| Capstone Design Projects for Term 201 |
| Section | Instructor | Project
Title | Project
Description |
| 1 | Dr. HUSAIN AL-ZAHER | Wireless Body
Temperature Thermometer | This project is
to design and implement wireless body electronics temperature thermometer.
This instant read thermometer takes temporal readings, meaning you swipe it
across your forehead and it captures your body temperature from your temporal
artery. It doesn't even need to make contact with your skin -- it can be up
to half an inch away. It shall indicate the correct distance measurement
range to promote taking the measurement. The Thermometer is to be an infrared
No-Touch forehead thermometer that gives you 1-second testing to know the
current body temperature. Special Components: The following components must
be order instantly Thermopile array sensor (infrared sensors) and distance
sensor. |
| 2 | Dr. HUSAIN MASOUDI | Design
of an Efficient Solar Powered Sensor-Controlled LED Lighting System | The
aim of this project is to design and implement an efficient solar powered
sensor-controlled LED lighting system. The system is to use solar panels as s
source of power and effective Light Emitting Diodes as a lighting load. The
system stores solar power during the day and uses electric power during dark
time. The system should be equipped with motion sensors to detect movement
for efficient operation. The project is divided into two phases, the first is
to design and implement a prototype of an efficient lighting system based on
motion with the use of solar and LED, while the second is to study the use of
this system in cities for cost effect method to conserve energy. Full scale
calculation estimate should be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the
system. |
| 3 | Dr. AZZEDINE ZERGUINE | Sport
monitoring with smart wearable system | This
is just a tentative one. I have another idea in machine learning, I might
explore. Right now, I am evaluating its pros and cons against the load of the
students. For the time being consider this idea, later I will relook at for
the other one.
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| 4 | Dr. HUSSAM AL-SHAMARY | RF
communication with hardware encryption | The
goal of this project is to design an RF communication link for voice
security, the system will be compatible with commercial telephone links to
encrypt voice message with hardware coding layer that is not as prone to
hacking as software coding. System analysis and design will explore the
benefits and trade offs for this proposed scheme. A prototype will be built
on a standard PCB for verification. |
| 5 | Dr. IBRAHIM
HABIBALLAH | Design
of Friendly-Interface Learning Media for DC Motors | This
project is meant to design User Friendly Interface tools that can help
understanding the analysis of DC motors. This will include the basic
construction of DC machines, equivalent circuits of different types of DC
motors, its power flow diagram and the load performance for each type. |
| 6 | Dr. MAAN KOUSA | | |
| 6 | Dr. ALI MUQAIBEL | Indoor
Visible Light Positioning System | This
project targets a novel visible light positioning (VLP) system. VLP is a
promising indoor localization option, especially given the growing popularity
of LED-based lighting and the expected adoption of the approaching Visible
Light Communication (VLC). The system to be developed uses received signal
strength for ranging. It is followed by the estimation of a location. The
results should demonstrate that the proposed VLP approach offers an
opportunity to outperform the existing techniques in terms of localization
accuracy and precision. |
| 7 | Dr. K QURESHI | Energy
harvesting circuit for low powered sensors | In
this project, students will perform a comprehensive literature review of
various energy harvesting techniques based on vibration and temperature.
Later one circuit design will be proposed and developed for energizing
various low powered sensors. |
| 8 | Dr. SHARIF SHEIKH | Design
of a Tunable antenna to Detect Deposited Elemental Sulfur in a H2S Pipeline | Natural
gas pipelines are prone to unwanted solid elemental sulfur deposition due to
desublimation process of sulfur. Accumulation of elemental sulfur can clog
the pipeline, control-valves and lead
to plant shutdown.
Therefore, the need
to effectively monitor the
status of elemental
sulfur deposition within the
pipeline for successful
delivery and metering
of ARAMCO natural gas products. |
| 9 | Dr. ABOUBAKR SALEM | Please
contact Dr. ABOUBAKR SALEM | |
| 10 | Dr. M MOHANDES | Please
contact Dr. M. MOHANDES | |
| 11 | Dr. M MOHANDES | Please
contact Dr. M. MOHANDES | |
| 12 | Dr. MOHAMMED KHAN | Environmental
Effects on Outdoor Optical Wireless Communication | Project
Description: The project will involve designing transreceiver circuits to
send and receive modulated audio/video digital signals employing two
different wavelength light as carriers. The system will consist of
two-transreceiver circuits with free-space as a communication channel between
them. The environmental effects such as sand storm, fog and rain on the
system performance will be evaluated. |
| 14 | Dr. ALI NASIR | Channel
Estimation for a Wireless Communication System | Channel
estimation is an essential part of any communication system to enable
decoding of the received signal. This project will implement a baseband
wireless communication system using National Instruments LabVIEW software and
USRP hardware. The aim of the project will be to estimate channel parameters
of the wireless medium. |
| 15 | Dr. MUDASSIR MASOOD | Machine
Learning-based Automatic Speech Recognition for Human-Computer Interface | Automatic
speech recognition allows humans to speak with a computer. It involves
speaking some commands to a computer in order for it to perform different
tasks. It involves performing specific signal processing operations on the
speech signals. The processed speech signals are then fed to an intelligent
system in order to carry tasks. The intelligence can be introduced with the
help of recent advances in the field of machine learning and artificial
intelligence. In this project, we aim to design a simple speech recognition
system based on a Raspberry Pi computer. The system would involve performing
basic signal processing tasks along with the implementation of some popular
machine learning algorithms. |
| 16 | Dr. FAHAD AL ISMAIL | A
Solid-State Transformer Based MV Drive System for Remote Area Irrigation. | Remote
areas irrigation are in need variable speed electrical drive system,
particularly, the medium voltage (MV) one. Recently, renewable energy are
preferred in such remote areas to supply the field by the required
electricity and to supply the water electrical pumps. However, the need of MV
is urgent for supplying such electrical drive system. This operation needs a
power transformer to convert low-voltage (LV) produced by the distributed
generators (DGs) to MV. The solid-state transformer (SST) is conceived as a
replacement for the conventional power transformer, with both lower volume
and weight, in particular for smart grids and DC transmission systems.
Besides, the use of distributed renewable energy sources requires utilizing
SST in distribution systems as well. Frankly speaking, SST is a combination
of power electronics (PE) converters and a high frequency transformer, which
is used to connect isolated voltage zones.
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