List of Students who completed Senior Design Projects under my
Supervision
87, 88) Christopher Biesele and Addison Baxter, “3-D
Printer Design of a Robotic Hand,” spring of 2015
86) Eric Meah,
“PH Control of a Nutrient Solution for Indoor Farming,” spring of
2015
84, 85) Anthony Ciani and Royal Agha, “Automatic
Steering Control of a Car,” spring of 2015
82, 83) Harley Lederer and Michael Riley, “Universal
Current Controller for Battery Charging,” fall of 2013
80, 81) Rafiul Karim Rasel and Farshid Rahman,
“Design of an End of Life Detector for LED Lighting,” project
carried on for SELUX Corporation, spring of 2013
78, 79) Benjamin Amundson and Jason Greenberg,
“Sound Mime: A Wirelessly Controlled Audio System,” fall of 2012
76, 77) Andrew Morelli and Jordan Fitch, “GND CTRL:
A Control Voltage Utility for Module Synthesizers,” fall of 2012
75) H.R. Smith,
“Design of an Adjustable Frequency Drive for 3-Phase Induction Motor,”
fall of 2011
74) Joshua Fino,
“Design of a 3-Phase Induction Motor Speed Drive,” fall of 2011
72, 73) Steven Aday and Steve Benyei, “Lyapunov
Model Reference-Based Adaptive Control for an Automotive Exhaust Gas Solenoid,”
spring of 2011
71) Guido Remache,
“Experiments on Artificial Muscles using IPMC Polymers,” spring of
2011
70) Kwan Mui,
“Design of a Voltage Regulator for an AC Generator,” spring of 2011
68, 69) Kyle Light and Mark Zamzam, “Design of a
Temperature Controller for an industrial Furnace,” project carried on for
Durable Systems, fall of 2010
66, 67) Dwayne Light and Chris Gilbert, “Design of a
Power Controller for an Industrial Furnace,” project carried on for Durable
Systems, spring 2010
65) Clara
Enuma, “Design of Vertical Amplifier, Time Base, and Trigger Circuit of
an Educational Oscilloscope” spring 2009. This work contributed to the
following conference paper by Julio J. González and Clara Enuma (SUNY
New Paltz Senior Design advisee), “Design of an Educational
Oscilloscope,” IEEE EDUCON (Education
Conference), http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2010/index.htm,
Madrid,
Spain, pp. 1873-1878, April 14-16, 2010
61-64) Brendan Lown, Christopher Baisch, Joseph
Rappa and Douglas Vernooy, “Fuel Level Indication System for a Nuclear
Plant”, project carried on for Entergy Nuclear at Indian Point
Energy Center, spring 2009
60) Luke
Buschmann, “Design of an Intelligent Battery Charger”, fall 2008
58, 59) Benjamin Briggs and Chris Rigoli,
“Peak Power Point Control of a Solar Panel”, spring of 2008
57) Sean Turner,
“Automatic PH Control of a Fish/Reef Tank”, spring of 2008
55, 56) Jobin Thomas and Dantong Zhu:
“Thyristor-Based Light/Heat Control,” spring of 2007
53,
54) Tom Paccione and Nathan
Petrarca, “Autonomous Bipedal Robot, fall of 2007
51, 52) Charles
Settens and Taiwo Osinowo: “Car Remote Starter Using a Cellular
Phone,” spring of 2007
50) Gregor
Destin: “Optimized Guitar Tuner using MATLAB,” fall of 2006
49) Simon
DesRiviere: “Closed-Loop Temperature Control of a Box Containing an
Electronic Circuit,” spring of 2006.
45, 46) Kyle and Eric Inge:
“Intelligent Traffic Controller,” summer of 2005. Advising was done in collaboration with Michael
Otis.
43, 44) Ty
Clarke and Brain Post: “Automatic Control of Shower Temperature,”
summer of 2005.
41, 42) Chico Williams and Brian
Hanley: “Hydronic Heating Control System,” spring of 2004.
Advising was done in collaboration with Michael Otis.
40) Jacky
Zhang: “Current Controller for a Small Power DC Motor,” summer of
2003.
39) Jeff
Newcomer: “Mainframe/ Super-Computer Power and Cooling Re-Design,”
teamwork carried on at IBM, spring of 2003.
37, 38) Christian
Tope and Charles Howe: “Object Selecting Robot,” spring of 2003.
36) Joseph
Ross: “Board Design for Electro-migration Testing,” teamwork
project carried on at IBM, fall of 2002.
34, 35) John Kelly and Danny Zima:
“Autonomous Sumo Robot,” spring of 2002. Advising was done in
collaboration with Michael Otis.
33) Glenn
De Martin: “Redesign of a Fire Suppression Gas Detector,” teamwork
project carried on at Tripoint Instruments, summer of 2001.
32) Dean
Van Etten: “Robot Position Control”, summer of 2001.
31) Dilara
Khan, “Optimal Routing for Designing Printed Board,” teamwork
project carried on at IBM, spring of 2001.
30) Robert
LaBrie: “Design of a Program to Implement Mason’s Formula,”
spring of 2001.
28, 29) Beatriz
Bailon and Julio Mahecha: “Design of an Electronic Advising
Program,” fall of 2000.
26, 27) Tony
Stagno and Ahmad Ibrahim: “Design of an Interactive Electronics
Course,” fall of 1999. This work contributed to the following conference
paper by Julio J. González, Tony Stagno, Ahmad Ibrahim, Enrique Mandado
and Angel Salaverría: “An Interactive Electronics Course using
Visual Basic and PSpice,” ED-Media
2000 World Conference on Education Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications, Montréal,
Canada,
(CD_ROM, edm.pdf, pp. 1095-1099), June 26-July1, 2000.
25) Sean Donnelly:
“Rarefied Air: Customized Climate Controller,” fall of 1999.
23, 24) Anthony Liguori and Salvador Orochena:
“Magnetic Stripe reader with Software Interface,” spring of 1999.
21, 22) Sajid Masud and George Papakostas: “DC Servo Motor Control,” spring of 1999.
20) Akram S. Ghaly: “The Material Request Form: an Internet Application,” teamwork project developed for SPAR Group Inc., Tarrytown, NY, summer of 1998.
19) Elizabeth
Perez: “Design of a Linear Thyristor Amplifier for Control
Applications,” summer of 1998.
18) Jorge D.
Gómez, “Design of a Computer Assisted Electronics
Laboratory,” summer of 1998. This project upgraded the Circuits,
Electronics I and Electronics II laboratories of SUNY at New Paltz. In the
spring of 98, Jorge D. Gómez presented his work in a poster competition
at the 6th Annual C-STEP National Conference held at the Sagamore Conference Center in Lake
George, NY, and won first prize in the Technology category.
17) James C.
Davis: “Design of a Brush-less Motor Drive for a Microfilm Camera
System,” summer of 1998. This project was developed for Medrex, Port Ewen,
15, 16) Barry Bonnerwith and Ahmad H. Mufti: “Design of a Remotely-Commanded Computer Control System for a House,” spring of 1998.
14) Theodore
Bowen: “Practical Verification of a New Algorithm for Distortion
Simulation,” summer of 1997. This work contributed to the following
journal paper by Julio J. González and Theodore Bowen: “Algorithm
to Calculate Distortion in the Common Emitter Amplifier with Feedback,” IEE
Proceedings- Circuits, Devices and Systems, Vol. 146, No. 1,
February 1999.
12, 13) Henry Rolufs and Michel Santoro: “Computer
Commanded Linear Current Controller for Large DC Motors,” summer of 1997.
11) Tariqul I. Khan: “Linear Current Controller for Small DC Motors,” summer of 1996.
7-10) Marc Chapman: “Noise
Characterization for an Antenna Position Controller”, fall of 1995. Dean
Bair: “Software Design of an Antenna Position Controller”, John
Pozzuoli: “Hardware Design of an Antenna Position Controller”, Amr
Khalil: “Design of a Polarization Mode Controller”, summer of 1996.
These four sub-projects are part of SUNY Research Foundation Project No 426-6061
“Computer-Based Controller for Parabolic Antenna,” that I directed
on a $25,000 research grant that I obtained from Cablewave Systems,
North Haven, Connecticut.
6) Daniel
J. Prager: “DC/AC Interactive Design of the Common Emitter
Amplifier,” SUNY at New Paltz, spring of 1996. This work contributed to
the following papers by Julio J. González and Daniel J. Prager: (I) “A New Equation for Biasing
the BJT-CE Amplifier,” IEEE
Transactions on Education, Vol. 41, Nº 1, pp. 70-75,
February1998. (II) “An Analytical Solution
to the Static/Dynamic Interactive Design Problem of the BJT-CE
Amplifier,” Proceedings of the
Workshop on Academic Electronics of New
York State, Syracuse, New York, pp. 47-51, June 13-14 1996.
5) Tawfiq Al-Ezz: “Nonlinear Compensation for Closed-Loop Temperature Control,” fall of 1995.
3, 4) Jian H. Chen and Mentor
Canoski: “Computer-Based Experimental Test-Bed for DC Motor Speed
Control,” fall of 1995.
2) Amer
Saeed: “Computer Design of Digital Filters,” spring of 1995.
1) Laurence
Welt, “A Novel Position Detector,” fall of 1994. Advising was done in
collaboration with Professor G. Eftekhari.