2020 EECS Virtual Senior Design Expo

April 21-28, 2020

Welcome to the 2020 EECS Virtual Senior Design Expo!

Since we were forced to cancel our face-to-face annual expo, we have created this virtual expo so that our Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering Technology seniors can share with you the work they have done on their projects this academic year.

This year we have almost 100 teams participating. We have asked each team to prepare a poster and a short video presentation (under 10 min) about their project. Although some projects could not be completed as planned, due to lack of access to labs and 3D printing, the students have applied their engineering problem-solving skills to cope with the current situation and to provide some very interesting displays of their work for you to enjoy.

This expo page will be available April 21-28. If you have any questions or comments about the expo or any of the projects, please direct them to Prof. Carla Purdy, chair of our Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Carla.Purdy@uc.edu.

Thank you for visiting our Expo page,
Marc Cahay, EECS Dept. head

Number	Team Name	Members	Majors	Poster	Video	Research	Abstract
1	A Cross-layer Adaptive Video Communication Solution Over SDR	YiLing Fu SunMeng Lin	EE EE	Poster	Video		Developing a wireless transmission system requires solving two problems, Frequency resource usage and saturation & Echo interference from multipath propagation. We design a cross-layer adaptive video streaming solution over SDR that works at physical and application layers to provide users with a satisfactory Quality of Experience (QoE), determined by video clarity, initial delay, interrupt delay, stall, etc.
2	A Label-Free Exosome Isolation Dielectrophoretic Based Device	Lujing Xiong Yuchen Zhang	EE EE	Poster	Video		This project is to demonstrate the capability of the novel indirect dielectrophoresis (iDEP) based device for rapid entrapment of small extracellular vesicles from plasma and cell culture. The concentration of extracted exosomes tested by NTA verified that exosomes were isolated from biofluids successfully since two orders of magnitude higher concentration of nanoparticles than untreated plasma.
3	AA-RK-CL	Andrew Aldrich Ryan Karrasch Caden Lawrence	CS CS CS	Poster	Video		Provide a proof of concept application to dynamically categorize researchers into various research strengths (identified by research office). This would facilitate office of research staff to provide more personalized assistance to UC researchers in areas such as: identifying relevant funding opportunities, assisting in securing funding and funding/compliance related training.
4	Agile-C, A Type Inference Transpiler for the C Programming Language	Changbin Chen	EE	Poster	Video		Agile-C is a transpiler with a constraint-based type inference system for the C programming language. Agile-C analyzes programs with potentially missing type declarations, and outputs a modified version of the input file with all missing type declarations properly reconstructed. Agile-C can be used in various fields like rapid prototyping and static program analysis.
5	Analysis and Optimization of Electric Aircraft Motor Control System	Emily Belovich	EE	Poster	Video		This project involved analyzing and optimizing the high-lift motor control system of NASA’s X-57 ‘Maxwell’. This will provide NASA Glenn with information regarding the steady-state behavior of the high-lift motors and how they will respond to disturbances. It was accomplished using MATLAB and Simulink to implement a model of the high-lift motor control system and analyze and optimize its behavior.
6	Applications of Gated ReRAM	Katelyn Faber	EE	Poster	Video	Yes	This project explores aspects of 3-Terminal (3-T) ReRAM (Gated ReRAM), a non-volatile memory type with great potential for neuromorphic and low voltage devices. It demonstrates advantages of a 3-T device over a 2-terminal (2-T) device, exemplifies three different promising gated ReRAM types--ECRAM, ENODe, and LISTA, and describes attempts to apply Boolean matrix chain products in 2-T ReRAM similarly in 3-T ReRAM.
7	Attack of the Beat	Sean McManes	CS	Poster	Video		Current games use several aspects to immerse the player and make enjoyable experiences, but they do not use the game music beyond atmosphere. This project aimed to make a game with mechanics manipulated by music so the player must listen to the music along with visual cues to succeed. This was accomplished with object manipulation to visually mimic data acquired from continuous music analysis.
8	Auditory Horizons	Seth Diehm James Harper Solomon Lazarus William Schweitzer	CS CS CS CS	Poster	Video		Auditory Horizons is a personal song consultant that will broaden aW user’s musical horizons. We created a cross-platform web application to accomplish this goal. Using machine learning, our system analyzes the musical features of a song of a user’s choice and suggests a musically similar song the user might enjoy from a different genre or different part of the world.
9	Automated Darts	Colin Bendele Alex David Brian Walsh	EET EET EET	Poster	Video		All dart boards fall into two categories, Electronic and Simple. Electronic Dart Boards have several game mode options and keep score automatically while simple dart boards contain no electronic control. An innovative twist to electronic dart boards provides new games and a more flexible user interface by integrating a PLC, HMI and 13 pressure sensors into a dart board never before seen.
10	Automated Ramen Vending Machine	Grayson Farrell Soumaila Kafando Jonathan Wynn	EET EET EET	Poster	Video		The Auto Ramen cooking mechanism aims to offer a quick affordable meal without the need to go to a fast food establishment. The mechanical process is like a 3d printer in the way the axis moves. This process allows for pauses in code to run the cooking aspect of the project. This project was cut short due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
11	Automated Single-Door Beer Dispenser	Austin Thomas Zac Theard Conn Gerrard	EE EE EE	Poster	Video		People have been making alcoholic drinks since the beginning of civilization. However, alcohol can be expensive and therefore the keg was invented. Large amounts of alcohol at a bulk price made it more affordable but more inconvenient. We set out to make the drinking experience easier and created Herr Bier Fass. This creates a memorable drinking experience without sacrificing convenience.
12	Automatic Sorting Machine for Recyclables	Zahra Briggs Waqas Al Farsi Clifton Chappell II Issachar Anderson	EE EE EE EE	Poster	Video		The recycling industry in the United States has been using outdated methods for sorting recyclables for years, resulting in a large portion of materials ending up in landfills. The Automatic Sorting Machine for Recyclables would be implemented to sort materials before the collection level, thus providing a means to decrease the amount of non-recyclable waste that is delivered to plants each year.
13	BeautiFRIL	Chris Kothman Saylee Dharne Vaishnavi Raghavaraju	CS CS CS	Poster	Video		Logic programming is a paradigm for expressing and using formal logic. It is used in Artificial Intelligence. When we were introduced to FRIL (a logic programming language from the 1980’s) by our AI professor, it was hard to pick concepts due to a lack of educational tools for the language. For our project, we developed an IDE for FRIL to help students learning artificial intelligence.
14	Biodiversity Science Research Data Platform: Proof of Concept	Matthew Clayton	CompE	Poster	Video		This project finds and proves a solution to the data management, analysis, and distribution problem in biodiversity science research. It finds the open source build of Elasticstack to be the best solution for its simple implementation and zero cost with a full set of features. The project then implements this in a proof of concept fashion.
15	Biometric Modeling	Trent Brewer Jeff Zeisler	EET EET	Poster	Video		We developed a biometric device to sense user pulse and blood oxygen level. This system is entirely self-contained within a glove. Our goal was to implement a heart rate sensor & Sp02 sensor into a glove that can be used by athletes from multiple disciplines. Placing this into a glove allows specialized athletes to track their physical performance without having to wear other external equipment.
16	BRASS	Nathan Boehringer Bryan Huddleston Braden Lance Timon Mannings	CS CS CS CS	Poster	Video		The goal of this project is to create an interactive route building system to assist transportation supervisors in building out bus routes for schools. The application takes in student address information and school attributes, creates routes, and allows for the addition and removal of students, as well as the disabling and enabling of buses.
17	Building Biased Semantic Spaces for Specialized Text Corpora	Rishabh Choudhary	EE	Poster	Video	Yes	Currently, sentence embedding methods can be trained on large corpora such as Wikipedia. But if the task is specific to a topic, results may not be good, since the relationships between words in general corpora do not always correspond to those in a specialized corpus. The solution is to bias the text embedding based on a large general corpus by information from the specialized corpus.
18	Classifying Digits Presented to User via CNN Running on EEG-Based Brain Activity	Anastasiya Chapko	CompE & NS	Poster	Video	Yes	This research project aims to combine EEG (electroencephalography) and ANNs (artificial neural networks) by reading in a user's EEG-based brain activity and using an ANN to correctly classify that activity. This specific application aims to classify EEG data of a user being presented with digits (0-9) and letters (A-J).
19	CLU: Connected Locking Unit	Jonathan Kenney Elizabeth Sheetz	CompE EE	Poster	Video		Connected Locking Unit (CLU) is a smart-lock container one accesses from a phone. It can be used by public institutions to provide secure storage on-site, or it can be used in private settings for package delivery. Additionally CLU is scalable, so UC could buy 500 to supply secure on-campus fridges for student lunches, or someone could buy one for their porch for worry-free package delivery.
20	Cognitive Deficit Prediction of Premature Infants with Deep Learning	Jingyi Zhu Miao Yu	EE EE	Poster	Video	Yes	Up to 40% of very preterm infants are diagnosed with neurodevelopmental deficits at 2 years of age. The objective of our project is to understand the relationship between the segmented Region of Interests, extracted features with the cognitive, language, and motor ability deficit of preterm infants. Methods applied include traditional machine learning models as well as deep learning models.
21	Cross-Layer Video Communication of Software-Defined Radio (SDR)	Huang Ziqian	EE	Poster	Video		A software-defined radio trans-receiver has the flexibility and the reconfigurable ability of software-based programming, and it has the potential to handle the dynamic needs of a real-time video communication application. The goal of this research project is to design a cross-layer video communication system over SDR to provide real-time high-quality observations from video cameras to users.
22	Deep Learning Digital Communication Receiver	Runzi Hou Yimin Gao Zhenghong Chen Bencheng Su	EE EE EE EE	Poster	Video		To compare the performance of a conventional communication receiver and a neural network-based communication receiver, we need to build up two systems and do analysis and comparison. Our project implements a simulation of convention communication system and discusses the problems we are facing for a neural network connection.
23	Deep Pollster	Shivchander Sudalairaj Sagar Panwar	CS CS	Poster	Video		The power to sway and portray political opinions is shifting from traditional media such as newspapers and television networks to social media platforms like twitter. This has given rise to new directions of research in Computational Political Science. We reexamine the problem of measuring and predicting the political orientation of Twitter users.
24	Digital Dive Log Signature System	Aaron Suchovsky Vincent Augustine	CS CS	Poster	Video		Our project, the Digital Dive Log Signature System, aims to mitigate the process of Dive Masters signing off on Dive Logs. Our app is designed to store a “signature” of a Dive Master in a QR code format using information from their account on an online database. A Diver can scan with their own phone and add the Dive Masters signature to the logs that they entered into the Android app.
25	Driver 2.0	Vasu Bhog ChaoYang Zhu Chunjie Pan	CS CS CS	Poster	Video		Billions of people drive on the road with no assistance from smart devices to aid them, resulting in a continuous increase in crashes over the decades. Our project aims at creating a simple device that uses computer vision and machine learning to detect distracted drivers and conditions on the road. This will decrease the probability of crashes, as well as increase the awareness of the driver.
26	Elephant Cognition Tester	Jacob Marsh	CompE	Poster	Video		The Cincinnati Zoo is studying elephant cognitive processes. This helps give scientists and zookeepers a better understanding of the elephants’ intelligence. The current phase seeks to determine how well elephants can distinguish between black and white. My project goals were to automate testing and to allow zookeepers to not be directly involved with the elephants while trials are running.
27	Evaluation of Pre-processing Methods on Feature Extraction; Case Study on Diabetic Retinopathy	Ethan Huss Blake Mallory Yiming Zhang Connor Lynch	CompE CompE CompE EE	Poster	Video	Yes	Recent advancements in the area of deep learning have led to a rapidly increasing usage of deep neural networks in the processing and classification of medical data. We review the utilization of modern preprocessing techniques in deep feature recognition and their effectiveness on performance as applied to classification of diabetic retinopathy.
28	Eye Development Model	Zachary Elia Evan Shearer	CS CS	Poster	Video		The Eye Development Model (EDM) is a first of its kind simulation for modeling early eye development in Drosophila (fruit flies). Through this simulation, we will be able to tweak variables in order to model other species’ eye development. This will ultimately allow neurobiologists to have a better understanding of human eye development and make progress in medical research for eye diseases.
29	EZ Sorter	Jacob Karovic Benjamin Logsdon Griffin Meintel	CompE CompE CompE	Poster	Video		The EZ Sorter is an automated sorter used to test and sort standard resistors into bins. Its sleek design enables it to be easily mounted to a typical sorting cabinet and plugged in to a normal wall outlet. Additionally, its simple user interface makes it easy for anyone to use. Designed to make the lives of students and professors easier, the EZ Sorter takes the hassle out of lab cleanup.
30	Fair Fare	Miranda Dolan Elle Russo Sydney Stallman	CS CS CS	Poster	Video		Fair Fare is an iOS application that promotes conscious consumerism by featuring a custom rating algorithm for scoring meat and dairy products. This algorithm is comprised of three main factors: company ethics, environmental impact, and nutritional value. Each of these three factors are broken into smaller subcategories in order for us to provide more meaningful values to a product’s rating.
31	Feline Water Consumption Monitor	Benjamin Cohen Andrew Kriz	CompE CompE	Poster	Video		Felines in captivity experience issues staying hydrated, as most of their water comes from their prey in the wild - something kibble cannot offer. We have designed improvements to an existing system meant to track a feline's water consumption and reward the behavior with positive reinforcement. Our goal is to make the system as accessible as possible, while providing excellent functionality.
32	GPS Deprived UAV Localization	Tanner Bornemann Joseph Krusling Matthew Manley	CS CS CS	Poster	Video	Yes	Unmanned aerial vehicles, such as drones and quadcopters, rely heavily on GPS for navigating an environment. Indoors, GPS is often diminish to the point of unusability, making indoor navigation difficult.We seek to identify and implement various systems which enable an unmanned aerial vehicle to navigate autonomously in GPS-deprived environments, such as indoors.
33	HD FM Signal Time of Arrival	Yuxi Chen Haoyu Wang Shunran Li Shuyu Ming	EE EE EE EE	Poster	Video		HD Radio is a trademarked term for in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio used by AM & FM stations. Its latest version is NRSC-5-D. Digital information is transmitted using OFDM with the HDC (High-Definition Coding) audio compression algorithm. Our prototype receives Cincinnati area HD signals with different times from transmitter to receiver and correlates time of arrivals (TOAs) with reference subcarriers.
34	Heimdall	Kyle Cullion Michael Keenan Vivek Kunapareddy Zack Steck	CS CS CS CS	Poster	Video		Modern web applications require stringent monitoring to isolate bugs and locate performance and concurrency problems. Heimdall bridges the gap between small, specific open-source server-monitoring applications and expensive proprietary applications. We will provide the users with a mobile application, web application, and server monitoring agent for analyzing server uptime/performance.
35	Human Age Detection through Face Recognition Based on a Neural Network System	Yunjia Wu Xiang Li	EE EE	Poster	Video	Yes	With development of network and photography technology, many methods are able to recognize a user’s identity by using facial recognition. We model a simple part of the whole process, age recognition. Our project aims to design and train a neural network model to classify 3 age ranges: young, prime of life and old. The model should guarantee accuracy above 80%.
36	Hybrid Solar-Thermoelectric Power Generation System	Maosheng Gao Hanxiang LI Yan Liang	EE EE EE	Poster	Video		To solve over-heating, which reduces conversion efficiency in Photovoltaics (PV), our team combined PV and Thermoelectric (TE) to develop a hybrid system. Solar beam is concentrated by Fresnel lens on the surface of PV and TE module is attached on its backside to generate extra electricity. Commercial solar cells and TE module are utilized, and a best hybrid system is designed and built.
37	Improved Split Manufacturing Techniques for Trusted Design	Michael Shuster	CompE	Poster	Video	Yes	The hypothesis is that a SAT Attack based proximity attack can be used to evaluate different defense methods from a proximity attack. Proving or disproving of these methods requires an accompanying suite of test metrics such as k-security. To initiate this area of research, a random net lift method is applied to a benchmark, and then an attack is performed. Effectiveness can then be determined.
38	Improvements in MOLES Trojan Analysis and FPGA Implementation	Thomas Kissel Adam Pendergrass Linden Peterson Heiko Stowasser	CompE EE CompE CompE	Poster	Video	Yes	The initial purpose of this project was to improve the analysis portion of the MOLES trojan circuit, specifically focusing on machine learning. Due to time constrains and lack of relevant data sets, the purpose was shifted to focus on developing internal FPGA capacitance using LUTs in order to fully implement the MOLES trojan on FPGA. This approach requires more research to be useable.
39	Industrial Control with Hand Gestures	Joel Ryan	EE	Poster	Video		Typically, in industrial manufacturing environments, operators interact with machines using a panel of buttons, or a touch screen display. These operator stations aren’t flexible, ergonomic, or intuitive. This project will showcase an example of an innovative operator workstation using typical industrial controls equipment in junction with a unique input device.
40	IntelliHome: An FPGA-Based Implementation of an EEG-Controlled Smart-Home	Christian Charles Samudayan Kumar Angela Rozmarynowycz	CompE CompE CompE	Poster	Video		IntelliHome aims at classifying brain waves which will allow the user to control various appliances and adjust their environment. For example, if the user is relaxed IntelliHome will pick up the heightened alpha wave activity and adjust the lighting and temperature in the room accordingly. This is implemented on a FPGA which communicates with an EEG headset to receive and process brain waves.
41	Interactive Kea Game	Anne Meyer Jake Sebald Joe Leanza Zach Allison	CS CS CompE EE	Poster	Video		This project intends to allow the Cincinnati zoo visitors to interact with the Kea birds. The system will need to be safe to interact with for both the guests of all ages and for the Kea. The system will be composed of two separate monitors and controllers. The intent of this project to allow for data collection and research about the Kea birds while providing an interactive exhibit at the Zoo.
42	Interactive Penguin Feeder	Ian Fleming Nicholas Pool Brandon Sanders	CompE CompE CompE	Poster	Video		The Cincinnati Zoo noticed lesions developing on the feet of their penguins. A study showed that swimming would reduce the size and presence of these lesions. The interactive penguin feeder would require the penguins to swim and interact with an underwater sensor in order to obtain their food treats. This will help combat the lesions and allow the zoo to collect feeding data.
43	IR Sensor Analyzer	Ruoxing Wang Dingchen Yang	EE EE	Poster	Video		Our project is to develop a simplified IR detecting system to evaluate and compare different products. We use a Raspberry Pi and Matlab to transform data into black-or-white pixels and save the data automatically. We evaluated different IR sensors for performance and cost. Our equipment could be used as part of a museum safety system to detect motion or measure temperature.
44	Kea Enrichment and Autonomous Feeder	Michael Bleier Samuel Huff Kyle Sowers	EE EE EE	Poster	Video		The Kea Enrichment project involved developing an interactive game for the kea birds at the Cincinnati Zoo. The Autonomous feeder is a standalone addition to the interactive game that can be used in other locations.
45	Kea Entertainment System	Colin McNally Robert Betschman Max Kern John Siegel	CompE EE CS CompE	Poster	Video		Our project is a collaboration with the Cincinnati Zoo. The goal of this project was to create an enrichment activity for the kea birds. To do this we created a versatile game system similar to a modern video game console. This game system is durable, simple, and versatile to fit the needs of the zoo.
46	Lane Detection and Classification for ADAS Application	Meihong Ge Jinjin Ruan Sitong Wang	EE EE EE	Poster	Video		Our project builds a lane detection and classification system for ADAS application. We first implemented popular neuron network algorithms and tested them on public lane detection datasets. Then we made improvements by incorporating a self-attention distillation method into ENet. This reached 95.24% accuracy on the TuSimple dataset. Finally, we created an application using Python Flask API.
47	Lupe	Kristian Snyder	CS	Poster	Video	Yes	Lupe is a convolutional neural network model designed to determine, in real-time, whether a person is lifting an object and if they are at increased risk of injuring themselves as a result. It uses accelerometer and gyroscope sensors placed in various locations of the body and was able to achieve ~90% accuracy as both a risk classifier and as a lift detector.
48	Luvie: an LGBT + Inclusive Healthcare Marketplace	Dillon Dragomir	CompE	Poster	Video		Luvie is part of a parent company called Luv Health Co. Luvie is an LGBT+ focused platform that allows individuals to ask questions and read qualified content regarding sexuality and mental health. This project migrated current code to support all four of our platforms and improve the platform for the following requirements: Testability/Scalability, Flexibility/Modularity and Security/Compliance.
49	Make the Car Move	Yejoon Park	CS	Poster	Video		This project is developing an android mobile game application with Unity3D engine to teach basic concept of programming and algorithm. For this project, Unity3D engine, C#, java, and photoshop technology are used. After playing the entire game, player understands how programming is working. Also, the player would learn what is algorithm while playing the game.
50	Malicious Honeypot	Nick Marquardt John Velten	CS CS	Poster	Video		This project is a study in the realm of cybersecurity. Honeypots are tools that are used to learn about, track, and prevent threats to a system. Attackers are baited with a phony system and from here they can be blocked, or just tracked. Our goal is to implement a honeypot that can also return malicious code that will allow us to gain access to and control the attacker’s system.
51	MENT: Memory ENvironmental Tags	Eric Gidzinski Akshansh Gupta Trinia Gene Medrano	CompE CompE CompE	Poster	Video		As the proportion of people of senior age (65+) increases, problems associated with old age (forgetfulness) will arise. There is a need for a product that reminds people to complete their chores in an easy intuitive fashion. The goal is an interconnected system where one interacts with their environment. Memory ENvironmental Tags will contain recorded messages which recall upon user’s proximity.
52	MiBeX: Malware-inserted Benign Datasets for Explainable Machine Learning	Wayne Stegner	CompE	Poster	Video	Yes	This work explores the use of Metasploit to produce a scalable malware dataset with intelligible malicious features for machine learning (ML) classification. The resultant dataset is then used with a Malware as Image classifier to prove its validity for use in training ML algorithms. A dataset containing 2206 files is generated, and a ML classifier achieves 99.72% test accuracy on the dataset.
53	Mimicking the ECM and Cell-Surface Interactions in Tissue Engineering for Dermal Wound Healing: A Review	Jacob Long Avani Kabra	EE MEDS	Poster	Video	Yes	The initial research project was to construct a nanofiber scaffold for wound healing using electrospinning, but closure of the lab due to the virus changed the project - now it will culminate in a review paper on the qualities of such a scaffold as outlined by available literature. The fabrication methods, bio-mimicking characteristics, and cell-interacting features of the scaffolds are explored.
54	Mine Sweeper	Jonathan Busch Anthony Bessler Jordan Jacob Thomas Hollovary	EE EE CompE EE	Poster	Video		Many countries that were previous war zones lack resources to neutralize minefields. This project uses robotics to remove the risk of entering an unmarked area containing landmines. The robot can survey an area to detect landmines, mark a safe path through a minefield, and mark the location of land mines.
55	ML Stock Site	Christopher Ochs Philip Tallo Kyle O'Connor Matthew Krauskopf	CS CS CS CS	Poster	Video		To allow users to have better control over their finances, we will provide a web-based multifaceted application. The application will use multiple machine learning models allowing for end users to examine publicly traded stocks. A prediction, with a specific degree of certainty, will be given to the user on whether the stock value is forecasted to increase or decrease.
56	MOLES in an FPGA	Sara Vandewerker	CompE	Poster	Video	Yes	MOLES is an acronym for Malicious Off-chip Leakage Enabled by Side-channels. A MOLES circuit inserted into an integrated circuit (IC) allows an attacker to leak secret information, encryption keys, using side channels, current. The MOLES circuit operates below the noise level of the IC in order to evade detection.
57	Music Maker	Eric Gatto Jason Judis John Rose Adam Tai	CompE CS CS CS	Poster	Video		We created a device and application that can easily teach kids about music. This includes the 3-D printing production of an electronic piano-like device. Our software is built to be robust, yet simple, so kids can pick it up and learn with little outside intervention. Our hope is to teach kids about music theory and creation in a fun and educational environment.
58	OSCAR	Anna DeBrunner Charles Greenman Isaac Mathers	CS CS CS	Poster	Video		The exploitation of social media has become an important issue in recent years, especially concerning political elections. Although awareness has increased, disinformation has become more pervasive. With another election cycle in the near future, the Open Social Comparison and Analysis for Reddit tool (OSCAR) provides a more informed experience on Reddit regarding its users and communities.
59	Penguin Heater/Cooler Unit	Justin Boamah Matt Lombardi Devon Saccocio Thomas (Zack) Sullivan	EE ME ME CS	Poster	Video		The penguin is a hyper-hypothermia device that is aimed at helping patients who are unable to regulate their own body temperature, reach normothermia. The penguin is a uniquely designed, low cost, light weight alternative to what is currently on the market.
60	Piezoelectric Nanofibers for Spinal Cord Repair	Syed Shahid Mickaelan Lee Ann Wolf	CompE EE EE	Poster	Video	Yes	Our work is a research project that investigates the use of electrospun PVDF-TrFE as scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. We evaluate the plausibility of using these scaffolds for Schwann cell cultivation for spinal cord repair. We present an optimized protocol for the fabrication of the electrospun nanofibers and then evaluate the resulting piezoelectric and mechanical properties.
61	Pinball Wizards	David Eubanks Patrick Taliaferro Jennifer Brewer Will Tekulve	EE CompE EE CS/EE	Poster	Video		Our project was to build a pinball machine, whose rule set would update at 30 Hz. Electronic functionality within the system was partitioned among a group of PCBs, each of which were developed from scratch, with all SoCs thereon being flashed by Rust code leveraging the RTFM framework. Development of mechanical components, excluding playfield design, was outside of the scope of this project.
62	Plant Parenthood	Max Frisch Rachael Chandle	CS CS	Poster	Video		It can be difficult for inexperienced plant owners to cultivate and maintain gardens or individual plants when they don’t know the needs of every type of plant they own. Plant Parenthood is a solution using several new technologies to measure factors essential to plant health.
63	Puls Lyte	Carlos Santamaria Jared Thornton	EET EET	Poster	Video		Traditional Wi-Fi networks operate in the RF spectrum that ranges from 30Hz –300GHz. Our project, Puls Lyte, proposes introducing Li-Fi,or Light Fidelity networks,that operate in the visible light spectrum which offers 10,000 times the bandwidth of the RF spectrum. Implementing Li-Fi networks to operate in conjunction with Wi-Fi networks will alleviate wireless network congestion as well as offer flexibility for future network expansion.
64	PUPPy	Emily Weyda Meghna Gupta Nick Maltbie Nick Engle	CompE CompE CS CS	Poster	Video	Yes	PUPPy is a deep learning model designed to process accelerometer and gyroscope data from a smartphone to predict a user's motion. We compare PUPPy to existing deep learning models with a new measure of cumulative error to evaluate model performance. We introduce a novel concept of sequence prediction and include concepts from existing solutions to create a better performing model.
65	RAMS (RFID Asset Management System)	Kurt Burroughs Paco Patag Rainor Tangvald	CompE EE EE	Poster	Video		RAMS uses Gen2 RFID tags and a simultaneous RFID tag reader to track a custom set of up to 150 objects within a range of up to15 feet. With a rechargeable LiPo battery that allows for mobile use, two different tracking modes as well as the abilities to add, delete, and rename tags from memory, this mobile asset tracking system will keep you from losing anything ever again.
66	Recyclable Separator	Skylor Stewart Micah Tawney	EET ME	Poster	Video		Since the beginning of household waste recycling, people have utilized “blue-box” recycling. Before this, households were required to separate recyclables by material so facilities could more easily handle them. This served as a deterrent as it seemed like more work than it was worth. The Recyclable Separator aims to maintain the convenience of blue-box as well as to assist recycling facilities.
67	Remote-Controlled Electric Submarine	Kameron Riddle Tanner Fowler Austin Walker Kevin Ruggiero	EET EE EE CompE	Poster	Video		The Remote-Controlled Aquatic Explorer ignores many problems people face when trying to see underwater. Electrically driven and wirelessly controlled, the RCAE can be used from 80 feet or more away through Wi-Fi transmission. The RCAE also has HD live-streaming capabilities, with video sent to the operator’s smartphone. The RCAE intends to expand the possibilities of underwater exploration.
68	Roast to Roast	Brian Rutherford Colton Crouc	CS CS	Poster	Video		Roast to Roast is a mobile application that helps users find, brew, and taste local coffee. Users can find coffee via a map that will display the shop’s name and location. They can also make coffee at home by viewing the various step-by-step brewing recipes on the brew page. Finally, the taste page allows users to log their taste of each coffee they drink and save each log for future reference.
69	Robotic Fire Extinguisher	Moaz Abougabal Quintyn Nye Alex Leonard Arshad Mohammed	CompE EE ME ME	Poster	Video		This robot is designed to patrol the main floor of the home, looking for fires. When it detects a fire, it will text the owner a message and a picture. Emergency contacts can also be notified. It also starts beeping, like a normal smoke alarm. If the fire grows at all, it begins putting it out. If the fire does not grow in few seconds, the user can tell the robot to not put it out.
70	RRAM Secured IC Provisioning	Drew Hanna	EE	Poster	Video	Yes	A resistive random-access memory (RRAM) device was simulated to allow for integrated circuit (IC) provisioning and also to secure the circuit against counterfeiting. Research done for this project resulted in the creation of a read/write circuit and an obfuscated adder circuit that uses RRAM to store a key. A conference paper was also written about the using RRAM devices for IC provisioning.
71	Saliva POCT for Mental Stress Level Analyzer System	Rui Cheng Yichi Zhang Zhilu Guo Xiaoyu Yan	EE EE EE EE	Poster	Video		People face mental stress every day, but methods to detect the stress are very inconvenient and expensive. Our project is to help build a Point-Of-Care Testing device and an analyzer system to apply biochips and biosensors to help measure stress. We describe needed functions for an interface circuit between a smartphone and the system's chips and sensors and then implement these functions.
72	Sensor and Communication Network Planning for Power System Observability	Nan Feng	EE	Poster	Video		We develop a resilient, economical cyber infrastructure to realize full observability of a network with a minimal number of PMUs. This provides three benefits: it improves observability with optimal placement of PMUs and associated communication links, it prevents PMU and communication link failure, and it minimizes the cost of smart grids in practical cases.
73	Sight of Sound	Eric Albino Karl Eber Simon Bartholomew Gabriel Smith	CS CS CS CS	Poster	Video		It is estimated that one in ten people suffer from hearing loss, hampering their ability to communicate. To help bridge these gaps in communication, we are designing a real time subtitle application using Augmented Reality and Machine Learning. A potential user will put on a headset and when he or she is looking at someone who is speaking, speech bubbles will appear next to the speaker’s head.
74	Single Phase Pure Sinusoidal Wave DC-AC Inverter Design	Huaze Sui Wenhao Du Yanhao Zhang Junhao Xiao	EE EE EE EE	Poster	Video		The object is to design and implement a DC to AC sine-wave inverter for PV-integration to the grid. We completed the simulation of the inverter, filter, transformer, and controller, and the implementation of real components along with operation testing. Now we are studying the schematic design of the additional amplifier, which aims to magnify the voltage operating range.
75	Smart Door	Shannon Newby Prasad Prakanth	CompE CompE	Poster	Video		Our Smart Door is a cost-effective, easy-to-use way to monitor and control a residential door. Users can unlock and open the door remotely and hands-free, through a Blynk Application or an RFID system. Users can also monitor status door and lock status, receive customizable status change notifications by a mobile device, and grant other users access to their Smart Door’s dashboard.
76	Smart Home Appliance Power Monitoring Device	Tien Dao Allen Krzyminski Nicholas Steinmetz Abe Wickstrom	EE EE CompE EE	Poster	Video		Currently there are few ways for people to monitor power usage for individual appliances. Our device is designed to measure the power consumption of 120V appliances. Power data is measured using an Arduino and then transmitted via WiFi to an application to view. The user will be able to view power and cost data over time, and receive alerts if the device isn’t performing as expected.
77	Smart Weight Training Tracker	Paul Osadchy Ayesha Vohra	EE EE	Poster	Video		Wearable trackers are very popular in the fitness industry. They are generally designed to track heart rate, steps, and calories burned. Weight lifting, however, requires more information. Details such as workout intensity, form, technique, and timing rest periods are needed to properly execute a weight lifting exercise. The solution is to create a wearable device to track those specific details.
78	Snoring Analysis Using Embedded Microphone of Smartphone and External Biosensorsc	Ming Zhou Ruiqi Zhang	EE EE	Poster	Video	Yes	We propose an android application for snoring detection and distinguishing based on a microphone embedded in a smartphone and relevant bio-mark monitoring using MAX30102 heart rate and blood oxygen level sensor. This is an inexpensive but effective way for snoring analysis and preliminary diagnosis for health issues induced by snoring.
79	SoCalendar	Tim Walsh Nick Chonko	CS CS	Poster	Video		SoCalendar is a social media application based on a user’s schedule. A user inputs his or her scheduled events and tasks. SoCalendar provides the user a way to discover fun activities and add them to his or her schedule. SoCalendar will then schedule the user’s upcoming tasks freeing the user’s valuable time.
80	Solar Powered Automated Aquaponics System	Eugene Hopper Samuel Huntley Jacob Keller	EE EE EE	Poster	Video		Our project was to develop a clean energy aquaponics system. This system can provide food with smaller area, water, and energy than traditional growing methods. Our design has a solid foundation, but due to extreme circumstances we were not able to build the system. The testing we conducted shows that our design is functional in theory. However, we could not test the design for full functionality.
81	Sole Plus	Kristie Schneider Andrew Schultz	EET EET	Poster	Video		Most people have had an electronic device run out of battery. With Sole Plus, you’ll charge a battery while also being active. The sole converts physical energy into electricity. Multiple piezoelectric transducers are placed in a shoe sole to charge a battery. These transducers use pressure to convert physical energy into electricity. Once energy is converted, the battery pack will be charged.
82	Tanks! an Original Arcade Game	Andrew Siedlak Nolan Warning	CompE CompE	Poster	Video		This project focused on an original arcade game and cabinet. The project was broken up into three parts. The software was written in GDscript for the Godot game engine. The hardware chosen to host and process the game was the Raspberry Pi 4. The cabinet design was designed as a cocktail style prototype, but was unable to be completed due to university shutdowns.
83	Tethered Drone Project	Jerome Schulte Sean Depweg Ross King Matthew Ridinger	EE EE EE EE	Poster	Video		This project analyzes ways unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be tethered, prolonging flight duration and securing data transmission. Additionally, this project investigates the feasibility and experimental capability of a tether system developed for a micro-UAV with the ability to detach itself from the tether when signaled.
84	Text Embedding-Based Semantic Tracking	Chengzhi Wei Xuesong Bai Dongyue Zhang	EE EE EE	Poster	Video	Yes	Keeping track of how meaning is organized in a document is an important issue. Semantic tracking tools have the potential to help writers track what they are writing and improve their understanding. Most of the existing techniques are poor in this regard, so there is still a need for a usable semantic tracking algorithm. This research aims to build such an algorithm and demonstrates its use.
85	The Implementation of Indoor Location Based on dTDOA Theorem	Xiaoyu Ou Ruixiang Li Zifan Wang Changwei LI	EE EE EE EE	Poster	Video		GPS signals cannot penetrate buildings since when they reach the ground, their energy and SNR are very small. We used four USRPs to generate signals and communicate with one another to measure Time of Arrivals. We calculate location using this group TOA and the dTDOA algorithm. We can also study this theorem, which can theoretically eliminate transmitter time errors and receiver clock offsets.
86	The Medicine Delivery Robot	Brock Stechschulte Anthony Dietz Kevin Blount	CS MET MET	Poster	Video		For our project we are tackling the problem of how hard it is for senior citizens receive their medications in their own home. To resolve this problem, we are creating The Medicine Delivery Robot. This robot will deliver a person’s medicine to them wherever they are in their home.
87	3D Modeling and Mapping of Indoor Environments	Josh Moretto John Murdock Walter Hilderbrand Steven Kligman	EE EE EE CompE	Poster	Video		The project Group 16 created utilized Light Detecting and Ranging (LiDAR/LIDAR) proporties, the Intel RealSense camera system and a cloud based streaming services to create an interior mapping system that could be integrated with a virtual reality headset to explore accurate real space. The original intent was to create a mobile platform that would map a real building for use in the virtual space.
88	Training & Development for Programming a Single Phase, 6-Axis Robot	Joshua Aylor	EE	Poster	Video		Train engineering group to maintain, repair, troubleshoot, back up, and program an FR series vertically articulated, 6-axis robot. Hands-on training system that teaches the engineers how to program the robot in a step by step process. The program will have the robot transfer a dowel pin from a fitted hole in the –Z axis to another fitted hole in the +X axis.
89	UC Rainfall Analysis	Smit Patel Prathamesh Brahmankar Jessica Doyal Collin Fox	CS CS CS CS	Poster	Video		Currently, there is not a way to determine the exact amount of rainfall and erosion experienced by structures specific to the University of Cincinnati. Our project aims to address this by implementing measuring and communication devices to analyze rainfall data for display via a mobile or desktop web app.
90	Under The Moon	Hunter Bevis Alex Taillan	CS CS	Poster	Video		This is an app designed for parents who want to find dates for their kids. It works like Tinder. It is easy to use. It provides an effective method for parents to find dates with minimum effort.
91	Universal Safe and Arm Tester 6	Dominic Fago John Tallant	EE EE	Poster	Video		The Universal Safe and Arm Tester 6 is a generic, modular microcontroller based PCB designed to test products and collect data, replacing the old Universal Safe and Arm Tester 5. This project is funded by L3Harris Fuzing and Ordnance Systems and is subject to their proprietary information restrictions.
92	University of Cincinnati Custom Pinball Machine	Sean Campbell Eric Gallagher Andew Hanshaw Jacob Rutherford	EE EE EE EE	Poster	Video	Yes	The project goal was to build a custom University of Cincinnati themed pinball machine to explore the topic of mechatronics engineering. Custom designed circuit boards were created to drive the mechanical pinball components provided by Stern Pinball. A custom pinball cabinet and playfield were also created to house these components and incorporate UC-themed aesthetics.
93	Virtual Reality Chess	Sebastian Cornejo David Higgins Michael Rock Brandon Weeks	CompE CompE CompE CompE	Poster	Video		Using the C# programming language, the Unity Game Engine, and Blendr, our group has recreated the game of Chess within a Virtual Reality Game. Our game features include: valid move checking, a game menu, a park environment, and our unique feature, Offline AI Opponents.
94	Virtuoso	Nick Rook Noah Bass Samuel Buzas Korey Huskonen	CS CS CS CS	Poster	Video		Virtuoso is an interactive web platform for teaching high school students the fundamentals of networking and network security. With Virtuoso, students will gain exposure to these concepts and further develop their interest in computers and computer science. Virtuoso enables students to graphically build, configure, and visualize their own computer networks.
95	Wearable Respiratory Rate Monitoring Device Based on Pulse Oximetry	Xiaoyi Yang	EE	Poster	Video	Yes	This project focuses on the algorithm for a wearable device to continuously extract respiratory rates (RR) from pulse oximetry photoplethysmogram data, where the RR signal is buried in the dominating heart rate signal. Techniques such as bandpass filters with dynamic passband, adaptive notch filters with varying frequency, and gradient descent were applied. Accurate extraction of RR was achieved.
96	Wireless Electric Car Charger	Nic Brown Ann Fields Nick Gordon Abdullah Subhi	CompE EE EE EE	Poster	Video		The purpose of this project was to develop a universal wireless charging system that could be used for charging electric vehicles. Currently most electric cars are charged by being plugged into a charging port when they aren’t being used. The goal was to simplify the charging process for electric vehicles, demonstrated through a small-scale RC car model.
97	Wireless Video Surveillance Using USRP’s	Brian Cummings Kyle Kovachick Hayden Klopp	EE EE EE	Poster	Video		Our project was inspired by the hope of allowing home surveillance while removing the need for Wi-Fi accessibility or incurring expensive charges by third party companies. This project serves as a proof of concept, with the vision being that our creation can empower amateur radio enthusiasts to avoid traditional pricey methods and employ their own home security solution.