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65 Health-care Neckband
 Jiahao Wen
Jue Gong
 John Capozzo design_document0.pdf
final_paper0.pdf
presentation0.pptx
proposal0.pdf
Members:
Jue Gong (juegong2)
Jiahao Wen (jwen8)

Problem:
Cervical spondylosis, also known as neck arthritis, is a common, age-related condition that affects the joints and discs in your neck. Normally, the condition is more likely present in older people. However, more and more young people are now being diagnosed with cervical spondylosis because of sedentary lifestyle, and usually incorrect posture or overusing neck muscles. Even for myself, I can feel my neck stiffness all the time, but I often forgot to relax and do neck exercise.

Solution:
Our goal is to create a neckband that tracks your daily neck movements. It could remind you via vibration to relax and move your neck after sitting in front of a computer for hours. The neckband also keeps track of your posture, and reminds you once you are in an incorrect posture. Moreover, it tracks your daily body movement, and gives you impression of how much time you’ve being sitting everyday. The data collected could be displayed using a mobile app.
We need motion sensors (accelerometer and gyroscope) for our design. Products like BMI160(http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/783/BST-BMI160-DS000-07-786474.pdf) or MetaWear R(https://mbientlab.com/docs/MetaWearPSv0.8.pdf) are good choices for our design. Data would be collected and sent to the mobile app via bluetooth by the sensor. After analyzing the data, signals will be sent back to the control circuit for the reaction of the alarm/vibration.
This product will be powered by battery.

Logic Circuit Teaching Board

Younas Abdul Salam, Andrzej Borzecki, David Lee

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Partners: Younas Abdul Salam, Andrzej Borzecki, David Lee

The proposal our group has is of creating a board that will be able to teach students about logic circuits hands on. The project will consist of a board and different pieces that represent gates. The board will be used to plug in the pieces and provide power to the internal circuitry of the pieces. The pieces will have a gate and LEDs inside, which will be used to represent the logic at the different terminals.

By plugging in and combining gates, students will be able to see the actual effect on logic from the different combinations that they make. To add to it, we will add a truth table that can be used to represent inputs and outputs required, for example, for a class project or challenge. The board will be able to read the truth table and determine whether the logic the student has created is correct.

This board can act as a great learning source for students to understand the working of logic circuits. It can be helpful in teaching logic design to students in high schools who are interested in pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Please comment on whether the project is good enough to be approved, and if there are any suggestions.

Thank you