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ECS students showcased their senior projects in the Titan Student Union. (Matthew Keyser / Daily Titan)
Abulaiti Nuerbiya showed off the Engineering Design Clubs UV Nail Polish Curer. (Matthew Keyser / Daily Titan)
TitanSat team members, from left to right: Raghu Bathala, Joshua Guzman and Subha Lal. (Matthew Keyser / Daily Titan)
CSUF’s Titan Rover was showcased during the event. (Matthew Keyser / Daily Titan)
ECS students showcased their senior projects in the Titan Student Union. (Matthew Keyser / Daily Titan)
Abulaiti Nuerbiya showed off the Engineering Design Clubs UV Nail Polish Curer. (Matthew Keyser / Daily Titan)
TitanSat team members, from left to right: Raghu Bathala, Joshua Guzman and Subha Lal. (Matthew Keyser / Daily Titan)
CSUF’s Titan Rover was showcased during the event. (Matthew Keyser / Daily Titan)
Cal State Fullerton’s College of Engineering and Computer Science held its annual ECS Student Projects Competition and Showcase in the Titan Student Union, on May 2. The event displayed 66 capstone and senior design projects from across the departments.
The showcase featured an assortment of prototypes, software demos and posters highlighting students' ingenuity and collaboration. Some of the projects included a smart pillow alerting system, an anti-collision self-driving vehicle, a voice controlled smart door and a replica of the Mars rover.
Forty-eight projects were entered in the competition and reviewed by a panel of faculty members who picked the top 20. On April 29, the top teams presented their projects to four industry judges from Boeing, JPL, Pacewater and Nasa JPL, who then selected ten projects that would receive recognition at Monday's showcase.
“It is a year-long, hard work that you’re seeing in front of you,” said Susan Barua, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. “I am extremely proud of every single student, every single project team who is participating in the showcase. And congratulations on your dedication, commitment, and tenacity, and stayed with it even when you might have had challenges and you felt that it's not going to work.”
After a year’s dedication and hard work, ten teams were awarded, each being the best in the areas they competed in. These areas included: civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and legacy—a project that’s been ongoing for more than three years.
The TitanSat team won the “Overall Best Student Project” with their wildfire detection CubeSat. The device, which is a three unit CubeSat—a miniaturized, cubed-shaped satellite—includes a thermal camera to detect wildfire conditions from space and can relay the data to proper authorities.
Subha Lal, TitanSat member and a fourth-year mechanical engineering major, said the team faced obstacles that were outside their area of expertise.
“One of the major things in this project is that it's actually a very heavy electrical project. And as mechanical engineering majors, it’s not something we're particularly good at. Like we just don’t have the knowledge for it necessarily, but you know, we tried really hard and we worked on what we could and it paid off,” Lal said.
Edwardo Gomez, a fourth-year computer science major, said his team created a recommendation algorithm that helps users get personalized content based on their preferences.
“Our goal is to demystify Netflix and Spotify, how they recommend songs and things like that,” Gomez said. “As you can see here, some of our data is very complex but just like any song you have, you have the key, the tone, and the pitch. We go ahead and quantify that information and give you kind of a recommendation afterwards. We wanted to make a universal algorithm, so kind of these two approaches give you that kind of pull as well.”
Some projects that were not in competition were showcased in order to draw interest for some of the engineering and computer science clubs.
CSUF’s Engineering Design Club displayed a miniature UV gel nail polish curer they created that’s easy to carry around and equipped with three different time settings. Abulaiti Nuerbiya, a fourth year electrical engineering major, said the project's main purpose was to raise awareness and get more women engineers into the field.
“For electrical engineering it's only me for our club,” Nuerbiya said. “I think one of the reasons is, people don't know much about electrical engineering, mechanical or civil. They don't have the exposure of what electrical engineering looks like. So that's why we are holding more workshops for the club so people will come. We’re not only holding this workshop for the engineers, we’re also holding the workshop for all the non-engineering field students as well.”
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