Fall 2019 Senior Design Expo
The William States Lee College of Engineering held its fall-semester Senior Design Expo on December 6, 2019. There were 32 teams (21 industry-supported and 11 departmental) who started in spring 2019 and presented their completed two-semester projects, and 65 teams (44 industry and 21 departmental) who started in fall 2019 and presented their first-semester design-concept posters. Overall, there were 152 second-semester, 375 first-semester, and 37 Civil Engineering students participating.
The three completed projects judged the best were:
First Place
Atrium Health – Variable Cadence Orthodic and Prosthetic Data Capture and Analysis Device
Project Overview: The team designed a variable cadence orthodic device that can be embedded in orthotics or prosthetics to capture utilization and activity for the Atrium Musculoskeletal Institute.
Team members: Spenser Brown, Paul Coady, Nathan Turnbow, Joseph Valle and Jonathan Wolters.
Second Place
ASMO, a subsidiary of Denso – Design Tolerancing to Improve Power Window Motor Vibration Performance
Project Overview: The project focused on designing a new power window motor with reduced vibration frequencies on the initial build to be used in a variety of cars/trucks produced in North America.
Team members: Yousif Alebeed, Keaton Cooper, Pranav Nair, William Standifer, Michael Stewart and Rusian Yarotskiy.
Third Place
Highland Composites – Universal Silicone Mold and Extractor for Carbon Fiber Tube Production
Project Overview: The team designed a mold/tooling system that allows reinforcement for carbon fiber tubes to be placed into a mold, saturated with resin and cured, and then safely separated without risk of damaging the composite material.
Team members: William Gooding, Ryan Heavner, Sarvesh Mehendale, Taylor Pearce, Daniel Saraphis, Jacod Stiller and Evan Walsh.