2023 Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) - Building a Benchmark for Industrial Internet-of-Things Applications
The College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) is a unique opportunity for college of engineering undergraduate students to engage in hands-on research with a faculty mentor while using critical thinking, collaborative, and entrepreneurial skills. SURP is an 8-week long program (can be non-contiguous), and students are expected to spend at least 20 hours/week working on their research projects and additional time preparing and presenting their poster for the annual SURP symposium; SURP students and their faculty mentor will agree upon a start date and timeline for their research project (with a suggested start date of June 26th, 2023). The goals of SURP are to:
- Help Cal Poly Engineering students develop professionally and enhance their portfolios for future employment.
- Give opportunities for CENG faculty (including lecturers) to advance their research/project agendas over the summer quarter.
- Build lasting student-faculty mentoring relationships
- Provide opportunities for industrial and other external sponsors to work with Cal Poly faculty and students to advance connections, gain access to Cal Poly talent and capabilities, and engage in valuable collaborative activities.
Our Summer 2023 SURP will support over 30 projects (with some projects taking 2 students) for 39 students. You can apply to up to 3 projects on MustangJobs (each project has its own job posting). You need not be in the same department as the faculty advisor to apply to a given project.
Each SURP student participant will receive a CENG Summer Research Grant of $3,500.
Please note that the grant amount is fixed, and additional funding is not available. This grant will be disbursed through the Financial Aid Office toward the end of the summer. Preference will be given to students who have not yet participated in SURP.
This Project
Project Title: Building a Benchmark for Industrial Internet-of-Things Applications
Faculty Advisor: Joydeep Mukherjee
Faculty Email: jmukherj@calpoly.edu
Faculty Department: CSSE
Number of Students for this project: 2
Industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm where millions of sensors are used to stream, aggregate, and analyze data to monitor physical, environmental, and human systems in real time. IoT applications in domains such as smart healthcare and smart buildings typically have data flows with high frequency and low latency requirement from sensors to gateways and to datacenters. These applications introduce new challenges and opportunities for researchers to explore diverse IoT-related areas such as performance, Big Data, anomaly detection, security and AI-enabled recommendation systems. This project aims to build an Industrial IoT benchmark which imitates a real IoT platform that monitors, ingests, processes, and analyzes data streams from numerous heterogeneous IoT sensor devices. This project will use a small number of IoT sensors as a starting point to create an IoT framework and will build on top of this framework to create a benchmark that can potentially scale to a large number of virtual IoT sensors. The IoT framework will be designed using state-of-the-art tools such as Apache Kafka, Apache Spark and a Cassandra cloud storage. The end goal of this project is to build a scalable IoT benchmark that is representative of a real Industrial IoT platform and can be configured to simulate different practical scenarios that capture the functioning of such platforms. The proposed IoT benchmark created in this project will enable faculty members and students conduct interdisciplinary research and generate large datasets using cutting-edge infrastructure technologies relevant to modern IoT platforms and applications.
HOW TO APPLY:
PLEASE SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING TWO DOCUMENTS VIA HANDSHAKE AND SEE RUBRIC BELOW FOR EVALUATION CRITERIA. YOU CAN APPLY TO UP TO THREE SURP PROJECTS, BUT CAN ONLY BE AWARDED ONE.
- Submit your resume
- Submit a cover letter that answers the following three questions:
- Describe why you are interested in this research project.
- Describe how participating in SURP and working on this research project, will help you advance your academic and professional development goals
- Describe how your past experiences have helped prepare you for your participation in SURP. This includes relevant academic, other formal, and informal preparation.
INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS COULD DISQUALIFY YOU FROM FURTHER CONSIDERATION.
Note that applications are due April 30; selected students will be notified by no later than May 12.