Senior Design in the Washkewicz College of Engineering is our students’ capstone design experience. Student teams utilize their combined learning, experience, and ingenuity to solve challenging real-world design projects. For more information on how to get involved as a project sponsor, please email Dr. Michael Adams, Director of Senior Design, at m.l.adams43@csuohio.edu.
The winners of our annual Senior Design Symposium and Poster Competition are shown below. As you can see, our seniors continue to amaze us with their abilities and innovation!
2021 Senior Design Winners
1st Place: Non-Invasive Ventilator Mask Fitting Feedback System
Team Members: Dylan Doyle, Jordan Lidenberger, Tyler Holdsworth, Michael Shakkour
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lili Dong
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Industry Sponsor: Akron Children's Hospital
To see the vehicle in action, please see the video below!
2nd Place: Mind Controlled Prosthetic Hand
Team Members: Timothy Land, Adam Cook, Kareem Ghanem Fredrick Kelemen
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wenbing Zhao
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
To learn more about this project, please view the team’s informational video below:
3rd Place: Design of a Naphtha Refinery
Team Members: Sumaiya Ahmed, Jacob Martin, Jacob Vitale
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Chelsea Monty Bromer
Department: Chemical Engineering
Industry Sponsor: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
To learn more about this project, please view the team's informational video below:
4th Place: IEC 61850 Portable Digital Substation Training Laboratory
Team Members: Harpreet Kaur, Mehedi Hasan, Russel Laganzon, Tariq Aldhafyan, Mahdy Alhasan
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allen Morinec
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Industry Sponsor: FirstEnergy and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
To learn more about this project, please view the team's informational video below
2020 Senior Design Winners
1st Place: NFPA Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge
Team Members: Jacob Landry, Ellen Rea, Angela Rodriguez, Sarah Smith, Naik Yusufi
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Bogdon Kozul
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Industry Sponsor: National Fluid Power Association (NFPA)
To see the full size poster, click the picture of the poster.
To see the vehicle in action, please see the video below!
Second Place: Sustainable Production of Ammonia
Team Members: Ana DiLillo, Brian Chaya, Jamil Jamal
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marvin Thrash
Department: Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
To learn more about this project, please view the team’s informational video below:
Third Place: 3D Asteroid Viewer
Team Members: Cassidy Reaser, Roman Kadoutchek, Gagan Dahal, Nate Ullman
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wenbing Zhao
Department: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Industry Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
To learn more about this project, please view the team's informational video below:
Honorable Mention: O-Ring Insertion
Team Members: Vyatseslav Lozitsky, Justin Lepowski, Nolan Park
Faculty Advisor: Michael Gallagher
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Industry Sponsor: Swagelok
2019 Senior Design Symposium
The 2019 Senior Design Symposium and Awards Dinner of the Washkewicz College of Engineering took place on Friday, May 3, 2019 in the Student Center. Senior students had the chance to display their projects in a poster session, which was followed by the awards dinner with a keynote speech by Patricia Babington, Vice President of Engineering Services, Operations and Engineering Services at Rockwell Automation.
The awards ceremony included the recognition of this year’s University Valedictorian, Jen Wisniewski, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Salutatorian, Kayli Senedak, from the Department of Civil Engineering.
Symposium Photos
To view and order photos rom the event click here. Use the following 4-digit PIN to download photos: Download PIN 4014.
Following are the winners of the poster competition:
1st Place National Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge
Team Members: Jason Downie, Markus Kotze, Sean Mulvin, Patrick McDonough, Matt Sokolich, Jen Wisniewski
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Majid Rashidi and Bogdan Kozul
Sponsor and Supervisor: Stephanie Scaccianoce, National Fluid Power Association
Department: Mechanical Engineering
2nd Place Semi-Automated Nursing Simulation with Mixed Reality Technology
Team Members: Parth Kanzaria, Lead, Eric Bobel, Keisi Kotobelli, Isaiah Traben
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wenbing Zhao
Sponsor: Cleveland State University
Department: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
3rd Place Monoclonal Antibodies
Team Members: Mohammed Kalil, Farid Khoury, Nandini Padaraju, Fjorela Xhyliu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marvin Thrash
Sponsor: Cleveland State University, AIChE
Department: Chemcial and Biomedical Engineering
History
The Senior Design Capstone Course (Senior Design) is the culmination of students’ engineering education at Cleveland State University’s Washkewicz College of Engineering. The two-semester (Fall, Spring) long course gives students’ the opportunity to incorporate engineering principles learned throughout their academic careers into one final project.
Students, with the guidance of a faculty advisor and company liaison, work in teams of 3-4 to develop solutions to a wide variety of engineering problems. The majority of the projects are real-world problems provided by corporate sponsors. Student teams are required to develop a comprehensive project plan with a problem description, design alternatives, budget, equipment requirements, time schedule, final design, and in most cases, a prototype. Each student is expected to spend up to 200 hours working on the project (up to 1,000 person-hours per team), corresponding to a five credit hour course.
The course concludes with each team making a final presentation to a panel of faculty and industry representatives, and the top three Senior Design teams are awarded cash prizes at our Senior Design Symposium and Awards Dinner.