Project!
Mentor(s) -
Needed Skills - Sensors, Controls, Embedded Design, Fault Tolerant Design
Funding - $250
Description - Develop an amplifier for car audio that can drive loads less than 1 ohm.

Project 4 - Two-Wheeled Auto-Balancing Vehicle
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Students - Trung Nguyen, Mauricio A. Real, Houman Tavakoli
Sponsor(s) - Sponsor this Project!
Mentor(s) -
Needed Skills - Sensors, Controls, Embedded Design, Fault Tolerant Design
Funding - $250
Description - Develop a prototype balancing vehicle that can be riden by one rider.

Project 5 - Wireless Notification Device
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Students - Paul Briskey, Lucian Stewart, Matthew Baker, Kevin Buck
Sponsor(s) - Sponsor this Project!
Mentor(s) -
Needed Skills - Sensors, RF Design, Embedded Design, Ergonomics
Funding - $250
Description - Develop a prototype system that can have multiple transponders that alert a centeralized wearable device of thier status.

Project 6 - Formula Car Traction Control System
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Students - Chris Troutner, Patricia Abon, Taka Watari, Yu Lau
Sponsor(s) - Sponsor this Project!
Mentor(s) - Matt Knudson
Needed Skills -
Funding - $250
Description - The objective of this senior design project is to expose participating students to the "mechatronics" engineering discipline, as well as to experience the various stages of the successful design process, by completing the development and testing of an Electronic Traction Control system for the 2006 Formula Car vehicle team (the client).

Project 7 - Investigation of Air Mover for Small Volume Spot Cooling Applications
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Students - Justin Moore, Ryan Moch, Kyle Peru, Cooper Spear
Sponsor(s) - Tektronix
Mentor(s) - Brian Wood/Chris Coleman
Needed Skills - Electromechanics, Embedded Design, Mechanical Assembly, Analog Design
Funding - $500
Description - This project involves the investigation and development of a practical component and a realizable method to move air in a small volume in any orientation for spot cooling.

Project 8 - Where's My Buddy?
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Students - Drew Haven, Kevin Baker, John Salle, Dustin Stallings
Sponsor(s) - Hewlett-Packard
Mentor(s) - Michael Cumbie
Needed Skills - Embedded Design, Programming, Digital Design
Funding - $500
Description - A device that sends the wearer's location to a website.

Project 9 - Wave Energy Sensor Network
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Students - David Mondon, David Doel, Eric Moon, David Frederic
Sponsor(s) - Hewlett-Packard
Mentor(s) -
Needed Skills - Embedded Design, Programming, RF Design, Communications
Funding - $500
Description - This is a project to provide a network of sensors on the Wave Energy generator that monitor the functions of the generator

Project 10 - Controller Based IC Tester
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Students - Ming-hung Kuo, Luke Lai, Stephen Le, Wei Zhen
Sponsor(s) - Boeing
Mentor(s) -
Needed Skills - Analog Design, Digital Design, Programming, Embedded Systems
Funding - $500
Description - The test board proposed for this project will reside in the IC testing chamber and provide a means of verifying the device is functional.

Project 11 - Wired to wireless speaker converter
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Students - James Smith, James Rapp, Kevin Garvey, Paul Lewis
Sponsor(s) - Intel Corporation
Mentor(s) - Katy Humble
Needed Skills - Analog Design, RF Design, Embedded Systems
Funding - $500
Description - Design a set of devices to convert wired speakers into wireless speakers. One module will connect to the receiver/amp and will transmit the audio signal wirelessly to the receiver module connected to the speaker.

Project 12 - Motor Encoder
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Students - Bryan Focht, Adam Rothrock, Tony Platt
Sponsor(s) - GE Industrial Security
Mentor(s) - Kenneth McCormack
Needed Skills - Controls, Programming, Electromechanical, Analog Design
Funding - $500
Description - Research and develop a very inexpensive yet accurate stepper motor feedback mechanism. Feed back will provided velocity control for pan axis of Pan/Tilt/Zoom security camera.

Project 13 - CRT (Camera Range-Finder TekBot)
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Students - Taylor Gray, Sid Ong, Chieh Hsu
Sponsor(s) - Avago Technologies
Mentor(s) - Bill Gazeley
Needed Skills - Electromechanical, VHDL/Verilog, Embedded Systems
Funding - $500
Description - Objective is to interface a TekBot with a camera and range-finder. By adding the two components, we will give CRT full motion capabilities. An FPGA will be used to process the images from the camera.

Project 14 - SAE Baja Electronic Traction Control System
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Students - Sean Foley, Keith Biddulph, Jason Nelson, Hai Ming Li
Sponsor(s) - Mentor Graphics
Mentor(s) - Darrell Teegarden
Needed Skills - Sensors, Controls, Embedded Design, Fault Tolerant Design
Funding - $500
Description - The objective of this senior design project is to expose participating students to the “mechatronics” engineering discipline, as well as to experience the various stages of the successful design process, by completing the development and testing of an Electronic Traction Control system for the 2006 SAE Baja vehicle team (the client).

Project 15 - Advanced transverse flux permanent magnet linear generator
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Students - Miki Tsukamoto, Dylan Leibel, Aung Hein, Curtis Taylor
Sponsor(s) - PGE
Mentor(s) -
Needed Skills - Electromechanical, Mechanical Assembly, Magnetic Modeling
Funding - $500
Description - The PGE team will be working on the design and implementation of a novel transverse flux permanent magnet linear generator for Wave Energy applications, with an advanced radial lamination design. They will also be investigating grid interface issues.

Project 16 - Wireless Sensor Mesh Network for Object Tracking
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Students - Nicholas Morrow, Jedidiah Morse, Kevin Swartz, Steve Logue
Sponsor(s) - Cypress Semiconductor
Mentor(s) - Robert Eilers
Needed Skills - RF Design, Communications, Analog Design, Embedded Systems
Funding - $500
Description - This project would involve porting our N:1 code from a previous product to our latest product. This code uses a hub/star topology. The next step would be to convert the N:1 to a complete mesh. The students will be required to build the modules and code the firmware.

Project 17 - Wind Powered Water Heater
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Students - Mayra Caballero, Mike Joerger, Bernardo Cortez
Sponsor(s) - KDW
Mentor(s) - Paul Vigansky, Jacques Chiron
Needed Skills - Mechanical Assembly, Power Electronics, Analog Design
Funding - $500
Description - Continue the work on last year’s design and work with other discipline to develop a more efficient, sleeker product.

Project 18 - 24bit Datalogger with Analog Mux
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Students - Kyle LaFevre, Cailon Collet, Robert Rice
Sponsor(s) - Cirrus Logic
Mentor(s) -
Needed Skills - Embedded Systems, Power Supplies, Analog Design
Funding - $500
Description - When measuring with high precision ADC, often the cost of each ADC channel is prohibative. This project will design a system that can measure at a 24bit resolution with 4 separate input channels. To accomplish this, part of the design will be a discrete component analog mux designed to meet some specific criteria.

Project 19 - PDA controlled autonomous vehicle
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Students - Matt Ellis, Jeremy Davis, Paul Dorner, Geoff Tomlinson
Sponsor(s) - Tripod Data Systems
Mentor(s) -
Needed Skills - Analog Design, Embedded Systems, Controls, Digital Design
Funding - $250
Description - Using a Tripod 'Ranger' handheld PC, create an autonomous vehicle that will navigate wirelessly. The vehicle must be safety equipped.

Project 20 - Daylight tracking system
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Students - Alex Johnson, Brian Miller, Darin Andrews, Matt Reich
Sponsor(s) - Sponsor this Project!
Mentor(s) - Jim Krumsick
Needed Skills - Controls, Electromechanical, Embedded Design, Power Electronics
Funding - $250
Description - Multiuse building that will feature a photovoltaic array with daylight tracking system, students will build would build a prototype of the system

Project 21 - Medical Approved USB Hub
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Students - Eric Phillips, Samir Keshavarz-Rahbar, Travis Carlson
Sponsor(s) - Sponsor this Project!
Mentor(s) - Pallavi Dhagat
Needed Skills - USB, Embedded Systems, Analog Design
Funding - $250
Description - The USB port has become one of the most common and convenient ways of connecting various devices to a computer. In medical applications, however, it is required that any device that is connected to a patient may not have a direct electrical path to the power line. That is, the device must be “galvanically isolated”. A regular USB port does not provide this isolation. This project would involve the design, fabrication and testing of an isolated USB hub that meets the strictly-defined requirements for medical devices.

Project 23 - Implementation of FPGA and RTOS technology on the OSU Wave vehicle
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Students - Daniel Heinlein, Leon Atkinson, Shelby Rollins
Sponsor(s) - Mentor Graphics
Mentor(s) - Darrell Teegarden
Needed Skills - Sensors, Controls, Embedded Design, Fault Tolerant Design
Funding - $250
Description - Using Mentor SystemVision develop for the OSU Wave vehicle.

Project 24 - 3-Phase Motor Controller
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Students - Chee Sing Lee, Jon Boro, Kevin Kaatz, Ben Perry
Sponsor(s) - Sponsor this Project!
Mentor(s) -
Needed Skills - Sensors, Controls, Embedded Design, Fault Tolerant Design, Electromechanical
Funding - $250
Description - Develop a 3 Phase motor controller for automotive applications.

Project 25 - Heli Development Project
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Students - Aaron Moore, Garrett Rysko, Brian Hay
Sponsor(s) - Sponsor this Project!
Mentor(s) -
Needed Skills - Sensors, Controls, Embedded Design, Fault Tolerant Design
Funding - $250
Description - Develop systems to make vehicles able to navigate on thier own.