Project

# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
68 Fingerprint Protected Voting Machine
 Ashwin Dandapani
Brennan Hartigan
Jeremiah Kennedy
 Dean Biskup design_document1.pdf
design_document2.pdf
design_document3.pdf
design_document4.pdf
design_document5.pdf
final_paper1.pdf
presentation1.pdf
proposal1.pdf
Team Members: Ashwin Dandapani (ashwind2), Brennan Hartigan (bah4), Jeremiah Kennedy (jck5)

Title: Fingerprint Protected Voting Machine

Problem: High skepticism about the security of voting machines, and the subsequent fraud or inaccuracies in voting that come with disparities in the security of voting machines.

Solution Overview: This project will produce a voting machine that can enroll voters into its system, save voters’ biometric information into its memory, delete voters from its memory, authenticate voters based on their biometrics, vote for a candidate after being authenticated by the biometric system, prevent voters from voting more than once, and reject voters who are not already enrolled in the system.

Solution Components:

Subsystem 1: Finger print module - will read fingerprints of voters and send biometric information to the system’s memory
Subsystem 2: LCD Screen - will show all information relevant to the voter and help the voter input and output information in and out of the overall system
Subsystem 3: Control Keys - will allow the voter to control the voting machine, as well as select candidates when it is time to make votes. This would be
done using a keyboard and push buttons, and the inputs will be processed using subsystem 5.
Subsystem 4: External output devices - LEDs and a speaker will give visual and audio output to the voter to assist them in using the voting machine
Subsystem 5: Microcontroller - will be the brains of the project, controlling all other subsystems and allowing them to work together in the machine

Criterion for Success: The ability to identify voters with their unique biometric IDs, and allow them to make secure, legitimate votes that are accurately recorded within the system.

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