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-====== Proposed Projects for Winter 2016 ======
+====== Proposed Projects for Summer 2016 ======
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+======Immersive Virtual Worlds======
+**Supervisor**: Robert Allison
+**Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites, good programming skills, previous work with computer graphics would be helpful
+We have a new and unique fully immersive virtual environment at York. The student would develop interactive 3D virtual worlds to study self motion perception and human computer interaction in a virtual world.  In particular, working with a senior graduate student or postdoctoral fellow, the successful applicant would model 3D environments, render them in a virtual reality display and develop/implement interaction methods to control and interact with the simulation. Artistic background or skill would be an asset but is not required.
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+======Virtual Walking Devices======
+**Supervisor**: Robert Allison
+**Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites, good programming and mechanical skills
+Simulating effective walking in an immersive virtual environment is challenging. Working with a senior graduate student, the successful applicant would help to develop a circular treadmill interface to support virtual walking metaphors.
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+======Adapting a 3D Printer for Paste Extrusion======
+**Supervisor:** James Smith
+D printers are an enabling technology for engineering design.  However most low- to medium-end printers can only extrude plastics through a hot-end extrusion system.  A local company has developed a nozzle and pump system for pastes that can be integrated with existing printers.  A student group is sought to design a mounting bracket for an existing TAZ 4 printer that can be used to augment its ABS extruder with a Discov3ry paste extruder.  The bracket is to be printed with the TAZ and the design is to be released publicly to the open-source community.  Sample prints, calibration routines and possible modifications to the printer's software may be required.  Experience with programming and hardware are important prerequisites.
+For more information, please send email to drsmith@yorku.ca.
+Required Background: General CSE408x prerequisites
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-======Dynamic Interface Detection and Control Project======
-**Supervisor:** Michael Jenkin
-Contrary to most industries, fine chemical manufacturing is dominated by batch production methods. Increasing economic, environmental and safety pressures are motivating a turn towards continuous synthesis. Rather than making products in one big flask, continuous synthesis involves performing chemical reactions by flowing reagents through a tube. Working in this way provides more control over the reaction parameters leading to increases in product quality, and process efficiency and safety. The flow chemistry industry for fine chemical production is a relatively new but burgeoning field with a projected market capacity of billions of dollars by 2018.
-Extraction of the reaction mixture for purification and/or further processing is an important step in chemical manufacturing. This is a relatively straightforward operation in batch production, but offers several challenges for flowing processes. In order to facilitate continuous liquid extraction we require a sophisticated control system. This project involves designing, constructing and evaluating a pertinent practical problem in the field.
-A key step in the process takes place in a clear tube that is mounted vertically. The tube contains two fluids with a boundary between them. During the process material flows into and out of the tube from the top and the bottom. Chemical reactions take place within this tube and It is essential that the position of the boundary be monitored as its position in the tube is used to control the flow of materials into the tube.
-One way of solving this problem is to float a marker at the boundary between the two liquids and to monitor this boundary using a video camera. Although this approach solves the problem, it requires the introduction of a specific float within the tube. Can we build a system that monitors the boundary without resorting to the use of an artificial float?
-Specific goals of the project include:
-- Develop a computer vision system that can detect and monitor the interface between two miscible fluids of different density.
-- Evaluate the performance of the system over a range of different (and typical) fluids
-- Explore the use of different illuminant/filter choices to simplify the task for specific fluid combinations.
-The successful candidate(s) will have the experience of working with a diverse group of scientists and engineers toward the design and implementation of an automated liquid extraction device with applications across many industries. Upon successful prototyping, you will be able to interact with professionals in high-throughput manufacturing and system integration. Based on project success, you may be invited to join the MACOS(TM) team for implementation and process validation, which may involve opportunities in graduate school. You will have the opportunity to interact with the broad audience of MACOS(TM) technology including governmental regulatory agencies and industrial partners. This project will give you a great opportunity to apply your engineering expertise and gain experience in process implementation and technology transfer.
-For further information please contact,
-Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca) or Michal Organ (organ@yorku.ca)
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 that runs on C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers.
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-======Real-Time Bidding Platform======
-**Supervisor:** Jia Xu
-**Required Background:** At least a B+ in Operating System Fundamentals
-(CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/Linux, C++ programming, GCC, TCP/IP skills
-**Description:** Real-time bidding (RTB) is a new method of selling and buying online display advertising in real-time one ad impression at a time. Once a bid request has been sent out, all bids must be received within a strict deadline - generally under 100 milliseconds, including network latency. This project explores RTBkit, an open source SDK allowing developers to create customized real time ad bidding systems (for Media Buyers/Bidders).
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-======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar======
-**Supervisor:**Sebastian Magierowski
-**Description:** The project requires the construction of components for a ground penetrating radar.  The students would have to design microwave boards for the high-frequency components of this unit, on both the transmitter and the receiver.  On the transmitter side the board would take a 5-MHz input clock, run it through a series of off-the-shelf amplifiers and then through a shaping circuit that would convert the input into an outgoing series of pulses (still at 5-MHz repetition rate) less than 400-ps in duration each.  The bandwidth of the signal is roughly 2-8 GHz and hence requires very careful board layout.  The receiver would be a time-shifted sampler, used to sample the returning pulses in progressive periods.  This radar circuit is ultimately intended to be positioned on a rover doing ground analysis.
-**Required Background** A background in undergraduate-level electronics is very important.  Experience with board level implementations and knowledge of microstrip lines would be helpful, otherwise the basics would have to be picked up during the project.
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-More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term.
+More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the summer term.
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