Electrical Engineering Projects

ALS Alert System

Project Manager: Philip Graybill
Student Project Manager: Jacob Wong

ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a condition which results in loss of voluntary control of muscles and, in later stages, an inability to speak. The goal of this project is to develop, in collaboration with the Greater Philadelphia chapter of the ALS Association, a low-cost eye-triggered alert system for persons with ALS to communicate a need for assistance when their caregivers are not nearby.

Fluency Assistive Device

Project Manager: Ben Weaver
Student Project Manager: Ben Pinto

The Fluency Assistive Device project is supporting and improving an electronic device that greatly aids a person with a fluency disorder by masking the user's own auditory feedback. This team is supporting local technician, David Germeyer.

Piano Pedal Project

Project Manager: Philip Graybil
Student Project Manager: Caitlin Renner

Piano music inspires the heart and soothes the soul. The sustain pedal under the piano adds color and controls musical texture by connecting successive notes together. The goal of our team is to enable an accomplished pianist with paraplegia to use the full expressive capabilities of the piano by designing an assistive technology that presses the sustain pedal in response to upper-body movement.

Solar PV

Project Manager: Randy Fish
Student Project Manager: Chris Essinger

Beer Sheba is an agricultural educational training organization in Senegal. As they work to empower local rural farmers, they hope to implement small scale solar electric systems to be used at single-family dwellings. Their goal is to run lights, a small refrigerator, and charge phones. They have received donated goods like lithium-ion batteries and other components which need to be integrated together by the controller we will design.