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

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, and click here for map of Clayton Hall conference rooms.

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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 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 101B 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 125 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

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.

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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

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.

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.

Training model for a minimally invasive procedure for the left heart pathology

Team: 101

Sponsor: Abbott

Time: 3:00-3:30

Auditorium 128

Improved Slurry Addition Device

Team: 102

Sponsor: Agilent Technologies

Time: 2:00-2:30

Room 101B

Hydrogen refueling station safety improvements

Team: 103

Sponsor: Air Liquide

Time: 5:15-5:45

Room 124

Optimization of aircraft engine cowling

Team: 104

Sponsor: Andrew Meyer (Engineer, Northrop Grumman)

Time: 2:00 – 2:30

Room 125

EDM Fatigue Testing Machine

Team: 105

Sponsor: ASML

Time: 2:00-2:30

Room 119

Wearable Postpartum Hemorrhage Healthcare Simulator

Team: 106

Sponsor: Avkin

Time: 4:15-4:45

Room 101A

Water System Calibration Process Improvement

Team: 107

Sponsor: Bloom Energy

Time: 3:45 – 4:15

Room 125

Dielectric Leak Tester Project

Team: 108

Sponsor: Bloom Energy

Time: 4:15 – 4:45

Room 123

Sonic Vibration System for Molded Chocolate

Team: 109

Sponsor: CHL Systems

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Room 123

Combine feeder crop sample door

Team: 110

Sponsor: CNH

Time: 3:30 – 4:00

Room 124

Mechanism to Control Placement of a Color Measuring Instrument on a Sample

Team: 111

Sponsor: Datacolor

Time: 2:30 – 3:00

Room 101B

Thickness Uniformity Measurement Set-up for CVD Diamond Wafers

Team: 112

Sponsor: Applied Diamond Inc

Time: 2:30 – 3:00

Room 119

Design and Fabrication of Drone Bodies & Propellers

Team: 113

Sponsor: DowAksa

Time: 4:15 – 4:45

Room 125

Multi-Station Creep Testing Equipment

Team: 114

Sponsor: DuPont

Time: 4:15 – 4:45

Room 121

Golf Ball-Club Impact Replicator

Team: 115

Sponsor: Fujikura

Time: 3:00 – 3:30

Room 101B

Improved Suture Diameter Measurement Fixture

Team: 116

Sponsor: J&J – Ethicon Inc

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Room 121

Robotic Joint Characterization for Next Gen Surgical Robot

Team: 117

Sponsor: J&J – Ethicon Inc

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Room 124

Automated Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) measurement system

Team: 118

Sponsor: Keurig Dr Pepper

Time: 5:15 – 5:45

Room 123

EDM Autofill Attachment

Team: 119

Sponsor: KVI

Time: 3:45 – 4:15

Room 101B

Play Center Redesign

Team: 120

Sponsor: Melissa & Doug Toys

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Room 101A

Filler and Capper for Cirkul

Team: 121

Sponsor: Norwalt Design

Time: 2:30 – 3:00

Room 125

TrimPAC EZ Static Elimination

Team: 122

Sponsor: Precision Air Convey

Time: 3:00 – 3:30

Room 119

Bulk System Fluids Bottle Stopper/Crimp Assembly Automation

Team: 123

Sponsor: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

Time: 4:15 – 4:45

Room 101B

Liquid Waste Vacuum Separator

Team: 124

Sponsor: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

Time: 3:00 – 3:30

Room 125

Plier Mechanical Advantage and Cut Force Tester

Team: 125

Sponsor: Stanley Black & Decker

Time: 4:15 – 4:45

Room 124

Build-a-Clamp

Team: 126

Sponsor: Stanley Black & Decker

Time: 5:15-5:45

Room 121

High performance quiet dustbuster hand vacuum

Team: 127

Sponsor: Stanley Black & Decker

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Room 125

Mechanical separation of darkling beetles from poultry litter prior to field application

Team: 128

Sponsor: UD Agricultural Entomology Lab

Time: 4:15 – 4:45

Room 120

Redesign of a training device to ensure humane euthanasia for avian species

Team: 129

Sponsor: UD Agriculture: Dr. Brian Ladman

Time: 2:00 – 2:30

Auditorium 128

Soil Surface Displacement Sensors

Team: 130

Sponsor: UD Plant & Soil Sciences: Sparks Lab

Time: 2:30 – 3:00

Auditorium 128

Smart Skins

Team: 131

Sponsor: Under Armour

Time: 5:15 – 5:45

Room 101A

Scrape Abrasion Testing on Insulated Wiring

Team: 132

Sponsor: W.L. Gore

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Room 101B

NASA turbulent flow experiment for the International Space Station

Team: 133

Sponsor: UD Mechanical Engineering: Dr. Tyler Van Buren

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Auditorium 128

Development and optimization of a low cost motion capture system to analyze joint kinematics during martial arts

Team: 201

Sponsor: Nemours

Time: 2:00 – 2:30

Room 120

Design of an adaptable device to help bicycle steering with one hand for children with congenital below-elbow amputation

Team: 202

Sponsor: Nemours

Time: 2:30 – 3:00

Room 120

Design of a mechanical device to assist patients suffering from respiratory problems

Team: 203

Sponsor: University of Cape Town: Sivarasu Lab

Time: 3:45 – 4:15

Room 119

Frugal Emergency Oxygen Can

Team: 204

Sponsor: Air Liquide

Time: 4:15 – 4:45

Room 119

External Knee Loading Platform

Team: 205

Sponsor: UD Biomedical Engineering: Axel Moore

Time: 3:00 – 3:30

Room 120

Design and development of athletic protective equipment to prevent hand fractures

Team: 206

Sponsor: UD Athletics & Recreation/Athletic Training

Time: 3:45 – 4:15

Room 120

Design and optimization of a post-amputation therapy device

Team: 207

Sponsor: TheraV

Time: 4:15 – 4:45

Room 122

Design of an adaptor system to make existing breast pumps reusable and prevent contamination

Team: 208

Sponsor: Nemours

Time: 5:15 – 5:45

Room 122

Design of a safe feed alarm system to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Team: 209

Sponsor: Nemours

Time: 4:45 – 5:15

Room 122

Portable Impact Testing for Medical Device Packaging

Team: 210

Sponsor: Terumo Medical Corporation

Time: 3:45-4:15

Auditorium 128

Catheter with variable bending and torsion capabilities

Team: 211

Sponsor: Terumo Medical Corporation

Time: 4:15 – 4:45

Auditorium 128

UD Aero SAE

Team: 300

Sponsor: UD Department of Mechanical Engineering – ASAE

Time: 4:00 – 5:30

Pencader 103

UD Formula SAE

Team: 400

Sponsor: UD Department of Mechanical Engineering – FSAE

Time: 4:00 – 6:00

Pencader 117

UD DOE Collegiate Wind Competition (CWC)

Team: 500

Sponsor: UD Department of Mechanical Engineering – CWC

Time: 3:00 – 4:00

Pencader 103

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

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.