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Industry Sponsored Student Design Project (ECE 191)

In the UC San Diego Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Winter Quarter 2006

  • Student teams develop working prototypes over a 12 week period
  • Sponsoring companies receive the product of a highly creative and motivated Engineering team working with faculty guidance
  • Students benefit from a real world design experience
  • Projects can include electrical, optical, optoelectronic and thermal components (IC's DSP, RF, IF, wireless chips, FPGA, A/D & D/A converters, Lasers, LEDs, photodetectors, etc.) and simulations with MATLAB,ORCAD,PSPICE,ANSOFT-HFSS, ADS etc.
  • Projects begin January 10, 2006.

How to sponsor a Student Design Project in ECE

  1. The industrial sponsor will negotiate the scope of a project with the course director, Prof.  Pankaj Das (858) 822-0114, das@cwc.ucsd.edu.

  2. As part of this negotiation, the sponsor and Prof. Das will determine a dollar amount sufficient to cover the materials, components and fabrication costs. This amount will be the budget for the project. The sponsor has a choice to supply these or give the amount to UCSD which will be used to complete the project.

  3. The sponsor is also requested to provide approximately $2000.00 for administrative and other expenses.

  4. The sponsor will designate a technical contact. The student design team will visit the sponsor to develop a design specification. The students will maintain appropriate liaison with the technical contact during the following 10 weeks as the design is developed. The students meet the technical contact person at least once a week.

  5. The technical contact person is requested to present a talk about his/her industry and the particular project being sponsored to the whole class one time in the quarter.

  6. The designs will be presented by the student teams during the final examination at the end of the quarter. Sponsors and their guests (particularly young people interested in careers in engineering) are cordially invited to attend.

Additional information for sponsoring companies:

Contact Information

  • Pankas Das
    UCSD ECE Department
    Tel: (858) 822-0114
    Fax: (858) 822-1247
    Email: das@cwc.ucsd.edu

  • Clark Guest
    UCSD ECE Department
    Tel: (858) 534-6549
    Fax: (858) 534-2486
    Email: cguest@ucsd.edu

Projects:

Spring 2005

  • Booz Allen Hamilton - Distributed Password Cracking Environment
  • C ALIT2 - Wireless Digital Stethoscope and Blood Pressure Monitor
  • CALIT2 - Warehouse Assistant For First Responders
  • CALIT2 - WiFi Pulse-Oximeter Breadboard and Integration
  • NCR - Backoff Model Development
  • Oceanscience Group, The - Remote Real-time Weather Station
  • PACE Research Group - Wireless Bathroom Scale
  • Qualcomm - Soft Processor System-On-Chip in FPGA
  • Raytheon System - Portable KVM for maintenance of "headless" processing element in USMC aviation command and control system
  • San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park, The - Computer Controlled Model Railroad Exhibition
  • SCRIPPS -Broadband Dual-Channel Arbitrary Function Generator
  • SCRIPPS - Wireless Sensor Networks
  • SCRIPPS -Two-Axis Self-Leveling Platform for Seafloor Seismic Sensor
  • Sony Electronics Inc - Electro-Optical Investigation
  • SPAWAR - High Speed Operational Amplifier Characterization
  • SPAWAR - Intermodulation Distortion (IMD) of Resonant Devices
  • SPAWAR - Miniature 3D Sensor & Inertial Measurement Unit
  • UCSD Medical School - ARAM for Automated Ras Activation Measurement
  • ViaSat - Automated Crypto Key Fill

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Winter 2005

  • CAL (IT) 2 — Man Down Detection Device
  • CAL(IT) 2 — Cellular Home Automation
  • CAL(IT) 2 —ZIGZAG Sense-of-Touch Guiding System with Computer Control
  • CAL(IT) 2 — WiFi PulseOx Component Design
  • General Atomics — Conceptual Design and Trade Study of Solid-state vs. Plasma Arc Switches for multi-megawatt converters
  • General Atomics — Conceptual Design of a Railgun Energy Recovery System using Capacitor-based Pulse Forming Network Pulsed Power Generator
  • General Atomics — Trade Study and Conceptual design of a Railgun Energy Storage System for an All-electric Warship
  • Holowave — Hologriphic Radio
  • Northrop Grumman — Power Amplifier Hybrid Design Part II: Design, Construction and Evaluation of a high power amplifier hybrid for cellular phone applications.
  • San Diego Fire Rescue (Air Operation) and Anokiwave Inc. — Accident Avoidance in Helicopter Rescue Operation
  • SCRIPPS — Broadband Dual Channel Arbitrary Function Generator
  • SCRIPPS — Wireless Sensor Network
  • SPAWAR — RF Circuit Design and Layout of RFIC Bias
  • SPAWAR — Controlling GPIB Instruments Using Matlab
  • SPAWAR — Remote Signal Processor (RSP) FPGA Design Project
  • UCSD Medical School — ARAM for Automated Ras Activation Measurement

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Fall 2004

  • Cal-(IT)² - Bluetooth Differential GPS Receiver and Navigator
  • Cal-(IT)² - IFI Pulse Ox Component Design
  • Cal-(IT)² - Shuttle Tracking Using GPS Enabled Cell Phone
  • Cal-(IT)² - Video Interpretation Program
  • General Electric - Low Noise Photoreceiver Module
  • MediCal school - Remote Video Direct Observed Therapy For Tuberculosis
  • Northrop Grumman - Power Amplifier Hybrid Design
  • SCRIPPS - Broadband Dual Channel Arbitrary Function Generator
  • SCRIPPS - Wireless Sensor Network
  • SPAWAR - Effect of Single Event Transient on the Performance of an RF Receiver
  • SPAWAR - RF Class E Power Amplifier Test Auto-motion
  • SPAWAR - RF Transistor Characterization Using Load-Pull Measurements
  • UCSD Medical School - Magnetic Property of Blood

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Spring 2004

  • HNS – Low Cost Satellite Antenna for Maritime Voice and Data Services
  • Unisys Corporation – Optical Backplanes For High Performance Computers
  • ISL – Determination of the Ligand Binding State of Hemoglobin using Inhomogeneous Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
  • Northrop Grumman – An Ultra-High Linearity Broadband Quad Mosfet mixer
  • Spawar – Dolphin Backpack Physiological Monitor
  • Cal–(IT)² –WiFi PulseOx Device
  • School of Medicine – Non-invasive Blood Pressure Monitor
  • ECE Dept – Bluetooth Mote Design
  • Scripps – Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Cal–(IT)² – Wireless Assistive Interface
  • Cal–(IT)² - Audio Navigation for Blind People in Disasters
  • Cal–(IT)² – Smart Door Lock using Bluetooth
  • Mechanical Engg – Microprocessor controlled free-weight system
  • Cal–(IT)² – WiFi PulseOx Digital Signal Processing
  • Titan Corp – Performance Enhancement Of Analog-To-Digital Converters Through Dithering
  • Spawar – Free space Optical Communication Test Set

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Winter 2004

  • Hughes Network Systems - MEMS RF Switch for Mobile Satellite Antenna Providing Voice and Data Services
  • Palmer-Rogov Laboratories, Inc. - ANSI Standard Audiometry Test
  • Cal- (IT)² - WiFi Sensor Interface
  • Northrop Grumman - Space Technology - A High IIP3 Balanced Low-Noise Amplifier
  • SIO/Cal-(IT)² - Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Cal- (IT)² - Responding to the Unexpected - Urban Crisis Response
  • Cal- (IT)² - Wireless Remote Sighted-Guide for the Blind
  • ECE - Hi-Fidelity Stereo Receiver Using 802.11b
  • ECE - Custom Wireless Mote Design
  • SPAWAR - Breakout Box for Testing High Voltage Operational Amplifier

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Fall 2003

  • Northrop Grumman - Adaptive Power Amplifier Bias Network
  • SPAWAR - Free space Optical Communication Test Set
  • HNS - Low Cost Satellite Antenna for Maritime Voice and Data Services
  • Unisys Corporation - Optical Backplanes For High Performance Computers
  • SPAWAR - Ocean Bottom Attachments/Self Burying Sensors
  • SCRIPPS - Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Unisys Corporation - Embedded Passives in Printed Circuit Boards
  • Titan Corp - Performance Enhancement Of Analog-To-Digital Converters Through Dithering
  • CAL(IT)² - Smart Electrical Power Supply
  • CalSpace - CORAX Systems Integration

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Spring 2003

  • LMI Scientific - Electronics for Micro-Sonar
  • CAL (IT)² - Indoor/Outdoor Transmission Characterization for 802.11b WLAN Networks
  • Mechanical Engineering - Wireless Control of Hopping Robot
  • SCRIPPS - Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Charlie Knezevich - Control Electronics for Autonomous Model Yacht Race Contest
  • Structures Engineering - Wireless Sensing Unit
  • Ambient Control Systems - Powering Seismic Sensors with Ambient's Energy Management Technology
  • ViaSat - USB Cable Extender Project
  • LMI Scientific - High Temperature Electronic Circuits
  • CAL (IT)² - Universal Access Keyboard
  • SCRIPPS - Digital Word Generator for Dual-Channel D/A Conversion
  • USMA, Est Point - Oversampled A/D Conversion Based on Spiking
  • NxGen Electronics - FCBGA Modeling and Characterization

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Winter 2003

  • General Atomics - Motor Control Board for Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • West Point - Analog-to-Digital Conversion Based on a Biologically-Motivated Error Diffusion Neural Network
  • ORINCON Corporation - Enhanced Line Tracking Through Image Modeling and Restoration
  • Mechanical Engineering Department, UCSD - Remote Control of Hopping Robot
  • ViaSat - USB Cable Extender Project
  • CAL (IT)² - Driving Directions via Wireless Devices
  • Hewlett-Packard - Chemical Analyzer
  • Salk Institute - Information Processing Analysis of a Biochemical Relay
  • Northrop Grumman - Digital Radio Modulator
  • Northrop Grumman - Analog Radio Exciter
  • Cal Space - Power Integration Unit Project
  • SCRIPPS - Spatial Diversity in an 802.11b Environment
  • SCRIPPS - Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Wireless Facilities Inc. & CAL(IT)² - San Diego Opera Seat-back Translation System

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