Students Win $7,000 in Cash Awards During Engineering Design Day
This security robot was built by the Intel Robotics Team I, which won the $750 Raytheon Best Engineering Analysis Award during Engineering Design Day.
Student engineers won at total of $7,000 in eight award categories during the 2008 edition of Engineering Design Day at The University of Arizona.
Engineering Design Day is an annual event on the UA campus in which senior design teams display the projects they have been designing and building for the past two semesters. Nearly all engineering students work on a team-based project during their senior year as a requirement for graduation. Industry sponsors or faculty researchers usually fund the projects.
While giving students experience with a real-world design project that involves budgets and deadlines, the projects also benefit sponsors by providing them with custom-designed engineering solutions and valuable experimental data.
This year's Engineering Design Day included 55 projects that were judged by nearly 60 practicing engineers.
The winners included:
Lockheed Martin Best Overall Design Award ($1,000)
Mouse Optics-Based Position Measurement Display System
This project adapted technology from an optical computer mouse to track the position of a microscope stage. It also makes measurements within the microscope's field of view. These functions are combined with a graphical user interface that allows images to be saved with their stage positions.
Class: ENGR 498 (Interdisciplinary Design)
Project Sponsor: Siskiyou Corp.
Award Sponsor: Lockheed Martin
Team members: David Piorkowski, Kohong Chen, Abraham Fijal, Byron Cocilovo and Joshua Wiersma.
Ventana Innovation in Engineering Award ($1,000)
Design of a Patient-Specific Endovascular Graft
This project combined Computer Aided Design with 3-D printing technologies to produce a patient-specific endovascular graft that can be used to divert blood away from an aortic aneurysm. The patient-specific device was designed in response to theories that failure is less likely if a graft conforms to the patient's individual aortic geometry.
Class: AME 412 (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering)
Project Sponsor: Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory Award
Sponsor: Ventana Medical Systems
Team members: Jesse Hibbs, Kurt Meister, Clayton Koevary, Jennifer Watson, Megan Alexander and Winston Yu.
BAE Best Overall Software Award ($750)
Intel Robotics – Team 1
This student team built a robot to compete in the Arizona Robotics Challenge 2008, which was hosted by Intel Corp. The self-guided security robot is designed for households. It can map an unknown floor plan, avoid obstacles and detect intruders.
Class: ECE 498 (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Project Sponsor: Intel Corp.
Award Sponsor: BAE Systems
Team members: Joseph Joyce, Thanh Ho, Michael Anderson, Tony Leung and John Stockbauer
Raytheon Best Engineering Analysis Award ($750)
Low-Cost Solar Concentrator for Renewable Energy System
This team built a device that tracks the sun and concentrates sunlight. It is built around a 16-foot-diameter satellite dish and provides solar power to a Stirling engine, which will produce electricity by spinning a generator. The system is large enough to power a small building or several homes, and would be particularly useful in developing countries.
Class: ENGR 498 (Multidisciplinary Design)
Project Sponsor: SunRISE Solar Engineering, LLC
Award Sponsor: Raytheon
Team members: Joseph Pursley, Scott Lilley, Andrea Gains-Germain and Eric Vonder Reith
Technical Documentation Consultants of Arizona Best Technical Documentation Award ($750)
Missile Dome Protection System
Students designed a device that protects an infrared missile's exposed glass lens, which is part of the targeting system. The device protects the seeker lens from damage, allows the lens to be tested, and can be removed after the missile is fired.
Class: ENGR 498 (Multidisciplinary Design)
Project Sponsor: Raytheon Missile Systems
Award Sponsor: Technical Documentation Consultants of Arizona
Team members: Dan Foley, Anita Sobey, Brandon Carter, Jesus Cienfuegos, Jr., J. Michelle Matheson and Jason Boyd.
Texas Instruments Best Presentation Award ($750)
A Portable Biosensing Device for the Detection of Escherichia Coli in Water
This student team designed a device that can monitor food for bacterial contamination on farms or at processing facilities. The portable, hand-held biosensing instrument is easy to use and quickly displays results on an LCD screen.
Class: ABE 498 (Agricultural and Biosysems Engineering)
Project Sponsor: None
Award Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Team members: Emma Setterington, David You, and Austin Folley
Honeywell Team Leadership Awards ($250 each)
Aaron Coelho and Nicholas Loukas
This award recognizes students who exhibit outstanding teamwork skills. Aaron Coelho is part of the Ventana Symphony Vertical Drive Mechanical Redesign Team and Nicholas Loukas is a member of the Ozone Monitoring Group.
Award Sponsor: Honeywell
Texas Instruments Analog Design Award ($1,500)
Self-Adjusting Air Pressure Monitor for Car
The Tire Pressure Management System allows drivers to select the air pressure level for a vehicle's tires. The system automatically adjusts the tires to the desired pressure and maintains that pressure. The system also notifies the driver when a tire is leaking or has gone flat.
Class: ECE 498 (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Project Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Award Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Team members: Rodney Hall, Aaron Thurber, Christopher Pentland, Michael Snedeker and Jennifer Drain.
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- Contact Info
Martha W. Ostheimer
520-621-9921
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