Fall Engineering Design Celebration
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 | 2 pm – 7 pm
Clayton Hall, University of Delaware | Newark, DE
The University of Delaware boasts one of the premier engineering design education programs in the country. The 2023 Fall Engineering Design Celebration is a half-day conference that showcases and celebrates our engineering students’ many accomplishments this semester. This year’s celebration features teams of students in the following design categories:
Interdisciplinary Senior Engineering Design
Mechanical Engineering Junior Design
Autonomous Robots Competition
Statics Wooden Bike Frame Challenge
E3 High School Partners
Schedule-At-A-Glance
Technical Presentations
Student teams will deliver in-person technical presentations at Clayton Hall. See Design Category below for detailed presentation schedule and room locations.
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Interdisciplinary Senior Engineering Design
Interdisciplinary Senior Engineering Design is the capstone design course in the Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Programs. The showcase features final technical presentations and a perpetual project gallery for all 42 of our student teams.
| Team # | Project Name | Sponsor | Room # | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
101
| Control arm for transcatheter medical device |
Abbott |
Room 101B |
3:45-4:15 |
|
102
| Performance evaluation of a new concept firefighting nozzle |
Air Liquide |
Room 122 |
4:45-5:15 |
|
103
| Optimization of aircraft engine inlet and baffling |
Andrew Meyer (Engineer, Northrop Grumman) |
Room 119 |
2:00-2:30 |
|
104
| Semiconductor Reticle Turret Simulator |
ASML |
Room 124 |
2:30-3:00 |
|
105
| Wearable C-Section (Cesarean Section) Healthcare Simulator |
Avkin |
Room 101A |
3:00-3:30 |
|
106
| Powder Insulation Removal Process Improvement |
Bloom Energy |
Room 124 |
4:30-5:00 |
|
107
| Automated Sample Preparation Apparatus |
Chemours |
Room 119 |
4:30-5:00 |
|
108
| Reusable Sharps Opening Tools/Equipment System |
Choice MedWaste |
Room 101A |
4:15-4:45 |
|
109
| Variable Speed Round Baler Pickup |
CNH |
Room 124 |
3:00-3:30 |
|
110
| Unattended Laser Therapy Delivery |
Enovis |
Room 122 |
5:15-5:45 |
|
111
| Tribological test system for rotary bearings |
GGB North America |
Room 101A |
2:00-2:30 |
|
112
| Sleep Support Sound System |
Heart Works for Life |
Room 124 |
3:30-4:00 |
|
113
| Compact Mechanical Test Frame for Biomechanics Educational Outreach |
The Perry Initiative |
Room 101A |
3:45-4:15 |
|
114
| Automated Cup Staging |
Keurig Dr Pepper |
Room 101B |
2:00-2:30 |
|
115
| Assessing Suitability of Skid Frame Designs for Robotic Welding |
MDavis |
Room 101B |
4:15-4:45 |
|
116
| Synthetic, Sensor-Embedded Moon Rock Design and Manufacturing for Testing Applications |
NASA |
Room 119 |
5:00-5:30 |
|
117
| Standard gripper creation for pick and place robotics |
Norwalt Design |
Room 119 |
2:30-3:00 |
|
118
| Modernizing Piping and Instrumentation for Aerospace Application of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Propulsion Systems |
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation |
Room 124 |
4:00-4:30 |
|
119
| Design and development of a manually adjustable transmission |
Stanley Black & Decker, HTAS Division |
Room 124 |
5:00-5:30 |
|
120
| Design and development of math model & fixture to evaluate blade holding force of a slidelock. |
Stanley Black & Decker, HTAS Division |
Room 124 |
5:30-6:00 |
|
121
| Educational Lab Development for Heat Transfer |
UD Mechanical Engineering |
Room 119 |
5:30-6:00 |
|
122
| In Field Dynamic Monitoring of Plant Movement |
UD Plant & Soil Sciences: Erin Sparks Lab |
Room 120 |
4:45-5:15 |
|
123
| A low-cost mobile robot on a center pivot/linear move for precision plant phenotyping and irrigation management |
UD Plant & Soil Sciences: Yin Bao Lab |
Room 101B |
4:45-5:15 |
|
124
| Counterweight Rigging Encoder for relaying the position information of flying projection surfaces |
UD Theatre Dept |
Room 101B |
2:30-3:00 |
|
125
| Instron Sneaker Fixture |
Under Armour |
Room 101A |
2:30-3:00 |
|
126
| Dynamic Flex Test for Cable |
W.L. Gore |
Room 124 |
2:00-2:30 |
|
127
| Solvent Level Monitoring |
Waters Corporation |
Room 101B |
3:00-3:30 |
|
128
| Rotating 360 degree Sports Net/Goal with Locking Function |
FuGoal LLC |
Room 120 |
5:15-5:45 |
|
201
| Invasive monitoring of arterial blood pressure |
UD Engineering Driven Health |
Room 122 |
3:30-4:00 |
|
202
| Pediatric Venipuncture Vibration-Assisted Needle Device (VAND) |
Nemours & Jefferson |
Room 122 |
2:00-2:30 |
|
203
| Pacifier-Based Salivary Lead Tester |
Nemours & Jefferson |
Room 122 |
2:30-3:00 |
|
204
| Inflatable Lift Device |
Jenner’s Pond Simpson Community |
Room 125 |
2:30-3:00 |
|
205
| Reusable Tool for Advanced Medical Device Manufacturing |
Terumo Medical Corporation |
Room 122 |
3:00-3:30 |
|
206
| Fatigue/wear abrasion testing apparatus for prosthetic hook/terminal device. |
Marins Med LLC |
Room 125 |
4:15-4:45 |
|
207
| Groin Injury Protection |
UD Athletics |
Room 125 |
3:45-4:15 |
|
208
| Drinking Cup for Palliative Care Patients |
Groote Schuur Hospital and Heideveld Community Clinic |
Room 125 |
2:00-2:30 |
|
209
| Fatigue Alarm Eyewear |
Nemours – NICU |
Room 122 |
4:15-4:45 |
|
210
| Low-cost motion capture system to analyze joint kinematics during martial arts. |
Nemours |
Room 125 |
4:45-5:15 |
|
211
| Drag and Lift Geriatric Lift Device |
Jenner’s Pond Simpson Community |
Room 125 |
3:00-3:30 |
|
300
| UD Aero SAE |
UD Mechanical Engineering |
Pencader 106 |
4:30-6:00 |
|
400
| UD Formula SAE |
UD Mechanical Engineering |
Pencader 117 |
4:00-6:00 |
|
500
| UD DOE Collegiate Wind Competition (CWC) |
UD Mechanical Engineering |
Pencader 106 |
3:00-4:00 |
|
Mechanical Engineering Junior Design
Machine Design is a core junior year mechanical engineering design course featuring a real-world manufacturing and automation challenge from two local industry sponsors, Norwalt Design and Omega Design. The showcase features end-of-semester technical presentations for 13 separate student teams at the midpoint of their two-semester project, which involves the design, manufacture, and validation of an autonomous bottle fill station.
| Time | Team ID | Room | Team Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00 - 4:30 | 1 | 123 | Heirkhan Borjigin, Alexander Boulden, Noah Brecht, Michael Clark, Ethan Deutsch, Samuel Ferber, Kyler Grendahl, Nicholas Heinlein, Logan Killen, Byron Myrie |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | 2 | 123 | Hanaa Abdallah, Michael Anderson, Cameron Baines, Justin Farquhar, Patrick Flaherty, Katia Hehn, Christopher Marchioni, Kylie Taylor, Gavin Telfer, Jayden Thomas |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | 3 | 120 | Austin Bainbridge, Anastasia Cassanelli, Kyle Crawford, Nicholas Hodgkiss, Jillian Hoeler, Andrew Kite, Liam Nocella, Carson Snyder, Erick Stranko, Chloe Widmer |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | 4 | 121 | Franklin Alas, Annika Labrador, Cole Schenkman, Hermelis Reyes, Joseph Bockrath, Jacob Munoz, Joseph Rappa, Maclaren Blow, Thomas Mcadoo, Wenzhen Zhang |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | 5 | 121 | Owen Ferrone, Ethan Finnegan, Chase Haywood, Jueun Kang, Zion Lee, Benjamin Minner, Het Himanshu Patel, Camerron Silva, Ryan Thompson, Shawn Yong |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | 6 | 120 | Aisley Bergdoll, Colton Bowie, Marissa Dailey, Brendan Fitzpatrick, David Gelber, Dylan Kampf, Cameron Schmidt, Nathan Venables, Matthew Young |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | 7 | 121 | Amur Al Habsi, Jack Anderson, Owen Conway, Matthew Dapper, Markos Duey, Edward Odonnell, Ryan Robison, Benjamin Royer, Timothy Talbot, Jason Vera |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | 8 | 121 | Nicholas Amato, Turner Brennan, Ryan Cole, Sean Degaetano, Lamar Elam, Mark Foerster, Kimberly Marks, Gavin Redgrave, Benjamin Yaroch, Edward Yu |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | 9 | 120 | Isaac Chandler, Scott DePope, David Esquivel, Alexander Janusz, Ethan Lettieri, Jason Martin, Jacob Merkle, Daniel Rettig, Ryan Schmidt, Tristan Tronto |
| 3:15 - 3:45 | 10 | 119 | Logan Butler, Peter Jung, Kaan Karatas, Noah Leslie, Connor McCleery, Jared M Peoples, Russell Perdue, Tyler Salmon, Charles Whealton |
| 3:45 - 4:15 | 11 | 119 | Carissa Bonner, Thomas Bouck, Andrew Bryceland, Kevin Foerster, Samantha Gerhart, Jiro Guillen Kuroki, Sylvia Katz, Amelia Klinger, Nicholas Smith |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | 12 | 123 | Kenneth Deel, Lauren Desantis, Kaitlyn Dohn, Gaetan Douglas, Joshua Edelson, Aidan Fleischhacker, Megan Leinhauser, Karen Scharpf, Matthew Young |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | 13 | 123 | Lucas Castle, Jonathan Chellew, Alexander Kenney, Andrew Lancour, Richard Lopez, Adolfo Ortiz-Cruz, David Ruiz-Garcia, Noah Schoeffler, Grace Wiley, Stephanie Yanson |
Special thanks to our local industry sponsors, Norwalt Design and Omega Design:
Autonomous Robotics Competition
MEEG 667: Digital Control is a graduate course offered as part of the Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) curriculum. Course content focuses on the analysis and design of control systems in which the digital computer plays a major role. Course topics include discrete system analysis and control, estimation and system identification. As part of this course, students work in teams to build a mobile robot, which they equip with sensors to autonomously follow a track on the floor. They develop sensor-based controllers so that the robot navigates the path autonomously, with no human intervention or prior knowledge of the task. In the final competition the teams deploy their robots and compete for the fastest time in completing the track.
2:30-3:30 p.m. | Pencader 117
Statics Wooden Bike Frame Challenge
MEEG210: Statics is a core course taught in the Sophomore Year in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Course content focuses on designing and analyzing physical objects that remain stationary and support loads, like structures and machines. As part of this course, students work in teams to design and manufacture an all-wood bike frame. They must predict whether the bike frame can support body weight using the theoretical principles from the course. Their calculations are put to the test in a bike race held on the final day of the semester. The race is sponsored by local bike shop, Wooden Wheels Bikes, who supplies the essential components (like wheels!).
This year’s winning bike frame designs will be on display in the lobby of Clayton Hall during the entire Design Celebration on Dec 13th.
Project Gallery
Special thanks to our local sponsor for this design challenge.
High School Design Showcase
Student teams from local high schools show off their mid-year and end-of-term design projects as part of the UD College of Engineering’s Engineering Education Ecosystem (E3) Program. The showcase features poster presentations and a pitch competition from area high schools.
Poster Presentation & Pitch Competition in the lobby area from 3:30-4 p.m.
Awards Ceremony
Please join us for a live webinar session to celebrate our students’ achievements starting at 6 pm in the Clayton Hall Auditorium (Room 128). This event is open to the public, and students, alumni, friends and family are all welcome.
Senior Design Project Gallery
Browse the Project Gallery below to find out more about our senior design teams, their sponsors, and to watch brief video overviews of their project outcomes. Please note that materials for some teams are restricted due to intellectual-property concerns.
Sponsors
We sincerely thank this year’s senior design sponsors for their support of this program.
Abbott
Air Liquide
Andrew Meyer (Engineer, Northrop Grumman)
ASML
Avkin
Bloom Energy
Chemours
Choice MedWaste
CNH Industrial
Enovis
FuGoal LLC
GGB North America
Groote Schuur Hospital and Heideveld Community Clinic
Heart Works For Life
Jenner’s Pond Simpson Community
Keurig Dr Pepper
Marins Med LLC
MDavis
NASA
Nemours
Nemours & Jefferson
Norwalt Design
Omega
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation
Stanley Black & Decker
Terumo
The Perry Initiative
Under Armour
W.L.Gore
Waters Corporation
University of Delaware
- College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
- Plant & Soil Sciences: Yin Bao Lab
- Plant & Soil Sciences: Erin Sparks Lab
- College of Arts & Sciences
- Department of Theatre and Dance
- UD Athletics
- College of Engineering
- Institute for Engineering Driven Health
- Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors
Cristina Archer, PhD
Yin Bao, PhD
Jenni Buckley, PhD
Alex De Rosa, PhD
Joseph Feser, PhD
Jason Gleghorn, PhD
Curtis Johnson, PhD
Julie Karand, PhD
Ashutosh Khandha, PhD
Joseph Kuehl, PhD
Sarah Rooney, PhD
Steve Timmins, PhD
Adam Wickenheiser, PhD
Pierre Yao, PhD
Thank You
Many thanks are in order to the staff members who help our students with technical and logistical issues throughout the course of the semester.
The Design Studio & Student Machine Shop Staff: Whitney Sample, Scott Nelson, Ron Cantrell and Shane McFoy, Also the TAs in the Design Studio and Machine Shop
Administrative Support: : Elaine Nelson, April English, Ann Connor, Jazmyn Curry, Michele Schwander, Pat Fox, Nancy England, Vicky Tosh-Morelli.
We sincerely thank this year’s guest evaluators for their support of this program.