BSEET Seniors present Design Project

The senior students in the Baccalaureate degree in Electrical Engineering Technology (BSEET) program at Penn State Wilkes-Barre presented their final project on May 7, 2009. The picture below shows Christopher Moses (left) and Joseph Stevens (right) during the presentation for their group.

The final project is a capstone design that represents the culmination of their technical education. The capstone project is a year long project split into two courses: in the first course (EET 419) taken during the fall semester, students have to come out with a proposal that describes the technical specifications and other considerations for a design that they intend to build. During this course, students are also exposed to other areas such as project management, patents, effective search for electronic components, etc. During the second course (EET 420) taken during the spring semester students build, assemble, test and redesign the circuits their circuits and software in order to meet the specifications set by themselves in the previous course. Additional information for the course can be located in the website for course at: http://www.personal.psu.edu/axl17/419.htm

After intense discussions at the beginning of the course, this group of students decided to build a Discriminating Metal Detector that could not only discriminate between different metals but also to store the position of the located object through a built in GPS receiver. The picture below shows the third member of the group, Matt Smith with their prototype. All the technical details for their project can be found in their course website http://courses.wb.psu.edu/08-09/eet419-420/Group1/index.htm . An additional requirement of these two courses is for the students to build a website that collects all the information about their project.

Chris Moses (center) is graduating with the BSEET degree on May 16th. We wish him success in his future academic and professional endeavors. We are sure that he will make us all Penn State proud. Joseph Stevens (left) and Matt Smith (right) will stay with us for an additional semester in order to complete those courses that never seemed to fit in their schedule.

Congratulations to Chris, Joe and Matt for a job well done. They sure look happy!!