Students enrolled in undergraduate programs at different universities across the world do need ideas for their undergraduate projects from time to time. Similarly at my university students do ask me for project ideas. I thought that it will be helpful for many students, if we can maintain a list of interesting ideas. Any one who read this blog and come up with some ideas that he/she want to be listed here can send me on email at saif4u at gmail dot com or can post below as comments. I also plan to extend this list with information related to existing projects in progress and their contact persons, in-case students need to build collaboration for their work.
Project Ideas
Vehicle
travel sharing
Increasing traffic is one of the
major issue of 21 century. People use to travel in their vehicles alone not
utilizing the full capacity of vehicle. If we observe it from higher level
perspective, it results in more fuel consumption and higher infrastructure
deterioration. Similarly for traveller the travel is expensive. This project
is about developing a web-based solution that can provide services for
vehicle travel sharing securely. From Pakistan scenario, security is the major
issue in such systems, and the novelty of this project will be "How we
can develop a secure and reliable vehicle travel sharing systems". Any
such type of system will require collaboration and integration with NADRA,
CPLC, High-way authority, and Law enforcement agencies.
Where
on this earth is heaven?
Availability of news in digital
form has provided us enormous information that can be used for our benefits.
People use to move across localities within cities, across cities, and across
countries for better life style and opportunities. This decision is not
simple and requires lot of effort from individuals. Each individual has
has/her own preferences for localities, cities, or countries, where he/she
might like to move. This project should facilitate users in selecting the
best regions on this earth meeting their preferences using the data available
on Internet using reliable news archives. This project will help people
living on rentals, intending to relocate or migrate.
City
travel
Degrading state of Pakistan
Railway has created opportunity for Bus transporters. We have growing number
of bus transporters working in isolation. They are uncertain about passenger
inflow and similarly incapable to cope to increasing passenger needs during
occasions. An online system with up-to-date data of existing inter-city
transportation facilities, their timings, routes, capacity, and cost can help
passengers and transporter for better planning. However, we should be aware
of the limitation of only Internet based systems in our environments. This
project should outline a complete system including the requirement of a call
center, infrastructure, and human resources to make this project a success.
Furthermore, project should also facilitate reservation or purchase of ticket
with well defined policies.
Personalized
diet planner (could be named Mon Salva)
Delicacies varies for regions
and individual interest in them varies for their interest in dishes. When we
say individual there are many parameters to define what a perfect diet plan
for an individual should contain? For example, a child with five years of age
has different diet need then an old person of 70 years suffering from sugar.
Nutritional contents for dishes/foods/delicacies also varies. If we can get a
healthy diet plan considering our body diet needs, our diseases, our taste,
our religion, and our regional delicacies. This will be a great help for many
to keep them healthy and fit.
Freight
guide
Freight transportation is a huge
business. This involves a variety of transportation including air, sea, rail,
and road freight transportation. Business owners spend lot of effort to plan
a freight transportation, which is economical and efficient and often miss an
integrated view of their freight location. An online system with features to
select the best freight transportation available and real-time monitoring of
current freight transportation will be a great help.
Researcher
Researchers do invest lot of
their time in finding the relevant literature for their research. This
requires analysing the available online. They often move across irrelevant
literature, which result in increase time and effort. An automated system
that can facilitate researchers in finding the most relevant and reliable
literature, identify other researchers working on similar topics, existing
projects related to his/her area, funding opportunities and relevant events
(such as journals, conference, workshops, talks, etc.) could be a greater
help. This will help new researchers to get a quick start for their work.
Transformer
An engine that can transform
existing functional C code to object-oriented C++ code and viceversa.
Mechanic
(Audio)
Equipments do generate sound
during operations, either it is an Aeroplane, a generator, or a motor. Healthy
equipments have a definite audio signature during operations, which tend to
vary as these equipments get faulty. This task of this project will be to
detect using audio signature comparison of equipments that either equipment
is healthy or faulty. If a fault is detected then the change in signature can
be associated with that fault and in future system can automatically inform
user about the possibility of fault.
Maintainer
(Video)
Visuals of equipments/assets can
be beneficial regarding the detection of structural changes. For example, it
will be difficult from naked eye to detect how much a bridge has been
deteriorated during the last five years. Image processing can be helpful in
detecting the change in structures to detect possibly occurring faults.
Captain
planet (Images)
Satellite images have been in
common use for weather detection. These images have very high resolution and
can be used for precise detection of environmental conditions on earth and in
atmosphere. The task of this project will be to compare different images of a
region over time and detect possible increase in pollution, deforestation or
other environmental effects of interest.
Bob the
builder (Images)
In Pakistan, lack of building
regulations have results in enormous illegal constructions, which has
effected the large cities with increase crime rate and resource congestion.
The task of this project will be to detect possible illegal constructions using
high resolution map images. Furthermore, maps images can be observed overtime
to detach the growth in border of cities for better planning and control on
it.
Ideas
from competitions
ACM Student Research Competition
Hypertext 2012
"kaggle" http://www.kaggle.com/
Ideas
from challenges
Semantic Web Challenge
Ideas
from contests
SIGMOD programming contest
Ideas
from University of Illinois
https://wiki.engr.illinois.edu/display/url/Project+Proposals
Projects
at University of London
www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/teaching/ug/projects.php
Online
project ideas
www.projecttopics.info
Online
project ideas
iprojectideas.blogspot.com/2008/08/computer-science-project-ideas.html
Ideas
which succeed
https://www.cs.drexel.edu/node/11629
Projects
that won (Check projects on computer science)
www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition/2010_winners.htm
Misc. Projects Ideas Pages
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/studentprojects/undergraduate.html
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~project/files/index.html
https://wiki.engr.illinois.edu/display/url/Project+Proposals
http://webremix.org/resources.php
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/data-mashups/
https://code.google.com/p/mashmydata/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/x-mashups/index.html
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1367602
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2484642
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1687602
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1687689
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1809207
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/x-mashups/index.html
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1367602
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2484642
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1687602
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1687689
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1809207
Disclaimer: Above listed ideas and resources are listed only to assist undergraduate students regarding their search for possible under-graduate projects. Any resemblance (if found) with any other existing project is completely unintentional and no responsibility lies on author.
