May 1
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12:00 PM
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1:30 PM
All are welcome to come view demonstrations of projects created by student teams in ECE capstone design courses! ECE alumni and course instructors will serve as judges as teams compete for Best Project awards. Past winning projects have included a self-balancing alarm clock robot that makes waking up an active task, an AI-based voice journaling app to help with mental health, and a safe use free vending machine for a local transitional housing facility.
Courses participating in the ECE Capstone Design Open House:
ECE 453 – Embedded Microprocessor System Design taught by Teaching Faculty Joe Krachey
ECE 455 – Capstone Design in Electrical and Computer Engineering taught by Assistant Teaching Professor Nathan Strachen
ECE 554 – Digital Engineering Laboratory taught by Assistant Professor George Tzimpragos
Thank you to our ECE alumni judges:
- Bill Barbiaux – GE Healthcare, Principal Engineer – Retired
- Bill Berg – Dairyland Power Cooperative, Chief Executive Officer – Retired
- Cole Burek – Extreme Engineering Solutions, Embedded Hardware Engineer
- Feida Chen – ABB E-mobility, Lead Power Electronics Engineer
- Olivia D’Souza – University of Wisconsin–Madison, ECE PhD student
- Marwan Estiban – Kohler Company, Director – Engineering, Electronics and Smart Tech, K&B Group
- Alex Grotelueschen – Milwaukee Tool, Electrical Engineer
- John Hester – Techtricity Corporation, President – Retired
- Robert Lux – Capital Projects, Management
- Cory Mueller – ATC, Consultant Control Engineer
- Justin Reed – C-Motive Technologies, Head of Advanced Technology
- Tony Samimi – Dairyland Electrical Industries, Engineering Manager
- Terry Sartori – GE Healthcare, Accuray – Engineering Project Manager, Retired
- Alex Sharp – Extreme Engineering Solutions, Hardware Debug Engineer
- Khailanii Slaton – University of Wisconsin–Madison, ECE PhD student
- Bob Wolf – IBM, SAP HANA on Power Sales Exec covering North America – Retired
- Forrest Woolworth – PerBlue / Playback Rewards, COO
- John Ziehr – Rockwell Automation, VP Operations – Retired