FAU’s Senior Design Showcase Addresses Real-World Problems
By brittany sylvestri | 12/19/2018
õ’s recently hosted its fall Senior Design Showcase. In their final year, students work together in teams to design and produce a final project that addresses a real-world problem.
The showcase featured 26 projects in the areas of civil engineering, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and ocean engineering. õ from The Cane Institute for Advanced Technologies at FAU High School also presented projects.
Below is the list of winners from the showcase:
- Gunshot Detection and Deterrent System (GDDS): The GDDS provides law enforcement and first responders accurate and real-time information on an active shooter’s location and helps reduce the response time to assess and control school shootings. It will be a modular system capable of covering an entire school by actively monitoring each hallway.
- The Eyes Stick: This smart cane will help a person with visual impairments to navigate at home and outside. The “Eyes Stick” will provide obstacle avoidance and fall precaution by wet floor detection.
- Coconut Grove Playhouse: A proposed 300-seat capacity theater to replace the current deteriorating building on site of the Coconut Grove Playhouse. The new proposal also includes the addition of a parking garage with a capacity of approximately 200 vehicles.
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