Senior Design
A highlight of the undergraduate mechanical engineering program is the two-
semester senior design capstone senior design project. The projects translate
to an average of 300 out-of-classroom hours per student over the course of the
academic year.
In Spring 2019, 46 teams with more than 400 undergraduate mechanical en-
gineering majors designed, created prototypes, refined their work, and built
custom devices incorporating the required parameters for the work.
Seventeen teams were sponsored by corporate partners including Meyer Sound,
Harris, BWXT, Boeing, Quality of Life Plus, Philip Morris and others.
As part of the capstone, students present their work as individual groups and at
the Senior Design Expo that is open to the public and the media.
Left: 3-D printed flexible
actuators help mimic ear
movements on a robotic
bat.
Below left: An individual
hemodialysis treatment
machine
Below: A hip exoskeleton
designed to help ampu-
tees with gait issues
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