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Senior design is the culmination of all your years of lab practice and study. You'll work in an interdisciplinary team to create a major design project. Some project ides will come from your own interests; others will be requests from industry, where you might work as an intern.
You'll work with other students to manage your own project. Judging is based on your ability to maintain the schedule and performance objectives you set.
Below are some examples of past SE senior design projects.
Virtual Petri Dish
While there are already systems that are capable of doing evolutionary simulation, few are easy and/or fun enough to use for a high-school biology student. The ProtoVitae project aims to create a graphical, user-programmable, artificial life and evolutionary simulation environment suitable for classroom experimentation. It will be composed of two parts: the gene editor, and the world simulator. The gene editor will allow non-professionals to script genes or traits that can be inherited by organisms. The world simulator will provide a stage for the organisms to simulate interactions associated with their genes (mating, hunting, eating) in a faster-than-life environment, allowing the user to see what would happen to the various organisms.
Advisor: Dr. Henry Welch
RFID Rat Tracking and Analysis System
This project was to create a solution to track and analyze rat activities during research experiments using RFID technology. The need for this project arose from the fact that researchers previous to this had to visually monitor the rats and manually document results. The project consists of two different parts; a hardware component and a software component. The hardware component is placed on the cages and consists of RFID readers, RFID antennas, and a main module to log all the data. The software aspect of the project is a PC program that visually displays the data that was collected. It consists of graphs/charts and a playback video component to see where the rats were and do analysis on the data collected.
Advisor: Dr. Darrin Rothe
Wireless Multi Tip-up Strike Detection System
The Wireless Multi Tip-up Strike Detection System (Triton Tip-up Tracker) is a device which addresses some common shortcomings associated with the use of tip-ups while ice fishing by implementing new and exciting innovations. The system consists of multiple wireless transmitters which are to be mounted to ice fishing tip-ups and one receiver. When a fish strike occurs at a tip-up, the attached transmitter will send a signal to the receiver. The receiver will display which tip-up sent the signal, allowing the user to go directly to the triggered tip-up and retrieve the fish. Each system can be configured with a unique identification code to prevent multisystem interference.
Advisor: Professor Brian Petted
HK Systems IT Inventory Application
The HK Systems Inventory Management System is designed to aid HK Systems’ IT department in the tracking of hardware and software resources used throughout the company. It will handle the tracking of hardware used throughout HK Systems (such as desktops and printers) and track software licenses. Furthermore, it will integrate with the company’s Active Directory information, support user account permissions and will import data from the department’s existing solution.
Advisor: Dr. Darrin Rothe
Mobile Online Monitoring System
The telecommunications industry has numerous methods of monitoring various subsystems at cellular phone sites. While some of these monitoring methods are efficient, many are not. The Mobile Online Monitoring System (MOMS) is an efficient, cost effective solution to monitoring cellular site services and subsystems. These subsystems include monitoring of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, backup generator, liquid propane level, uninterruptible power supply and commercial power operation. MOMS will display the status of the subsystems on a remote Web page which will allow a technician to monitor cellular sites from anywhere the technician has internet access. While some problems at cellular sites require immediate response, most do not. The MOMS allows a technician to first assess the situation by providing critical information of the cellular site’s systems. The technician is then able to make better informed decisions when determining how to solve a problem; preventing a technician from having to make unnecessary trips to a cellular site. Ultimately, the MOMS increases a technician’s efficiency and reduces costs of cellular site operation.
Advisor: Dr. Steven Reyer
Submarine Simulation
Sponsor: Wisconsin Maritime MuseumThe Wisconsin Maritime Museum has undertaken to create a simulation of the conning tower on a World War II fleet submarine for the education and entertainment of museum patrons. The existing simulation has helm control, periscope, radar and torpedo stations. The stations can be used individually together as part of a group mission simulation. This team has agreed to add supersonic sonar to the existing simulation. Their product seeks to allow patrons to experience the simulation environment through sound in a manner simple enough for a casual museum patron to appreciate but fundamentally faithful to the historical technology and environment being recreated.
Advisor: Dr. Steven Barnicki