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Good day.

I am an Electrical Engineering student about to enter my last academic term in university.  This
term we can choose all our courses (for specialization) except for one.  This is why I am writing
this letter.

The mandatory course is a project course in which we pick a project and apply what we have
learned for the last five years.  The projects vary in complexity and scope.  Generally there are
two types of projects: a pure research paper in which something new etc. is discussed, and one
in which a prototype of the project is built and tested.  Examples of some projects done before
are neural network theory, design and building of an 8088 stand-alone computer, remote control
using MF and HF frequencies, etc.

My problem is that I can't come up with a project.  Can anyone out there suggest something? 
I am interested in communications, and electronics (no power engineering).  I can program in
C and assembler (80x86).  I am not sure what I want to do, ie. just a report or to come up with
a product and build it.  Note, the projects are usually original and fill some gap in technology. 

Here are some of the things that have crossed my mind:
-Sound processing in real time (ie. effects) (digital or analog).
-Voice synthesis add on card for a single board computer (text to speech)
-Some caller id type of application

I would like to do something with telephone interfacing/computer ... but again, everything I
come up with has either been done before, too simple, too complex.

Any help / ideas received would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry for the long letter.

Steve.
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sstrong@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Electrical Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada