Electronic Engineering Projects
As part of your Electronic Engineering degree you will have a chance to do a
project in your final year. Your project is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate
your knowledge as well as show off your skills to future employers. It can
also spark an interest in a particular field of engineering. You can develop
your project idea with a member of staff or you can a topic from the lists
supplied by members of staff. We encourage industry-related projects and novel
applications within a wide range of electronic engineering including wireless
communications, networks, digital music, multimedia, antennas and electromagnetics.
Some previous student projects
Satnav ROV robot
Many of us have used remote operated vehicles (ROVs). One of the most challenging
aspects of ROVs is getting them from point A to point B without crashing into
various static and moving obstacles. This project was involved in designing
and building a ROV capable of automatically navigating itself to a given destination.
Once the global positioning coordinates are entered into a keypad on the ROV,
the robot compares its current location to its destination. From there, it
navigates itself to its destination whilst avoiding any objects in its path.
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Position detection
Knowing your position within a room can require a keen sense
of memory and concentration for visually impaired people. This project designed
a way for visually impaired people to know their position in a room relative
to a computer screen. Users wear hats with cameras so that the computer can
detect whether the person is left, right, above or below the centre plane of
the screen. One of the applications for this project was to help visually impaired
people more easily navigate unfamiliar spaces
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Small Antennas and their physical limits
With increased reliance on wireless technologies, the size of antennas has
been a growing concern among electronic engineers. The challenge embedded in
this project was to create a small antenna capable of the same performance
as much larger antennas. The end result was a powerful yet small microwave
antenna that used Maxwell's Wave Equations and CAD software to simulate geometric
designs.
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Business exchange web-portal
From Facebook to MySpace, social networking websites have become one of
the most exciting aspects of Web 2.0 technology. This project involved the
design and development of a social networking application for businesses and
companies. Spring MVC and Spring Webflow frameworks were used to allow businesses
to network with each other and advertise amongst other business solutions.
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Wireless sensor design for healthcare applications
Anyone who has ever been in the hospital knows how cumbersome and uncomfortable
electrocardiogram monitors can be. With all of the wires connecting the nodes
attached to the patient to the monitor, patients are limited in their movements
and hospital staff need to transport the wired equipment from one patient to
another. This MEng project was focused on increasing the mobility of patients
and making things easier for hospital staff by designing a wireless ECG medical
monitor. Wireless nodes monitoring patients' vital signs were able to transmit
the information to computers, eliminating the previous constraints of wired
ECG monitors.
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