Engineering Commons^™

Adaptive Scare Hall, Jeffrey Williams, Ryan Anderson

Electrical and Computer Engineering

We give a detailed overview of one way an adaptive scare hall can be implemented. We show the common problems with todays scare halls and how our method solves those problems. We then show the inner workings of our scare hall and materials needed. We finally show some data collection we obtained while running our scare hall.

Smart Carabiner, Jeffrey Lunt, Craig Manning

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Real-time measurement and notification of equipment strain

Model Rocket Data Logger, Brian Carrick

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Model rocketry is very popular among people of all ages, and has the opportunity to be fun, engaging and educational. By creating a system to store flight data and images allows a fun hobby to also become a learning experience.

Solar-Powered Backpack: Delivering Portable Solar Power, Courtney Richards

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The solar-powered backpack will provide portable power while exposed to sunlight or for the duration of battery life. This enables the user to provide power to electronic devices at any time.

Star Constellation Finder, David A. Ware

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The SCF is designed to help amateurs astronomers, small groups, boy scouts and others find star constellations in the sky. The user needs to be able to identify the North Star so that they can orient the SCF. The SCF uses the North Star as a point of reference to find other stars in the sky.

Texel Image Library, Seth Andrews

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The purpose of the project was to create a library for working with the texel image format.

Uav Cattle Tracker, Shaun Finlinson

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Every year cattle ranchers loose millions of dollars to preventable causes or curable illnesses.

The purpose of the UAV Cattle Tracker is to provide cattle ranchers daily cattle health and location monitoring for range cattle, improving overall food production efficiencies and increased profits.

Smart Laboratory Instrument Control Framework, Kevin Kennedy, Justin Jonas, Robbie Schaap

Electrical and Computer Engineering

A framework to simplify communication with laboratory instruments and facilitate powerful, automated testing scripts.

• Easier to use than traditional lab software like LabVIEW or MATLAB for instrumentation
• Compatible with any instrument from any vendor
• Works on Windows, Mac and Linux
• Easy to add new instruments
• Powerful object-oriented software architecture that is easy to learn

Lateral Control Of A Vehicle Platoon, Sam Mitchell, Kyle Hymas

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nationally, freeway congestion costs the economy over $1 trillion annually. Automated vehicles are part of a solution that will prevent future costly and time-wasting traffic jams. The standard lanekeeping control algorithms aren't effective in many adverse environments. Vehicle following is a part of the solution to this complex problem.

The project demonstrates a vehicle following system that will be used by the SATS Group at USU.

Visual Servo Robotic Hand (Vsrh), Ryan Lamoreaux, Amber Mcdougal, Quinn Thomson, Christopher Green

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Our goal with this project was to combine image processing and control systems to inspire future projects. We also wanted to get a better understanding of robotics and help make them more intuitive and less restrictive. Our VSRH mimics a user’s hand without having to physically control the VSRH.

Emergency Vital Signs Monitor, Derek Jensen

Electrical and Computer Engineering

According to the Center for Disease Control, every year there are over 120 million visits to the emergency department.

In 2010 alone, at least 55 milion of those visits required care from a trauma center.

As an EMT, it is expected that an initial assessment and transport decision is made within ten minutes of arriving on scene. They need the best information possible to make an informed decision.

Wheelchair Follower, Clint Fernelius, Jeanne Munk, Tyler Travis

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The wheelchair follower is an introductory project in using computer vision in autonomous following applications. It is designed to follow a leader in an orthogonal position. The leader is designated by wearing a badge which the system tracks using computer vision. It also uses various sensors to detect obstacles for safety.

Bob R.O.S.S. (Robot Overhead Super Sketcher), Justin Cox, Steven Guest

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Objectives

• Create a large scale image while entertaining people that are watching
• Design the system to be portable
• Provide a low-cost alternative to large-scale printers and large digital displays
• Learn how to design and implement a system that uses a standardized instruction language (G-code)

On Demand Cell Sectoring Based Fractional Frequency Reuse In Wireless Networks, Shakil Ahmed, Mohammad Arif Hossain, Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury

Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Research

In this paper, a dynamic channel assigning along with dynamic cell sectoring model has been proposed that focuses on the Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) not only for interference mitigation but also for enhancement of overall system capacity in wireless networks. We partition the cells in a cluster into two part named centre user part (CUP) and edge user part (EUP). Instead of huge traffic, there may be unoccupied channels in the EUPs of the cells. These unoccupied channels of the EUPs can assist the excessive number of users if these channels are assigned with proper interference management. If the number …

Class-Based Interference Management In Wireless Networks, Mohammad Arif Hossain, Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Shakil Ahmed, Yeong Min Jang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Research

Technological advancement has brought revolutionary change in the converged wireless networks. Due to the existence of different types of traffic, provisioning of Quality of Service (QoS) becomes a challenge in the wireless networks. In case of a congested network, resource allocation has emerged as an effective way to provide the excessive users with desirable QoS. Since QoS for non-real-time traffic are not as strict as for real-time traffic, the unoccupied channels of the adjacent cells can be assigned to the non-real-time traffic to retain QoS for real-time traffic. This results in the intensified bandwidth utilization as well as less interference …

Modeling The Snow Surface Temperature With A One-Layer Energy Balance Snowmelt Model, J. You, David G. Tarboton, C. H. Luce

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Snow surface temperature is a key control on and result of dynamically coupled energy exchanges at the snow surface. The snow surface temperature is the result of the balance between external forcing (incoming radiation) and energy exchanges above the surface that depend on surface temperature (outgoing longwave radiation and turbulent fluxes) and the transport of energy into the snow by conduction and meltwater influx. Because of the strong insulating properties of snow, thermal gradients in snow packs are large and nonlinear, a fact that has led many to advocate multiple layer snowmelt models over single layer models. In an effort …

Generating Technical Data For Strategic Source Of Repair (Ssor) & Source Of Repair Assignment Process (Sorap), Brent A. Carlsen

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

SDL Presentation on SSOR and SORAP Technical Data

Art+Eng Week Dubbed Success, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

A first-of-its-kind collaboration between art and engineering students at Utah State University demonstrated that creativity and technical know-how go hand in hand.

Creating Tomorrow, Fall 2014, College Of Engineering

College of Engineering Magazines

Annual magazine for the College of Engineering at Utah State University.

Design And Testing Of A Nanosatellite Simulator Reaction Wheel Attitude Control System, Fredric William Long

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Attitude control of a satellite is required for the pointing of communications antennas and other instruments. For this reason, a control algorithm capable of precision pointing is important. Because the process of sending a satellite into space is time consuming and costly, ground-based methods of testing are paramount. A simulator is a low-cost, groundbased system made to mimic the conditions of a weightless satellite in space. The simulator used in this project controls attitude through applying torque to reaction wheels. The objective of this project is to derive and test a control algorithm for the attitude control of a satellite …

Targeted Drug Delivery System For Kidney And/Or Liver Failure Patients Using Human Serum Albumin, Sean Bedingfield

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Compromised liver and/or kidney function reduces the acceptable dosage of a variety of medications that can be administered to patients. These patients still have a need for drugs such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), antivirals, and antibiotics. The project goal is to provide a drug delivery system to accommodate these reduced dosage limits with added therapeutic benefits to address symptoms of liver or kidney failure. Localized drug delivery allows for a smaller, concentrated dose rather than inundating the patient's system with the drug of interest. Human serum albumin (HSA) is a researched candidate for drug delivery with therapeutic properties. HSA …

Retrieval Of Spectral Reflectance Of High Resolution Multispectral Imagery Acquired With An Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: Aggieair™, Bushra Zaman, Austin Jensen, Shannon R. Clemens, Mac Mckee

AggieAir Publications

This research presents a new semi-automatic model for converting raw AggieAir™ footprints in visible and near-infrared (NIR) bands into reflectance images. AggieAir, a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform, is flown autonomously using pre-programmed flight plans at low altitudes to limit atmospheric effects. The UAV acquires high-resolution, multispectral images and has a flight duration of about 30 minutes. The sensors on board are twin cameras with duplicate settings and automatic mode disabled. A white Barium Sulfate (BaSO4) panel is used for reflectance calibration and in situ irradiance measurements. The spatial resolution of the imagery is 25 cm; the radiometric resolution …

Global Leader In Water Treatment Industry Opens Cache Valley Office And New Partnership With College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

An international leader in the water and wastewater industry is opening a new office in Cache Valley to take advantage of what the company calls an ideal location and a talented workforce of new engineering graduates.

Hydroshare: Advancing Collaboration Through Hydrologic Data And Model Sharing, David G. Tarboton

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

HydroShare is an online, collaborative system being developed for open sharing of hydrologic data and models. The goal of HydroShare is to enable hydrology researchers to easily discover and access hydrologic data and models, retrieve them to their desktop for local analysis and perform analyses in a distributed computing environment that may include grid, cloud or high performance computing. Users may also share and publish outcomes (data, results or models) into HydroShare, using the system as a collaboration platform. HydroShare is expanding the data sharing capability of the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System by broadening the classes of data accommodated. HydroShare …

Potential Airborne Optical Contributions To The European Phased Adaptive Approach (Epaa) For Missile Defense, Garry Schnelzer, Sean Collins, Scott Hansen, Joe Kristl

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

Outline

• European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA)
• Airborne Optical Sensor’s Contribution and Coverage
• Notional Airborne Optical Sensor and Performance
• Recommendations

Usu College Of Engineering Student Honored By Aviation Week, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

The aerospace industry has its eyes on a group of young engineering professionals, including Utah State University’s Ryan Martineau, who will lead tomorrow’s innovations in space, aviation and defense.

Up In Smoke – How Changes In Egyptian Farming Can Help Preserve The Pyramids, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Along the fertile banks of the Nile River, a researcher from Utah State University is finding ways to turn a useless agricultural byproduct into something valuable, while improving the region’s air quality in the process.

Ammonia Measurements And Emissions Estimates From A California, Usa Dairy Using Both Point And Remote Sensors, Kori Moore, Emyrei Young, Cassi Gurell, Michael Wojcik, Randall Martin, Gail Bingham, Richard Pfeiffer, John Prueger, Jerry Hatfield

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

Background

• Question: How much does a US open lot dairy contribute to local and regional PM loadings?
• • Primary PM: dust, combustion sources
  • Secondary PM: NH₃, NO_x, SO_x, VOCs
  • Climate, housing, manure management, and other confounding factors
• Emissions measurements are required to help answer this question
• Study Objective:
  • Characterize PM_2.5, PM₁₀, TSP, and gaseous NH₃concentrations, fluxes, and emissions from a commercial dairy using both point and remote sensing techniques
  • Results reported in:
    • Marchant et al. 2011. Estimation of dairy particulate matter emissions from a California dairy …Trans. ASABE …

Path Flow Estimator For Planning Applications In Small Communities, Seungkyu Rya, Anthony Chen, H. Michael Zhang, Will Recker

Graduate Student Publications

This paper presents an alternative planning framework to model and forecast network traffic for planning applications in small communities, where limited resources debilitate the development and applications of the conventional four-step travel demand forecasting model. The core idea is to use the path flow estimator (PFE) to estimate current and forecast future traffic demand while taking into account of various field and planning data as modeling constraints. Specifically, two versions of PFE are developed: a base year PFE for estimating the current network traffic conditions using field data and planning data, if available, and a future year PFE for predicting …

Pioneering Next-Gen Wireless Networks, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

A Utah State University engineering professor is part of a collaborative team of researchers developing new technologies that will support next-generation wireless networks. Associate professor of computer and electrical engineering Rose Hu, has secured two National Science Foundation grants along with private funding from Intel to develop tomorrow’s wireless systems.