The Interdisciplinary Senior Design Final Design Reviews will be held virtually on Wednesday, April 22 from 5:00 to 6:15 p.m. Our students are eager to share short briefings with you on the work of the past 8 months. We’ll be using a web conferencing system, Zoom, to host the reviews live. Zoom will allow you to join from a desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. There is no cost to use the Zoom application.

The teams will be divided in 3 virtual rooms, 3 teams per room. The audience is invited to join any meeting room for the duration of the event, or leave one meeting and join another. We’ll keep the presentation start times on schedule. We will also be recording the presentations and will be able to make them available for review upon request. The audience can ask questions live or post questions in a chat.

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Projects

1. Aircraft Window Innovation (Bell Textron)
   Team: Lean Aviation, Coach: Madhu Madhukar (MABE)
   Streamline the manufacturing process for large rotorcraft window panels. Maintain dimensional, aerodynamic, structural and optical characteristics for polymer windows while reducing handling and manufacturing costs.
2. Technology Incorporation for Window Line Productivity Improvement/Cost Reduction (Clayton Supply)
   Team: Agile Automation, Coach: Floyd Ostrowski (ISE)
   Review the time studies conducted by the 2018 ISE senior design team to determine process bottlenecks and develop technology to reduce these bottlenecks, resulting in improved throughput. Conduct additional analyses to determine where technology can reduce production line headcount requirements. Each phase of technology must conform to a specified return on investment criteria.
3. Active Bridge Clearance System (Clayton Supply)
   Team: Watch Your Head, Coach: Hairong Qi (EECS)
   Develop a system that will alert the driver of the pilot vehicle and the truck hauling the manufactured home of upcoming overhead clearance issues. Design a system that tracks pilot car mileage and verifies that the vehicle is trailered on the return trip.
4. Soft Product Shipping Innovation (DeRoyal Industries)
   Team: OptiMed, Coach: Floyd Ostrowski (ISE)
   Reduce transportation costs for bulky, lightweight medical products. Establish a baseline of current freight, material handling, and storage costs and develop financial models for re-engineered packaging processes.
5. Early Bronco Electric Vehicle Thermal Management Subsystem Design (Krawlers Edge)
   Team: EcoTrek, Coach: Bill Miller (MABE) & D. Aaron (MABE)
   Design, build and test electric vehicle subsystems for a custom early Ford Bronco. Address heat rejection by the motor, batteries and controller; routing of electrical and cooling to the battery boxes; standardized battery box electrical and cooling interfaces; battery box health monitoring; and transfer case to torque box adapter plate. Study the electric vehicle 4×4 market and develop a roadmap to ramp up to production scale to meet market demand.
6. Metal Additive Manufacturing Equipment Selection & Cell Design (Oak Ridge Tool-Engineering)
   Team: ProCo, Coach: Matthew Young (MABE)
   Survey the available and emerging metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies for largescale component fabrication. Design an AM cell and determine floorspace, manpower, ancillary equipment, and training requirements. Provide a business model for evaluating and adopting AM systems.
7. Vision System Innovation for Construction Site Safety (Trimble, Inc.)
   Team: O.W.L., Coach: Amir Sadovnik (EECS)
   Extend the capabilities of a construction site safety system to identify workers without proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and alert supervision, and improve accuracy of locating workers on the site.
8. Shielded Transfer Tank Disposition (UCOR)
   Team: Nuclear Waste Solutions, Coach: Sankar Raghavan (CBE) and Laurence Miller (NE)
   Design the work plan to remediate shielded storage tanks for disposal at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site (NNSS). Develop the strategy to gain access to the interior cavity of the tanks for venting, characterization, and any necessary interior waste removal. In parallel, develop the strategy for DOT compliant shipment to NNSS.
9. Myoelectric Hand/Wrist (UT & Choice Medical)
   Team: Perpetual Prosthetics, Coach: Chad Duty (MABE)
   Develop a 3D-printed, cost-effective, bionic prosthetic for below-the-elbow amputees. Evaluate the market and the business model for large scale deployment.

Download the project posters. Download all posters in a .zip file.