Date: April 23, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Grand Ballroom
Pizza and drinks will be served for lunch to visitors and attendees.
| Name | Faculty Mentor | Summary | Students | Sponsor |
| Smart Baby Room With Monitoring System | Dr. Minaie | Uses AI and audio analysis to detect a baby's crying, triggering notifications to guardians and controlling the baby's environment, integrating with smart home systems to alleviate parental stress. | Logan Chenworth, Hunter Johnson | ECE Funded |
| Wireless Fencing With Capacitive Touch Sensors | Dr. Minaie | Aims to design an affordable, tetherless fencing scoring system using capacitive probes, mesh interconnectivity, and ESP32 microcontrollers, with Bluetooth connectivity for score tracking, offering a more accessible solution for small clubs and casual settings. | Andrew Butler, Victor Galayda | ECE Funded |
| Bluetooth Steering Wheel for Simulation and RC Control | Dr. Minaie | Develops a wireless steering wheel for driving simulation, designed for individuals with driving limitations using real-time data display, and user-friendly software for an immersive experience. | Jeremiah Engel, Aidan Young | ECE Funded |
| Guitar Effects Pedal Using Chorus Modulation | Dr. Minaie | An analog multi-voice modulator pedal, blends analog and digital technology to offer versatile modulation effects like chorus, flanger, and vibrato, enhancing the sound of electric guitars and opening new avenues for sonic exploration and expression. | Colton Seegmiller | ECE Funded |
| Water Quality Monitoring | Dr. Minaie | Presents a comprehensive, user-friendly water quality monitoring system that uses a suite of sensors and a smartphone app for real-time, on-the-spot assessment of water parameters, aiding in potability and environmental impact evaluation. | David Horne, Logan Stranc | ECE Funded |
| Increasing Digital Accessibility for the Blind | Dr. Minaie | Aims to develop an affordable Braille writing device, integrating beneficial features like haptic feedback and Braille shorthand customization to enhance digital communication for the visually impaired, particularly in developing countries. | Zachary Ward, Christian Poulsen | ECE Funded |
| Weight Sensing Insole | Dr. Ahmadi | A real-time foot pressure and body weight tracking system using weight-sensing insole technology, capacitive sensors, and wireless communication, providing valuable insights for healthcare and sports performance analysis. | Benjamin Heaton, Brayden Harding | ECE Funded |
| Hand Gesture Music Conducting System | Dr. Ahmadi | Presents an innovative system that uses a camera to translate user’s hand gestures and arm movements into music in real time, providing an intuitive and interactive experience for music creation, regardless of the user’s musical background. | Brent Watson, Dylan de Hoyos | ECE Funded |
| Beyond Boundaries: LiDAR and Depth Camera Fusion in Remote Ground Navigation | Dr. Rohani | This project engineered a ground drone to boost crisis response, with a Raspberry Pi 4B, LiDAR, and a depth camera, enabling high-precision mapping and situational awareness for first responders who may have to enter the hazardous environment. | Kyler Draper | ECE Funded |
| Simulated G-Force on a Stationary Platform | Dr. Rohani | Affordable simulators are unable to recreate the sustained acceleration experienced in the real world. We solve this by attaching cables to a vest-helmet configuration and apply a constant force on a large area of the torso and head using field-oriented control. This results in an affordable, sustained acceleration system. | Esteban Oman | ECE Funded |
| Single Pixel Camera | Dr. Shekaramiz | A single sensor to efficiently capture high-quality images through compressive sensing techniques, utilizing the Orthogonal Matching Pursuit algorithm. | Alex Young, Cole Alldredge | NSF Funded |
| Wireless Charging Dock for Drones | Dr. Shekaramiz and Dr. Masoum | Presents a solution for autonomous drone operation by designing a 30W, 200kHz inductive wireless charging system for a DJI Mini 4 Pro, aiming to reduce flight interruptions and increase mission readiness, with the system achieving 62% efficiency in providing 25W of power. | Brennen Barfuss, Lalle N'diaye | USHE Funded |
| Autonomous Wind Turbine Inspection Using DJI Matrice 300 RTK Drone and AI Path Planning | Dr. Shekaramiz | Introduces an integrated system that uses a DJI Matrice drone and AI technologies for autonomous, real-time inspection of wind turbines, significantly improving safety, efficiency, and performance. | Angel Rodriguez, Joshua Zander | USHE Funded |
| Wind Turbine Fault Localization Using Deep Learning | Dr. Shekaramiz and Dr. Masoum | A deep learning approach using drone imagery and object detection architectures, YOLO and Mask RCNN, for efficient and accurate detection of wind turbine faults, achieving promising results with over 82% precision. | Mason Davis, Edwin Nazario | USHE Funded |
| Aqua Feast | Dr. Rohani | The Automatic Fish Feeder project utilizes an Atmega328 microcontroller to automate the feeding process for aquariums. The system dispenses fish food at scheduled intervals, ensuring regular feeding even when the user is absent. | Kaden Clements, Nathan Silva | ECE Funded |
| Ball Balancing Game | Dr. Rohani | This Arduino-based ball balancing game, inspired by a classic maze game, ingeniously combines Arduino, servo motors, and joystick modules to create a challenging and interactive experience. | Sunshin Jo, Colin Nguyen, Esteban Mendoza | ECE Funded |
| Anemometer Wireless Communication for Matrice 300RTK | Dr. Shekaramiz | An anemometer tower and transmission design for Matrice 300RTK drone with dedicated communication and signal amplification, to enable controlling the drone in harsh, windy environments. | Benjamin Collier | USHE Funded |
| UVU's Mobile Solar-Wind Drone-Based Workstation: System Design via Homer Pro and Implementation | Dr. Shekaramiz and Dr. Masoum | The development of a solar-wind mobile workstation using photovoltaics and a wind turbine to supply power to the station. Excess power is stored in batteries. Homer Pro was used to design and analyze the performance and load demand. | Christopher Huntington, James Moos | PacifiCorp Funded |
| UVU's Mobile Solar-Wind Drone-Based Workstation: Simulation via MATLAB Simulink | Dr. Shekaramiz and Dr. Masoum | The development of a solar-wind mobile workstation using photovoltaics and a wind turbine to supply power to the station. Excess power is stored in batteries. System simulation via MATLAB-Simulink. | Christopher Huntington, James Moos | PacifiCorp Funded |
