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Dr Hewitt (Anglesea office: The Lodge) is the co-chair of the project allocation, assessment and moderation group and is responsible for the undergraduate individual project units in the School. He is a lecturer in digital signal processing, network communications and digital broadcasting. He is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Examples of the sort of projects that Dr Hewitt has available for final year students are:

• Active Queue Management in TCP-based networks
• Audio restoration & broadband noise reduction
• Automatic Integration of Multiple Sensors
• Bandwidth-induced jitter in a self-clocking digital audio interface
• DAB/DVB-T simulation: OFDM modulation
• Designing FIR filters using Genetic Algorithms
• Development of a perceptual audio coder
• Exploring an Open-Source Video Codec
• Honeycomb Array Antennas
• Lightpath Allocation in Optically Switched WDM Networks
• Lossless Coding of Audio Using Adaptive Integer Prediction
• Multiplexing/concentrating bursty packet data
• Pulse Density and Pulse Width Modulation
• Sound synthesis by physical modelling
• Stereo Sound: human perception and microphone techniques