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Ah, Senior Project.... I well remember it. I designed a submersible data collection system for a buoy 3" in diameter to collect sea water information and transmit it to another senior project that had to record the data. That was fun...

I have a project that I'm working on in my own time that you're welcome to take on as a senior project, and I think it would be a good match for your skills and interests.

I design and build electrical power substations, among a few other duties. In those substations there are 4 or 5 devices that we monitor for temperature, number of operations, current and voltage, that sort of thing. The number of variables is not large, but it's important information to gather so that we can predict when various devices will need maintenance before they fail. Each month I send linemen out to record on paper the values I need, then I enter them in a spreadsheet. That's not an ideal solution, and I'd really like to put the data into a database, then analyze trends to predict when I should take an item out of service for preventative maintenance. I'd prefer a solution using C#, since that's the language I'm now trying to master, and storing the data in a SQL Server database would be perfect.

The analysis part is beyond the scope of this effort- I'll add that myself. But the data collection part might be a good fit for your project. If this interests you, feel free to email me. If not, keep in mind that the major cause of project failures is the failure to limit the scope. Things that look easy in the requirements phase often turn out to be nightmares when it comes to actually implementing a solution.

For your project, keep it simple. The purpose of a Senior Project is to demonstrate your mastery of the subject matter, not to create an application to save the universe. It's awfully easy to lose sight of that fact. Good luck to you, and I hope you have as much fun with yours as I did mine! Big Grin | :-D
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