Exploring Engineering World  2015

Technology and Everyday Life


Prabhas Chongstitvatana, Computer Engineering  homepage
Chaiyachet Saivichit, Electrical Engineering

Our classes are the mixture of knowing how basic technology works and hand-on projects to motivate you to "make" something.  We expect you to get some idea from our talk and spend sometime in pursuing self/group study of the assigned homework.  Your work will be presented and get comments in next week class meet.  We shall select a few solid projects to join the gathering at the end of this semester where all sections join the show.

We will talk about

Cloud and Future of Internet
especially:  Internet of Things 

In class hands-on learning

How CPU work

slides

Cloud computing
Fun Facts about Storage

videos

Self-driving car test (youtube)

Project  Internet of Things

I pick O'Reilly view point of Internet of Things.  He believes in IoT and Human (in the loop).  So here is his view:
Future of Internet
Internet of Things and Humans
His talk on Youtube

Your project is to brainstorm a "realistic" project that combine "hardware" (gadget/sensors/mobile etc) and "sofware" (people/apps etc) that can "improve" our life.  You need to prepare to answer the following questions:
1)     What "problem" you want to solve?
2)     Why it is important?
3)     How your IoT will help?
4)     Technical and business aspects of your IoT.

Each group must hand-in about 4 pages of written up of your project (in the next class). You must prepare to present your project to the class and answer the questions from your peers.   The presentation must be 5 minutes. The discussion period will be 5 minutes. After all projects are presented, we will have popular vote for the best project.

Assessment

Your work is counted 25 points toward the final score.

Enjoy!

last update 10 Feb 2015