ELEC3330 Engineering Design Project is a new third year unit allowing students to engage in a project for one semester.

Please see the unit outline FIRST in the 'Notices' for a description of the project selection procedure and deadlines.

Examples of Past Projects:

Supervised by Dr G. Parish (gia@ee)
Porous silicon consists of a network of air pores within a crystalline silicon skeleton, enabling the optical properties of the material to be tailored for a variety of applications by modification of the porosity. To create porous silicon, silicon wafers are anodised in a HF-based electrolyte. Cells are usually designed to accommodate 2 inch or larger wafers, meaning that they are bulky and a large volume of (hazardous) HF electrolyte is required. In this project, a mini-cell was designed and built which will enable small samples (1cmx1cm) to be routinely fabricated in a safe manner. The cell was designed to be leak- and spill- proof, and quickly assembled and disassembled. Safety issues with respect to the use of HF solutions were particularly considered. Alternative electrode materials were also investigated, in place of the commonly used but expensive platinum cathode.

Supervised by Prof. A. Cantoni (cantoni@ee)

In previous work on eigenfilter pre-compensation significant improvements in ripple attenuation have been demonstrated by modelling the analogue reconstruction filters with a Butterworth low pass response. This project is concerned with modelling the analogue reconstruction filters with Butterworth response; with each I and Q channel reconstruction filter slightly perturbed to induce signal ripple, by altering the filter order and cut-off frequency it is hoped to discover an optimal reconstruction filter response for which the eigenfilter pre-compensation approach will operate. Through this knowledge it will be possible design the real life analogue reconstruction filters to match these specifications, resulting in optimal transmission results.