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- | ====== Building an autonomous motorboat ====== | + | ===Dynamic Interface Detection and Control Project=== |
- | **Supervisor**: Michael Jenkin | + | **Supervisor: |
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | 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. |
- | __Description__ | + | Extraction of the reaction mixture |
- | An opportunity exists | + | |
+ | 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? | ||
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- | ====== Athenians Data Project ====== | + | - Develop a computer vision system that can detect and monitor the interface between two miscible fluids of different density. |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | - Evaluate the performance of the system over a range of different (and typical) fluids |
- | **Required Background**: | + | - Explore the use of different illuminant/ |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | 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, |
- | __Description__ | + | For further information please contact, |
- | The Athenians Project is a multi-year, ongoing project of compiling, computerizing and studying data about the persons of ancient Athens. | + | |
- | Possible project ideas for this term span from simpler ones such as | + | |
- | how to present data in the best possible way, add spatial characteristics to existing data, | + | |
- | add multimedia data, improve text searching, etc. to more complex ideas such as filling | + | |
- | missing parts for the " | + | |
- | words has been done in the past using expert knowledge. Those experts have establish | + | |
- | certain rules/ | + | |
- | when talking in IT terminology. Furthermore, | + | |
- | the database with some likelihood. Associating probabilities with hypotheses introduces | + | |
- | another opportunity for research projects. | + | |
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- | ====== Three-Dimensional Context from Linear Perspective for Video Surveillance Systems ====== | + | Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca) or Michal Organ (organ@yorku.ca) |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | \\ |
+ | ====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ====== | ||
- | **Requirements**: Good facility with applied mathematics | + | **Supervisor**: Ntalija Vlajic |
- | __Description__ | + | **Recommended Background**: |
- | To provide visual surveillance over a large environment, many surveillance cameras are typically deployed at widely dispersed locations. | + | Not long ago, botnets - networks |
+ | the most effective (if not the only) means of conducting Distributed Denial | ||
+ | of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, with the growing popularity and prevalence | ||
+ | of application-layer over other types of DDoS attacks, | ||
+ | landscape is becoming increasingly more diverse. An especially interesting | ||
+ | new trend is the execution of application-layer DDoS attacks by means of | ||
+ | skillfully manipulated Web-crawlers, | ||
+ | The goal of this project is to design, implement and test a real-world | ||
+ | framework consisting | ||
+ | domain specially designed to attract Google-bots | ||
+ | into generating attack | ||
+ | victim' | ||
+ | component, the project will also look into the statistical/ | ||
+ | estimation of the framework' | ||
+ | to an actual (real-world) target/ | ||
- | This problem can be addressed by automatically pre-mapping two-dimensional surveillance video data into three-dimensional coordinates. | ||
- | Mapping surveillance video to three-dimensional coordinates requires construction of a virtual model of the three-dimensional scene. | ||
- | This project will investigate a monocular method for inferring three-dimensional context for video surveillance. | ||
- | Although the Manhattan world assumption provides powerful constraints, | + | \\ |
+ | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication | ||
- | The student will work closely with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at York University, as well as researchers at other institutions involved in the project. | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | + | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites, |
+ | good math skills, knowledge of C and MATLAB programming languages | ||
- | ---- | + | One of the challenges in remote learning is to allow students to communicate effectively with the lecturer. |
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- | ---- | + | The goal of this project is to apply attentive sensing technology (www.elderlab.yorku.ca) to this problem. |
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+ | In particular, working with a senior graduate student or postdoctoral fellow, the successful applicant will: | ||
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+ | - Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | ||
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- | ====== Estimating Pedestrian and Vehicle Flows from Surveillance Video ====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ====== Attentive Sensing for Sport Video Recording Markets ====== |
- | **Requirements**: Good facility with applied mathematics | + | **Supervisor**: James Elder |
- | __Description__ | + | **Required Background**: |
- | Facilities planning at both city (e.g., Toronto) and institutional (e.g., York University) scales requires accurate data on the flow of people and vehicles throughout the environment. | ||
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- | The density of permanent urban video surveillance camera installations has increased dramatically over the last several years. | ||
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- | This project will explore the use of computer vision algorithms for the automatic estimation of pedestrian and vehicle flows from video surveillance data. The ultimate goal is to provide planners with accurate, continuous, up-to-date information on facility usage to help guide planning. | ||
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- | The student will work closely with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at York University, as well as researchers at other institutions involved in the project. | ||
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- | For more information on the laboratory: [[http:// | ||
- | ---- | + | The goal of this project |
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- | ====== Tandem repeat detection using spectral methods ====== | + | The student will work with senior graduate students, postdoctoral fellows |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | 1. Ground-truth available |
- | + | 2. Evaluate current attentive | |
- | **Required Background**: | + | 3. Modify these algorithms to improve performance |
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- | **Recommended Background**: | + | ------------ |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
- | DNA sequences of organisms have many repeated substrings. These are called repeats in Biology, and include | + | |
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- | Finding tandem repeats | + | |
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- | The student will implement existing spectral algorithms based on Fourier Transforms and on an autoregressive model. He will then make changes suggested by the supervisor, and evaluate the effect of the modifications. Throughout the course, the student is required to maintain a course Web site to report any progress and details about the project. | + | |
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- | ====== Touch- and Gesture-based Text Entry With Automatic Error Correction ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
- | CSE3461 (or equivalent), CSE3311 (or equivalent), CSE4441 (or equivalent) | + | |
- | A student wishing | + | |
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- | **Recommended Background**: | + | |
- | Possession of an Android touch-based phone or tablet would be an asset, but is not essential. | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
- | This project involves extending a touch-based text entry method to include automatic error correction. | + | |
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- | ====== Early Breast Cancer Detection based on MRI’s. ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
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- | **Recommended background**: | + | |
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- | Project Description: | + | |
- | processing techniques for early detection of breast cancer using the available | + | |
- | modalities. In particular, we propose to develop time reversal beamforming imager, | + | |
- | based on our earlier work in time reversal signal processing, for detecting early stage | + | |
- | breast cancer tumours from MRI data. | + | |
- | Our preliminary work has illustrated the type of | + | |
- | results that are possible for breast cancer detection by applying time reversal signal | + | |
- | processing on MRI breast data. In this research, we propose to extend these results to | + | |
- | provide a quantitative understanding of the practical gains provided by time reversal | + | |
- | in MRI based breast cancer detection and its limitations. This will be accomplished | + | |
- | a local hospital, and running our algorithms on these datasets. The first step is | + | |
- | important to check the validity of our algorithms. The next step is to compare the | + | |
- | estimated locations of the tumours (as derived with our algorithms) to their precise | + | |
- | locations as identified by the pathologists. The second step will quantify the accuracy | + | |
- | of our estimation algorithms. | + | |
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- | ====== Developing Fast Speech Recognition Engine using GPU ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
- | General prerequisites | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | Recently, Graphics Processing Units (GPU' | + | |
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- | During the recent years, there is an increasing demand in the job market for programmers who can use GPU's for general purpose computing tasks. This project will serve as a perfect vehicle for you to learn such a cutting-edge programming skill. | + | |
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- | References | + | |
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- | [1] Kisun You, Jike Chong, Youngmin Yi, Gonina, E., Hughes, C.J., Yen-Kuang Chen, Wonyong Sung, Keutzer, K., " | + | |
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- | [2] Jike Chong, Ekaterina Gonina, Youngmin Yi, Kurt Keutzer, "A Fully Data Parallel WFST-based Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition on a Graphics Processing Unit," Proc. of Interspeech 2009, Brigton, UK, 2009. | + | |
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- | ====== Solving Polynomials ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
- | General prerequisites plus course in Numerical Methods, and knowledge of programming, | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | In this project you will compare several efficient methods for solving polynomials. | + | |
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- | ====== MF7114 Assembler ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
- | Some knowledge of microprocessor architecture and assembly programming | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | Every microprocessor is supported by a variety of software tools, such as assemblers, disassemblers, | + | |
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- | Background Information: | + | |
- | manufactured in Canada (by Microsystems International Ltd, or MIL) and one of the earliest microprocessors ever produced. The microprocessor was used, among other applications as the CPU of the CPS-1 microcomputer. Although none of the CPS/1 computers (nor MF7114 software) have survived, technical information about the microprocessor and the CPS-1 has been preserved. This makes the design and | + | |
- | implementation of an assembler possible. More information on | + | |
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- | http:// | + | |
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- | ====== MF7114 Debugger ====== | + | |
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- | **Supervisor**: | + | |
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- | **Required Background**: | + | |
- | Some knowledge of microprocessor architecture and assembly programming | + | |
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- | __Description__ | + | |
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- | Every microprocessor is supported by a variety of software tools, such as assemblers, | + | |
- | Background Information: | + | \\ |
- | manufactured | + | ====== Hunting for Bugs in Logging: applying JPF to log4j ====== |
- | implementation of a debugger possible. More information on | + | |
- | http:// | + | **Supervisor:** Franck van Breugel |
- | ---- | + | Description: |
- | : | + | Java PathFinder (JPF) is a tool that can detect bugs in Java code. |
- | ---- | + | The Java library Apache log4j allows developers to control which log |
+ | statements are output. | ||
+ | to detect bugs in log4j by means of JPF with very limited succes. | ||
- | ======Web Crawlers Behaving Like Humans: Are We There Yet!? ====== | + | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed |
+ | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " |
- | **Required Background**: General prerequisites | + | **Required Background:** General |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces for 3D Rotation ====== | ||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Required Background: |
+ | This project implements and evaluates a new method for 3D Rotation where the user uses both a 2D and 3D user interface to complete the task. The fundamental idea is to use the 3D interface for large-scale manipulation, | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
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+ | ====== Immersive Virtual Reality Kitchen Planner ====== | ||
- | Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are recognized as one | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | of the most serious threats to today' | + | |
- | simplicity of their execution and their ability to severely degrade | + | |
- | the quality at which Web-based services are offered to the end users. | + | |
- | An especially challenging form of DDoS attacks are the so-called | + | |
- | Application-Layer DDoS attacks. Namely: | + | |
- | 1) In Application-Layer DDoS attacks, the attackers utilize a flood | + | |
- | of legitimate-looking Layer-7 network sessions (i.e., sessions that | + | |
- | are generally hard to detect and/or filter out by a firewall or an | + | |
- | IDS system); | + | |
- | 2) Increasingly, | + | |
- | cleverly programmed crawler that executes a semi-random walk over the | + | |
- | web site links, thereby attempting to appear as a legitimate human | + | |
- | visitor. | + | |
- | The goal of this project is to investigate the state of the art in | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | malicious web crawler design. In particular, the project will look | + | |
- | into the challenges of designing a smart-DDoS-crawler from the | + | |
- | attacker point of view - one of these challenges being the estimation | + | |
- | of web-page popularity assuming no a priori access to the web-logs | + | |
- | of the victim web-site. | + | |
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- | ====== GFI Sandbox | + | |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | This project implements a kitchen planner application for an immersive virtual reality system. The implementation will be based on Unity 4. |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======3D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality====== | ||
- | **Required Background**: General prerequisites. | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
+ | **Required Background: | ||
- | __Description__ | + | This project implements and tests various 3D Navigation and 3D Interaction methods in an immersive virtual reality system. The target is to enable the user to roam freely in a large environment while still being able to interact with the environment. The implementation will be based on Unity 4. |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
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- | GFI Sandbox is a sophisticated industry-leading tool for quick and | ||
- | safe analysis of malware behaviour. The goals of this project are: | ||
- | 1) familiarize yourself with the operation of GFI Sandbox; | ||
- | 2) using readily available GFI Sandbox Feeds (i.e., ThreatTrack Feeds), | ||
- | build a database of malware designed specifically for execution of | ||
- | DDoS-attacks - the so-called botnet malware; | ||
- | 3) examine the behaviour of the collected malware 'upon execution'; | ||
- | 4) propose and build an environment - comprising the standard freeware | ||
- | security tools - for longer term (beyond immediate execution) analysis | ||
- | of the collected malware. | ||
+ | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== | ||
- | ---- | + | **Supervisor:** Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang (zmjiang at cse dot yorku dot ca) |
- | : | + | |
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- | Network analysis of EEG data: Understanding connections | + | **Required Background:** Good programming skills |
- | ====== Network analysis | + | **Short Description: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Required Background**: | + | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== |
- | **Preferred**: At least a B in all of the above courses | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
+ | **Required Background: | ||
- | __Description__ | + | **Description: |
- | Electroencephalogram (EEG) data indicates electrical activity at particular locations in the brain. Using EEG data from multiple sensors, it is possible | + | |
- | The tools that are used to analyze communication networks can also be used to analyze brain networks. In this interdisciplinary project, you will work with a collection of EEG data to identify correlated measurements, | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======Model-based Design and Development of Embedded Systems with Code Generation Tools====== | ||
- | ---- | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | : | + | |
- | ---- | + | |
- | ====== An Open Source Structural Equation Modeling Path Diagram to Syntax Application ====== | + | **Required Background: |
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Jeff Edmonds | + | **Project Description: |
- | **Required Background**: | + | Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, |
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | __Description__ | + | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== |
- | The software required is an application that allows researchers to define their hypothesized models visually and will output the correct syntax for the analytical software of their choosing. | + | |
- | To date a promising functional application has been developed in JAVA by a Computer Science student as a 4080 project. | + | **Supervisor: |
- | This a cross-disciplinary project with the Quantitative Methods division of the Department of Psychology. As such, the student will be working with individuals with expertise | + | **Required Background: |
+ | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge | ||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | two cores on a single-chip with on-chip low latency interprocessor communication between the two cores: a C28x 32-bit control core for | ||
+ | real-time control with faster/more loops and small sampling window; | ||
+ | and an ARM 32-bit Cortex-M3 host core for communications and general purpose. The selected student will evaluate the capabilities of the | ||
+ | C2000 Concerto family of microcontrollers through testing and investigating open source software for real-time control applications | ||
+ | that runs on C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers. | ||
- | ---- | + | \\ |
- | : | + | ------------------ |
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- | ====== | + | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== |
- | **Supervisor**: Rob Allison (co-supervised with Hugh Chesser) | + | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu |
- | **Required Background**: General CSE408x prerequisites, | + | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Operating System Fundamentals |
- | ity with C++ and Windows software tools | + | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ |
+ | **Description: | ||
- | __Description__ | + | \\ |
- | The YUsend (York University Space Engineering Nanosatellite Demonstration) Lab has procured a Windows XP-based industrial computer and temperature acquisition card (as well as other hardware) for performing TVAC testing of nanosatellites in the CSIL Lab (PSE 003). A "TVAC Test Manager" | + | ------------------ |
+ | \\ | ||
- | Specific tasks include: | + | ======Circuit |
- | 1. Writing temperature acquisition card (OMEGA Engineering CIO-DAS-Temp) drivers for LabView - should be written in Visual C++ or similar | + | |
- | 2. Write LabView VI's (" | + | |
- | 3. (Optional) Interface the Test Manager with an orbital simulation tool which would be used to compute IR lamp inputs based on a simulation of the nanosatellite' | + | |
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | **Description: | ||
- | ---- | + | **Required Background** A background in undergraduate-level electronics is very important. |
- | : | + | |
- | ---- | + | |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ |
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