Research in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is widespread, spanning areas from medicine and defense to environmental protection. The department’s world-renowned faculty members are pioneers in areas including medical imaging, speech and language processing and understanding, control and networking systems, intelligence systems, brain-like computing and artificial intelligence, bio-inspired robotics and neuroprosthetics, biophotonics, ultrafast photonics and communication systems, and renewable energy devices, among others.
2020 Design Day Projects
This year, student engineers designed a wide range of projects, including an aid that helps visually impaired individuals safely navigate the streets, and an electric go-kart that competed where the famous Indy 500 is held.
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iRoam: Navigation Assistance for the Blind
Team: Steven Jones, Jeff Hun Kim
Advisor: Charbel Rizk
Sponsor: ECE LINDT
Decon
Team: Nafisa Amir, Matthew Chea, Thomas DiSorbo, Neel Kovelamudi, Joshua Liu, Miles Liu, Alia Nasrallah
Advisor: Charbel Rizk
Sponsor: JHU Applied Physics Lab
Sepsis Detection
Team: Bochong Chen, Junjun Chen, Bidyut Mani, Antara Raisa, Xintong Tong
Advisor: Charbel Rizk
Sponsor: Dr. Jim Fackler
evGrandPrix
Team: Sarah Abella, Kyungmo Choi, Amanda Fernandes, Ryan Hanks, Peter Weiss, Carl Urbanik, Kaiwen Zhang
Advisor: Charbel Rizk
Sponsor: ECE LINDT
Water Reservoir Safety Drone
Team: Jose R. Cardelle, Brhea D’Mello, Kevin Nodarse
Advisor: Israel Gannot and Sathappan Ramesh
Battlefield Life-Saving Drone
Team: Junjun Chen, Neel Kovelamudi, Kevin Romero
Advisor: Israel Gannot and Sathappan Ramesh
Project Blindside
Team: Arion Morshedian, Luke Robinson
Advisor: Anton Dahbura and Sathappan Ramesh
Common Eye Condition Diagnostic
Team: Jose R. Cardelle, Brhea D’Mello
Advisor: Jin Kang
Multispectral Image Analysis for Skin Condition Diagnosis
Team: Yaning Wang, Alison Wright
Advisor: Jin Kang
Engineering New Hole Extraction Materials for Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Team: Christianna Bambini, Eric Rong
Advisor: Susanna Thon
Sponsor: NSF
Engineering the ZnO Layer in Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells to Improve Efficiency and Yield
Team: Subha Bhatta, Keyi Kang Yao
Advisor: Susanna Thon
Sponsor: NSF
Interface Engineering of Aluminum-Titanium Dioxide Nanomaterials for Plasmonic Photocatalysis
Team: Tina Gao
Advisor: Susanna Thon
Sponsor: American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
Compact Plant Sensor for Data Collection and Actuation
Team: Sarah Abella, Eliza Cohn
Advisor: Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Speaker Placement Project
Team: Tim Lee, Pedro Rivera
Advisor: Ralph Etienne-Cummings