Fall 2018

  • Robb Larson, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  • David Miller, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

The modern engineering work environment requires planning and teamwork to ensure project success. Our capstone projects reflect this reality with heavy emphasis on teamwork and interdisciplinary efforts. A productive team capitalizes on the diverse strengths of its members to achieve a superior project result. Whether single-discipline or multi-disciplinary in makeup, each group is expected to complete all project work in a timely manner with full participation of all team mates. Project results and course grades depend on it!

Project # Student Group Members Project Description *Faculty Advisor
 1

 

Madsen (ECE)
Rodriquez (ECE)
Wilcox (ECE)
Geiszler
Roberts
*Ruediger
*Meyer

 

 *Continuing

NASA Robotic Mining Competition
The Robotic Mining Project will be administered as an ME/MET project this term: Students from ECE and MIE will attend ME/MET lectures and abide by ME/MET grading criteria

 Edens

 
Fishbain
Adamson
Blackwell
Stocker
Robb
Johnson
Baja SAE Larson 

 
Schwarz
Rye

 

RoboSub- AUVSI
The ROBOSUB-AUVSI Project will be administered as an ECE project this term: ME/MET and ECE Students will attend ECE lectures and abide by ECE grading criteria

ECE Capstone 1 meets in Reid 402, at 3:10 PM Tuesdays.

Becker (ECE)
4

 

*Alshaheen
*Powers
*Brandt
*Timmes
Thor
Mauney

*Continuing

Human Powered Vehicle

 Owkes

5  
Wills
Martin

 

 

Solar Car Competition 

Students will coordinate with Capstone 2 students from ME/MET, with ECE Capstone members, and with Solar car club.

  Shankwitz
6  
Smith, Jordan
Riviere
Devenport
Bess

Clean Snowmobile Challenge

 Larson
7  
Smith, Jacob
Winfrey 
Neal

NFPA Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge

 Fisher
8  
Gongora (ECE)
Leek (ECE)
Brady (ECE)
Bray
Lamb
Lesser
Pons

Energy Storage System

 Sofie
9  
Bezek
Beightel
Oliver

Microfluidic flow switching-unit

 Warnat
10  
Hoffman
Tabor
Casey
Cullings

Rocket motor classroom demonstrator

 Miller, Dan
11  
Desatoff
Weinant
Almuammar
6-DOF loader test frame     Miller, David
12  
Beachy
Fordyce
Rountree
Guitar Engineering 6  Jenkins
13  
Alkhaldi, T.
Bradeen
Lampson
Suspension Enclosures  Shankwitz
14  
Rea
Konecky
Wiggs
Mouse Bone Test Fixtures  Heveran
15  
Bradas
Maley
Steach
Alnajrani
Dual Filament Mixing Nozzle  Ryan
16  
Wallace
Nickelson
Al Dhawrah
ETME 311 Joining Lab Adhesive Bonding  Ryan

17

 
Leicht
North
Erdaem
Tanascu

Three-axis rotation support stand - LANL

Amin 

18

 
Holcomb
McKamey
Lakey
Baer
Deceleration Test - LANL  Jankauski
19  
Alexander, L.
Birch
Nikolaus
Albkoor
Universal Transport Container - LANL  Black
20  
Lorvick
Mercer
Boehm
WET Design  George 
21  
Fuller
Greenwood
Shields
Bihler binder clip   Cook
22  
Winkler
Schultz
Hanni
Wheelbarrow lifter   Monfort

23

 
Merchak
Howe
Callahan

Biofilm Reactor

The Biofilm Reactor Project will be administered as an ECE project this term: ME/MET and ECE Students will attend ECE lectures and abide by ECE grading criteria

ECE Capstone 1 meets in Reid 402, at 3:10 PM Tuesdays.

 Gao / ECE
24  
Lenss
Sanderson
Lange
Wilkins

Bearproof Composter

 Evertz
25  
Alston
Bennett
Harper
Radioactive Waste Compactor  Zignego 
26  
Stanley
Jansma
Hepp
Linnell
Tilting Cartop Carrier   Amende
27  
Maxey
Wight
Swenson
Bale Processer - BobCat/Doosan  Kinkaid, Jeff
28  
Linquist
Quandahl
Hitchcock
Bloom
TMR - Flyrod ferrule  Miller, David
29  
Noble
Lustig
Alkhaldi, S.
TV Ceiling Mount Amendola
30  
Tomac
Hunter
Havey
K2 Automated Ski Press  Sofie
31  
Dansereau
Buchanan
Ellermeyer 
Backpack Material Tester - WDS Kincaid, Robert 
32  
Campbell
Cox
Hodges
YNP Hot Spring Autosampler  June
33  
Gleason
Middelstadt
Sutherland

Balloon-based Random Number Generator 

The Baloon Random Number Generator Project will be administered as an ECE project this term: ME/MET and ECE Students will attend ECE lectures and abide by ECE grading criteria

ECE Capstone 1 meets in Reid 402, at 3:10 PM Tuesdays.

 Lameres

(ECE)

34  
Bowman
Harmon
Meurell
UAV Drone Competition Team 1  Cairns
35  
Murray
Morgan
Richtmyer
UAV Drone Competition Team  2  Cairns
36
Tofthagen
Carroll
Ryan
UAV Drone Competition Team 3  Cairns
37  
Wester
Odstrcil
Healy
Battlebot Arena Obstacles  Shankwitz
38  
Alexander, C.
Miller
Aldhahri
Holmlund
Battlebot Competition  Team 1 Charlton
39  
Torrico
Kranich
Gray, W.
Battlebot Competition  Team 2  Owkes
40  
Trugman
Raventhiran
Albert
Battlebot Competition  Team 3  Black
41
Gray, N.
Neff
Hardy

ASHRAE Competition 

To be administered as EMEC/ETME492 <Equivalent to Capstone>

 Amende

Some Project Selection Statistics

Total EMEC/ETME489 ME/MET Students 139
# Assigned to first choice selection  83 (59.7%) assigned to top choice
# Assigned to second choice  37 (26.6% ) => 86.3% assigned to top 2 choices
# Assigned to third  19 (13.7%) => 100% assigned to top 3 choices
Project with most #1 picks

NASA Mining  had 15  #1 picks

Baja had 12 #1 picks

Robosub, Composter, UAV Drone each  had 11 #1 picks

Project with most overall (top five) picks

Bearproof Composter had 43 top 5 picks, 4 selected

Drone Competition had 41 top 5 picks, 9 selected

Battlebots had 34 top 5 picks, 9 selected

Baja had had 31 top 5 picks, 6 selected

Tilting rooftop carrier had 26 top 5 picks, 4 selected

NASA Mining and HPV each had 23 top 5 picks, 2 continuing  + 2 added

Projects cancelled

EMEC445 Vibration Absorber, 0 top 5 picks

EMEC445 Three-mass Oscillator, 0 top 5 picks

Slot Car Dynomometer, 1 top 5 picks

Rodent Ground Force, 2 top 5 picks