Fall Engineering Design Celebration

Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 | 2 pm – 8 pm

The University of Delaware boasts one of the premier engineering design education programs in the country. The 2021 Fall Engineering Design Celebration is a half-day hybrid 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

E3 High School Design Competition

Autonomous Robots Competition

Schedule-At-A-Glance

Technical Presentations: Senior Design – 2-6:30 pm

Technical Presentations: Junior Design – 2-4 pm

Technical Presentations: High School Design – 2:30-6 pm

Technical Presentations: Robotics – 2-3:30 pm

Senior Design Project Gallery – 2-7 pm

Awards Ceremony – 7-8 pm

Technical Presentations

Student teams will deliver in-person technical presentations at Clayton Hall. See Design Category below for detailed presentation schedule and room locations, and click here for map of Clayton Hall conference rooms. Presentations are restricted to participating students, faculty, evaluators, and invited guests; and all attendees must comply with University COVID guidelines for on-campus events.

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Senior Design Presentations

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 52 of our student teams. See schedule below for team presentation times and room locations.

Please be aware that some presentations marked with an asterisk are restricted access for intellectual property purposes. Only UD faculty, students, and the sponsoring entity may attend. All other presentations are open to all event attendees.

Click on the Team number below to view more details.

Team # Project Name Sponsor Room # Time
101 Biomechanical Surrogate for Heart Septum Abbott Room 101A 5:45 – 6:15
102 Automated Screw Torquing Device Agilent Technologies Room 101B 3:45 – 4:15
103 Wearable dialysis shunt/AV fistula care simulator Avkin Room 101A 5:15 – 5:45
104 Wearable Tracheostomy Care Simulator for Medical Education Avkin Auditorium 128 4:45 – 5:15
105 Automation of meat stick packaging operation CHL Systems Room 101B 2:00 – 2:30
106* Rigidity of harvester reel tine with embedded permanent magnet CNH Room 121 4:30 – 5:00
107 Conveyor guide for elastomer bricks Datwyler Room 101B 2:30 – 3:00
108 Carbon fiber Class III utility trailer DowAksa Room 119 3:30 – 4:00
109 On-demand personal soda machine Keurig Dr Pepper Room 119 4:45 – 5:15
110 Modular steering system for adaptive bicycles MDavis / Preston’s March Room 119 2:45 – 3:15
111 Certa-Lok® Field Grooving Tool NAPCO Pipe & Fittings Room 101B 4:30 – 5:00
112 Optimization of aircraft engine cowling Andrew Meyer (Engineer, Northrop Grumman) Auditorium 128 2:00 – 2:30
113 Universal design for star wheel feeder Norwalt Design Room 101B 5:45 – 6:15
114 Battery cartridge for eVTOL aircraft Piasecki Aircraft Corporation Auditorium 128 4:00 – 4:30
115 Optimizing warehouse workflow Procter & Gamble Auditorium 128 2:30 – 3:00
116 Automated assembly of Encompass Integrated Shim pins assemblies Qfix Room 101B 5:15 – 5:45
117 Cuvette Assembly Automation Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Room 101B 3:00 – 3:30
118 Microfluidic Technology Test Bed, Phase III Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Room 120 5:00 – 5:30
119 Powered Quick Grip Clamp Stanley Black & Decker Room 121 5:30 – 6:00
120 Dual Hard Floor Cleaning Solution Stanley Black & Decker Room 120 4:15 – 4:45
121 Macro-Volume Variable Path Liquid Sampling Mechanism Thermo Fisher Scientific Room 120 2:30 – 3:00
122 Blank Holder Design for Variable Deep Drawing of Stretchable ‘TuFF’ Composites for Aerospace Structures UD Center for Composite Materials Room 119 2:00 – 2:30
123 Scalable Spillway Design for Highly Aligned Discontinuous Fiber ‘TuFF’ Composites for Aerospace Structures UD Center for Composite Materials Room 119 4:00 – 4:30
124 Actuated wave paddle system for educational wave flume UD Civil Engineering: Puleo Lab Room 120 5:45 – 6:15
125 Outdoor water table for early childhood hands-on education UD Mechanical Engineering & Early Learning Center Auditorium 128 3:15 – 3:45
126 Adaptation of mechanical testing devices for field-based studies of plant biomechanics UD Plant & Soil Sciences: Sparks Lab Room 120 3:00 – 3:30
127 Crop scanning camera system for vertical indoor farming research UD Plant & Soil Sciences: Meng Lab Room 120 2:00 – 2:30
128 Smart Manikin for Garment Design Under Armour Auditorium 128 5:15 – 5:45
129 N95 Mask Filtration Test Equipment W.L.Gore Room 119 5:15 – 5:45
130 Hall Effect Measurement System for CVD Diamonds Applied Diamond Inc Room 120 3:45 – 4:15

Junior Design Presentations

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 14 separate student teams at the midpoint of their two-semester project, which involves the design, manufacture, and validation of an autonomous bottle fill station.

Vote for your favorite Team Project in the Junior Design People’s Choice Award.

 

Special thanks to our local industry sponsors, Norwalt Design and Omega Design:

Also, thank you to all of our industry evaluators and student team advisors: Adam Bitar, Melody Cerro, Kevin Cresswell, Austin Crouse, Anthony Dorazio, William Dunfee, Ian Engelberg, Nick Filzen, Edward Gargiulo, Richard Griste, Keith Harman, Ross Hutter, Kevin Perdue, Jeff Rickets, Justin Rigg, Matt Seitel, Mike Seitel, Glenn Siegele, Christopher Sockel, and Ryan Tocker.

High School Design Presentations

Student teams from local high schools compete in an open-ended design competition as part of University of Delaware’s Engineering Education Ecosystem (E3) Program. The showcase features technical presentations from 12 semi-finalist teams from four area high schools, including Brandywine High School, Concord High School, Padua Academy, and Newark High School.

 

Robotics Presentations

Senior year and graduate students in an advanced robotics and controls class display their final course projects. The showcase features live demonstrations and a robotics competition.

Pencader 103 2:00 – 3:30

Video of the Robotics Presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckq6fkE4RpM

Awards Ceremony

Please join us for a live webinar session to celebrate our students’ achievements starting at 7:00 pm. This event is open to the public, and students, alumni, friends and family are all welcome. You can participate in the event by nominating teams for the People’s Choice Award.

View Award Winners

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.

Biomechanical Surrogate for Heart Septum

Team: 101

Sponsor: Abbott

Time: 5:45 – 6:15

Room 101A

Automated Screw Torquing Device

Team: 102

Sponsor: Agilent Technologies

Time: 3:45 – 4:15

Room 101B

Wearable dialysis shunt/AV fistula care simulator

Team: 103

Sponsor: Avkin

Time: 5:15 – 5:45

Room 101A

Wearable Tracheostomy Care Simulator for Medical Education

Team: 104

Sponsor: Avkin

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Auditorium 128

Automation of meat stick packaging operation

Team: 105

Sponsor: CHL Systems

Time: 2:00 – 2:30

Room 101B

Rigidity of harvester reel tine with embedded permanent magnet

Team: 106*

Sponsor: CNH

Time: 4:30 – 5:00

Room 121

Conveyor guide for elastomer bricks

Team: 107

Sponsor: Datwyler

Time: 2:30 – 3:00

Room 101B

Carbon fiber Class III utility trailer

Team: 108

Sponsor: DowAksa

Time: 3:30 – 4:00

Room 119

On-demand personal soda machine

Team: 109

Sponsor: Keurig Dr Pepper

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Room 119

Modular steering system for adaptive bicycles

Team: 110

Sponsor: MDavis / Preston’s March

Time: 2:45 – 3:15

Room 119

Certa-Lok® Field Grooving Tool

Team: 111

Sponsor: NAPCO Pipe & Fittings

Time: 4:30 – 5:00

Room 101B

Optimization of aircraft engine cowling

Team: 112

Sponsor: Andrew Meyer (Engineer, Northrop Grumman)

Time: 2:00 – 2:30

Auditorium 128

Universal design for star wheel feeder

Team: 113

Sponsor: Norwalt Design

Time: 5:45 – 6:15

Room 101B

Battery cartridge for eVTOL aircraft

Team: 114

Sponsor: Piasecki Aircraft Corporation

Time: 4:00 – 4:30

Auditorium 128

Optimizing warehouse workflow

Team: 115

Sponsor: Procter & Gamble

Time: 2:30 – 3:00

Auditorium 128

Automated assembly of Encompass Integrated Shim pins assemblies

Team: 116

Sponsor: Qfix

Time: 5:15 – 5:45

Room 101B

Cuvette Assembly Automation

Team: 117

Sponsor: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

Time: 3:00 – 3:30

Room 101B

Microfluidic Technology Test Bed, Phase III

Team: 118

Sponsor: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

Time: 5:00 – 5:30

Room 120

Powered Quick Grip Clamp

Team: 119

Sponsor: Stanley Black & Decker

Time: 5:30 – 6:00

Room 121

Dual Hard Floor Cleaning Solution

Team: 120

Sponsor: Stanley Black & Decker

Time: 4:15 – 4:45

Room 120

Macro-Volume Variable Path Liquid Sampling Mechanism

Team: 121

Sponsor: Thermo Fisher Scientific

Time: 2:30 – 3:00

Room 120

Blank Holder Design for Variable Deep Drawing of Stretchable ‘TuFF’ Composites for Aerospace Structures

Team: 122

Sponsor: UD Center for Composite Materials

Time: 2:00 – 2:30

Room 119

Scalable Spillway Design for Highly Aligned Discontinuous Fiber ‘TuFF’ Composites for Aerospace Structures

Team: 123

Sponsor: UD Center for Composite Materials

Time: 4:00 – 4:30

Room 119

Actuated wave paddle system for educational wave flume

Team: 124

Sponsor: UD Civil Engineering: Puleo Lab

Time: 5:45 – 6:15

Room 120

Outdoor water table for early childhood hands-on education

Team: 125

Sponsor: UD Mechanical Engineering & Early Learning Center

Time: 3:15 – 3:45

Auditorium 128

Adaptation of mechanical testing devices for field-based studies of plant biomechanics

Team: 126

Sponsor: UD Plant & Soil Sciences: Sparks Lab

Time: 3:00 – 3:30

Room 120

Crop scanning camera system for vertical indoor farming research

Team: 127

Sponsor: UD Plant & Soil Sciences: Meng Lab

Time: 2:00 – 2:30

Room 120

Smart Manikin for Garment Design

Team: 128

Sponsor: Under Armour

Time: 5:15 – 5:45

Auditorium 128

N95 Mask Filtration Test Equipment

Team: 129

Sponsor: W.L.Gore

Time: 5:15 – 5:45

Room 119

Hall Effect Measurement System for CVD Diamonds

Team: 130

Sponsor: Applied Diamond Inc

Time: 3:45 – 4:15

Room 120

Leak test tool for fuel cell columns

Team: 131*

Sponsor: Bloom Energy

Time: 4:00 – 4:30

Room 121

Design of an adaptable dilator for use after anoplasty in infants

Team: 201

Sponsor: University of Cape Town: Sivarasu Lab

Time: 3:45 – 4:14

Auditorium 125

Design of a High Altitude Pulmonary Oedema (HAPO) bag for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Team: 202

Sponsor: University of Cape Town: Sivarasu Lab

Time: 2:30 – 3:00

Auditorium 125

Design of a peripheral nerve stimulator for use during colorectal surgery

Team: 203

Sponsor: University of Cape Town: Sivarasu Lab

Time: 5:15 – 5:45

Auditorium 125

Design of a new clothing fastener for individuals with disabilities

Team: 204

Sponsor: UD Innovation Health & Design Lab

Time: 4:30 – 5:00

Auditorium 125

Design of a sensor and alert system for pressure sore detection in individuals wearing casts

Team: 205

Sponsor: UD Innovation Health & Design Lab

Time: 5:45 – 6:15

Auditorium 125

Optimization of a motorized upper extremity exoskeleton for individuals with muscular dystrophy

Team: 206

Sponsor: UD Innovation Health & Design Lab

Time: 2:00 – 2:30

Room 101A

Optimization of an orthopedic boot design for individuals with achilles tendon rupture

Team: 207

Sponsor: UD Innovation Health & Design Lab

Time: 2:45 – 3:15

Room 101A

Improvements to Cross-Cut Valve Assembly Stability for Interventional Medical Device

Team: 208*

Sponsor: Terumo Medical Corporation

Time: 5:30 – 6:00

Room 123

Optimization of a portable retractable stethoscope design

Team: 209

Sponsor: ECHO Stethoscope LLC

Time: 3:00 – 3:30

Auditorium 125

Detection and visualization of gait events in individuals wearking an ankle-foot orthosis (AFO)

Team: 210

Sponsor: Elasthetics LLC

Time: 2:00 – 2:30

Auditorium 125

Improving quality and functionality of upper extremity prosthesis for children

Team: 211

Sponsor: MORE Foundation

Time: 3:30 – 4:00

Room 101A

Design of a minimally invasive retractor for Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion (LLIF) surgery to prevent tissue creep

Team: 212

Sponsor: Globus Medical Inc.

Time: 4:00 – 4:30

Room 101A

Modification of a wheelchair with dynamic tilt developed for pressure ulcer prevention

Team: 213*

Sponsor: Christiana Care Occupational Therapy

Time: 4:00 – 4:30

Room 123

Motorization of adapted tricycle for individuals with cerebral palsy

Team: 214

Sponsor: Bayada Pediatric Homecare

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Room 101A

Optimization of in-vivo wireless strain measurement system for a spinal implant in a pig model

Team: 215*

Sponsor: UPenn New Bolton Center

Time: 4:30 – 5:00

Room 123

Optimization of an extruder for 3D printing core-shell polymers used in rehabilitative devices

Team: 216*

Sponsor: UD Materials Science: Mackay Lab

Time: 5:00 – 5:30

Room 121

A multi-axial test frame for in-vitro testing of differential biomechanics in scoliosis

Team: 217

Sponsor: UD Biomedical Engineering: Elliott Lab

Time: 5:45 – 6:15

Auditorium 128

UD Aero SAE – Fuselage

Team: 300

Sponsor: UD Department of Mechanical Engineering – ASAE

Time: 4:30 – 5:00

Pencader 103

UD Aero SAE – Wings

Team: 301

Sponsor: UD Department of Mechanical Engineering – ASAE

Time: 4:00 – 4:30

Pencader 103

UD Aero SAE – Controls

Team: 302

Sponsor: UD Department of Mechanical Engineering – ASAE

Time: 5:00 – 5:30

Pencader 103

UD Formula SAE

Team: 400

Sponsor: UD Department of Mechanical Engineering – FSAE

Time: 4:00 – 6:00

Pencader 117

Sponsors

We sincerely thank this year’s senior design sponsors for their support of this program.

​Abbott

Agilent Technologies

Andrew Meyer (Engineer, Northrop Grumman)

Applied Diamond Inc

Avkin

Bayada Pediatric Homecare

Bloom Energy

CHL Systems

Christiana Care Occupational Therapy

CNH Industrial

Datwyler

DowAksa

ECHO Stethoscope LLC

Elasthetics LLC

Globus Medical

Keurig Dr Pepper

MDavis / Preston’s March

MORE Foundation

NAPCO Pipe & Fittings

Norwalt Design

Piasecki Aircraft Corporation

Procter & Gamble

Qfix

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

Stanley Black & Decker

Terumo Medical Corporation

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Under Armour

W.L.Gore

University of Cape Town, South Africa

  • Sivarasu Lab

University of Pennsylvania

  • New Bolton Center

University of Delaware

  • Center for Composite Materials
  • Early Learning Center
  • Innovation Health & Design Lab
  • Dept. Biomedical Engineering: Elliott Laboratory
  • Dept. Civil Engineering: Puleo Laboratory
  • Dept. Material Sciences: Mackay Laboratory
  • Dept. Plant & Soil Sciences: Meng Laboratory
  • Dept. Plant & Soil Sciences: Sparks Laboratory

Faculty Advisors

Jenni Buckley, PhD

David Burris, PhD

Joe Feser, PhD

Jim Glancey, PhD, PE

Dyer Harris, PhD

Julie Karand, PhD

Michael Keefe, PhD

Ashutosh Khandha, PhD

David McKee, PhD

Ajay Prasad, PhD

Sarah Rooney, PhD

Steve Timmins, PhD

Tyler Van Buren, PhD

Adam Wickenheiser, 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, and Jeff Ricketts, Also the TAs in the Design Studio and Machine Shop

Administrative Support: Elaine Nelson, Amy Adams, Ann Connor, Allie Andrews, Missy Arenz, Michele Schwander, Cynthia Papettas, Melanie Smith, Nancy England, Amanda Ramsaran, Vicky Tosh-Morelli, and Kristin Schmidt.

We sincerely thank this year’s guest evaluators for their support of this program.