Ok, I'm doing my senior project this year and I need some advice on what to do. I know a little VHDL, a little bit of circuit but when I looked at the recommended projects I was very intimidated. I don't know, while I think I have a idea what most of those projects are suppose to do, I'm just not sure if me or my partner are able to take the things fromt he books and apply it. Any advice on past projects and helpful hints on approaching this monstronsity would be great. P.S. My partner's taking 360R and another power class with a lab. I don't know about the power class, but it's an upper division lab course so it will be a pain. But I know 360R is a definite 40 hour/week course at times from personal experiences last year. I have it a little easier this year , but still taking 13 hours. though 6 of them are used on pretty BS courses.
my roommate graduated from EE last year. i have no idea what his final project was. just switch to ChE and cheat on everything. of course you couldn't do that on our plant project and that bad boy was a beast. a material balance that took a month and then when they decided you really couldn't do it they just gave it to us. a spreadsheet with columns galore, pages galore, pages connected to other pages, and all of it interconnected so one variable affected the whole damn thing. simulations that took forever because the software wouldn't let you jump between the values except in small increments. economic analysis. i actually kind of liked the thinking and process behind solving it and everything, just not all the actual work. one of the few times i was in a group ahead of everyone else and i had to explain what we were doing to all of my friends so they could do it. our group ruled. of course then i switched to petr engr so it doesn't mean anything anymore. so my advice is just drop out of school.
Just make sure the flux capacitor is fully functional and hopefully you can generate the 1.21 gigawatts you need.
Personally, I did a corporate senior design project in which I set up the ORT process, test fixturing, and factory implementation for some peripheral supplers. Talk to your TA, and you might want to meet with Dr. Womack. Womack is cool as hell, and should be able to help you out in deciding on one. Just don't select one of those "special" projects sponsored by specific professors. Typical projects have the hardware and software interface tied together. Here's a couple to consider: Tic Tac Toe game -> design, program, and build RC Car -> program light sensitive IC, build car that follows black tape
Excellent advice. I actually considered this today when my upperlevel IT prof, who is also the lead advisor for the MIS department at A&M, asked if there was anyone in the room that knew how to use the computer equipment used for presentations.
Thanks, finally a sincere answer . What we are thinking of doing is have a web cam on a motor fed through from a FPGA board. The board gets the signals from electrodes on the side of your eyes, the signal is amplified by then filtered thorugh a band pass filter until ultimately the ADC to the FPGA. The web cam should follow your eye movements and see what you see. Theoritically, we have the necessary skill set for this project, but talking with the TAs, it might be a lot harder than we imagined it woudl be.
I made a graphic equalizer for my senior project at Tulane. Many, many, many... years ago.... It was a bunch of bandpass filters on a breadboard. Had that Matlab compute the frequency response. You could maybe add some kind of amp to make it louder. I did this when the fastest computer was a 486. Maybe you could find a way to us a PC to manipulate the frequency bands and make it all digital.
Have you thought about doing one of the national/international design competitions? The ones I've heard about that were for college students... * make a controllable robot which can walk over, around, etc., things. At the competition (which was held in Mexico City my senior year) you do various human-sized obstacle courses. This, naturally, is a team project of about 4 people, though. * make a small robot that goes through mouse mazes. I think this is linked to IEEE somehow. I think the second may be up your alley, especially after hearing someone mention the "follow the tape" RC car. In this case, though, there will NOT be tracking material on the ground. You're making an electronic mouse. It needs to find its own way.
