Student Teams
The ECE Major Design Experience (MDE) was created in 2014 as a way to bring real-world, hands-on experience to electrical and computer engineering students in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
In its inagural semester (Fall 2014), the MDE had 61 students and 16 projects. Nearly eight years later in Fall 2022, there are 228 students working on 43 new design teams. In 2017, the spring section of the course was added. MDE is now a required course for both electrical and computer engineering seniors.
For students searching for a more interdisciplinary option, there is a new College of Engineering senior design course that focuses on partnering with students from other departments.
Winning Projects
At the conclusion of both the Fall and Spring MDE Expos, awards are given to the highest scoring teams in the following categories:
- Best Overall
- Best by Popular Vote
- Best Project in Track
Best Overall & Best By Popular Vote
Geolocation Scanning Rig
Left to Right: Shiqian Li, Luke Smith, Minzhou Pan, Pratistha Yadav, Hunain Ali Shamsi,
Best Project in Track #1
Satellite Navigation Algorithm
Left to Right: Jeremy Bruce, Aaron Yang, Matthew McLaughlin,
Best Project in Track #2
Prognostic Health Monitor of Power Electronic Converters (PHM PEC)
Left to Right: Kourosh Khoie, Corwin Warner, Li You, Luis Yon, Jeffrey Chambliss
Best Project in Track #3
Medication Compliance
Left to Right: Alex Parrott, Daniel Shin, Hansu Kim, Ming Lu, Jiaye Liu
Best Overall
Heartbeat Collection & Classification System
Left to Right: Braeden Muir, Tom Anders, Andrew Caylor, Yasser Hassan, & Jeremy Kraisser
Best By Popular Vote
IEEE Robotics Machine Perception Team & IEEE SoutheastCon 2023 Hardware Competition Object Manipulation Team
Back Row Left to Right: Jay Schramm, Jimmy Ewin, Yussef Ait-Bella, John Fiorini, & Pradyuman Mehta
Middle Row Left to Right: Araceli Cabrera-Ortuno, Azam Shoaib, Lauren Chuderewicz, Lifan Ren, Tran Thanh, & Devangini Talwar
Front Row Left to Right: Ronuk Mohapatra, Jhonny Velasquez, & Juan Suquilanda
Best Project in Track #1
Personal Locator Beacon Team
Left to Right: Brenden Duffy, Michael Policarpio, Samantha Frietchen, Brandon Battista, Yuxiang (Jerry) Dong
Best Project in Track #2
OT Device Software Asset Extractor
Left to Right: Keaton Boodlal, Anthony Lee, Jack Benning, Samuel Stewart, Henry Trochlil, & Simple Gomez
Best Project in Track #3
Organic Electrodes for Flexible Electronic Devices
Left to Right: Calvin Hong, Anshu Madwesh, Sheena Deivasigamani, & Aaron DiFilippo
Best Project in Track #4
Lester Labs Automated Grading Service: Lincoln Head Cent
Left to Right: Seth Cooper, Anthony LaConte, Mason Zeo, David Peterson, & Nicholas Mason
Best Project in Track #5
Planar High-Power Density Transformers: Analysis and Fabrication
Left to Right: Tyler Cook, Fasil Gebreab, Anthony Buchman, & Sam Brown
Best Project in Track #6
Project Hermes — Wireless Mesh Network for Herd Tracking
Left to Right: John Phung, Robbie Platt, Jack Greer, Noah Sweilem, Spencer Beery, & Cole Roof
Best Project in Track #7
Sustainable Optimization for Agrivoltaic Power
Left to Right: Evin Varghese, Siraj Syed, Alejandro Garcia, Gavin Rosenberger, & Spencer Smith
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