Senior Design Projects - Fall 2023 Showcase

Radiofrequency (RF) technology serves as the backbone for modern wireless networks. Its impact extends across vital sectors like healthcare, aviation, and manufacturing, enhancing various industries. Despite its advancements, radiofrequency technology encounters challenges, such as transmitting data within steel enclosures. Our goal is to develop a system that facilitates the conversion of radiofrequency to acoustic signals, enabling data transmission within steel environments for industrial and manufacturing applications to address this limitation.

Fully autonomous robots have grown tremendously in many fields, from manufacturing to search and rescue operations. As part of Florida International University’s IEEE Student Branch, we have developed and constructed an autonomous robot capabl¬e of traversing uneven terrain, detecting colorful objects, as well as collecting and storing these objects in designated points. This robot, dubbed SAM (Sophisticated Autonomous Machine), was constructed to compete in the IEEE SoutheastCon 2024 Hardware Competition, and its effectiveness in the competition will largely determine the project’s success. Throughout development, we have considered and applied principles of robot design to create a safe and effective competition robot. 

The ability to intercept raw boat data from B&G sensors and translate it to text-to-speech (TTS) & haptics for the visually impaired.

The project aims to design an Augmented Reality (AR) experience that elevates the functionality and user interaction of our client’s BCPGroup, Sucker Rod Pump (SRP) Permanent Magnet Motor (PMM) Test Bench. This AR experience must showcase real-time operational parameters in an intuitive manner, translating complex data into clear cost-benefit metrics, thus demonstrating the operational efficiencies and environmental benefits of the SRP PMM. The solution must be accessible, user-friendly, and integrate seamlessly with existing systems without disrupting the operational environment.

In the United States, approximately 233 million people drive cars. In a car-centric society, especially in dense urban areas, drivers may encounter difficulties finding available parking spaces in a timely and easy manner. Inspired by the lack of a parking occupancy tracker for Florida International University’s Engineering Center, unlike the Modesto A. Maidique (MMC) campus, the team developed the mobile application ParkSmart. However, this service would not just be for the Engineering Center, but for any parking complex. This project proposal's objective is to build a dedicated parking application to serve users with real-time information about parking availabilities through a seamless user experience. This is accomplished through thorough user research, feasibility analyses, and various considerations (intellectual property, standards, health and safety, manufacturability, etc.). Through careful exploration, the following was ultimately selected: Swift as the programming language and an Arduino configuration for the parking hardware. With these advanced technologies, ParkSmart is expected to enhance the daily parking experience not just for the FIU Engineering Center, but parking centers abroad.