Each year at UNH, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Seniors join with other engineering disciplines in the Undergraduate Research Conference (URC). Here they present their research projects that they have been working on for months, some even up to a year. This year, the projects range from renewable energy to digital imaging processing to audio noise canceling.

One interesting project was “InterFACE”, which utilizes digital image processing to track the movement of a face. It then uses that data to recreate the motion in a robotic head sculpture. The pictures below depicts their system design.

Another project which incorporated electrical design was the “Tidal Power Generation”. This project was a combined effort of the Mechanical, Ocean and Electrical Engineering Departments. Here the idea of utilizing tidal action, and the related currents, to convert into electrical power by way of a turbine was investigated.

Above we see the display of the system, as well as a demonstration of the theory behind the project.

Overall, the conference was exciting and impressive, and the Seniors really worked hard to put forth their best efforts. For both myself and Mark Taipan, we were especially excited due to our recent award of a SURF Grant for the summer of 2008 to work on our project Kingsbury Location Awareness System (KLAS). We will be presenting our project at the URC next year, and so it was very helpful to see this year’s projects which will help us plan our presentation for next year.

Matthew Lape

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