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2026 Final Semester Senior Design Projects
AI Personal Assistant Android
MEMBERS: An Nguyen, Adil Khan, Yunus Mohamed Mahaboob Batcha, Dion Samuel
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Our project is to build an AI Personal Assistant mobile application for Android. The
assistant will help users set up appointments, plan their schedule, and manage their
calendar information. Unlike typical calendar apps, our assistant will act as an active
organizer, parsing responses, and automatically updating schedules.
Autonomous Safety Wheelchair
MEMBERS: Sejun Moon, Lyla Ott, Brenda John, Brisa Mendez-Castaneda
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
SPONSOR: Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas, Inc. (Wichita, KS)
Autonomous Safety Wheelchair (ASW) is a software developed as a senior design project
at Wichita State University. The group consists of Brenda John, Brisa Mendez, Brian
Pham, Lyla Ott, and Sejun Moon. The ASW navigates a wheelchair for individuals who
are wheelchair-bound and need assistance navigating in their daily life. The ASW will
also have manual control to improve user safety. ASW also introduces a lead-ahead
and follow-behind mode to increase the independence and safety of navigating with
a caregiver.
Carbon Weighted Traffic Control
MEMBERS: Claire Dreher, Zander Erwin, Cooper Cruzeiro, Ramses Balderas-Villalobos
The Carbon Weighted Traffic Control System is a potential alternative to urban traffic
management. In comparison to traditional traffic management systems, our system takes
carbon emission into consideration while also keeping efficient traffic flow.
Concert Companion
MEMBERS: Rose Jacobs, Landon Nguyen, Addan Sohail
Concert Companion is an application that transforms the experience of planning trips
to music events that actually interest you. With built-in Spotify integration, Concert
Companion looks at your musical listening history and automatically recommends concerts
to you. Trip planning also allows the user to get recommendations on lodging, flights,
and events to do around the concert venue.
Demystifying Language Models
MEMBERS: Caden Dinkel, Jared Allen, Nouman Khan
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Demystifying Language Models is an interactive, educational website built to help
non-technical audiences understand how language models work in practice. Instead of
relying on mathematical explanations or prior technical knowledge, the site focuses
on learning through interactive, feedback-driven animations.
The website connects to a backend service that runs multiple language models, allowing
users to explore both raw text outputs and selected internal data. This data is processed
into simple visualizations that highlight how the models behave, helping users build
an intuitive understanding of the core ideas.
To keep the experience clear and approachable, the content is organized into five
main sections: Tokens, Embeddings, Context, Prediction, and Training. There is also
a section that explains how the models used on the site differ from those used in
real-world applications.
The overall goal of the project is to make abstract concepts easier to grasp by turning
them into something users can see and interact with, rather than something they have
to study in depth.
Escape Protocol
MEMBERS: Jason Tran
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Escape Protocol is a hack and slash top down roguelike video game. Inspired by games
like Hades, Enter the Gungeon and Path of Exile 2. It emphasizes unit control and
minion management gameplay packaged as a roguelike.
FinSight
MEMBERS: Neto Kilaho
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
FinSight is a full-stack personal finance dashboard designed to help users easily
track, analyze, and manage their financial activities in a simple and visually intuitive
way. The application allows users to connect their bank accounts securely through
Plaid, enabling real-time access to transaction data without requiring manual input.
The frontend is built using Next.js, React, and TypeScript, providing a responsive
and dynamic user interface enhanced with charts and financial summaries. Form handling
and validation are implemented using React Hook Form and Zod, ensuring accurate user
input. The backend leverages Appwrite for authentication and data management, while
Dwolla supports payment-related features.
FinSight processes financial data through a secure API workflow involving link tokens,
public tokens, and access tokens, ensuring safe communication between the frontend,
backend, and external services. Users can view key performance indicators such as
income, expenses, and net balance, along with interactive charts that display spending
patterns and monthly trends.
The primary goal of FinSight is to simplify financial management for everyday users
by reducing complexity and providing clear insights into their financial health. By
combining modern web technologies with secure financial integrations, FinSight delivers
a lightweight yet powerful solution for personal budgeting and financial awareness.
Golf Game
MEMBERS: Tyler Chalmers
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
I am making a golf game for my senior design project class. It is being made in the
Godot game engine. It is meant to be a golf RPG, but it is still very work in progress.
Lifted
MEMBERS: Steven Nguyen, Jace Watson
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Lifted is a mobile application designed to combine structured workout tracking with
social interaction, creating a platform specifically tailored for weightlifters. Unlike
traditional fitness applications that emphasize cardio or nutrition, Lifted centers
strength training as the primary content, allowing users to log workouts, track progress,
and share posts within a community-driven environment.
The application is built using React Native and TypeScript, with Firebase providing
authentication and real-time database functionality. Core features include workout
logging (sets, reps, weights), a social feed with likes and comments, user profiles,
and progress tracking. Recent development has focused on implementing moderation systems,
private content sharing, and improved user interface design to support both beginner
and experienced lifters.
A key aspect of the project is its iterative development process. Early implementations
using mock services revealed limitations such as inaccurate testing and lack of data
persistence. These issues were resolved by transitioning to Firebase, enabling real-world
validation, secure authentication, and cross-device synchronization.
Lifted addresses both technical and social challenges by integrating privacy controls,
a reporting system, and a required Terms and Conditions agreement to ensure responsible
data usage and community safety. The project demonstrates how modern mobile technologies
and agile development practices can be used to create a scalable, user-centered fitness
platform.
Omedus BaseStation
MEMBERS: Morgan Stewart, Cole Myers
ADVISOR: Clayton "Coach" Allen
In mass casualty situations, professionals assess patients individually, give a triage
score, then move on to the next person. All patients must be examined before returning
to the same person, which in some cases can take 10-15 minutes. Someone’s condition
may worsen drastically during this time and, without being spotted, could lead to
loss of life. Our BaseStation aims to prevent that, providing an at-a-glance dashboard
that displays real time patient vitals with prioritization based on severity and ten
minutes of historical data for each patient. Users of our products could include emergency
services like first responders, police, and military personnel.
Omedus Beacon - Portable Vitals Monitor
MEMBERS: Carlos Renato Soverina Figueroa, Lesley Nava-Villegas, Reeya Charniya
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
SPONSOR: Omedus
A portable device that helps speed up medical triage in a mass casualty situation
by giving essential vitals (heart rate, blood oxygen level, temperature, and respiration
rate) as well as offering continuous monitoring options, letting the EMS responder
put on the device if the patient has had tourniquets applied, difficulty breathing/moving,
or confusion. It then sends the information wirelessly to a central station for monitoring
purposes to monitor a large amount of patients outside a hospital, quickly. All that's
required from the medical personnel is to stick it on their chest, and it functions
from there.
This would help in speeding up the triage process, and making sure that no one deteriorates
as mass casualty situations are often understaffed, ensuring the most critical patients
are extracted first.
Real-time Telemetry
MEMBERS: Minh Tran, Harsh Subnani, John Sanburn, Bowen Madden, Gunner Pulliam
Currently, the Formula SAE team at WSU can only pull data from their vehicles after
a test run, using proprietary software. Our project seeks to provide them with new
software that can gather data from the car and transmit it over wifi to a computer.
The plaza
MEMBERS: Malak Shakhtour, Logan Crotchett, Enyu Kan, Brandon Davidson
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Creating a student version of Facebook market place and student discussion board
The UI(286) Operating System
MEMBERS: Edward Bierens
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Do you have an old computer collecting dust in your attic or basement, and have you
thought about throwing it away? This project is here to bring attention and love back
to these old computers by showing what they can still do in the modern day. To exemplify
this, I have built an Operating System from scratch called User Interface 286 [UI(286)].
This is an operating system designed for any DOS/Windows and x86 Intel/AMD CPU computer
from the original IBM PC from 1981 to your laptop that lost support from Microsoft
or even various Linux Distributions. In this operating system you get a neat command
line interface, an up and coming graphical user interface, and applications for both!
Come see the official website at http://www.eddiescomputinglab.us/ui286/index.html
WuPark
MEMBERS: Simon Korondi, Cosmin Musteata, Jacob Ranzau, Tristan Oxley
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Parking on campus can be a challenge for students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Anyone
who has ever been late for class or a meeting can speak to the frustration of driving
around the lots in search of a parking spot. This issue could become more difficult
during peak hours, when parking is in high demand, and drivers may not have time or
flexibility to search for open space across multiple lots. WuPark’s goal is to provide
users with real-time information on parking availability. By minimizing the time spent
searching for a parking space, we aim to reduce crowding in busy parking areas.
To implement our project, we will use cameras which overlook parking lots and take
pictures at regular intervals. These images, along with a small header, will be transmitted
via radio from the camera to a receiver. This receiver will upload the information
to a web app, which will run the image through a computer vision model to identify
parked cars. The model will determine whether a particular spot is taken, and the
web app will be updated to reflect this information. Users of the web app will be
able to view whether there are any stalls at a glance, and will be able to see the
availability of exact spots if they select a particular lot.
Retention Pond Depth Mapping Midterm Report
MEMBERS: Benjamin Gorman, Calen Dell, Dylan Cosaart, King Nguyen
Our project aims to solve the issue that many communities have when measuring the
health of their local retention ponds. In general, individuals need to measure the
depth of the pond to see if there is any sediment building up or to observe other
anomalies. Our solution is the B.O.A.T. (Bathymetric Observation & Analysis Transmitter):
a device that measures the location and depth in real time. This report will cover
the progress of creating the B.O.A.T. 2.0, and the improvements to the application
tied to it.
2026 Initial Semester Senior Design Projects
Developer
MEMBERS: Colin Hill, Carlos Alvarez, Tony Mai
Application with goal to create efficiency within industrial occupations.
Gilded Guild
MEMBERS: Jackson Keeler, Derek Poss
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
We will be creating an online application that allow players to play a legally distinct
version of the board game Splendor. It will feature online connectivity with other
players and allow users to play against bots trained through reinforcement learning.
Lazy Gaming
MEMBERS: Matthew Dynes-Winberry, Sam Culp, Trystan Domoyer
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Our plan for our project is to design a robot that learns to play games through trial
and error using reinforcement learning. Through multiple test runs the robot learns
from its mistakes and ultimately beats the game, gets the high score, etc.
Movie Clip Identifier
MEMBERS: Justin Wilson, Sebastian Nguyen
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
The app will allow a user to upload a short clip. The clip will be analyzed by the
app and will try to identify the movie and return information on it as well as a confidence
score that it is the movie it identified.
Pricetrackers
MEMBERS: Eric Woods, Katrina Nghambi, Tako Nyapadi
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Our project is an online price comparison platform that can compare prices from multiple
online retailers such as Walmart, Amazon and Target. You can sort by price, popularity,
sales, etc.
Project Heimdall
MEMBERS: Zareer Khan, Arham Hossain
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Heimdall is a smart surveillance system my team built to fix the biggest problem with
traditional security cameras — they record everything, all the time, wasting storage
and burning out operators.
Our solution pairs OSINT (public data like social media alerts and emergency feeds)
with computer vision. The system stays dormant until it detects a credible threat
from multiple sources, then wakes the cameras up and starts high-resolution recording.
No threat, no recording.
The system is built around four modules: OSINT ingestion, YOLO-based object detection,
a backend orchestration engine, and an operator dashboard. We also built ethical guardrails
in from the start — no single data signal can trigger activation alone, operators
have to manually review before escalating, and we never touch private or authenticated
data sources.
The target markets are university campuses, corporate facilities, and event venues,
where existing solutions either record blindly or lack any predictive intelligence
layer. Heimdall shifts surveillance from passive to proactive.
Project Katch-Up
MEMBERS: Ashdon Kice, Michael Foster
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
Our project is a task-break down website that uses a Pomodoro style study tracker.
It will include features such as: a task tracker that will be displayed via a progress
bar, a timer system for study time and breaks, compatibility with mobile devices,
and Blackboard implementation.
QuestLog
MEMBERS: Brandon Nguyen, Jennifer Isobe, Sydney Epke, Supriya Gurung
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
QuestLog is a board game library manager with built-in statistics tracking/analytics
and community features. Our goal is to streamline players' board game library and
play session tracking into a single, free, cloud-based solution.
Smart Campus Assistant
MEMBERS: Arpan Dey, Vu Nguyen, Teng Fai Leong
ADVISOR: Cody Farlow
The Smart Campus Assistant Platform is a web-based intelligent system designed to
centralise and personalize the campus experience for university students. Students
face significant challenges navigating fragmented information systems, leading to
missed opportunities, underutilised resources, and academic disengagement. This platform
addresses those problems by consolidating campus tools and information into a single,
intuitive application that's personalised for every student.
At its core, the system features an AI-powered chatbot that processes natural language
queries related to academic schedules, campus events, building locations, deadlines,
and more. The chatbot maintains conversation context across interactions and utilises
student profile data (including major, schedule, and preferences) to deliver personalised
responses. A ML recommendation engine complements this chatbot by generating compatibility-scored
suggestions for classes, events, clubs, and activities based on student interests,
availability, and historical engagement patterns.
Dining information (such as menus, hours, dietary details, and delivery options) is
aggregated and kept current through a combination of scraping and manually-submitted
updates. Instructor and course reviews are sourced from a RateMyProfessors API and
supplemented by on-platform submissions. A weighted scoring algorithm is used that
prioritises recent and highly-rated reviews over older ones.
A built-in class discussion system automatically creates group chats for each course
section, enabling note sharing and collaboration. A "find study partner" feature notifies
classmates of available study buddies without requiring external messaging apps or
greater communication hassle.
Together, these features create a cohesive, data-driven assistant that supports student
success throughout the academic journey.
WUnified
MEMBERS: Ronish Rasaily, Joanna Nguyen, Tammy Vu, Keaton Stwalley
WUnified is an all-in-one digital hub for Wichita State University students. The app
will consolidate commonly used academic, administrative, and student-life tools that
are currently spread across multiple WSU platforms into a single mobile experience.
The application will include community-focused features such as a student social feed,
spotlights for student organizations and campus events, and a marketplace/lost-and-found
section for items like textbooks. It will also include a revamped version of core
MyWSU features like viewing class schedules and grades, managing permits, and submitting
or reviewing student employee timesheets. While full integration with official WSU
systems is a long-term goal, the initial version will use mock or simulated data while
being architected for future real integrations.