Work in Progress: Entrepreneurship and Senior Design Program Collaboration Towards Multidisciplinary Design

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She teaches and mentors several senior design students on industry-sponsored projects (On average 25 / semester) to complete an end product. These projects include all aspects of System Engineering: concept design, product design and design trade-offs, prototyping, and testing (circuit design, PCB, mechanical fabrication, algorithm development). These projects have included Robotics Platforms, Planning, Monitoring and Control algorithms, Sensor Interface, User Interfaces, Wireless communication, Signal Processing, etc. All of this involves direction and teaching teams to use the required tools and apply engineering skills to transform a concept into a product. She also manages interdisciplinary senior design projects in collaboration with other engineering departments such as Textiles Engineering, mechanical engineering, etc. Beyond senior design, she has also created and teaches undergraduate and graduate-level classes in ECE (Python in Engineering, Practical Engineering Prototyping (PrEP). She also has designed and taught ECE Robotics summer camp (2012-2017). Dr. Gupta earned her Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Pune, India, and received her MS and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (2010). Her Ph.D. was to design computer vision algorithms for autonomous navigation for cars. She started her own engineering consulting company in 2010, working on product development projects such as an automated air suspension system for vehicles, an active suspension system for heavy-duty off-road vehicles (currently DARPA funded), a vision tracking system for race cars tracks, etc. She joined NCState as Assistant Teaching Professor in 2012. Dr. Gupta's current research projects focus on sensor systems and engineering design education.Dr. Gupta likes to tinker with new technology and work on small hobby projects in her basement lab. Her other hobbies include reading, classical dancing, and traveling. Mr. Marshall Brain, North Carolina State University at RaleighMarshall Brain is most widely known as the founder of HowStuffWorks.com, an award-winning website that offers clear, objective and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world around us actually works. The site, which he created as a hobby and took through several rounds of venture funding totaling approximately $8 million, was purchased for $250 million by Discovery Communications in 2007.As a well-known public speaker with the ability to deliver complex material in a way that is easily understood by audiences of all types, Brain is a regular guest on radio and TV programs nationwide. He has been featured on everything from CNN and Good Morning America to The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2008 and 2009, he was the host of the National Geographic channel's Factory Floor With Marshall Brain, a series of one-hour factory tours taking the viewer on a journey into the world of product design, engineering and manufacturing.Brain is the author of more than a dozen books, ...