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The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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4th Yr. Design Project |
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Potential Project: Create an interactive design using the DE1-SoC board
Motivation: We live in a world surrounded by technologies. FPGA is part of those that have played very important role in creating modern devices. Even with a small FPGA chip on the DE1-SoC board, one can build many useful designs. There are still hidden potentials in FPGA technology yet to be uncovered in the future.
Design guideline: Use the mouse/keyboard and switches on the DE1-SoC board as the primary user input and the VGA monitor as the display device or other external I/O devices to create an interesting design, such as a game, a computational module or a drawing interface. Use your imagination.
Potential Project: Design of a classroom demonstration App
Motivation: We need visualization tools (demonstration modules or software animations) to enhance the teaching of fundamental concepts in electromagnetics in first year engineering curriculum.
Design guideline: The design should be based on scientific principles in electrostatics and magnetism such as Coulomb’s law, Gauss’s law, Ampere’s law and Faraday’s law. The design can be hardware modules or software simulations/animations. The design should be robust, user friendly and portable.
Potential Project: Design and fabrication of a demonstration module or App
Motivation: Our current high school curriculum does not give students enough exposure to the field of engineering; as a result many high students when considering university education have little idea what engineers do, and rarely think that engineering is an exciting field. We like to change that by showing them seemingly simple yet visually stimulating modules which demonstrate certain scientific and engineering fundamentals.
Design guideline: The design should be based on scientific principles comprehensible to high school students, such as electricity, magnetism, light, sound, heat and pressure. For example, a design could demonstrate energy transfer from one form to another. The module should be robust, user friendly, portable and visually stimulating. |
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Belinda B. Wang |
