Fall Engineering Design Celebration
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 | 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 2022 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
Industrial Design
Statics Wooden Bike Race 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.
hidden
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 47 of our student teams.
| Team # | Project Name | Sponsor | Room # | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
101
| Training model for a minimally invasive procedure for the left heart pathology |
Abbott |
Auditorium 128 |
3:00-3:30 |
|
102
| Improved Slurry Addition Device |
Agilent Technologies |
Room 101B |
2:00-2:30 |
|
103
| Hydrogen refueling station safety improvements |
Air Liquide |
Room 124 |
5:15-5:45 |
|
104
| Optimization of aircraft engine cowling |
Andrew Meyer (Engineer, Northrop Grumman) |
Room 125 |
2:00 – 2:30 |
|
105
| EDM Fatigue Testing Machine |
ASML |
Room 119 |
2:00-2:30 |
|
106
| Wearable Postpartum Hemorrhage Healthcare Simulator |
Avkin |
Room 101A |
4:15-4:45 |
|
107
| Water System Calibration Process Improvement |
Bloom Energy |
Room 125 |
3:45 – 4:15 |
|
108
| Dielectric Leak Tester Project |
Bloom Energy |
Room 123 |
4:15 – 4:45 |
|
109
| Sonic Vibration System for Molded Chocolate |
CHL Systems |
Room 123 |
4:45 – 5:15 |
|
110
| Combine feeder crop sample door |
CNH |
Room 124 |
3:30 – 4:00 |
|
111
| Mechanism to Control Placement of a Color Measuring Instrument on a Sample |
Datacolor |
Room 125 |
2:30 – 3:00 |
|
112
| Thickness Uniformity Measurement Set-up for CVD Diamond Wafers |
Applied Diamond Inc |
Room 119 |
2:30 – 3:00 |
|
113
| Design and Fabrication of Drone Bodies & Propellers |
DowAksa |
Room 125 |
4:15 – 4:45 |
|
114
| Multi-Station Creep Testing Equipment |
DuPont |
Room 121 |
4:15 – 4:45 |
|
115
| Golf Ball-Club Impact Replicator |
Fujikura |
Room 101B |
3:00 – 3:30 |
|
116
| Improved Suture Diameter Measurement Fixture |
J&J – Ethicon Inc |
Room 121 |
4:45 – 5:15 |
|
117
| Robotic Joint Characterization for Next Gen Surgical Robot |
J&J – Ethicon Inc |
Room 124 |
4:45 – 5:15 |
|
118
| Automated Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) measurement system |
Keurig Dr Pepper |
Room 123 |
5:15 – 5:45 |
|
119
| EDM Autofill Attachment |
KVI |
Room 101B |
3:45 – 4:15 |
|
120
| Play Center Redesign |
Melissa & Doug Toys |
Room 101A |
4:45 – 5:15 |
|
121
| Filler and Capper for Cirkul |
Norwalt Design |
Room 101B |
2:30 – 3:00 |
|
122
| TrimPAC EZ Static Elimination |
Precision Air Convey |
Room 119 |
3:00 – 3:30 |
|
123
| Bulk System Fluids Bottle Stopper/Crimp Assembly Automation |
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics |
Room 101B |
4:15 – 4:45 |
|
124
| Liquid Waste Vacuum Separator |
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics |
Room 125 |
3:00 – 3:30 |
|
125
| Plier Mechanical Advantage and Cut Force Tester |
Stanley Black & Decker |
Room 124 |
4:15 – 4:45 |
|
126
| Build-a-Clamp |
Stanley Black & Decker |
Room 121 |
5:15-5:45 |
|
127
| High performance quiet dustbuster hand vacuum |
Stanley Black & Decker |
Room 125 |
4:45 – 5:15 |
|
128
| Mechanical separation of darkling beetles from poultry litter prior to field application |
UD Agricultural Entomology Lab |
Room 120 |
4:15 – 4:45 |
|
129
| Redesign of a training device to ensure humane euthanasia for avian species |
UD Agriculture: Dr. Brian Ladman |
Auditorium 128 |
2:00 – 2:30 |
|
130
| Soil Surface Displacement Sensors |
UD Plant & Soil Sciences: Sparks Lab |
Auditorium 128 |
2:30 – 3:00 |
|
131
| Smart Skins |
Under Armour |
Room 101A |
5:15 – 5:45 |
|
132
| Scrape Abrasion Testing on Insulated Wiring |
W.L. Gore |
Room 101B |
4:45 – 5:15 |
|
133
| NASA turbulent flow experiment for the International Space Station |
UD Mechanical Engineering: Dr. Tyler Van Buren |
Auditorium 128 |
4:45 – 5:15 |
|
201
| Development and optimization of a low cost motion capture system to analyze joint kinematics during martial arts |
Nemours |
Room 120 |
2:00 – 2:30 |
|
202
| Design of an adaptable device to help bicycle steering with one hand for children with congenital below-elbow amputation |
Nemours |
Room 120 |
2:30 – 3:00 |
|
203
| Design of a mechanical device to assist patients suffering from respiratory problems |
University of Cape Town: Sivarasu Lab |
Room 119 |
3:45 – 4:15 |
|
204
| Frugal Emergency Oxygen Can |
Air Liquide |
Room 119 |
4:15 – 4:45 |
|
205
| External Knee Loading Platform |
UD Biomedical Engineering: Axel Moore |
Room 120 |
3:00 – 3:30 |
|
206
| Design and development of athletic protective equipment to prevent hand fractures |
UD Athletics & Recreation/Athletic Training |
Room 120 |
3:45 – 4:15 |
|
207
| Design and optimization of a post-amputation therapy device |
TheraV |
Room 122 |
4:15 – 4:45 |
|
208
| Design of an adaptor system to make existing breast pumps reusable and prevent contamination |
Nemours |
Room 122 |
5:15 – 5:45 |
|
209
| Design of a safe feed alarm system to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |
Nemours |
Room 122 |
4:45 – 5:15 |
|
210
| Portable Impact Testing for Medical Device Packaging |
Terumo Medical Corporation |
Auditorium 128 |
3:45-4:15 |
|
211
| Catheter with variable bending and torsion capabilities |
Terumo Medical Corporation |
Auditorium 128 |
4:15 – 4:45 |
|
300
| UD Aero SAE |
UD Department of Mechanical Engineering – ASAE |
Pencader 103 |
4:00 – 5:30 |
|
400
| UD Formula SAE |
UD Department of Mechanical Engineering – FSAE |
Pencader 117 |
4:00 – 6:00 |
|
500
| UD DOE Collegiate Wind Competition (CWC) |
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation and UD Mechanical Engineering |
Pencader 103 |
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 15 separate student teams at the midpoint of their two-semester project, which involves the design, manufacture, and validation of an autonomous bottle fill station.
| Room | Time | Team | Team Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| Room 121 | 3:00-3:30 | Team 1 | Ryan Engel, Stuart Alexander, Bryan Tiamson, Gianni Saracino, Matt Schrock, Yae June Jang, Ryan Webb, Walden Conan Meredith, Chloe Kerwin, Connor Lammey |
| Room 121 | 3:30-400 | Team 2 | Jacob Prince, Jospeh C Harwell, Cole Shoter, Samuel Farca, Hanna Burrowes, Andrew Place, Bryant Lambert, Jessica Cohen, Ben Caro |
| Room 121 | 2:00-2:30 | Team 3 | Max Leary, Alex Wolff, Matthew Pham, Matthew Meredith, Tyler Meyer, Justin Sayers, Ryan McLaughlin, Adam Grim, Andrew Roth, Alex Abrams |
| Room 121 | 2:30-3:00 | Team 4 | Brandon Awosanya, Heirkhan Borjigin, Jake Ventresca, Jasmine Middaugh, Connor Ludwin, Matthew Ongtawco, Alexander Wilson, Nana Sarpong, Colin Homassel, Justin Orriols |
| Room 124 | 2:00-2:30 | Team 5 | Joshua Ford, Brendan M Conners, Samuel Bolan, Marcus Ceglinski, Charles Spence, Maxwell Demsky, Goodwin Cobb, Michael Kaehler, Diego Barrios |
| Room 124 | 2:30-3:00 | Team 6 | Brianna Martin, Sean Congema, Angel Casanova, Diana Villanueva, Kyle Wolf, Suneil Harzenski, Cameron Emmett, Sean O'Sullivan, Yajaira Vergara-Guzman |
| Room 124 | 3:00-3:30 | Team 7 | James Marsh, Ethan Hensinger, Matthew Treon, Yue Bao, Camera Aliff, Connor Jones, Ian Crabtree, Zachary Schiffman, Joshua Ginsberg |
| Room 123 | 3:00-3:30 | Team 8 | Kevin Graziose, Grace Hammond, Sierra Gloria, Sibyl Roosen, Samuel Beck, Ethan Porette, Andrew Smith, Robert Martin, Prasanna Krishnamoorthy, Noah Etienne |
| Room 123 | 3:30-4:00 | Team 9 | Tej S Patel, Jacob Meredith, Matthew Hansen, Donovan Haverly, Madison Johnson, Miguel Vasquez, Gwyneth Clarke, Kevin Wolynetz, Mikey Ainsworth, Jenna Taylor |
| Room 123 | 2:00-2:30 | Team 10 | Sara Dugan, Hannah Epstein, Michael Forte, Michael Graden, Ethan Kacmarcik, Garret Snyder, Marleen Toney, Ralph Wilkinson, Hunter Wolhar, Tommy Zheng |
| Room 123 | 2:30-3:00 | Team 11 | Matthew Abraham, Nick Bailey, Rafe Garcia-Hidalgo, David Kinney, Nicholas Miller, Sean Moore, Spencer Smith, Owen Stein, Dylan Taylor, John Welborn |
| Room 122 | 2:00-2:30 | Team 12 | Eman Rios, Alysa Hutton, Thomas Gordan, Joshua LaFrance, Edwin Torres, Matthew Lecates, Braden Cluett, Colleen Cavagnaro, Kenny Madden, Melanie Schuessler |
| Room 122 | 2:30-3:00 | Team 13 | Xavier Stephenson, Justin Clifton, Damon Dowdy, Harrison Williams, Bradley Fry, Michael Pugh, Matthew Cleary, Jack Arnuk, David Gelber, Anthony Jiang |
| Room 122 | 3:00-3:30 | Team 14 | Katia Hehn, Joseph Beck, Samantha Schultz, Gianna Patti, Zachary Mckennedy, William Gaither, Raymond Gusakov, Alexandra Pfeifer, Julieta Honrubia Andrino, Samuel Parker |
| Room 122 | 3:30-4:00 | Team 15 | Rory Kooker, Sophia Waxman, Evan Martin, Stuart Kotch, Tyler Devitt, Scott Otto, Brian Coyle, Maya Zagari, Corey Sookerman, Jessica Coto |
Special thanks to our local industry sponsors, Norwalt Design and Omega Design:
Industrial Design
Introduction to Industrial Design is a technical elective in the Mechanical Engineering department that focuses on user-centered design principles and mixed-methods iterative prototyping. For this first year of the course, UD Mechanical Engineering has partnered with Stanley Black & Decker to re-imagine real world products in their hand and power tools division.
Stanley Black & Decker is a Fortune 500 American manufacturer of industrial tools and household hardware based in Baltimore, Maryland. The company’s iconic and trusted brands are known for outstanding performance for end-users ranging from professional tradespersons to do-it-yourselfers. SBD-HTAS is responsible for brands including DeWalt, Black & Decker, Craftsman, Irwin, and many more.
Technical Presentations & Prototype Demonstrations – 2-4 pm – Clayton Hall Room 101A
| Room | Time | Design Challenge | Team # | Team Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101A | 2:00-2:10 | Welcome & Course Intro | All | |
| 101A | 2:10-2:20 | Tool Chest | 3 | Jacob Flenner, Logan McKinney, Caylin Payne |
| 101A | 2:20-2:30 | PEX Cutter | 9 | Chris Bond, Jordan Carton, Ryan Rudek |
| 101A | 2:30-2:40 | Knife Slider | 4 | Dominic Corona, Christina Genario, Mickayla Harris, Bethany Newton |
| 101A | 2:40-2:50 | Knife Slider | 7 | Daniel Drewnowski, Jason Kelsch, Trevor Seitel |
| 101A | 2:50-3:00 | Power Drill | 8 | Michael Hall, Mike Naab, Tyler Phommachanh, Harrison Silverston |
| 101A | 3:00-3:10 | Knife Slider | 6 | Claire Cho, Maredy Felipe-Lucas, Vea Hernandez, Cassidy McCormick |
| 101A | 3:10-3:20 | PEX Cutter | 5 | Sarah Bartlett, Sebastian Graper, Hollyann Tobon |
| 101A | 3:20-3:30 | Power Drill | 1 | Ben Hemrick, Lorrha Hitchner, TJ Kaifer |
| 101A | 3:30-3:40 | Knife Slider | 2 | Rocky Li, Evan McCleary, Gavin McMahon, Jordan Tatis |
| 101A | 3:40-4:00 | Prototype Gallery | All |
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 14th. To view all projects in this year’s Statics class, visit the online 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 including Brandywine High School, Concord High School, and Padua Academy.
Poster Presentation & Pitch Competition in the lobby area from 4-5 pm.
| High School | Project Title | Faculty | Team Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandywine High School | Low-cost Assistive Tech for home-use to combat learned helplessness and develop self-efficacy | Dr. Jud Wagner | Thomas Baer, Noah Fake, Arun Krishnamurthy, Anand John, Gabriel Pust |
| Brandywine High School | Highly intuitive photogate for concrete thinkers learning physics for the first time | Dr. Jud Wagner | Jake Valentine, Lucas Kroon, Victoria Poole, Matthew Andrews |
| Brandywine High School | Portable modular belt-mounted voice amplification system to reduce gym teacher vocal strain. | Dr. Jud Wagner | Drew Warrington |
| Concord High School | Adapted Seat for Cafeteria Benches | Dr. Jordan Estock | Nick Henry |
| Padua Academy | Free Standing Pill Dispenser | Mrs. Cheryl Szurkowski | Alexis Greenjack, Sophia Holgado, Taylor Kozink |
| Padua Academy | Adjustable Cupholder | Mrs. Cheryl Szurkowski | Elizabeth Drost, Paige Degnan, Audrey Bruening |
| Padua Academy | The Bag Claw | Mrs. Cheryl Szurkowski | Ella Aghajanian, Molly Bell, Madeline Goudy, Abby Moore |
| Padua Academy | Backseat Buddy Organizing Tray | Mrs. Cheryl Szurkowski | Grace Perry, Meredith Hill, Lauren Miller, Riley Robertson |
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
Agilent Technologies
Air Liquide
Applied Diamond
ASML
Avkin
Bloom Energy
CHL Systems
CNH Industrial
Datacolor
DowAksa
DuPont
Fujikura
Johnson & Johnson – Ethicon Inc
Keurig Dr Pepper
KVI Inc
Melissa & Doug LLC
Andrew Meyer
Nemours
Norwalt Design
Omega Design
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation
Precision Air Convey
Siemens Healthcare
Stanley Black & Decker
Terumo
TheraV
Under Armour
W.L.Gore
University of Cape Town, South Africa
University of Delaware
- College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
- Crossley Laboratory
- Ladman Laboratory
- Sparks Laboratory
- Dept. Athletics
- Dept. Biomedical Engineering: Elliott Laboratory
- Dept. Mechanical Engineering: Van Buren Laboratory
Faculty Advisors
Sonia Bansal, PhD
Jenni Buckley, PhD
David Burris, PhD
Alex De Rosa, PhD
Curtis Johnson, PhD
Julie Karand, PhD
Michael Keefe, PhD
Ashutosh Khandha, PhD
Ajay Prasad, PhD
Sarah Rooney, PhD
Mike Santare, 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 Ron Cantrell, Also the TAs in the Design Studio and Machine Shop
Administrative Support: Elaine Nelson, Amy Adams, Ann Connor, Allie Andrews, 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.