The MIX at George Mason University is a network of spaces that enables making, venture creation, and collaborative collisions.
ECE senior design students worked on the design and creation of a thinsat that was launched into space.
Design projects are an integral component of our undergraduate programs. They are part of several required and elective undergraduate courses, starting as early as the freshman year. These projects prepare our students for the culminating team-based design experience during their senior year.
Senior Design Projects
Our students produce designs that are ultimately built in hardware in our senior design lab. Many of our projects also have a significant software aspect to them as well as being multidisciplinary in nature. Our students work with bioengineers, cybersecurity engineers, mechanical engineers, and others to come up with innovative designs to solve challenging problems.
Each semester, we select the winner of the outstanding senior design project award. We encourage you to browse through some of our latest list of projects and award recipients:
Spring 2024 - Winner
Open-Source Self-Powered Intelligent Security Camera System
Anhton Nguyen, Alex Luong, Brandi Bui, Chris Hung, Elaine Ngo,
Johnny Le
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Tolga Soyata
Fall 2023 - Winner
Self-Balancing Path-tracking Robot for Item Delivery
Kabir Basnet, Huy Luu, Makaela Vidal (PM), Namita Palahalli, Lizzie Krebs, Richard Kang
Project Supervisor: Dr. Xuan Wang
Spring 2023 - Winner
Low SWaP Synthetic Aperture Radar System
Elise Treat, Grace Gaudin, Isaac Lunsford, Mazeyar Amiri, Adrian Lange, Sami Zahreddine
Project Supervisor: Dr. Qiliang Li
Fall 2022 - Winner
NES Handheld Emulation Breakout Board for the BASYS-3
Brooks Corbett, Amilcar Paniagua, Sameul Kebadu, Joshua Riggs
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Jens-Peter Kaps
Spring 2022 and Earlier
List of Awarded Senior Advanced Design Projects is listed here.
For more information, or to sponsor a senior design project, contact Peter Pachowicz, ECE Department Senior Design Project coordinator
Class Projects
A significant part of the undergraduate student experience is to design and build an assortment of smaller electronic projects throughout the curriculum. Our electrical and computer engineering students work on these smaller-scale projects as part of several courses in our programs leading up to the culminating senior design project. We invite you to check out samples of these projects presented in our ECE 285 circuit analysis I showcase event.
Club Projects
Members of student organizations are also actively involved in interesting projects. ECE students who want to get involved are encouraged to participate in one or more of these clubs. Participating in these clubs opens up many opportunities to learn together and connect with peers who have the same interests.