Crosswalk Lab in ECE 301 using an Arduino Kit

Continuing the project work initiated with the EIL 2019 program, this year's students were given an assignment to build a prototype crosswalk emulator using an Arduino kit.  Many of the crosswalks in London do not have sound to alert pedestrians that the time window for crossing the street is abruptly closing.  This lab assignment, originally designed by Ben Sergent (UTK/EECS BS/MS Computing Eng. alumnus) and edited by Dean Vookles, the ECE 301 UTA (Undergraduate Teaching Assistant) and EE major, allowed the students in ECE 301 to get a real feel for electrical components and learn how microcontrollers generally work with digital circuitry. The functioning prototype shown below was completed by seven groups of two with each group finishing a stage of the project and handing off their progress to the next group. Amazingly, the entire project was completed in about four hours after a ME 331 lab session.  Below is a short video that constituted part of the demonstration of the crosswalk emulator to Profs. Berry and Parsons on Wednesday, July 20.