I was in there last semester, what kind of stuff y'all working on now? I'm curious.

2/7/2006 3:44:03 AM

http://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/sdc/students/information/projects/project_list.php

2/7/2006 8:03:51 AM

The sexiest one is prob the one researching underwater autonomous wi-fi networks.

2/7/2006 9:01:09 AM

its a shame they're no longer working on the autonomous vehicle since the darpa grand challenge was won

2/7/2006 12:38:41 PM

I would like to see how group #9 is doing, especially since I took Dr. Young's CSC481 class.

2/7/2006 12:42:26 PM

^
The team from last semester ended up with a playable demo which included the brickyard and Carter-Finley stadium. They included some mini games, such as paintball, capture-the-flag, and dodgeball. I recall paintball working well while the other mini games had some minor bugs.

The original plan was for them to model the entire campus (hello out of scope).
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Me and my buddy Jason worked on the DARPA project last semester and had a great time with it. Autonomous technology is such a hot field right now.

2/7/2006 1:38:29 PM

^yeah let me go ahead and apologize to whoever inherited the ncsu interactive project

I really did have a fairly elegant design for the menu system, but the compiler gave me a bick fuck you and I decided it would be quicker just to hard code everything rather than to figure out what the hell was going on.

[Edited on February 8, 2006 at 3:46 AM. Reason : .]

2/8/2006 3:45:46 AM

hey bowes, I talked with one of the guys whos working on it know, said that they were getting like 8 errors written to the log per frame due to something in the HUD, any thoughts on who might have caused that? haha

3/26/2006 11:18:39 PM

We're sponsoring #4 from the link... they're doing very well.

3/26/2006 11:39:34 PM

God damn I wish I had done CSC instead of CPE.

Those projects look awesome.

3/27/2006 9:52:26 AM

whats the date for posters and pies?

[Edited on April 21, 2006 at 4:51 PM. Reason : bah]

4/21/2006 4:50:43 PM

I wonder how many more semesters John Deere can addon to the same project

4/21/2006 7:10:17 PM

probably as many as they want' getting students is a lot cheaper than assigning personel anyway

4/21/2006 8:45:19 PM

yeah but companies rarely get a good working product from senior design that a real employee couldn't do in a few weeks.

4/22/2006 1:12:55 AM

seriously the john deere employees could have knocked out the project we did in a week or less without a problem...more time is spent learning their custom framework then the actual project itself

4/22/2006 2:39:41 AM

holy shit those projects sound lame as hell, no fucking wonder State is ranked like 100th in the nation in CSC. I'd expect a senior design project to be a little more than an application specification. Where the fuck is the "design" in implementing a pretty trivial spec? My understanding of a design project is that you're supposed to be given a problem and be allowed to innovate the solution... problems shouldn't be specs for apps that financial contributors to the institution need written on the cheap, IMO.

4/22/2006 3:09:10 AM

The software engineering bitches took over CSC. All that shit is menial, boring ass, bitch work. I bet they make you do a lot of paperwork for that, too. Glad I didn't do that shit.

They should be doing shit like artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, whatever is cool in networking, fundamental csc research.

These are the only ones that sound remotely interesting:

NCSU E. Carroll Joyner Visitor’s Center
Underwater Ad-Hoc Wireless Networking
RFID Tag Placement Analysis (possibly)

I think the department is trying to emasculate all of its students with the sw engineering nonsense.

4/22/2006 4:06:34 AM

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"robotics, computer vision"

Last semester I worked on a project (DARPA Grand Challenge - Insight Racing) that dealt with computer vision and robotics for CSC senior design.

4/22/2006 8:58:04 AM

yeah i don't think anybody's getting applications written on the cheap

if anything they're training potential future employees on the cheap

4/22/2006 12:27:35 PM

The problem is that it gets jammed into one semester and you still have to take other classes. Personally, I think the Sr Designs should be the entire last year or make the problem 4.5 years where the last semester the only class you have is Sr. Design. I think aerospace does theirs over the entire last year and they make cool stuff. One semester + other classes just isn't enough to do anything really slick. You guys can act holier and call a lot of these projects lame, but you couldn't do any better in the allotted time either.

4/22/2006 4:08:50 PM

^ i still hate you...but i agree

4/22/2006 4:14:56 PM

^^ I like that idea..thats like giving every student in the program a built-in internship

4/23/2006 2:42:53 PM

yeah, maybe tl or Borka or some former AE Senoir can chime in on what senior year is like for them. If you're not familar with it, they work in teams of 6-8 to fully design, simulate, model, build and fly an airplane, generally in the 4-6ft. wingspan size range. They have different requirements each year, like one year have a plane with top speed of 200mph and 50mile range at 150mph; a plane controlled by thrust vectoring (i.e. moving the jet engine to steer instead of alerons and flaps and such); a pair of planes, one that acts as a "mothership", which must take off with a smaller daughter plane attached to her underside, which will then disengage in midair, start it's own propeller engine and fly independantly; "flying wings" like the B-2 Stealth design; and more.

In short, it makes anything EE/CpE and CSC do for their SR design look like child's play (coming from a former EE Sr. Design partner with State409c)

If you've never seen the products of the AE Sr Design, here's a sample of some of the models and planes they built 2 or 3 years ago
http://www.brentroad.com/photo_folder.aspx?user=2598&folder=Senior+Design

4/23/2006 2:55:47 PM

I'm surprised there's not more GIS stuff

4/23/2006 3:54:01 PM

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"One semester + other classes just isn't enough to do anything really slick"

yeah that project singlehandedly destroyed potentially good grades in other classes

4/23/2006 4:19:39 PM

Not to mention that the Sr. Design project course is much more about teaching the management end of a project, than the project itself. I have to admit, I was stuck in as our team leader and really didn't want to be, but all that RETARDED paperwork you do with project management, milestones, documentation et al really helped me out down the road in the real world.

I agree completely that it's really not a Sr. Design project course, its a project management and teamwork course. There should definitely be another 6 months at LEAST given to actual work on the project. A good 70-80% of my time in that class was spent doing paperwork.

4/23/2006 10:05:11 PM

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"whats the date for posters and pies?"

May 3rd from 10:00 am - 12:30 pm in EBII-1025.

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"My understanding of a design project is that you're supposed to be given a problem and be allowed to innovate the solution..."

Yes, most are not like this. You will get one or two project per semester that are. Some sponsors come in and lay down the law and tell you how to do everything. Others just give you a problem and tell you to solve it. The Sr. Design Center gets (for the most part) corporate sponsors. It will be rare if a corporation doesn't have a set design in which they want their code to be written. The sponsors want to integrate the student's code - if it were toss-away charity then I'm sure there would be more freedoms associated with design.

Sr. Design was beneficial for me simply because it was the first time I was ever presented with a real world problem at NCSU. Up until then all coding assignments involved learning useful concepts but failed at teaching you how to combine things into something that could actually be considered a useful product. That was the stone ages though. I'd hope the other undergrad courses do a bit more to prep people these days.

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4/24/2006 8:43:31 AM

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"I think the department is trying to emasculate all of its students with the sw engineering nonsense."

haha, well put

-ZiP!-

4/24/2006 3:19:10 PM