All mechanical and materials engineering students are required to complete a capstone project in their senior year. Below you will find a list of past capstone projects from our engineering students.
2023 Fall Semester Projects
- Rapid Solidification Machine (PDF)
Team Members: Anthony Carver, Jesse Potts, Landon Tuck, Courtney Wuilleumier
- Design and Development of an Extrusion-Based 2.5D/3D Printer for Electronic Packaging (PDF)
Team Members: Alex Adams, Dylan Hall, Jacob Harrison, Jeet Patel
- Development of a Grease Lubrication Mechanism for a Two-Disk Contact Set-Up (PDF)
Team Members: Devin Blankenship, Braden Russell, Kevin Kemp, Austin Sherwood, Alex Plas
- Green Automated Aquaponics System (PDF)
Team Members: Intissar Elhani, Alan Whiting, Kevin Grubb, Evan Gehret
- CFD Modeling of Formula 600 Race Car (PDF)
Team Members: Sean Barber, Ethan Cornell, Bailey Hoelscher, Tamal Kambarov, Viswanathan Ramesh
- Low Head Ocean Energy Storage (PDF)
Team Members: Adam Hume, Cameron Floyd, Carson Estep, Dustin Leonard, Samuel Boys
2023 Spring Semester Projects
- Convertible Home Gym Apparatus (PDF)
Team Members: Connor Schock, Noah Bledsoe, Jackson Nix
- Battlefield Model Design (PDF)
Team Members: Hameed Juma, Jeff Denton, Lemuel Duncan, Zach Baker
- Metal Air Batteries for EVs and Electronic Devices (PDF)
Team Members: Alexis Burt, Logan Nielsen, Ian Thompson
- Wave Power Conversion (PDF)
Team Members: Luke Banks, Bryce Ullman, Emma Vuckovich
- SAE Baja Collegiate Design Series (PDF)
Team Members: Clay Minor, Logan Rowland, Elliot Wiggins, Julia Sentman, Dominic Manns, Stephanie Gangl
- Hybrid UAV Power System (PDF)
Team Members: Lucas Duncan, Riley Hall, Abigail Kerestes, James Schmitz
- Optimization of Joining Methods for Generator Converter Chassis (PDF)
Team Members: Tyriek Craigs, Seth Perkins, Robert Hall, Jacob Evans
- Optimization of Temperature Gradient in Magnetic Inductors (PDF)
Team Members: Kyle Schroder, Alan Hingsbergen, Blake Martin, Jordan Stanley
- Optimized Wire Coiler for GE Aviation (PDF)
Team Members: Connor Allen, Bradley Jones, Alex Strack, Kaitlin Willi
- Solar Splash Electric Boat Competition (PDF)
Team Members: Brice Prigge, Bryar Powell, Chase Mansell, Evan Hannon
- Ultralight Copper Current Collectors for Flexible Batteries (PDF)
Team Members: Connor Wyckoff, Branen Bussey, Dryana Russell, Mashuj Alshammari
2022 Fall Semester Projects
- Modular Vibration Testing Kit for Vibrations Lab Course (PDF)
Team Members: Michael Ahlers, Seth Madison Tyler Motzko
- Design of Complex Fluid Electrical Conductivity Cell (PDF)
Team Members: Bradley Cripe, Garrett Gniazdowski, Gaspard Matondo, Scott Osborne
- Structural Optimization of Quadcopter Landing Gear (PDF)
Team Members: Taha Etekbali, Jilian Sollars, Katrina Knight
- Convertible Home Gym (PDF)
Team Members: Max Carnevale, Randa Richards, Kevin Hall, Michael Orengo
- IDC Spring Crimping Tool (PDF)
Team Members: Aleni Burcham, Samuel Sowers, Alexander Smith, and Luke Lieghley
- Ocean Wave Energy Generation (PDF)
Team Members: Cameron Slater, Ben Ferree, Daniel Ploss, Austin Shurlow
Past Capstone Projects
- Micro Turbine Engine Design Competition
- Additive Manufacturing Process Design
- SAE Baja Competition
- Fluid Viscosity Measurement
- Folding UAV
- Wheel Life Prediction
- Dual-Plane Airfoil
- Resonance Wave Power
- Autonomous Aerial Remote-Sensing Drone
- Serial Grinder and Imaging System to Create 3-D Images of Vertebrate Rich Sedimentary Rock Cores
- Customizable and Low-Cost Water Quality Monitoring Platform for Grand Lake St. Marys
- Robotic Football Competition
- Wood Materials Project
- Robotic Football Competition
- Self-Learning Targeting System
- Convertible Home Gym
- Additive Manufacturing Welding
- Programming & Optimization
- Characterizing the Performance of a UAV for a Future Hybrid Powertrain
- Configurable Bike
- Mechanical Tester for Printed Electronics
- Porous Testing Medium
- SAE Aero Design Competition
- Solar Splash Design Competition