Senior Design Project Presentations

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Check out the project presentations for this year's Capstone Senior Design courses (CSCE487/CSCE489). These presentations will be on Thursday, April 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. in the Great Hall of the Kauffman Center.

Listed below is the order of the presentations with a short description of the projects including who sponsored them. Each presentation will be approximately 10-12 minutes. We have some great projects this year and the students did an outstanding job completing them. Please come and support the teams.

Thursday, April 23 (9:30 AM – Kauffman Great Hall)

Virtual Food Design
-Sponsored by: UNL Biological Systems Engineering and Food Science & Technology
-Completed in conjunction with Design Studio Faculty
-Develop an easy to use simulation environment that enables food processing companies to design microwaveable food systems using a systematic and rational approach to shorten product development cycles, reduce cost, and deliver a high quality and safe product to consumers.

Cloud Analytics Platform
-Sponsored by: I4 Opportunity Partners
-Completed in conjunction with Design Studio Student Team
-Build a base white-label mobile analytics platform to integrate with a cloud-based ad network ecosystem and incorporate an application independent analytics engine to provide greater insight into the profitability of placed ads.

NFS Yellow Book
-Sponsored by: Nebraska Forest Service
-Develop a mobile phone application to provide NFS with up-to-date location informa­tion of contracted aviation resources to assist with wildfire suppression.

AgSim Webify
-Sponsored by: UNL Agronomy and Horticulture
-Develop mobile-friendly applications for iPhone and Android devices to allow producers to interact with advanced models for crop growth simulation.

Biology of Human
-Sponsored by: NIH SEPA / University of Nebraska
-Work with a team of curriculum developers to create a digital graphical novel and related activities for iPad to teach middle school students about the human body.

Android Malware Repository
-Sponsored by: UNL Computer Science and Engineering
-Develop a repository of techniques and tools to detect malware applications running on Android devices and evaluate the efficacy of detection models and implement improvements.