Introductions

• Christie Obatake - Project Manager
• Kenny Luong - System Engineer
• Everyone else!

What is a Research Lab?

• Function as engineering teams
• Work on a research or experiment
• Bridge between classroom learning and practical application
• Concepts just as imporant as application

Mission/Goals

The Smart Campus Energy Lab at UH Manoa is a student-led lab that strives to be a welcoming and open place of learning for undergraduate and graduate students alike, fostering and developing technical skills such as software engineering, circuit design and machine learning.

Soft Skills

In addition to technical skills, SCEL also focuses on developing “soft” skills such as communication, teamwork, project management and leadership.

Core Pillars

1. All procedures and projects will be open for the public
2. Hardware and software projects will be open-sourced
3. Students will be given encouragement and the opportunity to mentor others

Projects

• Weatherbox
• Wind Sensor
• Forecasting

Weatherbox

Develop low-cost, accurate, and reliable environmental sensor modules that can easily be reproduced for mass deployment

Wind Sensor

Build a wind sensor that is low cost, small, reliable, durable, and has no moving parts

Forecasting

Using machine learning techniques such as linearization and classification, we analysis data from the weatherbox to make algorithms to help optimize the weatherbox

Positions

More details on our website, but here is a general breakdown

Software

In general students working on software will be prgoramming various applications, webpages and systems.

• Linux, Raspberry Pi, Postgresql
• C, Java, Python, Ruby, Javascript, HTML, CSS
• Git, Github, Dokuwiki

Hardware

Hardware students will be working on designing, testing and building various circuits.

• PCB Design, Circuit Design, Fabrication, Soldering, Microcontrollers
• CADSoft Eagle, Arduino, Atmel, XBee

Systems

Systems students will be working on analyzing data and building algorithms to process such data

• Signal processing, Machine Learning, Filter Design
• MATLAB, iPython, Python, R, Matplotlib