More than 400 engineering and computing students, consisting of 135 teams, participated in this spring’s Senior Design Showcase, hosted by the College of Engineering & Computing (CEC) on April 22. The students presented their team-based, senior projects to professors, recruiters, industry affiliates, peers, and the community. The projects covered several engineering and computing disciplines. FIU spoke to three student teams to learn more about their projects.
What is your Project about? What impact does it have in the real world?
Akul Singh (pyTLEX):
“Our project can scan and extract timelines from large volumes of text and produce easily understood versions of those timelines. Being sponsored by MITRE, we conceptualized our project to assist Military Teams’ timely task of finding confidential, terrorist information. Additionally, our project can be used to assist crime investigators.”
Juan Arias (Anxiety & Stress Self-Management Software):
“Our project is an application that can help people suffering from anxiety and stress by providing them with self-awareness and self-management strategies in connection to four neurohormones. This can help them take concrete actions to manage their anxiety more effectively. In the long term, it can even prevent further episodes of anxiety.”
Ivan Reyes (iCareForBabyBoomers):
“iCareForBabyBoomers is a mobile and web app which connects elderly users to their health care providers and loved ones. The person’s data is collected and stored in real time with the use of a wearable device (like a smart-watch), which monitors heart rate, pressure and daily steps walked.”
What has proved to be the most challenging part of this project for your team?
Akul Singh (pyTLEX):
“The most challenging part of this project was rebuilding a foundation, which included scanning thousands of lines of code from previous teams’ work over multiple semesters to update them with documentation and fix any errors.”
Juan Arias (Anxiety & Stress Self-Management Software):
“The most challenging part of this project was building the foundation for it with technology we had no prior experience working with. We had to learn to use the tech as we went along and managing it all while staying on schedule.”
Ivan Reyes (iCareForBabyBoomers):
“The most challenging part was ensuring that our application looked and worked as expected across multiple devices ( Android, iOS, and the web). These differences had to be accounted for by requiring various designs to produce a responsive and adaptive experience for our entire userbase.“
What was the most exciting moment of the Senior Design Experience?
Akul Singh (pyTLEX):
“Being able to code was the most exciting part. Getting to work on this project while in college that used Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence was rewarding for us.“
Juan Arias (Anxiety & Stress Self-Management Software):
“The most exciting moment was seeing the project run on a physical mobile device during the Senior Showcase. It was the culmination of all the hard work that we had put into the project after facing numerous challenges, so it was a source of great pride for us.”
Ivan Reyes (iCareForBabyBoomers):
“The most exciting moment was seeing all our isolated pieces of code come together and materialize into the final outcome.”
Some of these student engineers plan to continue on to graduate school, while others are entering the job market in their respective industries including Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, and mobile and web development.
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