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• SEED Show 2000

FIRST PLACE: LIL'SCOPE -- Kevin Heimerman, David Lill, Bryan Schwichtenberg, Matthew Wagner
This adapter converts a TI-89 calculator into an oscilloscope. The design includes analog and digital techniques with most functionality provided by a Xilinx FPGA. The implementation was on a printed circuit board with a custom case created with Rapid Prorotyping techniques. The two-channel scope adapter handles signals up to 20+ volts PP, and several 10's of megahertz bandwidth.

This year's group of projects were extremely competitive and only small differences often separated them in quality of content. Two projects from this group were chosen for:

HONORABLE MENTION: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION 'AUTODYNE' -- Travis Bruehl, Rendy Gunawan, Jill Jarrett, James Seymour, Miroslaw Smyk
This is an automated test facility for testing ac drives and motors. The system not only functions well, but it looks great and is truly of professional quality. It will be used in industry for comparative testing of drive and motor products.

HONORABLE MENTION: UNIVERSAL TEST PLATFORM -- Todd Isaacson, Michael Libby, Jeffrey Lawrence, Jessica Reinert, Dustin Tenz
This is a testing platform that others can use for experiments on the NASA KC-135 zero gravity test flights. What was especially interesting was that the team had to predict the needs of others with no definitive guidelines from those experimenters. Using some common sense and technical insights, the team developed and built a platform that considered everything from convenience of layout to EMI and G-forces.

Many of the teams were interdisciplinary. It may be coincidence, but all three of the winning teams were composed of more than just EE students. The Lil'Scope team had 2 CEs, the Autodyne team had 1 IE, and the Universal Platform had a very enthusiastic ME volunteer. While the composition of the team can, and often is EE students only, we very much welcome students from other engineering disciplines to design, develop, and build projects that are a testament to your abilities.