ECE 189 Capstone Events (2017 & 2018)
2017-18 Projects & Sponsors
Best Projects
- Excellence in CE: HoverHand (Arveng Technologies)
- Engineering Innovation in CE: Wall-E (Oakley Lab)
All Projects
- * Deep Vision (DDJI, NVIDIA, SEAL Lab): Identifies and tracks targets such as dogs and people in real time by analyzing video recorded by the drone’s camera
Team: Chenghao Jiang, Terry Xie, Charlie Xu, Jenny Zheng - Gaucho Hawk (AeroVironment): A printed circuit board with state-of-art sensors and relevant software for high precision drones
Team: Kurt Madland, Yesh Ramesh, Vikram Sastry, Richard Young, Jack Zang - Hover Hand (Arveng Technologies): A glove that recognizes and converts hand movements to pilot a quadcopter drone
Team: Austin Dorotheo, Steven Fields, Colin Garrett, Miclos Lobins, Zach Meyer - SPOT (NASA): Device that helps astronauts path-find on unknown terrain, without an increase in cognitive load
Team: Saurabh Gupta, Bryan Lavin-Parmenter, Neil O’Bryan, Brandon Pon - TiresiaScope: A headset that assists blind people in identifying nearby obstacles
Team: John Bowman, Trevor Hecht, Timothy Kwong, Devon Porcher, Brian Young - UCSB Hyperloop (Northrop Grumman, Laritech Inc., Montecito Bank & Trust, UCSB Economics, John Jacobs, Jonathan Siegel, Peter Carter, Raytheon): A communications, telemetry, and control unit for UCSB’s entry into SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod Competition
Team: Cameron Bijan, David Donaldson, Alex Jun, Dylan Vanmali, Mark Wu - Wall-E – Waterborne Autonomous Low Light Electrostereovideography (Oakley Lab): A submersible low-light camera that can be deployed in tandem to analyze Ostracod courtship patterns using computer vision techniques
Team: Veena Chandran, Karthik Kribakaran, Wesley Peery, Franklin Tang, Vincent Wang, Karli Yokotake
* Team participated in the 2018 Design Automation Conference (DAC) – System Design Contest
** Multidisciplinary Team of CE, ME and EE students
2016-2017 Projects
Best Projects
- Computer Engineering Project: Gestur
- Multidisciplinary Project: UCSB Hyperloop
All Projects
- * FLIR Helios: a wireless, WIFI-enabled security camera that harnesses energy from the sun to bring peace of mind to your home
Team: Ben May, Carlos Beltran, Salim Benhaddou, Garrison Carter, Aaron Chang - Gestur: a virtual reality glove focused on obtaining a high degree of precision between the movements of the hand and how it is represented in virtual space
Team: Ryan Kaveh, Kyle Carson, Jon Young - IR Hub: a device that allows users to turn their smartphone into a universal remote, giving them control over their living room with nothing more than their phone’s Bluetooth and the Hub
Team: Nathan Bradley, Jesus Castro, Jeremiah Prousalis - OstraCam: an underwater low-light stereo imaging instrument to aid in observations of biological activity
Team: Paul Killam, Christina Lim, Oliver Thio - * Sonos COM: an intercom device that lets the user broadcast their voice to any Sonos system in their home
Team: Brian Sandler, Brenden Fujishige, Marcellis Carr-Barfield, Richard Wei, Subhodeep Choudhury, Seyed Mohammad Ghazitabrizi - * UCSB Hyperloop: a communications, telemetry, and control unit for UCSB’s entry into SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod Competition
Team: Yang Ren, Tristan Seroff, Asitha Kaduwela, Jesus Diera
* Multidisciplinary Team includes Mechanical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering students
