Senior Design Class of 2013-2014
Dr. Charles Kim
Lecture 1: Design Process
Project Candidates
2. DOE 3rd Annual Better Buildings Case Competition
Lecture 2: Problem Formulation
Lecture 3: Design Requirements (Design Requirements Example in XLS format)
Project Briefing
Tiago Nunes Barbi Costa (left) briefs on distribution generations, and Alexis Wells (right) talks about energy efficient building case study competition.
Raymond Jones (left) and Emmanuel Ademuwagun (right) both brief on some important projects which should be remained not disclosed for a while.
Caleb Davis (left) talks on a bus-bot project and Andre Duarte Palhares (right) briefs on his project of cyber-security for smart grid.
Lecture 4: Project Proposal (Proposal Template & Sample Proposals: 1, 2, and 3)
Lecture 5: Teamwork (and fillable team contract form)
Teams are busy with working on team contracts.
Introduction of Intel Board DE2i-150 kit (Dev-Kit-Manual, Manual Insert, FPGA System Manual, and also some recent announcement on Yocto)
Tolulope Kupoluyi, a graduate student, introduces the Intel DE2i kit to the class.
Lecture 6: Oral Presentation --- Proposal Presentation
Proposal Presentation Event --- November 13, 2013
Bus Boy Robot (Team Bison Innovation: Sarah Mwandu, Cecily Gomes, Caleb Davis, Bethany Robinson, and Ibukun Osei): Presentation File.
Ibukun Osei, Sarah Mwandu, Caleb Davis, Bethany Robinson, and Cecily Gomes.
Energy Efficient Building (Team MGI: Alexis Wells, Monica Burnett, Venessa Woodson, and Lakeasha Williams). Slide file. *Note: This project competes in the DOE's better building case 2013 competition.
Alexis Wells, Monica Burnett, Lakeasha Williams, and Venessa Woodson.
Eye View Navigation (Team Eye View 5: Emmanuel Ademuwagun, Yusuf Siyanbola, Zachary Spence, Patrick Buah, and Jordan Wren). Slide file. **Note: This team is a Cornell Cup 2014 Finalist. Check the Howard University's achievement in the previous Cornell Cup competitions.
Zachary Spence and Yusuf Siyanbola
Emmanuel Ademuwagun, Patrick Buah, and Jordan Wren.
Distributed Generation (Team Green Alpha: Tiago Costa and Phathom Donald). Slide file.
Phathom Donald and Tiago Costa.
Cyber SCADA (Team HU5CADA: Andre Palhares). Slide file.
Mobile Air Purifier (Team: Raymond Jones,
Charles Brown, Kenneth Booker, Warren Spencer, and Von Miles).
Slide file. 
Von Miles, Kenneth Booker, Raymond Jones, Warren Spencer, and Charles Brown.
Perimeter Monitoring (Team Digital Dynamic: Jonathan Applewhite, Tesfayohnes Woldselassi, and Brittany Jackson). Slide.
Tesfayohnes Woldselassi and Jonathan Applewhite.
Judges and Q&As
Dr. Mihai Dimian, Dr. Hasan Salamani, Dr. Ahmed Rubaai, and Mr. Allen Kelly
Prof. Rubaai and Allen Kelly in question.
Lecture 7: The Next Step
Peer Evaluation Form (Word .docx format & pdf format)
REMINDER: Winter Break Activity --- Presentation in the first class of Spring 2014, which is on Wednesday, January 15.
Lecture 8: Systems Engineering Approach for Design Project (Guest Lecture by Jeffrey Volosin, NASA)
Lecture 9: Solution Generation
Lecture 10: Project Implementation and Evaluation Planning (Fillable form for Implementation and evaluation plan)
Class Visitors (2/5/2014): Lisa Zelkind and Kaeem Omidiji from San Diego Gas & Electric came to the class for company information and interview for internship and employment.
Lisa Zelkind and Kazeem Omidiji from San Diego Gas & Electric.
Lecture 11: Project Progress Reporting
Project Progress Presentation: Feb - March 2014
[Left] Mr. Kelly from NGC participated in reviewing the second progress presentation. [Right] Class
Team Busboy Robot Team Perimeter Monigtoring
Team Mobile Air Purifier Team Distributed Generation.
Team Better Building Case Competition Team Eye View 5
Lecture 12: Final Stretch
24th ECE Day: April 17, 2014
2 Project Presentation and Demonstration
Team 1 - Bus Boy Robot (Sarah Mwandu, Cecily Gomes, Caleb Davis, Bethany Robinson, and Ibukun Osei) -Presentation & Final Report
Team 2 - Innovative Solution for Energy Efficiency in Buildings [DOE Better Building Case 2014 Competition Participant] (Alexis Wells, Monica Burnett, Venessa Woodson, and Lakeasha Williamns) - Presentation & Final Report
Team 3 - Eye View Navigation System [Cornell Cup2014 Finalist] (Emmanuel Ademuwagun, Yusuf Siyanbola, Zachary Spence, Patrick Buah, and Jordan Wren) - Presentation & Cornell Cup Application & Link to the team's Final Competition on May 1-3, 2014 in Lake Buena Vista, FL.
Team 4 - Integration of Distributed Generation to Power Grid (Phathom Donald) - Presentation & Final Report
Team 5 - Mobile Air Purifier (Raymond Jones, Charles Brown, Kenneth Booker, Warren Spencer, and Von Miles) - Presentation & Final Report
3 Luncheon and Guest Speaker Speech (Guest Speaker: Nicholas Xenos, Juniper Networks)
4 Award Ceremony
(a) Guest Speaker Appreciation
Dr. Mohamed Chouikha,
chair of the department, presents Appreciation Plaque to Mr. Nicholas Xenos
(b) Honoring Top Student (Monica Burnett)
Monica Burnett is
honroed as the Top Student of the school year 2013-14.
(c) Honoring Top Advisor (Dr. John Rowe)
Dr. John Rowe,
Honeywell, is honored for his continued support for project success as the Top
Advisor of the academic year 2013-14.
(d) Project Team Honor --- First Place [Team "Eye View Navigation System"]
(e) Project Team Honor --- Second Place (Team "Integration of Distributed Generation to Power Grid")
(f) Project Team Honor --- Thrid Place (Team "Innovative Solution for Energy Efficiency in Buildings")
5. Group Photo
6. Jump
Because we jump at the chance to become engineers, entrpreneurs, high tech start-up owners, and graduate students.