CEC Senior Design Expo

By Miami University

May 11^th, 2022

Miami University's College of Engineering and Computing celebrated the hard work of its students during the 2022 Senior Design Expo at the end of spring semester.

Each year, students demonstrate their projects for visitors and grades, but also, just maybe, for a top-place finish in the design competition.

Why not create a sensor to help bowlers with their game? The student team of Zach Reichman, Hudson Dennis, Bridget Daniel, Bri Randall, and Cam Robinson, thought it would be helpful in training.

Electric race cars are in the future according to these senior designers. They are outfitting the RedHawk race car with a full data package for the drivetrain, which includes a motor, controller, accumulator, and a battery management system.

Students have their own ideas on how to create self-driving vehicles. This one is designed for sidewalks! Look out!

Two students crouch down to work on a mini self-driving car

The student points to the wiring inside a compartment in the mini car

Close-up view of the wiring control panel inside the mini car

Stability is the goal of this idea for a tricycle design, below. Caroline Bartels, Kirsten Benedict, Paxton Erickson, and Sarah Herbruck wanted to make riding fun and accessible for everyone.

Two students inspect the front tires of their tri-cycle design

Close-up of the front two wheels of the tri-cycle vehicle

Four students and a model plane that can take off and land vertically

A student points to a mold base production prototype design

In the Engineering building hallway, a student explains a manufacturing model device

A student sits in the electric race car while another student takes a cell phone photo

Students watch Swoop Dogg, the robotic dog, walk down the hallway of the Engineering building

Two robotic "arms" are poised to pick up several items placed by a student

Several students watch another student who is outfitted with VR goggles

Students from all departments within the College of Engineering and Computing shared their design projects.

Winning the award for the best representation of a socially engaged engineering and computing (SEEC) project was the UV-LED Photocatalytic Devise for Fuel Vapor Emission Control. Team members are Julia Kocher, Kylie Saxton, Jack Bain, John Nguyen, Lauryn Simenson, and Alex Danciutiu.

Students, faculty and visitors talk and examine design display booths and posters in the lobby of the engineering building

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Photos & Video by Scott Kissell, University Communications and Marketing. Text by Carole Johnson, director of marketing and communications, College of Engineering and Computing

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Photos & Video by Scott Kissell, University Communications and Marketing. Text by Carole Johnson, director of marketing and communications, College of Engineering and Computing