Guidelines for external projects

• Classroom: OLS 130 (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 group or as an individual, send email to pkc@fit.edu by Tue, Jan 13, 5pm
  • specify your preference order: first choice, second choice, third choice, ...
  • generally "first come first serve"
  • generally groups have a higher priority than individuals
  • sometimes the project proposers choose from those who signed up
• --- Jan 12, Mon ---
• 1:10 -- [2-4 students: Joanne, Gianni] Cybersecurity with lightning data, Dr. Bhattacharyya, sbhattacharyya@fit.edu
• 1:20 -- [2-4 students: Tara, Woroma, Kahel] Breast Cancer Detection, Dr. Nematzadeh, znematzadeh@fit.edu
• 1:30 -- [2-4 students: Jacob, Samuel, Nikhil] Analysis & Dark Matter Physics Simulation
  [2-4 students: Summer, Alejandro] Mapping for a Cylindrical Micro-Resistive Well Detector, Pietro Iapozzuto, piapozzuto2015@my.fit.edu
• 1:40 -- [2-4 students: Justin, Nathan] Healthcare IoT Vulnerability Testbed, Dr. Sudhakaran, ssudhakaran@fit.edu
• ****** completed/valid teams for Fall 2025 *******
  1. ---- faculty-approved projects before the first day of classes ----
  2. [Yavanni Ensley, Younghoon Cho, and Poppa Ollivierre] Human-autonomous teamwork of ground and air vehicles, Dr. Eskridge
  3. [K. Valiyev, S. Warner, S. Kaguima, J. Sterling] SpacePNP: Pick and Place for microgravity environments, Dr. Brenner
  4. [Pedro Marcet, Ivan Marriott, Jon Ayuco] Competitive Programming Primer, Dr. Mohan
  5. [Sloan Hatter and Blake Gisclair (MTH)] Automated On-Orbit Satellite Characterization with Low-SWaP Computers, Dr. White
  6. [Evan Gunderson, Timothy Shane, Alex Thomas] Applications of Deep Learning to Medical Imaging, Evan Gunderson, egunderson2022@my.fit.edu; Dr. Mitra, dmitra@fit.edu
  8. ---- student-proposed projects ----
  9. [Vincenzo Barager, Jacob Hall-Burns, Dathan Dixon, Ethan Wadley] FIT AR Navigation App
  10. [Joshua Pechan, Thomas Chamberlain, Varun Doddapaneni, Anthony Ciero] NoCap: Fact checking for articles using AI
  11. [Joseph Hilte, Chase Monigle, Tony Arrington, Jonathan Suo] Panther Shuttle App
  12. [Matteo Caruso, Emma Bahr, Kyle Gibson, & Joshua Cajuste] Wallee: Personal Finance App
  13. [Nicholas Shenk, Joseph Digafe, Christian Prieto, Donoven Nicolas] Remotely Controlled Car via LTE or Wifi
  15. ---- signed up as a team ----
  16. [Arisa Laloo, Chervelle Pierre] Project development management, Dr. Silaghi, msilaghi@fit.edu
  17. [Daniella Seum, Orion Powers] ML/LL Models Evaluation Dashboard, Dr. Slhoub, kslhoub@fit.edu
      
  19. ---- signed up as individuals ----
  20. [Dorothy Ammons, Patrick Kelly, Shamik Bera, Rakan Alsharif] Automated Grading System, Dr. Mohan, rrmohan@fit.edu
  21. [Nikiraj Konwar, Nicolas Rincon-Speranza, Lawson Darrow, Christian Stevens] Skin Cancer Detection, Dr. Nematzadeh, znematzadeh@fit.edu
  22. [Ashley McKim, Simon Gardling, Josh Kalinsky, Darian Dean] Java OO program visualizer, Dr. Luginbuhl, dluginbuhl@fit.edu
  23. [Chris Pinto-Font, Vincent Borrelli, Andrew Bastien, Keegan McNear] Visualization for Formal Languages, Dr. Luginbuhl, dluginbuhl@fit.edu
  24. [Maria Linkins-Nielsen, Michael Bratcher] Assembly/C language snippet inspector, Dr. Silaghi, msilaghi@fit.edu
  25. [Elton Batista, Curtis Jones, Jordan Chesley] AI-Powered Phishing Email Detector, Dr. Slhoub, kslhoub@fit.edu

• Submit your proposal as soon as possible--usually you will need multiple 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