Spectra Newsletter

CSUN has a proud history of success at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ AeroDef Manufacturing Challenge, and the 2014 competition in February was no exception. The team responsible for “Toucan Sam,” a prototype of a plane capable of vertical takeoff and landing, took third place in the university category at the event.[Read more…]

The CSUN team entering the 2014 SS12 Code for a Cause national competition last April had big shoes to fill and a tradition to uphold. CECS teams had already won the competition three out of the past four years. And the 2014 team did not disappoint, once again claiming first place. Freshman Noah J. Anderson; senior Leonard Tatum; and juniors Stefan King, Kristoffer Larson and Javier Pimental—all computer science majors—created the winning app, an Android camera app for the blind and visually impaired called CamAcc. The application is designed to facilitate photography through voice recognition while giving users feedback through features similar to those of Google TalkBack, which also caters to the visually impaired. Employing voice commands, users can take a picture, apply a filter and share it on Facebook. CamAcc also auto-focuses, detects faces, centers portraits and detects light, including auto flash. It is the first application of its kind.[Read more…]

Grand Prize Project Displays

Intelligent Ground Vehicle Team

Mechanical Engineering
Oral Presentation and Project Display winners
Faculty Advisor: Dr. CT Lin
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For three years, CECS dean S. K. Ramesh has been a board member of IEEE-HKN, the international honor society for electrical engineering, representing the western United States. And now, as his term is coming to an end, he is preparing to take on a new, higher-profile role within the organization: president-elect. Ramesh was elected on November 1 and will hold the office in 2015–16. He will serve as president in 2016–17 and as past president in 2017–18.[Read more…]