Up to 120 innovative student thesis projects were displayed at The University of Queensland's 2008 ITEE Innovation Expo held this month at the St Lucia campus.
The student thesis projects included "smart" appliances, projects illustrating leg movement analysis in sleep disorders research, bio-inspired robot language projects and research into controlling an unmanned aircraft.
The annual event showcased ideas and research projects from some of the University's leading information technology and electrical engineering students and was an initiative of UQ's School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE).
Associate Professor Stephen Wilson said the event allowed final-year students to communicate and demonstrate their project work to school students, industry and the Brisbane public.
This year’s winning students included:
• School of ITEE Best Software Project awarded to Mika Hasanah – Smart House Design to support ageing;
• CEED Prize for Best Industry Project awarded to Wilbert Villena – Wireless Cellular Performance Modelling;
• RS Components Prize for Best Piece of Working Electronics Hardware awarded to Chris Garber – Improvement of a VCSEL array based self-mixing sensor experimentation platform;
• Farnell Prize for Best Embedded Micro Hardware/Software awarded to Bazle Eizad – Designing a quad-rotor UAV with an FPGA based controller; and
• School of ITEE Prize for Most Imaginative Demonstration awarded to Donald Cook – Terrestrial Optical Attitude Detection System.
“All student thesis projects demonstrated on the day were of a very high standard which reflects the dedication and passion of the students to their field of study,” Dr Wilson said.
“Our industry visitors were impressed by this year’s thesis projects and have maintained their keen interest by sponsoring prizes for the expo.”
Students interested in studying IT, Engineering & multimedia Design programs at UQ should visit http://study.itee.uq.edu.au.
Media: For more information, contact Steve Forster, ITEE Marketing & Communications Manager (telephone 3365 2392, email: s.forster@uq.edu.au) or Jan King at UQ Communications (telephone 07 3365 1120).
