Project Ideas for People that Need Inspiration
Biomedical Engineering
- Stabilising devices for Parkinson's
- Reading aids/ seeing aids
- Cheap prosthetics
- Customisable prosthetics
- Monitoring device for people that require constant monitoring (infants, elderly, etc)
- Auto detection of cancer from images
- Secure patient record system for emergency disaster clinics
- Health fitness app
- Patient records on the blockchain
- Fitness watch that measures more vitals
- Device that warns you when you are entering a dangerous environment to long term health
Electrical Engineering
- DC Switchable Power Supply
- 555 Function Generator
- Battery-less Flashlight
Mechanical Engineering
- Water pump using a pendulum
- Torque generator mechanism
- Temperature controlled fan
- Heat reduction system
- Mini peltier based cooler
- Controlled robotic arm
- Spy robot with optical detection
- Line follower robot
- Bubble maker with speed control
- Cardboard airplane
- Can crusher
Data Science
- Artificially Intelligent program to track inventory and costs
- Financial advisor based on recent financial data
- Natural language processing (text analysis)
- Image analysis – facial analysis, object recognition
Internet of Things
- Home security System – detect when someone enters a room/house, do something with the data
- Smart Watch/Clothing/etc. display alerts based on events (IFTTT + microcontroller)
- Smart appliance
Computer Science
- Sharing Economy
- Toy Share for Kids
- Uber for Tricycles
- Airbnb for Camping Equipment
- Computer Systems
- Robot that plays tennis
- Underwater Drone
- Internet-Connected Industrial Safety Device
How to make your pitch
- Blog post outlining some strategies that now-successful companies used for their startup pitches: https://piktochart.com/blog/startup-pitch-decks-what-you-can-learn/
- Pitch tips from startups: https://www.startups.com/library/expert-advice/500-startups-pitch-night-tips-will-make-presentation-better
- Stanford business school’s 10 steps to a successful pitch: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/10-steps-perfect-your-startup-pitch
- Software that prevents Macs from going to sleep during a presentation: http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
Free software
- Software provided to GW students: https://seascf.seas.gwu.edu/software-licenses (SEASCF can take up to 12 hours to approve requests for a download)
- Software provided by GitHub: https://education.github.com/pack
Templates
- Bootstrap website themes: https://startbootstrap.com/
- CSS buttons: http://ianlunn.github.io/Hover/
- CodyHouse (website components): https://codyhouse.co/
- Codepen (website components): https://codepen.io
- Bootsnipp (website components): https://bootsnipp.com/
- Web App Boilerplates: http://hackoose.github.io/boilerplates.html
Learn
- Tutorials about various STEM topics: https://www.udacity.com/
- Codecademy: https://www.codecademy.com
- Tutorialspoint: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/