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Senior Thesis and Independent Work

  • Fall Independent Work is due on "Dean's Date", Tuesday, January 14, 2002.

  • Spring Independent work is due on "Dean's Date", Tuesday, May 13, 2003.

  • You will need to hand in one UNBOUND copy to the Undergraduate Office, B304 and a second copy to your independent work advisor

  • ALL PAGES must be numbered including the cover page and illustrations, etc.

  • A copy of your paper will be archived to the Mudd Library.

Examples of Past Projects

  • "BSD - Back Seat Driver" - by Amir Give'on, Spring 98
  • "Wearable Computing and Augmented Reality" - by Saran Chari and Kyle Forster, Fall97 & Spring98
  • "Electron Spin Resonance Techniques in Self-Assembled InGaAs Quantum Dots" -  by Andrew Houck, Spring 2000
  • "Design of a System of Interacting Vehicles Using Image/Video Recognition and Al Techniques", by Chistina Leung, Spring 2000
  • "Automated Mex-File Generation for MATLAB" - by Jason Sanders, Spring 2001
  • "Piezoelectric Touch Sensing" - by Maxim Shusteff, Spring 2001

Faculty Project Suggestions

Ravindra N. Bhatt (B430 E-Quad, email)

    1. Quantum calculations for semiconductor materials
    2. Monte Carlo simulation of magnetic models using massively parallel computers
    3. Theory of disordered electronic systems
    4. Two dimensional electron gases and quantum Hall effect 

Stephen Y. Chou  (B412 E-Quad, email)

    1. Nanofabrication technologies and IC processing
    2. Nanoscale electronics (single electron transistors and MOSFETs)
    3. Nanoscale optoelectronics (subwavelength optical elements, photodetectors, modulators, and lasers)
    4. Nanoscale magnetic devices (quantized magnetic disks, GMR, AMR, and sensors)
    5. Applications of nanotechnology in polymers and materials 

Bradley W. Dickinson (B322 E-Quad, email)

    1. Projects involving 3-D sound. Some possible projects include auditory training that incorporates sources of sound that move in space relative to a listener. The training might involve shifting attention, sensorimotor integration, tracking, shaping of the head-related transfer function, and other binaural hearing skills. Other projects include signal processing problems such as compression and reconstruction arising in applications involving 3-D sound
    2. Projects related to sensorimotor integration in the visual system. The projects could involve software development for vision training or a related modeling study

S. Forrest (B301 E-Quad, email)

    1. Photonic devices (lasers, light emitting diodes, and solar cells) using organic thin film semiconductors
    2. Photonic devices (lasers and photodetectors) based on inorganic semiconductors
    3. New materials for optoelectronic devices 

N.K. Jha (B220 E-Quad, email)

  1. Low power hardware and software synthesis
  2. Computer-aided design for nanotechnologies
  3. Application-specific instruction set processor synthesis
  4. Embedded system design and analysis
  5. Digital system testing

A. Kahn (B420 E-Quad, email)

    1. Negative electron affinity at nitride semiconductor surfaces
    2. Contacts and heterojunctions in organic light emitting diodes
    3. Study of organic thin film growth by scanning tunneling and atomic force Microscopy 

H. Kobayashi (B323 E-Quad, email)

  1. Performance analysis of wireless LANs such as IEEE802.11a and b.
  2. Efficient simulation of rare events such as packet loss and
    decoding errors in communication systems and networks.

S. Kulkarni (B310 E-Quad, email)

    1. Design, analysis, and simulation of algorithms in image processing and machine vision
    2. Pattern recognition, learning, and adaptive systems
    3. Problems in discrete geometry and geometric reconstruction
    4. Applications of the above areas to intelligent transportation systems, surveillance and monitoring, automation, etc.

S.Y. Kung (B230 E-Quad, email)

    1. Study parallel algorithms for signal/image processing with possible implementation of DSP application specific array architectures
    2. Study of extraction of parallelism from the sequential algorithms for different parallel processing architectures and various expression codes for parallel algorithms
    3. Study on competing models for neural information processing. Topics include simulations of these neural nets, mapping algorithms to neural computers, and concrete applications to vision processing and pattern recognition
    4. Study on video compression and segmentation algorithms for MPEG-4 and/or MPEG-7 applications

R. Lee (B218 E-Quad, email)

    1. Create a suite of multimedia kernels which is representative of performance-critical program loops, in the processing of images, video, audio (voice, telephony, music), graphics, and animation. This is akin to the Livermore loops for scientific floating-point computations. Many loops can be collected and optimized, some have to be coded from scratch. Publish this on the web and in a paper
    2. Evaluate the performance of multimedia extensions for general-purpose processors, and the instruction-set architectures of advanced DSPs, using a representative set of multimedia loops
    3. Survey the security protocols and cryptographic algorithms used for e-cash, e-credit and e-checks. Critique the methods
    4. Design subword-parallel versions of key multimedia or cryptographic loops. Develop algorithms or programming techniques for doing this automatically, or at least systematically

B. Liu (B330 E-Quad, email)

    1. Digital Watermarking
    2. Data Hiding

S. Lyon (B428 E-Quad, email)

    1. Studying relaxation and scattering processes of electrons in semiconductors
    2. Properties of the interface between silicon and silicon di-oxide
    3. Excitation of surface plasmons on diffraction gratings
    4. Control of experiments by microprocessors and small laboratory computers
    5. Charge-coupled Device (CCD) arrays for low light level detection
    6. Light emission from Si MOSFETs 

S. Malik (B224 E-Quad, email)

Undergraduate research projects are available in the area of gigascale design of integrated circuits. Specifically they will be in the area of design tools for embedded software. Embedded software is part of application specific systems containing one or more dedicated processors. These systems are ubiquitous; some common examples are cellular phones and automotive control systems. The projects will give you an opportunity to work with researchers in the Gigascale Systems Research Center which is a multi-university research effort towards defining design methodology and tools with a ten year vision

M. Martonosi (B215 E-Quad, email)

  1. Simulate, design, and evaluate hardware and software systems related to the ZebraNet low-power wireless animal tracking project. See http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~mrm/zebranet.html for more details.
  2. Programming applications for handhelds like Palms and Pocket PCs
  3. Power studies in handheld and mobile computing
  4. Power aware computer architecture design
  5. Power measurement and modeling for desktop computers

E. Narimanov (B324, E-Quad, email)

L. Peh (B228, E-Quad, email)

H. V. Poor (B316 E-Quad, email)

  1. applications involving Bluetooth piconets
  2. multi-antenna communication systems
  3. wireless networking protocols
  4. stochastic modeling 

P. R. Prucnal (B303 E-Quad, email)

    1. All-optical photonic switching node
    2. Nonlinear optical loop mirror
    3. Performance of multihop networks with deflection routing
    4. Optical soliton switching
    5. Terahertz optical time-demultiplexer
    6. Optical waveguide-based intensity modulators and switches 

P. J. Ramadge (B210 E-Quad, email)

    1. Software tools for the analysis of finite state discrete dynamic systems
    2. Image, video processing and computer vision
    3. Applications of "artificial intelligence" to complex control tasks, e.g., adaptive and learning systems
    4. Decision making for complex systems, e.g., financial modeling, and decision making

S.C. Schwartz (B317B E-Quad, email)

The design, analysis and simulation of signal processing algorithms in two broad application areas: image processing and wireless communications. Some specific problems and applications include:

  1. Detection of objects in images, such as in medical applications
  2. Watermarking and encryption of images
  3. Hybrid wireless systems using both terrestrial and satellite base stations
  4. Equalization of wideband CDMA systems
  5. Statistical analysis of spreading waveforms
  6. Application of sequential Markov decision models to econometric problems (i.e., the stock market) and simple adaptive communication systems

M. Shayegan (B408 E-Quad, email)

    1. Fabrication of high-quality GaAs/AlGaAs hetero-structures and nanostructures by molecular beam epitaxy and electron beam lithography
    2. Physics and electronic properties of heterostructures and nanostructures  

J. Sturm (B404 E-Quad, email)

    1. Fabrication and characterization of VLSI electronic devices
    2. MOS and bipolar transistor technology
    3. Modeling and computer simulation of device physics and fabrication processes
    4. Computer automation of semiconductor measurements
    5. Semiconductor processing technology 

D. Tsui (B426 E-Quad, email)

    1. Charge transport in nanostructures and superlattices
    2. Fractional quantum Hall liquids and electron solid

S. Verdú (B324 E-Quad, email)

A new experimental facility for undergraduate independent projects in communications and signal processing has been established. This laboratory has state-of-the-art equipment fully controlled by a desktop computer. Specific projects of interest include:
    1. Programmable generation of Spread-Spectrum waveforms and the analysis of their time, frequency and statistical properties
    2. Digital volume control
    3. Channel equalization techniques for elimination of room acoustics
    4. Active crossover filters for audio applications
    5. Digital processing of Compact Disc digital outputs
    6. Monitoring of erasure/error rate in Compact Disc playback

S. Wagner (B422 E-Quad, email)

  1. Evaluation of passive and active fibers for electrotextiles
  2. Making and testing insulating layers for thin-film electronics
  3. Devising techniques for aligning layers in the direct printing of electronics
  4. Direct printing of etch masks (with S.M. Troian of Chemical Engineering)
  5. Computer control of optical equipment with Labview programs
  6. Sampling circuits for piezoelectric touch sensors
  7. Piezoelectric actuators (with A.N. Evans of Mechanical and Aerospace
    Engineering)
  8. Performance of solar cells in function of mechanical stress
  9. Microfluidic chip (with S.M. Troian of Chemical Engineering)
  10. Radiofrequency identification tags applied to product re-use (with V.M.
    Thomas of the Center for Energy and the Environment)

R. Weiss (B312, E-Quad, email)

W. Wolf (B226 E-Quad, email)

    1. Embedded computing systems, particularly for multimedia computing
    2. CAD algorithms for embedded computing or VLSI
    3. Internet multimedia information systems
    4. Real-time video programming
    5. Real-time audio analysis.

 
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