Computer Security

This purpose of this project is to create a web-based version of the current computer and network attack database. The project entails working with a web server using Linux, writing code in C, HTML, and PERL, downloading and compiling attack software and connect the same to the web database. It is foreseen that the finished software will have broad appeal to all researchers in computer security. Students who choose this project should enjoy designing software systems that present a single easy-to-use interface, but whose implementation is comprised of many different, large and even ill-defined pieces of software.

Author

Mohammed Rehan Ghori (mrehan@iastate.edu)

Shawn Michael Jacobs (sjacobs@iastate.edu)

Said Masood Kashoob (kashoob@iastate.edu)

Hwa Chaw-Law (hwachaw@iastate.edu)

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Personal Medical Assistant

Many people suffer such  medical conditions that they have to take multiple medications more than once a day for long duration of time. If they fail to take these medications on schedule causes significant health consequences. A survey of group of doctors, healthcare providers and patients have completed an ongoing previous project, to determine the desired requirements for a two-part system. A small hand-held device as a first part, which will remind people to take their medications. A set of software as a second part for a personal computer in a doctor's office. When the hand-held device is connected to the personal computer, a medical staff person will enter the medication schedule into the personal computer and download it into the hand-held device. This part of the project will develop an expanded version of the first system. The new system will allow a person to enter vital information, such as blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and blood sugar level into the expanded hand-held device as requested by the doctor at specific times between appointments with the doctor. When prompted by the device, the person would enter the requested information. The recorded information would be retrieved and uploaded to the personal computer in the doctor's office for review by the doctor, during the next appointment with the doctor.

Author

Mark Finn (EE)
Ryan Holdmeyer (CprE) 
Todd Magee (EE)
Benjamin Potter (EE)
Chandra Sellappan (CprE)
Tabitha Smith (CprE)
Melanie Wittry (EE)     

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An Android based Monitoring and Alarm System for Patients with Chronic Obtrusive Disease

By making use of recent technologies remote monitoring of physiological parameters in patients is carried out because Consistent monitoring of vital health parameters is an important issue in the medical industry. This allows communication between a patient and medical personnel using a smart-phone, which will collect, analyze and transfer heart rate and oxygen saturation data for subsequent review by a medical professional.

It is necessary to clarify the nature of the correlation between these medical parameters, Before any on-line analysis is performed on the phone. In the current thesis we establish connection between a patient wearing a pulse-oxymeter and a smart-phone running Android and perform continuous data collection. All measurements were done in consultation with medical facility and involved real patients.

The data obtained is subsequently analyzed using change point detection and anomaly detection algorithms in off-line mode. Both techniques are complementary to each other and showed reliable results which could be useful for a medical review.

Author

Koshmak, Gregory

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Building And Experimentally Evaluating a Smart Antenna for Lowpower Wireless Communication

In order to minimize this wasted energy and traffic collisions, is to use another type of antenna called “smart antenna”. These antennas can use select able radiation patterns depending on the situation and thus drastically minimize the unnecessary energy waste. Smart antennas also provide the ability to sense the direction of incoming signals which is favorable for physical layout mapping such as orientation.

This project shows the prototyping of a new type of smart antenna called the SPIDA smart antenna. This antenna is used to produce smart antenna designed for the 2.4 GHz frequency band. The SPIDA smart antenna can use sixty-four different signal patterns with the control of six separate directional modes, amongst these patterns are six single direction patterns, an omnidirectional signal pattern and fifty-six combi-direction patterns. The study presents complete building instructions, evaluation data and functional drivers for the SPIDA smart antenna.

Author

Öström, Erik

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The Development of a Hydrophilic/ Hydrophobic Interface

Polymer layer is fabricated to interface with hydrophilic and hydrophobic materials at the same time. This is done by making a coating that can be placed over a base layer, such as polypropylene, silicon rubber, or stainless steel; adhesion will be achieved with a collagen layer, which will in turn promote cell attachment and growth. A probable advantage of this technology is to control biological response to artificial materials used to fabricate implanted devices.

Authors

Traci Billings

Hilary Aho

Henry Durnwald 

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Modeling and Design of a Clavicle Bone-Plate for Zimmer

One of the most common injuries to the human skeleton are mid-clavicular fractures. This project aims to create a clavicle bone-plate for Zimmer’s Trauma Division. Designs were acceptable based on biomechanical modeling of stresses performed in both the MATLAB and Abaqus environments. The concluding plate design was exposed to balance clavicular stresses due to the biomechanical loading of daily activities, as well structural support for various fracture geometries in the clavicle.

Author

Genny Gierke, Mark Savageau, Michael Marcon,
Scott Dombroski, Kevin Adamek, and Andy
VerSteeg

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