Florida Institute of Technology

• A robot for the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) (https://sites.google.com/a/my.fit.edu/igvc-fltech/ )
• Hermes – a line crawling robot to inspect high power lines
• Scott Center HVAC will look at a design for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system
• Florida Tech Motor sports will be looking at a design of a car to compete in the SAE Formula competition in Michigan.

For more information see: Mechanical Projects 2009/10

Aerospace engineering students are working on many exciting projects.

• A Blended wing body plane  (http://www.bwb2.org/BWB_2.0/Home.html )
• An SAE Cargo Plane (http://my.fit.edu/cargoplane/  )
• The Lunar X-Prize
• Acoustic testing of rocket plumes
• Design of a liquid aerospike nozzle
• Turbine blade designs with improved efficiency
• Designing snubbers to increase the life of turbine blades
• Design of a detonation tube to study shock waves (http://my.fit.edu/det_tube/  )
• Design of tubercle leading edge wind turbine blade
• Design of a Morphing wing for an aircraft
• A Tanker Lighting Design Team will mock up for proof of concept LED display that will enable communication from the boom operator to the receiving pilot during air-to-air refueling operations.

For more information see: Aerospace Projects 2009/10

Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering have a wide variety of projects in work.

• Forward Motion Compensation (FMC) system is a system design for aerial mapping cameras
• Security Sensor is sensor for fingerprint identification for credit cards
• Smart Alarm System is an alarm that supplies police with data to locate a stolen vehicle
• Serenity Now is a technology uses strobe light goggles that alter the brainwave frequency by flashing LED source light into the closed eyes of the subject
• Walking Sensor is a pressure sensor inside the shoe and it calculates the distance or how many steps you have walked.
• Security Systems is a system of two webcams and a main computer (http://my.fit.edu/~opalaogl/website/Final%20Project/finalproject.html)
• The Parking Lot Monitoring System concept is based on an idea for an inexpensive solution to a proximity parking space monitor system
• T.E.A.R.S. (Telemetry Enhanced Advanced Reconnaissance Suit) is a privately funded project focused at producing an efficient and effective military vest for covert operations
• The Protective Electrode Helmet design project attempts to address the inconvenience for seizure patients of having to sit for hours in a clinic with an electrode cap on
• Trans-bot project is aimed to build a semi-autonomous robot that has wireless internet capability and can automatically track and follow a person
• Team Light Axe will design and fabricate a guitar that teaches the user basic music theory. It has LED's in each of the 22 frets to represent each of the 6 strings on a standard guitar.
• EVSAV stands for Effective Vision System for Autonomous Vehicles. Our project is a vision system comprised of two cameras and two processors
• The Dual Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil (DRSSTC) is a device designed to ionize the air and generate arcs of electricity in a particular direction

For more information see: ECE Projects 2009/10

Computer Science Projects 2009/10

• Attorney and Justice Assignment (AJA) Addresses the constraints in scheduling judges and attorneys for hearings. (http://sites.google.com/site/aja4101/ )
• Hyperspectral Pushbroom Camera System designed to scan water surfaces and land for an airplane.  (http://my.fit.edu/~ojozsa2009/project/ )
• Shattered Seal: Echelon is to create a top down shooter with RPG elements for the Xbox 360 and publish it on the Xbox live marketplace (http://www.healinghampsters.com/5HorseTemp/shatteredseal.html )
• Strategy RPG aims to create a turn based strategy-RPG (role playing game) with interactive combat based on rhythm and timing. (https://sites.google.com/a/my.fit.edu/strategy-rpg/ )
• Student-Course Assessment Tool is the creation of a user maintained program that would integrate with Moodle to allow for easy data collection. (http://www.ccdevel.com/seniordesign/ )
• The Aurora Program Aurora Program is to create a program thatwill track down an infected program, find its roots, and cleanse a system of any infected files. (http://my.fit.edu/~jhilty/SeniorDesign.html)
• IGVC (Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition) will develop a program to run autonomously outdoors with obstacle detection avoidance using multiple sensors. (http://my.fit.edu/~jdormoy/project.html )
• Aircraft Scheduler -an aviation scheduling system is a tool that helps a flight department manage scheduled flights, aircraft, and employees. (http://www.cse4101.azampagl.com/docs/ )
• Sidus Bellum: A 3D Space Shooter (aka "Ducks in Space") main goal of this project is to create a 3-D space shooting game to be played on the Xbox360. (http://my.fit.edu/~krowe/ )
• Med Scribe Pro (Medical Records) this project is to plan and implement an online application that allows Doctors, Patients, and Pharmacist to share important medical information via secure online databases. (http://www.medscribepro.com/info/ )
• The Trickster Engine: Artificial Intelligence for Spades project is to develop an artificial intelligence that is successful at playing the popular trick-taking card game Spades. (http://my.fit.edu/~tmersch/spades/ )
• Death from Above is a Game Development project that will simulate a soviet helicopter during combat. (http://my.fit.edu/~ckieber/SeniorDesignProject.html )

Computer Science 2009