NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) congratulates the teams that were presented with awards from the Engineering and Technology Alumni Society on Senior Design Day on Friday, May 6, 2022 at the NIU Convocation Center.
More than 1,300 visitors were present to see the showcase of the Senior Design program, which is a course for senior-level engineering and engineering technology students. The students form teams and embark on a capstone project that applies what they’ve learned throughout their education at NIU. The program provides a real-world learning experience that provides them with the chance to see how engineers operate in the workplace.
First place in the interdisciplinary teams was Team 46, whose project was titled “Feedback, Control, and Photo Elasticity Measurement System for Multiaxial Loading Devices.” Team and the members included Tony Bucaro, Ben Lynam, and Pablo Pozo.
Second place went to Team 7 members Matt Fisher, Vladimir Shynkarenka and Jared Smith for their project “Instrumented Maximum Voluntary Contraction System for Biomechanical Experiments Involving Electromyography Measurements.“
The third-place winners were Team 25, Levee Callahan, Cade Larson, and Tyler McCleery, for their project, “Design of a Sustainable Refrigeration System using Thermo-acoustics.”
The winning project in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department was sponsored by Americold. The project title was titled “Dock Optimization Project at Americold featuring ASRS and Conventional Frozen Food Storage.” The team members were Mitchell Jones and Garret McCann. The Engineering Technology team winners were Jeffrey Russell and Merritt Walker for their project, “Wearable Sensor Array.”
“The senior design program is a high point in our students’ education. They apply the knowledge they acquired in the classroom to bring together concepts, theories, and construct a prototype or process,” said Dean Donald Peterson, Ph.D. of NIU’s CEET. “It gives them the chance to hit the ground running on the job. Senior design projects are often viewed as a student’s first professional achievement,” he said.
The senior design program is made possible by clients and sponsors, who present student teams with challenges faced by their organizations. CEET is currently seeking projects for the 2022-2023 academic year. For more information about the senior design program and how to present a senior design project, visit go.niu.edu/SeniorDesignDay.
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