DESIGN DAY 2020
For the first time in the history of our event, we held our 2020 Engineering Design Day in a virtual format via Zoom on May 6, 2020. If you were unable to attend the virtual event, please see the Electrical & Computer Engineering projects that participated below.
Please visit our College of Engineering Design Day website, which has an archive of all of our Engineering Design Day events.
Autonomous Vehicle Ramiz Hanan, Jorome Macedo, Rigoberto Macedo, Michael Olivas, Leo Peralta, Dylan Wraith
Advisor: Dr. J. Xie
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/smilemobile/
Today, autonomous driving vehicles are very popular but many consumers cannot afford
such a pricey car. The expense of these vehicles comes from the hardware and software
components in these vehicles which can be priced up to $8000 alone per “auto-pilot”
package. If these components could be completely disposed of, then the overall cost
of making an autonomous vehicle could be drastically lowered, allowing for great advancements
in making autonomous vehicles available to people of all economic backgrounds.
Breathe Well - Respiratory Monitoring Device Rami Alsayeq, Neever Kryakos, Alejandro Martinez-Bueno, Albert Rafou Peter, Sadik,
Karam Saleem
Advisor: Dr. Y. Ozturk
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/breathewell?hl=en
We plan to create a respiratory monitoring belt that will track breathing related
health issues such as asthma, bronchitis, sleep apnea, and other similar diseases
at an affordable price for the everyday consumer. Devices similar to this have a price
tag so high, that most people shy away from making the purchase. In the professional
scene, our designated market would most likely be geared towards doctors, athletes,
and nutritionists who are in need of an accurate and lightweight device.
Distributed Computing Frameworks for Unmanned Ground Vehicles Jayson Del Moral, Sky Johnson, Ben Leeds, Fate Alexis Lumba, Evans Nik Matabwa, Joseph-Eli
Omengan, Jed Vargas
Advisor: Dr. J. Xie
Website: https://smile9cloud.wixsite.com/webforseniordesign
Our team will be creating a group of unmanned ground vehicles that will be able to
execute power intensive tasks such as matrix multiplication through wireless distributed
computing, which will solve the common drone problem of needing to off load such tasks
to a remote site for computation.
Drone Automated Mesh Network Michael Bukowski, Michael Fox, Matthew Houser, Liam Rapoza, Donovan Rowzee, Dean Wedeking,
Logan Jay Williams
Advisors: Dr. C. Mi (SDSU), Mr. Andy Bushnell (ARRS Technologies)
Website: https://www.dronemesh.network/
To extend the effective range of utility drones, we conceptualized a network of permanent, self-powered, RF connected charging platforms. For any drone, we can install a battery pack and charger mount to allow wireless charging at any platform. This enables a drone to travel any arbitrary distance along the platform network, only limited by the density of the platforms. A landed or passing drone could also communicate and transmit data to platforms, which can relay the data back to a base station for analysis.
DX Demo - Mechatronics Bio-Tech Diagnostics Testbed (ECE/ME Joint Project) Sarah Cartwright (ME), David Knight (ECE), Anthony Lam (ECE), Anna Stahlak (ME),
Garen Stein (ME), Savannah ter Veer (ME), Aaron Tran (ECE)
Advisors: Dr. B. Aksanli (ECE), Dr. S. Shaffar (ME). Mr. Minh Duong (Simplexity), Mr. Jeff
Wield (Simplexity)
Sponsor: Mr. Minh Duong, Simplexity
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sdsucomplicity/home
The DX Demo - Testbed is a device that combines innovative biological processes to
demonstrate the ability to rapidly decrease the time of accurate diagnosis. In the
future, this product would be used to analyze blood samples to assist medical professionals
to diagnose and choose successful treatment plans. Currently, the goal of this project
is to demonstrate how combining standard biology lab practices with automation can
advance the medical field and improve the quality of healthcare.
Eddy Current Dynamometer Brady Bounds, Austin Hoang, Zachary Morey
Advisor: Dr. S. Seshagiri
Website: http://eecurrents.com/
Aztec Racing’s powertrain development team currently utilizes a Dynapack Chassis Dynamometer
provided by a current sponsor to measure horsepower, torque, and load on the engine
to calculate efficiency. However, the Dynapack has too high of an input torque threshold,
creating inaccurate engine loading scenarios and therefore inaccurate measurements.
Our project attempts to remedy this by designing a dynamometer that has a lower input
torque threshold in order to achieve more accurate measurements.
Frequency Modulated Digital Synthesizer Omar Ahmed, Uvaldo Resendez, Jessica Stensby
Advisor: Prof. B. Dorr
Website: https://jstensby.wixsite.com/sar-d1frequencymodul
The SAR-D1 digital synthesizer is an easy-to-use synthesizer, created with affordability
and portability in mind. This device is a way to introduce people to the world of
electronic music production, but still provide enough power and features to entice
even the most veteran of music producers. The core is based on Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA,
and information will be stored on an Arduino. Buttons will allow anyone to select
their sound preference based on stored presets, and from there one can plug in and
play.
Garage Assisted Parking System Jacob De Loa, Tom Jimenez, Sara Kouyoumjian, Jordan Trinh
Advisor: Dr. D. Nguyen
Sponsor: Mr. Robert Kane, Street Fair Foods, Inc.
Website: https://sarakatrina816.wixsite.com/gaps/team
With the goal in mind to focus on home automation and design, our team has envisioned
a new device implementation for the home car garage, G.A.P.S., the Garage Assisted
Parking System. The G.A.P.S. system seeks to update modern car garage technology,
by opening garage doors with web application and RFID. It also includes parking distance
detection as well as active motor detection ensuring the safety of the driver from
possible carbon monoxide poisoning that result in multiple accidental deaths every
year.
Guitar Amp and PCB Starter Kit (ECE/ME Joint Project) Thomas Buchanan (ME), Jesus Cuen Reyes (ECE), Viceroy Nieva (ECE), Abdulla Obaidan
(ME), Matthew Smith (ECE), Robert Vallejo (ME), Clayton Woodward (ME)
Advisors: Dr. S. Shaffar (ME), Prof. B. Dorr (ECE)
Sponsor: Prof. B. Dorr, SDSU
Website: https://amplifiedengineering.info/
The Guitar Amplifier and Printed Circuit Board Starter Kit is a high school level
STEM project intended as an introduction to electronics and engineering. The starter
kit comes with the necessary components and a step-by-step procedure for the amplifier
and its assembly. The assembled product is an acoustically sound and aesthetically
pleasing guitar amplifier or speaker.
Lotus 2.0 Aqeel Aoro, Raymar Asanas, Duraid Gorgies, Ferdinand Mateo, Mark Bryan Navarro, Juan
Raya, Rasha Shaaya
Advisor: Dr. Y-K. Teh
Website: https://kaladesh-lotus2.weebly.com
The Lotus 2.0 is a partially autonomous rover that will roam the Salton Sea to take
data measurements using a number of sensors, including temperature, humidity, and
object detection. The user will have control over the rover’s target destinations
while the rover takes measurements as it locates to the desired destination. It will
be battery-powered, which will be charged through a solar panel. The user will also
be able to monitor the rover’s power consumption to make the best use of its runtime
before it has to charge up.
MakerKids Luke Draney, David Angelo Felipe, Christopher Frutos, Justen Hitchcock, Benjamin Maldonado,
Nicholas Sullivan, Matthew Tarantino, Xuong Truong
Advisors: Prof. K. Arnold (SDSU), Mr. David Grossman (Northrup Grumman)
Sponsor: MakerKids
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/maker-kids/home
MakerKids is franchising and is in search of gadgets to display in their lobby that
is appealing to new clients, while helping children build a positive relationship
with technology.
Power-Trip - Smart Circuit Breaker Christopher Alsheikh, William Cushing, John Deubler, Tanzeem Salim
Advisor: Dr. R. Sabzehgar
Website: https://powertripsdsu.wixsite.com/smartcircuitbreaker
The Power-Trip module monitors the load of each circuit of a residence at the breaker.
The measurements are then hosted to a web server via a Raspberry Pi for access via
both smartphones and personal computers. The data is displayed visually for historic
usage as well as numerically for current power usage. In this way, consumers are able
to both remotely view power consumption on a per circuit basis to better determine
where power is being wasted, while keeping an eye on their usage throughout the day.
Smart Granola Kiosk (ECE/ME Joint Project) Anthony Alkatib (ME), Thomas Durso (ME), Tristan Kaskoun (ME), Miles Kiefer (ME),
Wenjie Kuang (ECE), Jiuzhang Peng (ECE), Gustavo Torres (ECE)
Advisors: Dr. S. Shaffar (ME), Prof. K. Arnold (ECE), Mr. David Burney (D&K Engr), Mr. Victor
Escobedo (D&K Engr)
Sponsor: D&K Engineering
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/
The goal of this project is to design, analyze, build, and test a machine that allows
customers to select the toppings of a granola that is then mixed and distributed straight
to them, all within a short amount of time. The Smart Granola Kiosk produces 20 one-pound
servings of customizable granola made up of a base granola and multiple different
toppings. The final production model of this kiosk would be utilized in a grocery
store.
Smart Greenhouse Siamak Doraghi, Hanieh Moein, Nika Nizharadze, Emilio Nuno
Advisor: Dr. S. Manshadi
Website: http://www.thesmartleaf.com/
The Smart Greenhouse project offers the agricultural world, a fully autonomous and
controlled environment where desired crops are being monitored and control systems
come to the rescue, whenever needed. With implementation of a variety of sensors,
different key factors like temperature, humidity, light and soil moisture levels are
measured and using proper machine learning algorithms, irrigation, ventilation and
other systems cover the needs of the crops. The user interface allows the farmers
to closely monitor the crops.
Solar Powered Induced Charging Race Car Abdulmohsen Alshewaish, Markell Lindley, Jared Renard, Mojtaba Turkmani, Nafeis Weixelman
Advisor: Dr. S. Manshadi
Website: https://solarpoweredrc.myportfolio.com/
Our team is designing a wireless charging system that will be powered by solar panels.
With this design, our charging station can be lightweight and portable, providing
charging capabilities for your remote controlled car wherever you are. The car will
drive onto the charging platform, pressing down on two push button sensors, which
will initiate the current to flow from the transmitter coil and subsequently into
the receiver coil and into the car's battery.
Solaristic Jericho Uy, Brian Che, Mutiu Saliu, Saad Aldujaili, Brandon Natividad, Amine Nassif,
Fadi Zako
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/solaristic-sdsu
Farming is difficult without access to grid power to sustain water and equipment.
Additionally, the high costs of using diesel engines to provide irrigation means that
farmers are not able to fully utilize all the good land they have. The project aims
to create an off grid solar powered irrigation system that can be used anywhere in
the world. With a limited budget, the project is scaled down to provide water for
tomatoes and peas in rural Morocco.
Technomancy Kyle Armstrong, Dion Dean, Cliff Phan, Enrique Sosa
Website: http://technomancy-45.com/
Our project focuses on capturing human motion in real time and using it to execute
commands a robot can follow. We accomplished this task by using wired and wireless
interfaces. The wireless Bluetooth interface was used to capture and send motion packages
to a Central Processor. The Central Processor formats the data and executes commands
via a wired UART interface with the robot. Hand gestures were well defined in order
to keep the robot from performing undesired action. The system works well, perhaps
if we had more time we could really refine it and add more actions.
Your Engineering Solutions (YES) Jawa Alaskar, Abdullah Alrasheed, Ahmad Alsarhan, Mohammad Alzamami, Adam Draxler,
Brandon Fong, Lorans Hirmez, Joseph Morga, Charles Sotto
Advisor: Dr. C. Mi
Website: https://dualpowergeneration.sdsu.edu/
With the world’s increasing population there is an increase in daily required energy.
Earth itself cannot change in a way to provide the needed energy to supply the services
to satisfy social and economic development, welfare and health. With the use of renewable
energy resources, we can help supply the energy demand for future generations. Our
attempt to find a solution is our design of a dual power generation system which can
be implemented on busy roads, railway networks and highways.