Sensor Network Laboratory
University
Goals
This team is working to address the need for long-range wireless networks of small, low-cost, and low-power sensors for the study of climate and space. As part of the development process, students will be exposed to an entire end-to-end design process, including background research, concept generation, simulation, prototyping, and validation by experiment both in the laboratory and the field. Students joining this group will be asked to join one of two primary projects, based on their interest and expertise:
Desired Majors
Mechanical Engineering
Mathematics
Literature Science and the Arts Undeclared
Interdisciplinary Physics
Industrial and Operations Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Aerospace Engineering
Prep
Preferred Skills: antenna design, impedance matching, RF circuit design/PCB layout in Altium Designer, experience using anechoic chamber, network analyzer, spectrometer, ADS,data link budgeting, wireless network design, DSP, software-defined radio, GNU radio, C/C++, Python, GPS/dGPS,PCB Layout using Altium Designer, circuit design, embedded hardware and software, firmware using C, experience with oscilloscope, meter, surface mount/ through-hole assembly, Orbital analysis using STK, MATLAB, Simulink to look at orbital decay, constellation propagation,experience with website design/construction, graphical design