According to Prof. Sharon Ganot, who is coordinating the conference, the projects do express the completion of a bachelor's degree, but allow the student to experience all phases of the project from its planning and characterization to its completion, something that will give him an advantage in workplaces
This coming Monday, the annual conference will be held at the School of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, where the final projects of students at the school will be presented under the guidance of senior faculty members. These are projects in all areas of research at the school: designing Hamra circuits, robotics, shipping, speech signal processing, machine learning, radio-astronomical signal processing, communication, electro-optics, and bioengineering.
According to Prof. Sharon Ganoth, the center on the day of the presentation of the projects at the conference, about 60 projects of the highest level will be presented. Colleagues from other universities and engineers in knowledge-intensive industries usually come to the event. Projects from the previous year's crop published in scientific journals and international conferences will also be presented in poster sessions and in the plenary session, even though, as mentioned, this is a bachelor's degree graduation, which, according to Prof. Ganot, indicates their quality.
Prof. Genot explains that the project gives the student the opportunity to experience a high-level project, to apply everything he has learned under the guidance of a senior faculty member, and also to assist with research. He will not always be given the opportunity to do this in a workplace and gain comprehensive experience. Certainly not in the first years."
A number of noteworthy projects:
- In the laboratory for realized communication (by Amit Elani and Gilad Dvir under the direction of Dr. Itzik Bergal) decodes the most advanced error correction codes available today in commercial communication systems (LDPC codes for a system with feedback). The decoder is able to correct errors at a level close to the theoretical barrier, and is also able to adjust the transmission rate to the channel conditions at any given moment so that the number of retransmissions is minimal.
- In the signal processing laboratory, an algorithm was developed and implemented (by Yohai Yamini under the guidance of Prof. Sharon Ganot and Dr. Yossi Keller) to clean noise from speech signals picked up by a single microphone. The algorithm is based on training with the help of databases of a multidimensional parametric structure that characterizes speech signals. The algorithm was published and presented at the International Conference on Speech Signal Processing held this year in Israel under the leadership of Prof. Ganot and received many praises (IWAENC2010, Sheraton Tel-Aviv, Aug. 2010).
- In the bioengineering laboratory this is the first crop of projects. The project "Development of a simulation for the characterization of electrical activity of nerve cells and simple neural networks", carried out by Nathaniel Ofer and David Moskovitch under the direction of Dr. Orit Shafi Viron Hakok, dealt with numerical solutions for modeling neural activity according to the classic Hodgkin Huxley model and building a graphical interface . The interface enables the study of structures with different parameters similar to the cells measured in the laboratory. The original work with the research contribution will help in predicting the results of the experiments that will be carried out in living cells in the laboratory.
- In the electro-optics laboratory, a heartbeat sensing system was proposed using an optical mouse attached to the hand. The project was carried out by Daniel Yaori under the guidance of Prof. Zev Zalevsky and Evgeni Biderman.
- In the robotics laboratory, an algorithm was developed and implemented (by Igor Shumsky and Yaara Neumeier under the guidance of Dr. Eli Kohlberg and Rafi Amsalem) an algorithm for covering an area by mobile robots in disaster-prone areas while maintaining an a priori topological probability map of the sum of Gaussian bells. The algorithm adapts itself to the field conditions while optimizing the weighting of the data update during the movement and the expectation from the base data. The move combines a spiral movement between points (passing according to a threshold of probabilities) and an arcuate movement at probability center points.
According to Prof. Genot, the annual final projects are a significant part of the requirements for receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering beginning in 2005. "The projects require extensive and complex theoretical knowledge, together with a high ability to implement and implement. The projects are at the forefront of research and implementation and we see great importance in each and every one of them. "
"The projects are carried out in the school's laboratories and its infrastructure and continue throughout the students' last academic year. The laboratories are equipped with the best advanced equipment: software, dedicated cards, instruments. Due to the great importance we attach to the projects, we appoint for each project an academic supervisor whose project is in the field of his academic specialization. Appointing a supervisor from the school's senior academic staff strengthens the relationship with the students and gives them a unique academic experience. The school in Bar-Ilan is the only engineering school in Israel that takes this educational approach. The projects require a lot of effort from the students and their supervisors, but the effort pays off. Each project is original and the list of projects changes from year to year. Several projects have been published in journals or presented at international conferences and have received many accolades. Other projects prompted later published research. "
"The goals of the projects are: deepening the theoretical knowledge on subjects that go beyond the material taught in the courses; strengthening practical and applied knowledge; The inheritance of a complete process of project execution; research assistance; Construction of the laboratory infrastructure and its enrichment." Prof. Ganot summarizes.
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