Senior undergraduate projects (in communications theory, information theory, signal processing, computer vision, stochastic control and ergonomics) accomplished in fullfillment of the MATH-493 Engineering Mathematics Project course (with faculty supervisors listed in brackets).

• Ryan Cannon, Andrew Lappalainen and Ramiro Zurkowski, Design of Region Merging Algorithms for Image Segmentation, (Alajaji and Mansouri), April 2012.

• Noah Daley and Richard Wood, Real-Time Coding with an Adaptive Quantizer, (Yuksel and Linder), April 2012.

• Patrick Glover, John Treilhard and George Weekes, Learning Image Priors for Image Reconstruction, (Mansouri), April 2012.

• Ryan Veenkamp and Ali Wytsma, Learning Image Priors for Image Restoration, (Mansouri), April 2012.

• Andrew Cerisano, Nevin Cimolai and Nima Poulad, Face Recognition using Principal Manifolds, (Mansouri), April 2011.

• Alex Condello and Tyler Longo, Consensus and Agreement, (Yuksel), April 2011.

• Matt Gilbert, Kyle McCormick and Cameron McCormick, Region Tracking over an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2011.

• Andrew Johnston, Alex Minnaar and Alan Richards, Stochastic Systems with Data Rate Constraints, (Yuksel), April 2011.

• Aaron Lamersa and Michael Shadid, Localized Eigenfaces for Face Recognition, (Mansouri), April 2011.

• Sean Abraham, Adrian Green and Tom Hoddes, Local Eigenface Facial Recognition, (Mansouri), April 2010.

• Robert Ballard and Jeffrey Heakes, Optimized Decoding of Binary Images over Channels with Memory, (Alajaji and Takahara), April 2010.

• Lauren Bates, Tim Knowles and Emily Shepherdson, Face Recognition, (Mansouri), April 2010.

• Andrew Brennan and Ian Scriver, Learning Image Priors Applied to Aesthetics and Art, (Mansouri), April 2010.

• Jen Elgar, Colleen Smith and Adam Sniderman, Region Tracking over an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2010.

• Abdalla El-Raghy, Ben Snively and Steven Wu, Learning Image Priors, (Mansouri), April 2010.

• Nicholas Ballard and Joseph Pape, The Magic Wand -- Design of a Direction Sensitive Universal Remote Control, (Dawes and Thomson), April 2009.

• Sarah Correll, Colin Sutherland and Emma Willemsma, Region Tracking over an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2009.

• Linda Farczadi and Stefan Ng, Face Recognition, (Mansouri), April 2009.

• Lisa Farnell, Jessica Havelock and Claudette Yungwirth, Stability of Belief Propagation in Networks, (Yuksel), April 2009.

• Dana Awamleh, Jeff Calder and Allan MacAulay, Region Tracking over an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2008.

• Kevin Campbell, Phillipe DePas and Dustin Freeman, Motion Segmentation Without Motion Compensation, (Mansouri), April 2008.

• Kyle Cassidy and Ben McLeod, Classifying the Magnitude of Load Lifted, (Reid and Takahara), April 2008.

• Justin Charbonneau, Chris Morley and Omri Spirman, Motion Segmentation through Maximization of Distance between Distributions of Motion Vectors, (Mansouri), April 2008.

• Matthew Chivers and Stephan Trusevych, Optimal Constellation/Mapping Pairs for Source Adaptive Modulation of Multimedia, (Alajaji and Takahara), April 2008.

• Sean Huberman, Ryan Steele and Edward Tan, Multi-frequency Riometer, (Thomson), April 2008.

• Akira Jones, Texture Analysis of Bone CT Images, (Bryant and Thompson), April 2008.

• Nona Movahedi, 2-D Image Segmentation Using Level Set PDEs, (Mansouri), April 2008.

• Zeina Nasrallah and Sara Parhizgari: Distributed Sensing and Control, (Yuksel), April 2008.

• James Wood and Jeremy Frank, Optimal Random Deployment of Relay Nodes, (Takahara and Linder), April 2008.

• Steven Birk and Duncan Findlay, L_1 Regularized Logistic Regression and Spam Filtering, (Takahara and Linder), April 2007.

• Kevin Chan and Joseph Paes, Development of a Hand Switch Pressure Measurement Device, (Reid and Takahara), April 2007.

• Adam Clarridge, Brendan Moore and Eric Hart, Control Layer for Ant Routing, (Takahara and Linder), April 2007.

• Jacek Dudek and Paul Grouchy, Visual Tracking in a Sequence of Images, (Mansouri), April 2007.

• Dalia El-Shimy, Antonio Sanchez and Eric Simpson, Speech Analysis and Modification, (Gazor), April 2007.

• Bryn Gingrich and Wei Tseng, Reliable Communication of Text Documents Over Burst Noise Channels, (Alajaji), April 2007.

• Sarah Lyons and Jacqui Vanos, Emergency Communication Systems in Coal Mines, (Thomson), April 2007.

• Ereth McKnight-MacNeil and Yuki Yamashita, Design of an Interference Cancellation Scheme Using Multiple Solar Radio Telescopes, (Thomson), April 2007.

• Derek McColl and Travis Thomson, Load Carriage Simulator Control System, (Reid and Takahara), April 2007.

• Adam Cohen and Gavin Mitchell, Space-Time Block Codes for Multi-Antenna Fading Channels, (Alajaji), April 2006.

• Marc El Jichi and Paul Heakes, Public Key Cryptography: RSA, Discrete Logarithm, Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems, (Kani and Alajaji), April 2006.

• Brett Galloway and David Powell, Turbo Codes that Exploit the Local Redundancy in Compressed Data, (Alajaji), April 2006.

• Michael Greene, Christopher Seewald and Tomas Sollund, Investigation of Collision Avoidance System Via Beamforming, (Thomson and Lepage), April 2006.

• Monique Martin and Mike Kennedy, Sternocleidomastoid EMG During Dynamic Contractions: Experimental Data Signal Processing and Analysis, (Morin (ECE) and Takahara), April 2006.

• Adam Rytwinski and Mike Rooke, Adaptive Modulation Schemes with Channel Coding, (Alajaji and Takahara), April 2006.

• Lindsay Smith, Automation of HAW-1 Ocean Cable Analysis and Study of Sources of Interference, (Thomson, Lanzerotti, MacLennan and Burr), April 2006.

• Haider Al-Lawati, Ahmed El Assaad and Karim Khairallah, Space-time Block Codes for Multi-Antenna Fading Channels, (Alajaji), April 2005.

• Tamra Baxter, Ken Edwards and Tim Evans, Soft Decision Combined Source-Channel Coding, (Alajaji), April 2005.

• Wesley Burr, Application of Statistical Signal Processing to Spatially Separated Climate Data, (Thomson), April 2005.

• Ronald Chen, Karen Doxsee, Anthony Payoe and Jeffrey Turner, Information Transmission Near the Shannon Limit: LDPC versus Turbo Codes, (Alajaji and Kashyap), April 2005.

• Tomas Karger, Cameron McKay and Glenn Patterson, Source Adaptive Constellation Mapping for Compressed Multimedia Data, (Alajaji and Takahara), April 2005.

• Sabrina Tang and Marc Whittaker, An Analysis of Public-Key Cryptography Methods: Implementation and Runtime Performance, (Kani and Alajaji), April 2005.

• Krista Amolins, The Sun Will Rise, (Thomson), April 2004.

• Andrew MacDonald, Sean Noble and David Richardson, High Data Rate Image Compression and Communication, (Alajaji & Linder), April 2004.

• Raimund Ostrowski and Alex Hlivka, Channel Optimized Vector Quantization over Multi-Antenna Rayleigh Fading Channels, (Alajaji & Linder), April 2004.

• Todd Garrison and Chris Nicola, Multimedia Data Compression: Channel Optimized Vector Quantization over Rayleigh Fading Channels, (Alajaji), April 2003.

• Ben Gardner and Frazer McArthur, Non-Liner Filter for Radioheliographic Data, (Thomson), April 2003.

• John Hayes, Mapping Optimization of the 32-Cross Constellation for the Modulation of Non-Uniform Sources, (Alajaji & Takahara), April 2003.

• David McKenna and Shaun Filonowicz, Design of an Adaptive Modem for Heterogeneous Data, (Alajaji & Takahara), April 2003.

• Megan Owen, Soft Decision Decoding of Convolutional Codes, (Alajaji), April 2003.

• Paul Rogers, Kartik Sundar and Donald Nguyen, Helioseismology and Communications Systems, (Thomson), April 2003.

• Chris St. John, Margaret Sample and Mia Minnes, Ant-Based Control for Dynamic Network Routing, (Takahara), April 2003.

• Shane Bergsma and Nicholas Scipio, Data Compression for Multimedia Communication, (Linder & Alajaji), April 2002.

• Takahito Kanamori, Swarm Intelligence for Network Routing, (Takahara & Davis), April 2002.

• Brian Pirie, Complexity Theory and Technology Adaptation, (A. Agrawal & Linder), April 2002.

• Shant Sethian, Jay Shah and Cynthia Thomas, Channel-Optimized Vector Quantization, (Linder & Alajaji), April 2002.

• Gail Bouchette and Andrew Gibson, Channel Optimized Vector Quantization using Deterministic Annealing, (Alajaji & Linder), April 2001.

• Neill Patterson, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Transmitter/Receiver Design for Wireless Voice Communications, (Davis), April 2001.

• Adrian Taylor, Is There a Better Alternative to the Lloyd Algorithm ? (Alajaji & Linder), April 2000.

• Richard Thommes, Modeling Internet Traffic, (Takahara & Mouftah), April 2000.

• Asmir Arifovic, Blocking in Optical WDM Switches, (Takahara & Mouftah), April 2000.

• Kajen Balasundaram and Johanna Harris Sigaran, A User Friendly Simulation Program, (Davis), April 2000.

• Geoffrey Leung, Radio Frequency Bitstream Communication Link, (Davis), April 2000.

• Don Chen, Yen Kong, Ed Tang and Rumeet Tanna, Reliable Communication of Non-Uniform IID Sources via Turbo Codes: An Application of Joint Source-Channel Coding, (Alajaji & Davis), April 1999.

• Philippe Durand, Reliable Information Transmission Near the Shannon Limit: Low Density Parity Check Codes, (Alajaji, Davis & R. Kerr - CRC), April 1999.

• Kelly Ferguson and Kitty Lee, Performance of Coded Communication Systems, (Alajaji & Takahara), April 1999.

• Lauren Matheson, Infrared Bit Stream on Multiple Channels, (Davis), April 1999.

• Zahir Raza, Spread Spectrum Communications over Infrared Links, (Davis), April 1999.

• Scott Siegler and Bryan Wills, Turbo Codes: Exploiting Markovian Channels, (Alajaji & Davis), April 1999.

• Jason Silzer, Dependent Central Limit Theorem, (Beaulieu & Takahara), April 1999.

• Keith Stewart, Computation of the Rate-Distortion Function for Real-Valued Sources, (Alajaji & Linder), April 1999.

• Jeremy Sylvestre, Quadrature Amplitude Modulation on Infrared Links, (Davis), April 1999.

• Daniel Veiner, Optimal Filtering and Hidden Markov Models, (Davis), April 1999.

• Deborah Cividino, Optimal Trunk Reservation and capacity Dimensioning for Maximizing Profit in a Network, (Takahara), April 1998.

• Andrea Goldman, Stephanie Hazen, Darlene Lapointe and Hilda Ngan, Performance Testing of an ATM Network, (Mouftah & Takahara), April 1998.

• Serge Mister, Transmission of Correlated Sources over Noisy Channels, (Alajaji), April 1996.

• Christina Macrae, Satellite Data Transmission Performance Using Superposed Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, (L. L. Campbell & Wittke), April 1996.

• Nicholas Whalen, Rate-Distortion Function and Capacity-Cost Function, (Alajaji), April 1996.