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2004 ISE Senior Design Project
were presented on December 10 with the participation of a
number of companies and an enthusiastic crowd of families
and students.
Senior
ISE Project Presentations Agenda
Projects
1. Selective Recycling System
for Aluminum Cans
- Daniel S Gatens, Cara Lee, Michael L Leventhal, Harshil
N Patel
Recycling of containers has become a necessity. The current
approach for recycling depends on the “good will”
of the individuals separating containers based on their types.
For example, there is a bin for aluminum cans, another for
glass bottles and a third for plastic. In many instances,
some materials are not recyclable but it is found in the recyclable
bins. Likewise, glass bottles are sometimes mixed with aluminum
cans in the same recycling bin. In order to eliminate the
mix of these types of containers, you are required to design
a compact crushing machine for aluminum cans, for home or
office/restaurants use. The machine should identify the type
of the container: glass, aluminum, and plastic and only crushes
the aluminum one into short slugs and stores them in a proper
bin/ plastic bag. Containers that should not be crushed (non
aluminum) are placed in a separate bin. The system should
be compact, fully automated and should require minimum maintenance.
It should be user friendly, provides warnings to the user
when there are problems and when the bins are full. It should
operate from domestic 15 A power supply.
2.
Selective Recycling System for Plastic Containers
- Robert Bediako, David F. Rodriguez, Paul T. Villanova, Neil
S. Zebib
Recycling of containers has become a necessity. The current
approach for recycling depends on the “good will”
of the individuals separating containers based on their types.
For example, there is a bin for aluminum cans, another for
glass bottles and a third for plastic. In many instances,
some materials are not recyclable but it is found in the recyclable
bins. Likewise, glass bottles are sometimes mixed with aluminum
cans in the same recycling bin. In order to minimize the mix
of these types of containers, you are required to design a
novel compacting machine for plastic containers, for home
or office/restaurants use. The machine should be capable of
compacting typical domestic use plastic containers such as
milk, soft drinks and similar types of plastic containers
into short slugs and store them in a proper bin/ plastic bag.
The system should be compact requiring minimum maintenance,
and should be user friendly, provide warnings to the user
when there are problems and when the bins are full. It should
operate from domestic 15 A power supply.
3.
Fully Automated Stand Alone Mailboxes
- Adam J. Diener, Jonathan D'urso, Kathlene W. Lechner, Dustin
S. Runkle, David W. Wong
Mailboxes are commonly placed in residential areas where envelopes
and packages with the proper amount of postages are placed.
The postman assigned to the area where the mailboxes are located
usually removes the contents of the boxes once or twice a
day. He/she usually open to check the mailbox whether it has
items or not. Also, many of us are sometimes faced with sending
items after normal hours of the post offices but there is
no means to weigh, stamp and store the package for the postman
to pick up. You are required to design a general purpose mailbox
for residential areas and office complexes. The mailbox will
take packages up to 15x12x4 inches; it will determine the
necessary postages and dispenses the proper amount. It will
then notify the postman in charge that there is a package
to be picked up. In this case, the postman will not make unnecessary
trips to the mailbox. These new mailboxes must be economical
to produce, easy to secure and provides detailed information
about the user (the user must use a credit card or equivalent)
in order to minimize tampering with mail or identify those
who abuse the use of the postal service.
4.
Color Blind and Color Coordination Assistant
- Iyadi Adi, John K Fischer, Dariusz M Karpiuk, John-Fayek
R. Michail
Many of us will differ in identifying the exact colors of
objects. The problem is more acute among color blind individuals.
They face many difficulties in identifying matching clothes
colors, ties, shoes,… Design a color blind assistant
system that identifies the colors of clothes and matching
shirts, ties, pants, shoes,, dresses, scarf and others to
assist color blind individuals. The system must have a complete
database of color spectrum, matching principles and a voice
system to inform the user of the “quality” of
the match and of the color of the items. The “quality”
of the match is defined by a binary number 0 or 1 0 is No
Match and 1 is Perfect Match. For example, a navy jacket will
be Perfect Match with light or dark gray pants but will be
No Match with pink pants (at least for a man)…
5.
Biosensors for Monitoring Patients
- Andrew J. Balin, Jay Lu, Louis G. Nicholes, William W. Zhou
One of the regular tasks assigned to nurses is to monitor
the temperature, blood pressure, pulse, oxygen level and other
vital information of the patients on a regular basis. The
recent advances in miniaturization and increased capabilities
of biosensors have made them viable devices to monitor patients.
The device will send this vital information regularly to the
patient’s data file. Design a patient monitoring system
that provides as many viable measurements as possible using
wireless or equivalent means to the system’s database.
It should include a warning system when on or more of these
measurements exceed a threshold. (Resources: www.adsx.com,
www.aimglobal.org, www.exi.com, www.ti.com.
6. Flexible Modular Walls
- Sarah Brebner, Vencent M. De Scioli, Eric A. Morales, Jeffrey
J. Pennino
One of the major problems in the home construction company
is the wall construction. It involves the use of dry wall
(Gypsum) type walls which are nailed to the supporting columns
then plastered at joining lines, smoothed with sandpapers
(rough, medium, fine), cleaned and painted. This is a tedious
and lengthy process which takes about three days. The gypsum
is fire retardant, not a good heat insulator, medium resistant
to mould (Moulds are those little cottony patches we often
see on left-over food like bread, fruits and cheese. Sometimes
they can also be found spreading on old books kept on our
shelves, and other things in the home which are exposed to
damp. These little patches of various colors, which are often
taken for granted, can cause losses in millions of dollars
to properties and worse, is hazardous to your health). Rutgers
faculty has developed a unique sheet folding machine. It can
fold flat sheets of material such as aluminum, composites
and craft paper into three dimensional intricate designs.
Use this technology in designing ready to assemble walls with
a core made of the folded sheets of materials and the outsides
and insides are filled with insulators for heat and dampers
for vibration, shock and sound. They should also be fire retardant
and mould retardant. The walls must be light, easy to join
and require no preparation for finishing and painting.
7.
Energy from Diving Boards
- Debora M.Cabezas, Ashwini Gupta, Huda A. Hadi, Adeola B.
Olabisi
Typically,
diving is all about the plunge. It can be made more thrilling
by using the bouncing energy on the boards’ center platform.
As a person bounces, the force of impact powers a small piston,
which pumps compressed air in a storage center. Each jump
adds more compressed air and increases the pressure inside
the storage tank until a predetermined pressure is achieved.
At this point, the tank is moved to the outer platform which
releases the pressure in an explosive push that sends the
person flying… into the water much higher than what
you normally could expect. Design a system that achieves this
function but the amount of pressure release will depend on
the weight of the individuals, depth of the pool and other
factors (Popular Science, January 2004, p 26).
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