Multidisciplinary Projects

These projects will involve students from multiple disciplines including computer science, mechanical, and electrical and computer engineering. The projects offer the best real experience of true industrial projects. These projects are required to be filled. Please note that some multidisciplinary projects need 3 ECE team members and others need fewer.

Project 5 - Telebotic Arm Control
Team - Mohamed Amer, Aaron Breault, Kevin Archila, ME, ME
Sponsor -
Mentor - Kevin Kemper
Intellectual Property - Opensource
Project Description

Project 15 - Electronics and Controls on a Formula SAE vechicle
Team - Oussoubleh Robleh, Brandon Brower, Kalin Lee, ME, ME
Sponsor -
Mentor - Bob Paasch
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 16 - GPS Guided Parachute
Team - Kraig Strong, Samuel Johnson, Corey Donohue , ME, ME
Sponsor -
Mentor - Chianna Alexander
Intellectual Property - Student
Project Description

Project 13 - Automated Probe Test Machine
Team - Eric Stowell, Carey Price III , ME, ME
Sponsor - Tektronix
Mentor - Sean McLoughlin
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 14 - Thermo-Mechanical Test System
Team - Aubrey Jones, John Wernette III , ME, ME
Sponsor - Tektronix
Mentor - Sean McLoughlin
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 19 - SWAT Robot
Team - Yue Zhao, Travis Arnzen , ME, ME
Sponsor -
Mentor - Brian Young
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 20 - Aerial Photography and Mapping System
Team - Ian Brottlund, Justin Olson, Kyle Rector, Ryan Bakker, Mike Villani , CS
Sponsor - Garmin
Mentor - John Batch
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 24 - Robot Actuator
Team - Devin Koepl, Fazil Tuzunkan , ME, ME, ME
Sponsor -
Mentor - Johnathan Hurst
Intellectual Property - OpenSource
Project Description

Sponsored Projects

These projects are industry sponsored and are not multidisciplinary. This means that while some of them require skills from either mechanical engineering or computer science, there was not significant work to add members from other disciplines. This work however will still need to be completed. These projects benefit from having industry sponsorship and often have an industry mentor. These projects will be filled with groups.

Project 2 - Marine-Proof Power Converter
Team - Brian Miller, David Valiente, Max Ginsburg
Sponsor - Sandia National Labs
Mentor - Ted Brekken
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 9 - Cell Phone Audio Controlled Point of Sale
Team - Alana Sweat, Maggie Watkins, Lin Fu
Sponsor - GE Security
Mentor - Adam Kuenzi
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 3 - Communicator Badges
Team - Douglas Hill, David Wills, Kirk Wipff
Sponsor - David Hackleman
Mentor - David Hackleman
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 4 - Electric Motorcycle Power Drive
Team - Sarah Leondar, Jace Akerlund, Jeffrey Cheung
Sponsor - PGE
Mentor - Donald Heer
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 22 - PCIe Memory
Team - Daniel Foland, Brent Hansen, Travis Walters
Sponsor - Intel
Mentor - Mike Anderson
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 27 - Home Remote Monitoring and Control
Team - Benjamin Bradea, Patrick Jacks, Gilbert Lorenzo
Sponsor - Mike Tavakoli
Mentor - Mike Tavakoli
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 23 - Charge Balancer for Solar Car Battery Pack
Team - Adrian Smith, Nathan Perry, Philip Hobbs
Sponsor - Pacificorp
Mentor - James Johnson
Intellectual Property - OpenSource
Project Description

Project 10 - Thin-Film Solar Cell Absorber Characterization
Team - Jared Lester, Samuel Heinith, Timothy Marr
Sponsor - Research / HP Innovation Grant
Mentor - John Wager
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Un-Sponsored Projects

These projects are student, faculty, or industry authored as interesting projects. They have been approved as possible projects and are offered to you the student if you are not interested/do not receive either a multidisciplinary or sponsored project. There is funding available for one of these projects to be sponsored. Your instructor will tell you more in the upcoming weeks. Some of these projects are student authored and as such already have some group members listed. If a project already has 3 members but you would still like to be involved, you may bid for it. However one of the existing team members will need to voluntarily change to a different project to make room in the group.

Project 1 - SWARM Robots
Team - Kate Harrison, Ben Buford, Carissa Pocock
Sponsor -
Mentor - Hai-Yue Han
Intellectual Property - Student
Project Description

Project 6 - Micro Autonumous Air Vehicle
Team - Troy Klopfenstein, Andrew Headings, Jonathan Digby
Sponsor - Research
Mentor - Max Salichon
Intellectual Property - Student
Project Description

Project 8 - Automated Star Searching Telescope
Team - Colin Stark, Nathan Blackwell, Marilyn McGettigan, Chris Dimbat, Aaron Veden
Sponsor -
Mentor - Bill Gazely
Intellectual Property - Student
Project Description

Project 11 - Nanowire Energy Generation
Team - Ashley Mason, Todd Waggoner, Adam Stone
Sponsor - ON Semiconductor
Mentor - John Conley
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 12 - Multi-FPGA Design of a Tileable, Multicore Network-on-a-Chip
Team - Erin Sullivan, Matthew Ullmer
Sponsor - Research
Mentor - Patrick Chiang
Intellectual Property - Sponsor
Project Description

Project 17 - Bicycle Power and Lighting System
Team - Joseph Crop, Gabriel Gebhart, David Steele
Sponsor - Cirrus Logic
Mentor - Steven Ernst
Intellectual Property - Opensource
Project Description

Project 18 - Remote VR System
Team - Ehsan Nasroullahi, Neil Jones, Casey Cabral
Sponsor -
Mentor - Eileen Bahniuk
Intellectual Property - Opensource
Project Description

Project 21 - Vehicle Telemetry System
Team - David Humphrey, Carl Hostetler, Jessica Holdeman
Sponsor -
Mentor - Hai-Yue Han
Intellectual Property - OpenSource
Project Description

Project 25 - 3D Holographic Imaging System
Team - Andrew Quiel, July Thomson, Kellen Arb
Sponsor -
Mentor - Eileen Bahniuk
Intellectual Property - OpenSource
Project Description

Project 26 - Advanced Motor Controller Board
Team - Ryan Bonacker, David Stahl, Jonah Gross
Sponsor - Boeing
Mentor - Tony Amort, Morris Adams
Intellectual Property - OpenSource
Project Description