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Project Overview

In thousands of places in the country including a few hundred in Iowa, there are minimum service roads interrupted by small creeks or rivers. On many of these roads, a low water crossing is created at a fraction of the cost of an actual bridge. These roads are used by farmers and residents in the area on a basis limited by the recent rainfall and drainage. When the flow is low, a regular vehicle can drive through the stream. When the flow is higher, it may only be crossed by a high clearance vehicle or tractor and sometimes it is impassable. If the water is too high, the driver would need to make a u-turn on a generally narrow minimally maintained road. Other than signs warning of possible high water, there is no way for the driver to know the actual condition except by driving within a few yards where they can see the water. Drivers usually have an option to take an alternate route but it may be many miles longer. The goal of this project would be to create a water level device and one or more remote annunciation devices so that drivers could see the level of the upcoming low water crossing before driving the length of the road and then possibly needing to turn around and backtrack.




Team Members

Tyler Rebischke

Team Lead/Solar Lead

Tyler is a Computer Engineering major. Through various classwork, internships, and projects, Tyler has gotten experience with various programming languages like Java, C, and Python, and computer hardware design with technologies like ModelSim, Verilog, and VHDL.

Dylan Blattner

Product Owner/Sensor Lead

Dylan is an Electrical Engineering/Physics double major in partnership with the University of Northern Iowa. During his time at Iowa State University, he has been a TA for an Introduction to Coding in C course. Some of his software skills include C, MATLAB, and Assembly. Through his classes he has learned how to design circuits and use proper electrical equipment to conduct tests and design.

Nithin Sebastian

Signage/Alerting Lead

Nitin is a Software Engineering major. Nithin has experience programming in Java and Python, and experience working with cloud service providers such as AWS, through his role as a part-time student employee on John Deere's cloud security team in Ames. Nithin has also worked in test automation, using Robot Framework to test Bank of America's Global Engagement Management application.

Brandon Choy

Wireless Communications Lead

Brandon is an Electrical Engineering major pursuing a power systems sequence. Throughout his journey in the ECPE program he had gained a handful of skills from projects and labs. Some of those skills he had enjoyed were integreated circuit design, signals, and power analysis. Some of his software skills are MATLAB, LTspice, Cadence, and AutoCAD.

Jacob Ross

Power Storage Lead

Jacob is an Electrical Engineering major pursuing a future in power systems. During his tenure at Iowa State University he has had many projects and classes that focused on every aspect of the Electrical Engineering world and other engineering departments. His main focus is power storage but has learned C coding, signals and systems, and integrated circuits along the way, to name a few. Some of the program skills he has learned are LTspice, Cadence, MATLAB, and AssetSuite.





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