ECE Students Compete Successfully at the Cornell Cup Nationals
May 10, 2012
Cornell Cup Team Hot-dawgs from left to right: Nicholas (Nick) Musick, Kathy Grimes, Lisa Dohn, Todd Peterson
A team of Electrical and Computer Engineering students participated in the Cornell Cup, a national competition conducted by Intel. Our team named "Hot Dawgs" made the final field of 24, which competed for the top honors on May 4 and 5 in Orlando, Florida.
The SIU team presented the design of an intelligent energy-efficient heating and cooking system for residential houses. The basic idea for energy saving is to intelligently use programmable thermostats to regulate each room temperature depending on the usage of the space. The implementation of the scheme is based on a sensor network to monitor the temperature and a processor to compute and control vent position for each room. The team has successfully prototyped a smart zoning HVAC system and successfully demonstrated the concept, its functionality and potential.
The team members are Todd Peterson, Lisa Dohn, Nick Musick and, Kathy Grimes. The faculty advisors are Drs. Ning Weng and Haibo Wang. Our team has been selected for honorable mention as one of the top teams ahead of teams from leading research universities such as U.C. Berkeley, U.C. San Diego, Columbia and Purdue.