Celebrating Spring 2023 Senior Design Showcase

This project will help me in my career both in terms soft and technical skills. I learned a lot about project management and owning a real world design project though this experience. It was important to be flexible through the entire course of the project because real world problems are tricky to solve and often change as you work on them. In the beginning of the project ideas for the test facility shifted quite a bit before they became stagnant making flexibility key. I grew a lot in my knowledge of thermal radiation, heat transfer, and computational modeling and hope to utilize this knowledge in my career.

-Team leader Payton Bartow

We sincerely enjoyed our senior project and are all proud of the accomplishments we were able to achieve over the year. The project challenged us while still being within our capabilities as beginning engineers. It means a great deal to us that our project will likely be used to benefit oceanography.

–Team response

The Collegiate Wind Competition created by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) aims to prepare students from multiple disciplines to enter the wind energy workforce by providing real-world experience for researchers, scientists, engineers, educators, project managers, and businesses and sales forces.

This was a unique project as it was a cross-disciplinary and cross-class-standing project. Kenzie and I are juniors (now rising seniors), in biomedical engineering on the biomechanics track, while the rest of our group consisted of mechanical engineering seniors. Kenzie and I have decided to continue this project for our BME senior design capstone project. The ability to print vertically at the end of this semester instilled greater confidence that through more design and testing we may be able to print a full-scale wrist orthotic. 

–Team member Julia Mastej