This proposal is for a senior design project to build an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with radiation sensors to measure radiation levels around a nuclear reactor during emergencies. The proposal outlines the need for faster radiation measurements, introduces the team members and advisors, provides background on hardware/software requirements and existing solutions, defines the problem statement and proposed solution, discusses dividing responsibilities among team members, and provides a budget and timeline for completing the work over nine months. The UAV system is intended to address delays in current monitoring methods and provide automated, predefined radiation scans to analyze and display data in real-time.

1. MEM/ECE-491 : Senior Design Proposal Presentation
Group Number: ECE-xx
Member A
Member B
Member C
Member D
Advisor: Dr. X
Co-Advisor: Dr. Z
Project Title
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Introduction (1 to 3 slides)
• Give a brief introduction of the field of the
problem.
– i.e. There is a need to quickly measure radiation levels around a
Nuclear Reactor in the event of an Emergency situation
• Specify the things that need to be addressed with
regards to solving or improving an existing
solution to the problem.
– The current method is xxxx, it takes over 2 hours to get reliable
data and requires special processing…..
• Who are the stakeholders? What are their needs?
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Background (3 to 6 slides)
• In this section specify the hardware and software
requirements of your project.
– Describe any specific standards or regulations that must be
met (CE, UL, software standards TCPIP etc) -keep in mind
that for any standards you specify, you will be questioned
on why they must be met and how do you plan to meet
them.
• Briefly describe the results of any background search
you have performed (i.e. existing products that solve
the problem, existing patents, etc.), that will help the
committee get a better understanding of the concepts
involved in your project and mainly your understanding
of those concepts.
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Problem Statement (1 slide)
• Clearly state the problem being worked on.
(Make sure it is concise and clear. This should
encompass the main issues being addressed)
• E.g. We plan to build a preprogramed UAV with various
radiation detection sensors to visit a variety of predefined key
locations, take measurements and send the information back
to a central server for display and analysis
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Design Description
(3-6 slides)
• Describe the conceptual options developed to
meet the specs.
• Describe your concept evaluation process
(design Matrices)
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Proposed Solution/Methods
(1 to 6 slides)
• Provide a detailed description of your chosen
design approach
• You MUST provide a block diagram, system
diagram, Software architecture diagram, etc or
some form of pictorial representation of the
proposed solution
• Operational description of your proposed
solution
• Discuss why your solution is feasible and can be
built by your team
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Potential Impacts (1-4 slides)
• State what are the Economics, Environmental,
Social and Ethical impacts that you think that
solving your proposed problem and your
particular solution to the proposed problem
will have.
• DO NOT WRITE THAT YOUR PROJECT HAS NO
IMPACTS for a given context – work with your
advisor to answer this question, draw form
your VSD activity
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Team Member Responsibility (1 slide)
• State what were and will be the
responsibilities of each of the team members.
– table might be useful
• You might be questioned on why a certain
member has been allocated a certain duty.
• We will also examine if all group member are
share similar workload and their skills are
being utilized effectively.
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Budget
Out of Pocket Budget
Tools
Test
Equipments
Arduino $40.00
FPGA board $50.00
Rasbery Pi $40.00
Amazon Web Services $60.00
Expendables $50.00
Contingecy Cost (30%) $72.00
Subtotal $312.00
This is actually what you spent so far or plan
to spend, do not get down to level of 10 cent
resistors or 6 inch lengths of wire. Include
details of external funding (Dewar, Advisor
grant, etc).

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Fall Progress (1 to 4 slides)
• State the work you have carried out towards
attaining your stated deliverables and state
the results you have obtained.
– Reference to your deliverables
– Videos or demos are good
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Time Line (1 slide)
• The timeline should be for the period of nine
months and it must include the various significant
tasks that your group will carry out and when.
Also overlay completed tasks and the time taken
to complete them.
• Remember that writing reports making
presentations are also important part of the
Senior Design Process, as such they need to be
represented in your timeline.
• This should be a Gantt Chart.
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In summary
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• What distinguishing features of your proposed solution?
• How are you creating value for the customer or stakeholder?

13. Supplemental Slides
• Anything else that may be important
• Anticipate questions and include things like
schematic, movie of something completed or
some other results/ charts/ graphs
• References/Appendices
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