Student Design Engineers at Work
Students seen here breadboarding a simple circuit before committing components to final circuit design.
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Our undergraduate and graduate students are provided with employment opportunities on our project teams. Students gain pratical engineering experience on client projects, working on various aspects of hardware and software design. This experience is essential in order to complement and enhance their formal studies.
Will FerryMajor: |
Computer Engineering |
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Will is working for his second semester with the Integrated Design Services as an undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering. He has served on the curriculum committee for the Computer Science and Engineering department at Penn State. His professional interests include digital hardware design and FPGA implementation of data processing algorithms.
Will has contributed to the development of LACE-G hardware implementation and LACE-G modeling in MATLAB. He has worked to develop a coarse gain histogram module for adaptive sensor adjustment and developed a multi-spectral fusion unit to combine and compliment sensory data. Currently, Will is working to develop an upsize unit using billinear interpolation.
Aaron FleishmanMajor: |
Chemical Engineering |
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For 3 semesters, Aaron has been working with the Integrated Design Services. As a Chemical Engineering student, Aaron's interests include technology & social entrepreneurship, systems integration, and alternative energy solutions. In 2008, Aaron received the Humanitarian Engineering Award from Penn State's College of Engineering. He is a member of the Penn State Chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World and also belongs to the Unmanned Vehicle Systems Student Association.
Aaron is currently working on a Smart Resistor, which is designed to replace eight resistance standards, a constant temperature oil bath, a scanner, a temperature datalogger, and associated software with a single integrated solution at a lower cost. Aaron's work has been focused on developing a comprehensive software application in LabVIEW that provides an intuitive GUI for the user. The software, which runs on a CF hard drive with XP embedded, monitors and controls all of the hardware of the system, including the temperature bath, the resistor selection relays, and GPIB control.
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Electrical Engineering |
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Jonathan has been with the Integrated and Design Services for 2 semesters. As an Electrical Engineering student at Penn State, Jonathan's interests include vision systems, low and high level image processing, embedded systems, robotics, and entrepreneurship. One of his scholastic goals is to have an entry of a vehicle into a DARPA grand challenge. Recently, he coauthored a paper, "Real-time mapping and navigation by fusion of multiple electro-optic sensors" for the AIPR 2008 proceedings. He is also serving as the Vice President of the Unmanned Vehicle Systems Student Association (UVSSA), which is a student run club at Penn State.
One of Jonathan's recent projects has been the Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) Project, which is Penn State's first entry into a large scale robotics competition. The ASV is a boat that fits within the form factor of 6 x 3 x 3 feet and includes navigation, docking and undocking, and identifying hostlie and friendly targets. Jonathan's primary role in this project is in system and vision design. He has assisted in writing the sensor interface code, as well as most of the vision algorithms used in the project.
Mohit KhadariaMajor: |
Electrical Engineering |
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As an IUG student, Mohit will obtain both an Undergraduate and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering. Regarding his Undergraduate pursuits, he is a member of the Schreyer Honors College and will graduate with Honors pertaining to his undergraduate degree. As a student employee of Integrated Design Services for 6 semesters, Mohit's professional interests include commercial applications using Computer Vision and Image Processing techniques. His personal goals include his desire to become a reputable guitarist and hopes to establish professional recognition for himself within the engineering industry. He has coauthored various papers including, “Multiple Hot-target Identification” for the AIPR Workshop and IEEE Computer Society in October of 2008, as well as, “Real time, Hot-target Tracking and Multi Spectral Fusion” which was presented at the College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS) 2008. Mohit was the recipient of the James Barnak Outstanding Junior Award in April of 2007. Additionally, he is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Honors Society.
One of Mohit's recent projects has been regarding the use of technology to enhance user interfaces, particularly those used by the armed forces regarding their safety in hostile conditions. He has worked on an algorithm consisting of a two-stage search and transfer mechanism to enhance the usage of head mounted night vision goggles. The hardware incorporates multiple bands of imagery, which is captured and fused to enhance the viewable images. As the goggles are a head- mounted device, special care has been taken to keep the weight to a minimum and the memory storage as well. All the processing is done frame to frame with very little prior frame information used.
Roman SandovalMajor: |
Comptuer Engineering |
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Roman Sandoval is a senior in Computer Engineering. Formally a teaching assistant and intern for the Center for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship (CEDE), Roman intends to minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Leadership. He has received various awards during his academic career, including third place in United States Global Solutions Macromedia Flash Presentation Competition in 2005 and has attended events such as the Johnson & Johnson Student Leadership Conference in 2007. He is the founder and the president of the Unmanned Vehicle Systems Student Association (UVSSA) which is developing an Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV). The ASV will compete in the 2009 International ASV Competition sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and U.S. Office of Naval Research.
During his 3 semesters with the Integrated Design Services, Roman has worked on developed programming such as the mitigation of background noise for the quantization of electron velocities. In addition, he has coauthored a paper, "Real-Time Mapping and Navigation by Fusion of Multiple Electro-Optic Sensors" which will be published by the Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) in affiliation with IEEE.
Jesse ScottMajor: |
Comptuer Engineering |
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As a Graduate Masters and PhD student in Computer Engineering, Jesse has been working with the Integrated Design Services for 6 semesters since January of 2007. Previously, Jesse has earned an Associates of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology as well as a Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science, both from Penn State. His professional interests include research and development of image processing and computer vision algorithms for real-time hardware implementation.
Jesse is currently working on a project for Harsh Environment Applied Technologies (HEAT) Inc. This project uses three optical sensors as input, an eight Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) video processing system called Mona Lisa, an Acoustical Optical Tunable Filter (AOTF), and a Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) laser. This system enhances and fuses the raw sensor imagery from each band and displays a composite result on a display. The final system will be deployed by a government entity as aid and assistance for military personnel. Jesse's responsibilities in this project include system structure, algorithm design, and documentation of the overall project. These tasks entail assisting implementers with hardware behavior and design, organization of the system's internal infrastructure, and the documentation of all aspects of implementation at each level of detail.
Some of Jesse's publication credits include, "Comparison of 2D Median Filter Hardware Implementations for Real-Time Stereo Video", and "Hyper-Spectral Content Aware Resizing" which were presented at the 37th IEEE Workshop of Applied Image Processing and Recognition in 2008. Additionally, he is a member IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and currently the treasurer for the Penn State Engineering Graduate Student Council.
Students seen here breadboarding a simple circuit before committing components to final circuit design.
Students Will Ferry and Jeff DiTeodoro attend Texas Instruments TechDay in New Jersey, helping IDS evaluate new technology.
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