Undergraduate & Graduate Research Projects

Undergraduate Research Projects:

• Important Information (Report Writing, Interim Report/Final Report)

  • Initial Proposal Report
  • Interim Design Report
  • Interim Design Report Grade Form
  • Final Design Report
  • Final Design Report Grade Form
  • Engineering Discipline
  • The Engineering Process
  • A General Guide to Report Writing

• Previous Undergraduate Thesis Projects (41x ES&C)

  • Automted Gloss Meter Reading and Recording (AGFA) (Fall 2012)
  • Self-Sustaining Heated Driveway (Fall 2012)
  • Dynamic Path Planning (Fall 2008)
  • Image Processing Techniques for Fingerprint Authentication (Winter 2007)
  • Wireless Accident Avoidance System (Winter 2006)
  • Speech Recognition System for Disabled (Winter 2006)
  • Fingerprint Based User Authentication (Fall 2005)
  • Multi Port Fuel Injection Utilizing a Real Time Operating System (Winter 2003)
  • The S.E.A.N Robot (Winter 2003)
  • Robot Navigation of an Unfamiliar Terrain (Winter 2003)
  • Device Control Via Powerline Communication (Winter 2003)
  • The High Speed PCI Connector (HSPC) (Fall 2002)
  • Object Tracking System Through Sensor Fusion (Winter 2002)
  • Managerable 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Tap Device (Winter 2002)
  • USB Connected Environmental Data Logger (Winter 2002)
  • Wireless Parking Lot Data Collection System (Winter 2002)
  • Voice Operated Remote Control System (Fall 2001)
  • Reservation System Using Multi Agent Systems (Winter 2001)

• Sample Future Undergraduate Projects (41x ES&C)

  • Embedded Vision Applications
  • Data Mining Techniques for Classification/Prediction
  • Fingerprint Based User Authentication For Embedded Systems
  • Face Detection/Recognition
  • Blind Sensory Device
  • Wireless Sensors

• Links to Misc Undergrad Projects

  • University of Waterloo: 4th Year Design Projects
  • University of Victoria: 4th Year Design Projects
  • University of Toronto
  • McMaster University

Graduate Research Projects:

• Funding Graduate Studies
• Important Links for Graduate Students
  • Link to Applications for Graduate Studies
  • Guide to Thesis Defence
  • English Language Programs (Guelph)

• Previous Graduate Thesis/Projects

  • Advanced Data Mining Techniques and Architectures
  • Towards Efficient Dynamic Run Time Reconfigurable Systems
  • A Hardware Implementation of a Mixture of Experts
  • Packet Classification Algorithms and Architectures
  • Dec 2009, An Architecture Exploration Framework For The Implementation Of Embedded DSP Applications
  • Aug 2008, Efficient Implementations of WiMAX OFDM Functions on Reconfigurable Platforms
  • May 2006, Hardware Implementations of Artificial Neural Networks
  • December 2005, A Hardware/Software Co-design of Fiducia/Mattheus Partitioning Algorithm
  • September 2005, A Handle-C Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks on Reconfigurable Platform
  • Sep. 2004, Sequential/Parallel Heuristic Algorithms For VLSI Standard Cell Placement
  • Aug. 2004, Mobile Robots Path Planning Optimization in Static and Dynamic Environments
  • Aug. 2004, Constructive/Iterative Based Techniques for FPGA Placement
  • Aug. 2004, A Memetic Algorithm Implementation on a FPGA for VLSI Circuit Partitioning
  • Aug. 2004, A Hardware/Software Co-Design Approach for Face Recognition by ANNs
  • May. 2004, Low-Power Multi-Threshold CMOS Circuits Optimization and CAD Tool Design
  • May. 2004, Sequential/Parallel Global Routing Algorithms for VLSI Standard Cells
  • Dec. 2003, A Fast Heuristic Technique for FPGA Placement based on Multilevel Clustering
  • Dec. 2003, A Reconfigurable Computing Architecture for Implementing Artificial Neural Networks on FPGA
  • Aug. 2003, A Reconfigurable Hardware Implementation of Genetic Algorithms for VLSI CAD Design
  • Jul. 2003, Area/Congestion-Driven Placement for VLSI Circuit Layout
  • Jun. 2001, A Clustering Utility-Based Approach for ASIC Design

• Future Graduate Projects

  • Data Mining and Distributed Sensor Networks
  • Using Reconfigurable Computing to Accelerate Data Mining