Major Qualifying Projects from 2017
Smart Home System, Anh Le Tran, Duc Hong Tran, and Thinh Gia Ly
Developing a Multiplexing Assay System for the Quality Control of Cell Therapy Products, Amishi Vairagade, Julia Michelle Smith, and Thai Thanh Trinh
Smart Room Attendance Monitoring and Location Tracking with iBeacon Technology, Andrew Theodore Vanner, Raymond Heally Otieno, and Savannah Nicolle Redetzke
Maximum Power Point Tracking, Giselle Lucia Verbera, Monineath Khun, and Yejee Choi
Development of CAD Human Model for Medical Electromagnetic Simulations, Mariya M. Zagalskaya
Major Qualifying Projects from 2016
Low Power Skin Impedance Spectrometer, Muhammad Ehtisham Abid, Sara Kim, Sebastian Rojas, and Tyler Joseph Newman
Wearable Action Guidance System, Amanda Ann Adkins, Charles John Frick, Matthew James Beardsley, Samantha Lauren Swartz, and William Spencer Barnard
Giant Magnetoresistance Electric Guitar Pickup, Caroline Mamdouh Atteya, Daniel James Campbell, Joao Mauricio Vasconcelos, and Kaung Myat Oo
SCREAM: Sensory Channel Remote Execution Attack Methods, Nicholas Francis Brown, Nilesh Chiman Patel, and Patrick Hartley Plenefisch
HERO Glove, Alexander Armand Caracappa, Peerapat Luxsuwong, Saraj Pirasmepulkul, and Tri Kha Khuu
Implantable Neuromodulation System, Nicholas Foster Cebry
Binary Analysis and Symbolic Execution with angr, Eric Cheng
An Analysis of WPI's Power Grid, Angela-Marie Conklin, Ryan P. McQuaid, and Thomas Buonomano
Airborne Radar Testbed Radio Frequency Calibration, Alexander Thomas Corben and Jamie Wang
RF Switch Design, Colin Cunningham, Emily Marie Wagner, and Petro Papi
Embedded Instruction Kit, Alexander Ronald Dymek and Steven Thomas Murdy
Control of Humanoid Robots for Use in Unstructured Environments, Perry Carl Franklin
Manta Ray Robot, Gabrielle Helene Franzini, John Holland Price, Joshua Francis Fuller, and Nathan Schmidt
Integrating a Braking System and User Interface into an Automatic Belay, Michelle Elizabeth Gagnon
Modeling the Instantaneous Power Consumption of an FPGA, Jon P. Gualdarrama
Sign Language Glove, Alex Manuel Helderman, Princesa Mercedes Cloutier, and Rigen Mehilli
Ultrasonic Mapping Device, Daniel Charles Hill, Daniel Jeffrey Farrington, Justin John Morrow, and Robert Howard Fleming
Wideband VCO for RF Applications, Redon Ilirjan Hoxha, Risa Qirollari, and William Thin Nguyen
Robocart Machine Vision Framework, Gabriel Solomon Isko
Development of a Ray Tracing Method for Modeling Shock Wave Focusing in a Lithotripter, Xavier Jamel Jackson
Real Time Pedestrian Detection Using an Infrared Camera with a FPGA, Adam Victor Karcs, Arsene Numbem Tchatchoua, and Damani George Walder
Nonlinear Load Compensation, Joseph Harry Keogh
Analysis and Evaluation of Register Transfer Logic Software Defined Radio Performance, Krishna Irivinti Mahalingam and Stephen Dominic Michelini
Wireless Device Key Generation, Caitlyn N. Marcoux and William S. Edor
Atwater Kent Power Panel, Alejandro Jave Miranda, Jonas Lew Ciemny, and Kelsey Barbara Powderly
Smart Thermostat using FPGA, Khoa Anh Nguyen
The Global Reports Monitor Enhancements, Fangming Ning, Johanna T. Thomas, Paul Joseph Calamari, and Rong Tang
AURORA: Autonomous Unpowered Recovery Of Radiosonde Aircraft, Joshua C. O'Connor, Nicholas F. Hassan, and Richard T. Eberheim
Small & Secure Hardware Crypto Core and Program Recognition using Side-Channels, Laurentiu Pavel
2016 Formula SAE Vehicle Electrical Systems Design, George Peter Randel and Kevin Ronald MacDougall
Designing a Pseudo Tire Pressure Monitoring System Transmitter using Software Defined Radios, Adriana M. Reyes, Felicia M. Gabriel, Stella Banou, and Syed Shehroz Hussain
Green Road, Christopher Edward Schramm, Jacob Alexander Grotton, Kaitlin Marie Poss, and William Evangelakos
Development of an Operational Process for Continuous Delivery, Alexander K. Shoop, Benjamin Sharron, and Khazhismel Kumykov
Development of an Operational Process for Continuous Delivery, Alexander K. Shoop, Borong Zhang, Khazhismel Kumykov, and Tian Luo
Data Logger Device for UDS Based Attacks in Automotive Vehicles, Brian Richard St Germain, Mark Joseph Bentson, Nicholas Andrew Kalamvokis, and Santiago Rojas
Upgrading Auto Belay Systems, Thomas Paul Sullivan
Assistive Aid for Playing the Ukulele, Alexander Mark Sylvia, Eric Joseph Lacroix, Krisha Dona Nazareth, Ruxue Yang, and Stephanie Arce
De-Mining with UAVs, Gregory G. Tighe
Development of Electricity Generation and Sensor Systems for a Hydropower Propagating Wave Turbine, Elizabeth Marie Tomko and James Stewart Whyte
Fire Containment Drone, Bryan Anthony Toribio, Cameron Duross Peterson, David Parker Rubenstein, and Timothy Philip Neilan
iBeacon Applications and Hybrid Wi-Fi Localization, Olawole Hakeem Tunde-Lukan, Teng Wang, and Yi Sun
Critter-Copter, John Thomas Valley, Kevin Matthew Rondinone, and Lea Holly Dighello
Test Vector Leakage Assessment Development, Romuald S. Valme
Roaming Spirit: A Framework for Localization and Navigation on a Raspberry Pi, Guillermo Jose Vincentelli Solanilla and Troy Howard Hughes
Collaborative Robotics Heads-Up Display, Alexander William Wald and Christopher Peter Bove
Autonomous Ground Vehicle Prototype via Steering-, Throttle-, and Brake-by Wire Modules, Raymond Wang and Robert Charles Crimmins
Electric Car Proliferation and Acceptability, Anthony James Ward, George Karel Pytlik, Jacob Aaron Sussman, and Jason Correia
Accelerating Augmented Reality Video Processing with FPGAs, Andrew James Weiler, Anthony Daniel Dresser, and Lukas Laurence Hunker
De-Mining with UAVs, Arthur Jebediah Wilder Lockman and Tucker Haydon
Major Qualifying Projects from 2015
KWZZR: Entertainment Light Show Device for Drummers Using Persistence of Vision Display and Infinity Mirror, Temirlan Aigozhin
Power and Thermal Modeling, Ali Zain Akhtar and Kevin Edward Reed
Power and Thermal Modeling, Ali Zain Akhtar, Kevin Edward Reed, and Kwan Yeong Kim
Oil Detection Sensor, Austin Robert Alibozek and David Henry James
Wearable Honeypot, Mudassir Mohammed Ali
TPMS Receiver Hacking, Alexander Robert Arnold and Stephanie Michel Piscitelli
Hydro-Muscle Control System, Andrew John Barth and Seiichiro Ueda
Active Filtering using Wind Turbine Generator, Ali Fuat Becan, Brian William Harvey, and Minh Hong Nguyen
High Frequency Communications Channel Characterization, Scott T. Bento
Design of a Biomimetic Mechanical Leg and Accompanying Sensor System for Terrain Detection, Hannah Florence Bond and Molly E. Homchenko
Human Supervision of Multi-Robot Systems, Donald Leo Bourque, Nicholas William Otero, and Thomas Ryan DeSilva
FPGA Digital Music Synthesizer, Evan Grant Briggs and Sidney Louis Veilleux
Arc-Liberation of Intermolecular Bond Energy for Marine Propulsion, Christopher Michael Byrne, Christopher William Egan, James Deane Jackman, Rohan Jhunjhunwala, and Tyler Jon Ewing
Modular Robotic Arm, Derek Manuel Calzada-Mariaca, Monica Jourdan Preston, and Yihao Zhou
Fostering Resilient Aging with a Self-efficacy and Independence Enabling Robot (FRASIER), Cameron Michael Canale, Farhat Kohistani, Helei Duan, Kristina Erica Walker, Loan Ngoc Chau, Lucine Victoria Bahtiarian, and Vanderlei Cunha
Efficient Pulse Width Modulation LED Headlight Driver, Brendan Scott Cavanagh, Matthew Aaron Janiga, and Nathaniel Keahi Goodale
Antenna Design and Interface Dynamics for Cellular Handsets, Matthew Demorais Crivello, Matthew Howard Penrose, and Tint Yadana Aung
Physiological Remote Monitoring of Free Tissue Transfer, David Michael DiStefano, Eric Scott Schattschneider, Martin Francis Phelan, Ryan Scot Mathie, and Theodore Paul Kostopouls
Hybrid Wi-Fi Localization using RFID and UWB sensors, Chuka Ebi, Sebastian Franco-Gomez, and Tianxiong Wang
IntelliWay: Connecting Bicycles to the V2V Network, Christopher Michael Ellen, Dante Alighieri Pace, and Sunghoon Yoon
Glovesense Data Glove, Mert Can Erad, Nathan Harrison Wells, Nathan William Wiegman, and Russell Hagan Hedlund
Design and Validation of Control Interfaces for Anna, Daniel Charles Fox, Marisa Nicole Warner, Rashida Tamiza Nayeem, Tanishq Bhalla, and Tenell Glen Rhodes
System Level Design of Software-Defined Radio Platform, Stefan Gvozdenovic
Interface System for NAO Robots, Daniel Patrick Haggerty and Kshitij Thapa
Digital Programmable Gaussian Noise Generator, Abby Elizabeth Harrison, Karen Lois Fitch, and Kathryn Anna Gillis
Electrical Solar Panel Moisture Detector & Heater, Jennifer Henriquez
Aerial Drone Control Networks, Christopher Mead Keane, Conor William Geary, Zachariah Daniel Lovett, and Zachary Philip Jasensky
Design of an Instrumentation Ku-Band SAR System, David Alan Kelly
Long Range Aerial Drones, Grzegorz J. Klos and Robert James Hall
JPMorgan Web Service Registry, Arin Kulvanit, Heather Ann Jones, Ibraeim Abdulmonem Bukhamsin, John Thomas Bosworth, and Jordan Michael Wetzel
Reverse Power Mitigation System for Photovoltaic Energy Resources, David Patrick LaPlante, Julia Lien Truong, and Truman Steele Chojnowski
Wearable Honeypot, Andrew Michael Leonard
A Comparison of OLAP and Coherence Large Scale Aggregations, Jiahui Li, Kimberley Ashley Tate, Lili Zhang, and Xinyue Zhong
Liability Driven Investing – Investment Process, Qiao Li, Saad Riaz, and Tianhai Chang
Online Photovoltaic Monitoring System, Ali Magzari
J.P.Morgan Balance Reconciliation Dashboard Web App, Daniel Ernesto Matos-Almonte, Jiahui Li, and Kevin Vincent Kell
Foreign Future Variation Margin Reconciliation, Daniel Ernesto Matos-Almonte, Jiahui Lisha Li, Kevin Vincent Kell, and Lili Zhang
Stoplight Detection and Image Processing with FPGA, Jeremiah Thomas McCarthy and Michael Troy Derryberry
WALRUS Rover MQP, Brendan Kyle McLeod, Brian James Eccles, Mitchell Edwin Wills, Thomas Jeffery Watson, and Timothy Michael Murcko
Atlas in the Cloud, James Lawrence Megin and Zachary Thomas Estep
Power Generation by Rowing on an Ergometer, Anthony Charles Mikelonis, Anthony Samir Hannoush, and Julie Ann Waddell
Robocart: System Design for the First Generation Autonomous Golf Cart, Elizabeth Ashley Miller
Visible Light Communication, Calvin Xuan Nguyen, Megan Helene Bredes, and Shridhar Ambady
Wireless Biomedical Signal Chain, Long Hoang Nguyen, Lou Abigail Seneres, Neda Seyedmahmoud, and Robert Michael Perry
Wireless Charging of Mobile Systems, Douglas Perez, Jacob Dean Cooley, and Jeremy Tyler Giguere
Cryptanalysis of the McEliece Cryptosystem on GPGPUs, Hnin Pwint Phyu and Louis Adrian Fogel