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MechE Seniors Push Design Limits Annual Expo Spotlights Student Innovation


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he recent MechE Design Expo provided an opportunity to highlight the innovative product ideas of 37 seniors enrolled in the Capstone Design course.


Taught by Assistant Professor Burak Kara, this class challenges students to select a commercial product, study its potential for design innovation, and use their engineering skills to improve it. The culmination of this project-based course is the annual MechE Design Expo, where these hard-working seniors demonstrate how their new designs take product performance to the next level. The innovations displayed this year included removable golf spikes for athletic shoes, window shades with insulating properties, a next-generation workspace, a collapsible bike helmet, and an ice cream topping dispenser. The Department of Mechanical Engineering congratulates these promising seniors on their “out of the box” thinking—and we look forward to seeing what they will accomplish after graduation!•


The award for “Best Final Prototype” went to (left to right) Edward Burns, Justin Perry, Steven Oetjen, Sean Lubner, and Joshua Eickmeier for their project “Improved Crutch Design.”


Colin O’Shea, Lauren Cuan, Kyle Gee, Christopher Defrancesco, and Tema Yaravitz (left to right) won the “Most Innovative Design” award for their project “Roll-Up Laptop Accessory.”


Shown left to right are Philip Manor, Alice Mayfield, Patrick Dougherty, and Joseph Seymour, who received the award for “Most Potential for Market Success” for their project “Pringles Can Redesign.” Not pictured is team member Ray Barsa.


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