Capstone Project Offerings 2023-2024

Academic year 2023-2024 Projects

All projects officially start at the beginning of the academic year in September. Projects are offered in different areas of electronics, usually related to the research interest of the supervising professors. By finishing the third year requirements in an engineering program, most students develop an interest for working in a particular area or with a specific professor. Because of the high demand for certain project topics and the limited number of seats for each project, there is an application and assignment process for distributing the projects among students. Professors usually have a section in their websites dedicated to 4th-year projects, where the details of the projects and the required background are outlined. Students should carefully browse through the available projects for the current academic year to find their preferences based on their interest and background. Due to sabbaticals and other types of academic work load adjustments, several professors do not offer 4th-year projects in any one academic year.

Students may wish to contact professors directly to get more details on their proposed projects before finalizing their decision. Sometimes a student or a group of students approach a professor and convince him or her that they have the motivation and the necessary background to undertake a certain project. They still need to file the application form and indicate this mutual interest. In this case, the individual or the group may start acquiring the background material for the project during the summer.

Before proceeding further with project selection, make sure that you have reviewed the projects options on ECOR4907 Multidisciplinary Engineering Project, as they are reviewed and processed separately from ELEC/SREE courses. Students are allowed to register for either ELEC/SREE/SCE or ECOR. The following ELEC/SREE projects were currently offered in 2023-2024 academic year:


2023 Project Offerings
	Professor	Main Research Field	Project Topic and Link to Description	EE	Eng. Phy.	SREE
1.	Ram Achar	CAD	Interconnect Models and CAD	✓
2.	Jim Wight	Microwave	Drone Based Tunable Direction Finding up to 6 GHz	✓
3.	Masum Hossain	Mixed Signal Design	A Digital Pulse Generator for Sensing and Detection	✓
4.	Hubert Jean-Ruel	Photonics	Dual-channel optical spectrum analyzer for tilted fiber Bragg grating biosensors	✓	✓
5.	Shulabh Gupta	Microwave	Automotive RADAR for night driving assistance	✓	✓
6.	Tashfeen Karamat	Navigation	Determination of Vehicle’s Navigation Parameters using Raw Measurements from GPS Satellites	✓	✓
7.	Connor Kupchak	Optics	Portable Real-Time Polarimeter for Partially and Fully Polarized Light	✓	✓
8.	Leonard MacEachern	Virtual Reality	Photogrammetry 3D Scanner	✓	✓
9.	Steve McGarry	Devices	Novel Printed Organic Devices	✓	✓
10.	Ravi Prakash	Sensors	Flexible electronic sensor for physical and chemical sens	✓	✓
11.	Arash Ahmadi	Digital Design, Neuromorphic	Simulation and implementation of bio-inspired neural networks	✓	✓
12.	Rony Amaya	RF ICs	An Adaptive Phased Array Beamformer for 5G	✓	✓
13.	Niall Tait	Sensors	Wireless sensor nodes	✓	✓
14.	Winnie Ye	Photonics	Low-power photonics communication for a lunar rover PEEKbot	✓	✓
15.	Qi-Jun Zhang	Neural Networks	Neural Networks; Microprocessor-Based System	✓	✓
16.	Christopher Smelser	Photonics	Optical Absorption Spectroscopy for Water Quality Measurement	✓	✓	✓
17.	Tom Smy	Devices, CAD	Numerical Simulation	✓	✓	✓
18.	Alan Steele	Engineering Education, Photonics	ECOR4907, Advanced Aircraft Design	✓	✓	✓
19.	Hima Dhulipati	Power	Wireless charging system for electric vehicles	✓		✓
20.	Xiaoyu Wang	Power	Active Power Control of Single-Phase Nanogrid	✓		✓
21.	Maitham Shams	Digital ICs	Open topic: If you are a group of students with a project	✓		✓

Project Fundings

Funding avenue is available to students through the Department of Electronics (DoE) with a capped budget. A funding request to the Department of Electronics (details available on the course Brightspace page later during the term) must be made with detailed budget information. The deadlines for the funding application is listed in the calendar section.