Next Meeting
[4.28.2011]Alerus Center, Grand Forks, ND.
6:00 PM - Dinner and Business Meeting
7:00 PM -UND & NDSU Senior Design Presentations
EERC
Meal Choices: Chicken Cordon Bleu, Vegetarian Lasagna, and Sirloin Tips
Members and Guests: $20 , Students: $5
RSVP with your meal choices to: Gabriel Kainz. (218)-739-8579.
The annual UND and NDSU senior design presentations will be heald in Grand Forks at the Alerus Center. Six teams, three from UND and three from NDSU will present thier seinor design projects to the IEEE Red River Valley section. The presentations will be judged and graded by a pannel of impartial engineers with prizes to all participants.
Details on the groups and thier projects will follow.
DINNER/MEETING LOCATION: Alerus Center 1200 S 42nd St Grand Forks, ND 58201
NDSU Team Projects:
Project Name: Self Balancing Unicycle
Description: Our project creates an easy form of energy efficient transportation in a compact vehicle. In order to keep the unicycle stable and balanced, implementation of a control system is necessary. A motor mounted to the unicycle is driven with a speed and direction based on the tilt of the unicycle. The tilt of the unicycle is measured by an Inertial Measurement Unit, combining an accelerometer and a gyroscope to gain an accurate measurement of the tilt at all times.
Presenter: Jameson Bickert
32-Bit Synchronous Latency Insensitive Processor
Presenter: Ridhima Agarwal
The constantly shrinking feature size of nano-scale technology leads to several challenges that the synchronous design paradigm struggles to cope with. Latency insensitive design is proposed as a solution for the wire-delay challenge, where buffers can be arbitrarily inserted in channels to alter the latency of channels without modifying the behavior of the design. In this project, we have designed and implemented in VHDL, a 32-Bit processor that is latency-insensitive. The processor implements a turing complete subset of the MIPS instruction set architecture. We have also demonstrated the LI properties of the implementation.
Title: Automated Efficiency Meter
Tyler Laber
We have designed a system that will quickly and accurately measure the efficiency of switching mode voltage regulators. Our device is capable of taking four power measurements simultaneously in order to calculate efficiency with an accuracy of 0.05%. Our device is capable of automatically taking many measurements without human intervention, greatly reducing the man hours that are required to do such testing manually.
UND Team Projects:
Renewable Energy Power Distribution, with Derek Clark, Nathan Hillerud and Casey Hansen.
Digitally Modulated Laser Communications Payload, with Brian Adkins and Mike Link.
Mini-UAS Search and Rescue Payload, with Josh Devine, Matt Foster and Shawn Love.
