Project Center
One distinguishing feature of Seattle University's Electrical
& Computer Engineering program is the Science & Engineering
Project Center. During your senior year you bridge the gap
between your academic experience and professional experience by
participating in year-long design projects that involve real
projects and real clients. Along with your faculty advisor, you
will work closely with a sponsoring company or government agency
to develop a project proposal, conduct the design analysis,
produce a schedule and budget, build a prototype, debug and
troubleshoot, prepare engineering reports, and then present your
results to the sponsor and in a public forum. It may sound like
a lot of work, and it is, but your confidence
as an engineer will be well rooted, you will be well
supported working and playing with great team members, and lastly your time will be filled
with memorable experiences!
It is our commitment to ensuring graduates are skilled
in the art and job-ready that makes this unique experience
possible. Students, Faculty and Project Center staff flourish
from this direct hands-on experience.
Direct Hands-On Experience
Real Problems Real
Solutions Real Learning
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Electrical & Computer Engineering
Senior Design
Students
quickly discover that the city of Seattle is an extension of our campus community, whereby local companies and agencies such as Boeing, Microsoft, Kenworth, AT&T, Cisco, and many others, present our students with real problems needing real solutions.
Kiran Dhanoa
and Sarah Mansa, both
Kiran feels that her education at Seattle University, and her experiences in the Senior Design project in particular, helped to differentiate her from her peers at other universities and, therefore, made her more competitive in the job market. She agrees that the Senior Design project is a wonderful opportunity to network with employers, and even sees it as the first step in the job seeking process. Continue to full article...
Sarah
says that acting as a project
manager in the Senior Design project allowed her to develop and
sharpen her leadership abilities. Sarah Mansa graduated from
Seattle University with a Bachelor’s degree in
Electrical Engineering. She is currently employed by the Boeing
Company as a member of the Research and Development department,
focusing on the area of Electromagnetics. Sarah feels that her
Senior Design experience greatly impacted her ability to obtain
her position at Boeing.
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SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS
TEAM 07.1 SMART GALLEY POWER CONTROLLER
TEAM 07.3 KENWORTH AUTOMATED MULTICOLOR IN-CLUSTER TELL-TALE SYSTEM
Kenworth Truck Company, a
division of PACCAR Inc, is a leading manufacturer of heavy and
medium duty trucks.
Kenworth's success can be traced back to a philosophy
established at the beginning in 1923: Build a custom truck and
build it to last. Back then, it was said that Kenworth engineers
weren't afraid to "get their boots muddy" as they journeyed into
the field with customers to understand the demands put on their
vehicles. Today, Kenworth continues to listen carefully to
customer needs, then builds custom trucks that will meet those
needs. That's why they call them "The World's Best."
TEAM 06.7 GPU BASED IMAGE PROCESSING: REATIME JPEG CODEC FEASIBILITY STUDY Philips Medical Systems teams up with Seattle University to
develop a new JPEG encoding process to save cost and improve
reliability of it's ultrasound machines. Team 06.7
accomplished their goal by transferring the processing load of
encoding JPEG files from higher cost Application Specific
Integrated Circuits (ASIC) to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
of a video card.
TTEAM 06.3 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR FOR LAB DATA ANALYSIS The Boeing Company & Seattle University design project to automate the analysis of power systems data by implementing a number of data processing algorithms on a Texas Instruments Digital Signal Processor (DSP).
AA series of algorithms was developed in software
with the goal of implementing them on a digital signal
processor. Near real-time analysis was desired in order to
allow for the monitoring of tests in progress. This will
greatly increase the efficient use of test facilities, as
adjustments can be made immediately if problems are detected.
The faster turn around time for test results will also be of
benefit to Boeing design engineers.
Continue to the Science & Engineering Project Center... For additional program information please contact the department desk:
ecedept@seattleu.edu 
The
Boeing Company & Seattle University respond to customer demand for
more efficient commercial airplanes, Boeing has focused its new
developmental efforts on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a
super-efficient airplane. One way to make an airplane more
efficient is to reduce the weight of the airplane itself. A
source of excess weight on an airplane is wiring, such as the
power wires for the galley inserts...
TEAM 07.1
Poster
Seattle
University Senior Students working jointly with Kenworth got
their boots muddy in a project consisted of “proof of
concept” design and prototype for Kenworth’s Automated Tell-Tale
Identification and multi-color Tell-Tale systems. These
systems, when implemented, will allow Kenworth to provide a
higher quality, more flexible product at a lower cost. It
is joint projects such as these that provide students with an
unprecedented opportunity to tap into the rich resources,
knowledge, and unique skills of world-class companies such as
Kenworth to produce the very best educational experience .
TEAM 06.7 Poster
TEAM 06.3 Poster