Celebrating Third-Year Engineering Projects

The students have poured their creativity, knowledge, and practical skills into a series of captivating course projects that push the boundaries of innovation. From wearable technology to sustainable energy solutions, their work exemplifies the spirit of engineering excellence.

One standout project that has garnered attention is the development of Modular Fabric Integrated Circuits (FICs) for wearable technology. Spearheaded by Vir Morjaria, a final year BEng student in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), this project seamlessly blends fashion and functionality.

Vir designed and created a denim jacket that seamlessly integrates LED matrices, an electroluminescent panel, RGB optical fibre fabric, and a servo motor wing module. Controlled via Bluetooth, this wearable marvel dynamically adjusts its wing colour based on the wearer’s surroundings. Vir’s project exemplifies the intersection of creativity, engineering, and style and the confidence to experiment with an interdisciplinary approach to his engineering ideas. 

 
Another memorable project was a silent-speech interface which uses electromyography (EMG) AKA muscle activation signals in facial muscles to decode quietly mouthed speech. 

Created by third-year student Sudharshan Sundaramahalingam, a multiplexed flexible array of electrodes was designed that can be digitally programmed into different configurations. Additionally, a board was configured to control the array and acquire the EMG signals from the electrodes. This involved many iterations of simulating, prototyping and testing hardware circuits, alongside developing the control algorithm and the word classification models.
 

Sudharshan has also founded a company called Epiph, fuelled by the recent breakthroughs in large-language models.

The ingenuity displayed by UCL students serves as a testament to the transformative power of engineering and the mission to promote radical and critical thinking. The department looks forward to continuing to foster creativity, curiosity, and excellence in engineering education and research at UCL EEE. 

Watch a video of the jacket in motion