Engineering Design Project (EE401 – EE402)

Rules and Regulations for Choosing a Project:

- The list of projects and tasks for each team member (student) is listed at
the bottom of this page.

- Each student should choose and signup to be a team member of a project.

- Students can form their own group. Or a student that couldn’t find a group
should signup individually to be a team member of the project that he/she
wants. The Engineering Design Project Committee will form the groups
for individually signed students.

- A project can be assigned to up to two different groups.

- The occupancy of each project and team member role follows FIRST-
COME FIRST-SERVE policy.

- Once a student signs up for a team member role there CANNOT be any
changes.

- The dates for signing up are 29th November (students who already formed
their group) and 30th November (both individual students and students
who already formed their group)

- To sign up for a team member role the student should see

o Thursday, 29th November:

 13:00 – 15:00 Assist. Prof. Dr. Ali Serener
o Friday, 30th November:
 10:00 – 12:00 Assist. Prof. Dr. Ali Serener

- For the students who FAIL to sign up by 30th November; the student’s
mark will be deducted by 10% and the Engineering Design Project
Committee will assign the student a team member role of a project.
Rules and Regulations for Writing the Project Proposal (EE401):

- Each student should individually write and submit a project proposal as

per the team member of the project he/she has chosen.

- The project proposal should be related to the part of the project he/she will
undertake.

- The project proposal should be about (and no less than) 3000 words.

- The project proposal will be submitted through plagiarism prevention

software – Turnitin. Similarity score for the overall proposal should be less
than 20% and each source should be less than 2%.

- The deadline for project proposal submission is 8th January.

Engineering Design Projects:

Project 1: Automatic Power Transfer Switch

The project will be able to automatically provide the better power source for an 2kW
electrical load. During the transfer operation there should be no power loss
(interruption) at the load. There will be two power sources that are connected to the
load. The frequency and voltage of each source may be varying. For example, power
source 1 may have 50 Hz and 257 V and power source 2 may have 51 Hz and 240 V.
The automatic transfer switch (ATS) will provide the power source with frequency
and voltage closer to 50 Hz and 230 V to the load. When selecting the better power
source, the frequency of a power source has higher priority over the voltage. In case
the frequency of a source diverges more than 10% from 50 Hz and/or the voltage
diverges more than 20% from 230 V, this power source is not safe to be used. Such
power source should be isolated from the rest of the circuit until its frequency and
voltage falls back into the safe limits. The ATS should also be controlled through the
internet (i.e. smart phone). Hence, the user can choose/change the power source to be
used via his/her smart phone.

Tasks for team members are:

Member 1: Build up the circuitry for each power source so that the frequency
and voltage can be changed up to 20% and 30%, respectively. The frequency
and voltage of each power source should be independent from each other.

Member 2: Do the control for automated switching by the ATS with respect
to the switching rules stated above.

Member 3: Design the necessary circuitry (i.e. capacitor board) so that there
will be no power loss at the 2 kW load during the transfer operation. The
transfer time could be up to 25 milliseconds.

Member 4: Measure and display the frequency, current and voltage provided
from each source as well as at the load.

Member 5: Establish the data communication between ATS and internet. The
user should be able to see which power source is currently connected to the
load and the frequency and voltage supplied. Also the frequency and voltage
of the other power source should be shown to the user. Further, control the
switching operation with his/her mobile phone through the internet. Also an
email will be send to the user whenever an automated or controlled switching
is done between sources.
Project 2: Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System

The goal of this project is to create a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system
similar to devices that are commercially available. The system will not use data
obtained from a patient but will use data simulated through a software.

Tasks for team members are:

Member 1: Create a graphical user interface (GUI).

Member 2: Read the data from Glucosim software. Add noise (Additive
White Gaussian Noise). Filter out the noise using a Kalman filter.

Member 3: Predict future events (for example, 60/120 minutes from now)
using artificial intelligence.

Member 4: Analyze for hyperglycemic and hypoglycemic events. Create

alerts for such events. Wirelessly transmit alerts and data to a doctor’s mobile.

Member 5: Create automated analysis summary of critical data such as

daytime and nighttime lows and highs etc. for each day of the week.

Project 3: Face and Gender Identification System

Face recognition and gender identification will be performed using using a neural
network or deep neural network method. A dataset should be created. A laptop can be
used to capture a video of a person for dataset preparation. The dataset should be
divided into training and testing sets. Neural networks will be trained on train set and
then tested on test set. Results should be reported in the report. Matlab, Python, C, and
C++ programming languages can be used for the experiments.

Tasks for team members are:

Member 1: User graphical interface should be designed. This interface should

include image display section and other related content.

Member 2: Neural networks should be trained using detected face regions for
person recognition task and gender identification task.

Member 3: Real-time face detection, person identification and gender

recognition should be performed.

Member 4: The system user information should be recorded. A dataset should

be created to store all user login information.

Member 5: User information should also be send by email to the

administrator.
Project 4: Software for Intelligent Vehicle

Tasks for team members are:

Member 1: 2 USB cameras should be connected to a processor and calibrated

using OpenCV.

Member 2: The calibrated images then should be processed and disparity map
(in low resolution) should be calculated using Normalized Cross Correlation.

Members 3 and 4: The road surface (assuming planar road) estimation should
be calculated using V-disparity and obstacles should be calculated using U-
disparity

Members 5 and 6: Assuming known camera parameters, detecting painted

lane markings using a camera.