Guidelines for external projects

• Classroom: CRF 112 (auditorium)
• If you have questions on a project, send email to the listed contact.
• If you want to sign up for a project as a team or as an individual, send email to pkc@fit.edu
  • I suggest specifying your first choice, second choice, ...
  • generally "first come first serve"
  • generally teams have a higher priority than individuals
  • sometimes the project proposers choose from those who signed up
• --- Mon 8/19---
• 4:20 -- [2 students: ] Time Estimation -- David Luginbuhl, dluginbuhl@fit.edu
• 4:40 -- [2-4 students: Tyler Dionne, Kendall Kelly, Braden Corkum] Tasteful Panthers: Food Recommendation at Dining Halls -- Philip Chan, pkc@fit.edu
• --- Wed 8/21 ---
• 4:00 -- [2-4 students: Post-quantum: ]
  [2-4 students: Simulation: ]
  Post-quantum Cryptography for Open Radio Access Networks ; Simulation software development for non-terrestrial networks to test 5G/6G feasibility -- Abdullah Aydeger, aaydeger@fit.edu
• 4:10 -- [2-4 students: Sentiment -- Daniel Couturier, Adam Canadate, Evan Thompson, Artur Quarra]
  [2-4 students: Defect -- ]
  Sentiment Analysis for Software Feedback ; Defect Prediction using Historical Data -- Khaled Slhoub, kslhoub@fit.edu
• 4:20 -- [1-2 students] Topographic Exploration Cave Vechicle (TEC-V) -- Stephen Coster, scoster2021@my.fit.edu
• 4:30 -- [2-4 students: Emma Conti, Rodrigo Alarcon, Lamine Deen, Audrey Eley] Automated COVID-19 Detection Using Machine Learning -- Zahra Nematzadeh, znematzadeh@fit.edu
• 4:40 -- [2-4 students]
• ****** completed/valid teams *******
  1. --- faculty-approved projects before the first day of classes for F24 --
  2. [Thomas Gingerelli, Michel Komar, Charles Collins, Logan Kalproth] SCORE: Student Code Online Review and Evaluation (Client/Advisor: Dr. Mohan)
  3. [Ava Crocker, Max Caiazza] Satellite Attitude Testbed Software Configuration (Client: Dr. Riano-Rios, Advisor: Dr. Sid)
  4. [Joshua Sheldon??, Asher Burrell, Chris Hinton, and Ty Mercer] ANN to reconstruct 3D images from SPECT images of deformed hearts (Advisor: Dr. Mitra)
  5. [Cianna Grummer] ITW: acl tear application (Dr. Linxia Gu, BME)
  6. [Alexandra Staros] Mechanatee (Dr. Wood, OCE)
  7. [Tyler Turner, Vincent Quintero, Charles Derbes, Jean-Pierre Derbes] Bolide (Csaba Palotai, APSS, cpalotai@fit.edu)
  9. --- student-proposed projects ---
  10. [Garrett Gmeiner, Tyler Ton, Taylor Carlson, and Parker Cummings] Digital Coaching App
  11. [Zachary Geelalsingh, Melanie Heetai, Zion Taylor, T'Avion Rodgers] PantherFIT -- advisor: Dr. Fitz
  12. [Haley Hamilton, Ruth Garcia, Greg Thompson] Web Application for Aqualab Sensor Monitoring and Analysis
  13. [David Tran, Tyler Son, Chris Nederhoed] KitchenSync: A Pantry and Recipe Companion
  14. [Pedro Moura, Jordan Synodis] Class Schedule Planner
  15. [Donovan Murphy, Enrique Obregon, and Jonathan Bailey] RealEase: Comprehensive Real Estate Insights Platform
  17. ---- signed up as a team ----
  19. ---- signed up as individuals ----
  20. [Steven Chase, Jack Wimmer, Al Saleemi, Wala Aljohani] Smart Home centralized remote control system for windows, doors, and sprinklers with potential AI input -- Marius Silaghi, msilaghi@fit.edu
  21. [2-4 students: Alice Luce, Jaden Krekow, Adrian Rodriguez, Michael Richards] Sudoku Solvers -- Raghuveer Mohan, rmohan@fit.edu

• Submit your proposal as soon as possible--usually you will need several rounds of revisions from my feedback (I recommend submitting by the first of July)
• Proposals can be submitted the latest on Monday of the first week of classes (which I don't recommend because of multiple revisions, so submit by the end of July)
• Need my approval by Wednesday of the first week of classes (I don't usually approve in a few days because of multiple revisions)
• What are the three main ideas/features/reasons that your project is interesting (e.g., novel, useful, effective, faster, cheaper, or ...) to potentially a large group of people (not just you)? More specifically:
  • What are the opportunities/pains?
  • Do other users feel similar "pains" and why? Ask/read 3 users/articles.
  • What are the main ideas/features for improvement to create value?
  • Ask 3 users if the ideas create value; if not, brainstorm with them for ideas (what about X, does X make it better?).
• Use Proposal Template to provide a proposal in slides (provide the requested content, slide design/format can be changed)

3. Competitions and Challenges

• Student-proposed projects with themes/directions specified by the competitions/challenges
• Imagine Cup [by Microsoft]
  • Winners
  • Possible directions for the world citizenship competition:
    • Millennium Development Goals at UN Development Programme
    • Stories of innovation at UNICEF
• Challenges from challenge.gov
• Grand Challenges from National Academy of Engineering
• SourceAmerica Design Challenge (for people with disabilities) [$6-8K, Due ~April]
• Competitions at Kaggle
• Innocentive Challenges
• The Opportunity Project (census.gov)
• competitions at drivendata.org
• competitions at Data Hack
• Data Science Challenge
• Student Research Competition [by ACM & Microsoft Research]
• Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition