FEAS 2014 Capstone Competition a success

Students, faculty, family and friends filled the halls at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) on Friday, April 11 to show their support for fourth-year Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (FEAS) students who had their final projects on display during the 2014 Capstone Design Competition.

"All the projects are just superb," said Dr. Tarlochan Sidhu, Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. "The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science has a reputation for engineering excellence, and today’s competition continues to prove that our reputation is well earned. All the hard work and dedication our students have put towards their final projects is evident in each project I look at, and every student here should be very proud of the work they have done."

Two competitions took place: one for the Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (AMME), and the other for the Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering (ECSE).

From left: Maaz Tanveer, Hasan Khaliq, Avinash Kumar, Amer Almootassem and David Botros, first-place winners in the Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Capstone Design Competition.

Projects for the AMME ranged from Design and Development of a Shock Strut Oil Monitoring System, to Design and Development of Rear Underride Protection Devices for Heavy Trucks and to a Full Body Motion Tricycle. ECSE projects ranged from eControl - The Future of Home Automation, to Improvement and Extension of the VirtualME Telepresence Robot and to SimBul - Modelling and Simulation of Bullying Behaviour.

First-place winners for each department were:

Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Project: Design and Development of Power and Communication Systems for an Autonomous Amphibious Robot

• Amer Almootassem
• Avinash Kumar
• David Botros
• Hasan Khaliq
• Maaz Tanveer

Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering

Project: MTO Compass Vision System Augmentation

• Daniel Smullen
• Jonathan Gillett
• Joseph Heron