Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering at the 2022 Dalhousie Engineering Capstone Conference
Electrical & Computer Engineers work in a dynamic and fast-moving field: the discipline has significant applications in the areas of power systems, communication systems, control systems, computers, environmental sensing, medical/health monitoring, radios, robots, and photonics.
2022 ECED4901 Capstone Projects
Springboard Award for Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Awarded to Hunter MacRitchie, Shaheer Farrukh and William Gurney in recognition of their project "ABCO Food Machinery Sensor Upgrades" for industry client ABCO Industries Inc.
| Team | Sponsor | Project |
| Daniela Madariaga, Jennifer Vibert, Ben McKay, Lori Smigelski | Dr. Rakesh Gudimella | Development and Validation of a Low-Cost Functional Myoelectric Hand Prosthesis |
| Aditya Aji, Angelo Diggs, Sahil Khan, John Porter | Dr. Larry Hughes | Electric Bike Conversion |
| Colton Campbell, Justin Greige, Mahmoud Ibrahim, Brandon Senholt | Dalhousie Ultrasound Lab | Fabrication of an Ultrasonic Scalpel for Neurosurgery |
| Marc Vézina, Khaled Abdul, Jon MacDonald, David Walker | Dr. Jeremy Brown | Optimization of Ultrasonic Scalpel for Neurosurgery |
| Mitchell Mills, Johnathan Slaunwhite, Brett McLellan, Jarod Fougere | Enginuity Inc. | Wireless Soil Monitoring System for Vertical Farming |
| Guodong Li, Ruixuan Chang, Zicong Shao | Kingswood Ratepayers Association Resources | Playground Sensors |
| Nouman Lu, Shuowei Chao, Jie Ren, Peizhuang Liu | Michelle Cortens | Improved AAC Device for Dogs |
| Arash Basirat, Talia Horn, Sheng Luo, Daniel Parsons | Lockheed Martin Canada | Traning Needs Analysis - KSA Mining |
| Hunter MacRitchie, Shaheer Farrukh, William Gurney | ABCO Industries Inc. | ABCO Food Machinery Sensor Upgrades |
| Liyuan Qian, Haochen Jiang, Yao Sun | Ocean Sonics | Long-Range Data & Power Transmission |
| Usman Kamran, Vineet Saxena, Evan Terry | Moog Focal | IoT Platform for Condition Monitoring |
| Ben West, Shivi Sharma, Jake Sampson | Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service | Ground Penetrating Radar for Forensic Investigation |
2022 ECED4900 Capstone Projects
Emera Award for Excellence in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Awarded to Jade Farr, Hannah Gauley and Jayden Tench in recognition of their project "Pulse Finder".
| Team | Sponsor | Project |
| Marissa Campbell, Carl Miller, Luke Drohan, Evan Katelnikoff | Dalhousie University Marine Affairs Program | Flow and Robotic Arm Controllers for Bivalve Physiology Analysis |
| Gordon Walsh, Nick Balzan, Kyle MacNeil, Yasmin Khalifa | Dartmouth Ocean Technologies | Wireless Fluorometer for Marine Domain |
| Sebastien LeFort, Nam Ho, Devin George, Duc Anh Hoang | NCS Managed Services | Gig-E Wi-Fi |
| Nathaniel Coolen-Jewers, Tyler Grandy, Will Haas, Moyo Oni | Moog Focal | Automated Multiplexer Test System |
| Seamus MacInnes, Evan Merrick, Kevin Schwarzer | CERC.OCEAN | Automated Gas Calibration Using LabVIEW |
| Kory Melchior, James Graham, Tarek Seif El Nasr | Merivale Software and Robotics |
Development of a Medical Ambulance Drone |
| Benjamin MacDonald, Keegan Bourinot, Regan McDonald | Non-Invasive Assessment of Cardio-Aortic Mechanics | |
| Jade Farr, Hannah Gauley, Jayden Tench | Pulse Finder | |
| Edward Kwan Kamden Thebeau William Travers | Aimsir Technologies | Shipboard Weather Observations |
| Jeffrey Devoe, Kristian Lethbridge-Hall, James O. Michael | Nova Scotia Power | Distributed Generation Limitations on Rural Distribution Networks |
| Anton Jasa, Jacob Wall, Joshua Plourde | Merivale Software and Robotics | The Smart Bin |
| Bilal Ali, Haisam Asim, Alexander Huynh, Ergi Shkabari | OAI Technologies | Safe Sidewalk Navigation |
| Alexa Bushnik, Jessa Cinnamon, Brennan Wilkie | Audioptic Medical | Test Station for Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging Verification Testing |
| Daemon Watson, Cameron Maher, Matthew Paul | CyberClan | Hardware Encryption Key (HEK) – Phase 2 |
| Jeffrey Lyn, Mark Makramalla, Gavin Barter | Thorasys | Methods to Improve Signal Quality in Oscillometry and Improve Machine Learning Methods for Disease Classification |
| Ryan Brownlee, Lucien Deveau, Naim Khuri | Cardiac Autoregulation & Arrhythmias Laboratory | High Voltage LED System for Optogenetic Control of Rhodopsin-expressing Zebrafish |
| Stuart Aftanas, Onur Kucuk |
Daxsonics Ultrasound | Graphical User Interface for Pulser/Receiver |
| Gordon Walsh, Nick Balzan, Kyle MacNeil, Yasmin Khalifa | Dartmouth Ocean Technologies | Wireless Fluorometer for Marine Domain |