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, New York, and presented by the student at the Company location.

 

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.