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Every year the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering gives their final year project students an opportunity to showcase their final year projects to fellow students and industry partners, and in 2013 it was no different. The annual Final Year Project Competition was held on 8 November 2013, and it was once again marked by innovation and engineering excellence, with projects ranging from a brain-computer interface for feeding a disabled person, to a magnetically levitated train and 3D scene reconstruction using various sensors. The competition was attended by students, university staff, and industry professionals, and it was generously sponsored by some of our industry partners. The judging panel also consisted of no less than fifteen seasoned professionals and postgraduate students.

Prizes were awarded for the first, second and third best projects in the categories Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering and Exhibition only. The winners in each category were as follows:

Electrical Engineering

1. Quewin Hughes: Design and construction of a brushless DC hub-motor for a bicycle

2. Francois du Toit: Design and construction of a magnetic levitated (MagLev) train

3. Musawenkosi Nhleko: Development of Double Pulse Setup for evaluation of IGBT and other Power Semiconductor Switches

Electronic Engineering

1. Stefan Botha: Development of an EXCEL and Android grinding mill simulator with PID controllers

2. Marius Veldhuyzen van Zanten: Public bus transport assistant

3. Anthony Gaskell: A reflective mode 94 GHz BiCMOS notch filter using coupled hairpin resonators

Computer Engineering

1. James Shorten: Image guided robotic feeding system for disabled people

2. Alex Spyridis: Sheep Pregnancy Diagnostic System

3. Robert Green: Immersive remote controller for an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV)

3. Grant Sloane: Optical musical recognition to generate guitar tablature