G01 (ECE): Team X Karting

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Jason Toberman (jtoberma@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Team X Karting puts onboard computer equipment on go karts to allow multiplayer videogame gameplay.

G02 (PMP): Designing a digital solution to track payments to smallholder farmers in Africa

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Alvaro Maria Cabrera (cabrer17@purdue.edu)
Srabana Chaudhuri (chaudhu6@purdue.edu)
Asher John Sathya (asathya@purdue.edu)

Project Description

This was a consulting project for an early stage social business that helps subsistence farmers and small scale traders reduce post-harvest losses and increase their income.  Bayer Foundation and Purdue University were the other stakeholders.   Context:  The crop sale in this value chain was done by the traders at least after 6 months of harvest at which time a portion of the profits are paid back to the farmer. But the time gap led to significant issues for business in terms of  tracking the farmers to create the payments, as well as to verify the farmers’ identities.  Issue and Solution: Tracing the farmers was a challenge since they have bare minimum exposure to technology and/or they often lose or change their phone numbers. Hence the key issue in this project for us to solve was to overcome barriers to payment authorization and tracking, which we ultimately did through a combination of a mobile application integrated with easy-to-use physical identity cards. We recommended this solution since it was robust, required minimum training for the users and easy to implement using our designed prototype.

G03 (PMP): Eco Fridge

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Vivek Arora (arora126@purdue.edu)
Yu-Chieh Chen (chen3829@purdue.edu)
Rohit Mahankali (rmahanka@purdue.edu)
Abhilash Mondrathi (amondrat@purdue.edu)
Xiaochun Yue (yue44@purdue.edu)

Project Description

We would make a prototype for a portable solar powered fridge, which needs no electricity or chemical refrigerant . It can be made from common available materials like metal,  cardboard, sand etc. The temperature can be maintained inside the fridge up to 43Degree F and be useful for vaccines and food.

G04 (IE): Spare parts Consolidation

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Luisa Cao (lciro@purdue.edu)
Rucha Mahendrakumar Parikh (parikh65@purdue.edu)
Nicholas Samuel Rosenor (nrosenor@purdue.edu)
Vishuwaesh Srinivasabalaji (srini130@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Logotipo de Tesla Reliability Project InternReliability Project Intern Tesla · Contrato de prácticasTesla · Contrato de prácticas sept. 2021 - actualidad · 8 mesessept. 2021 - actualidad · 8 meses United StatesUnited States • Analyzed of active and inactive inventories to improve inventory precision.  • Developed a logic for an algorithm to address the SKU Rationalization problem for over 50,000 maintenance spare parts by creating a search engine for spare parts. • Worked with material planners and other stakeholders to critically assess difficult-to-understand items and classify them into a standard nomenclature. • Analyzed and standardized data in order to build and implement a cost-cutting strategy. Identified and grouped SKUs.

U66: KaaroHealth

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Aditi Verma (verma124@purdue.edu)

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We as a team working in collaboration with Purdue Bayer team to resolve issue at Uganda for installing container clinic at the remote location of Buvama Island. There are challenges associated with the island and setting up clinic there.

U01 (ME): Cargo Assisting Robot

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Nathan Droessler (nadroessler@icloud.com)
Wendy Kim (kim2841@purdue.edu)
Danny Miller (mill2201@purdue.edu)
Sam Schiavitti (sschiavi@purdue.edu)
Reece Staples (rstaples@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Our device is a remote controlled robot with a track and wheel system that allows it travel up and down stairs. It has a compartment to carry varying items with a load of up to 50bs. It aids people with moving items, such as groceries, from location to another, including along stairs.

U02 (ME): Cryogen Flow Boiling Testing Apparatus

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Collin Feustel (cfeustel@purdue.edu)
Dylan Foster (foste166@purdue.edu)
Scott Hodson (hodson3@purdue.edu)
Joel Kong (kong68@purdue.edu)
Andrew Showalter (adshowal@purdue.edu)

Project Description

This project is focused on the design, modeling, analysis, and fabrication of a testing apparatus to support a cryogen flow boiling experiment. The test apparatus is required to support the mounting of a cryogenic test section and be capable of changing angular position in 45 degree increments.

U03 (BME): Pressure Sensing Prosthetic Socket

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Dana Boucher (dbouche@purdue.edu)
Caroline Chesler (cchesler@purdue.edu)
Shiv Patel (patel919@purdue.edu)
Alec Ramos (ramos47@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Our aim was to develop a prosthetic socket that has a network of pressure sensors integrated within it. The novelty is that the circuit and socket are 3D printed simultaneously within each other. This provides the user continuous response at the places of highest pressure and notifies them via phone

U04 (AAE): TracSat

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Molly Andriola (N/A)
Jordan Arnold (N/A)
Mark Batistich (N/A)
Alejandra Bonet (N/A)
Alexandra Busalacchi (N/A)
Carly Fridlin (N/A)
Derrek Gerrard (N/A)
Kaitlyn Ingalls (kingall@purdue.edu)
Konrad Kawnatra (N/A)
Andy Kim (N/A)
Aditya Kumar (N/A)
Jack Lannamorelli (N/A)
Ellen Nguyen (N/A)
Jackson Oliver (N/A)
Tom Placzkowski (N/A)
Luke Ritchison (N/A)
Adrienne Rudolph (N/A)
Kat Sisombath (N/A)
Arihan Srirangapatnam (N/A)
Chris Thomas (N/A)
Aneesh Vinod Khinani (N/A)

Project Description

TracSat's goal is to transmit video of a desired object of interest to a ground station via laser communication. This video is transmitted from a CubeSat which levitates on a near-frictionless table to simulate a 2D orbit in space. All these systems are designed, built, and tested by the students.

U05 (ME): JollyBot

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Erin Gummersbach (egummers@purdue.edu)
Reid Monhollen (rmonholl@purdue.edu)
Tamara Sriram (tsriram@purdue.edu)
Breanne Towers (btowers@purdue.edu)
Jake Zuckerman (zuckerma@purdue.edu)

Project Description

The JollyBot is a robotic light hanger designed to make the act of putting up exterior holiday lights safer and more efficient than the current solution of climbing a ladder. The JollyBot automates the process clipping lights to a house gutter, controlled completely by users safely on the ground.

U06 (ME): Farm Arm

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Harry Cho (cho359@purdue.edu)
Michael Framan (mframan@purdue.edu)
Andrew Nixon (nixon21@purdue.edu)
Nicholas Rentsch (nrentsc@purdue.edu)
Gianluca Zanutta (gzanutta@purdue.edu)
Andy Zhang (zhan3139@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Farm Arm is developing a farming rover to implement an autonomous farming system. The rover drives around an enclosed greenhouse environment and has the ability to harvest, seed, and maintain crops. For now, Farm Arm plans to focus on the cultivation of radishes to prove that the system works.

U07 (BME): Wearable Bladder Monitor for Spinal Cord Injuries

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Ben McAteer (bmcateer@purdue.edu)
Chris Kannmacher (ckannmac@purdue.edu)
Damen Wilson (wilso885@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Due to the 300 character limit see attachment for 300-word abstract. Our goal is to reduce the rate of occurrence of bladder-triggered Autonomic Dysreflexia by 85%. The device measures the change in impedance of the lower abdomen to determine bladder volume and then alerts the user of a full bladder

U08 (ME): 2D Graphene Transfer to Substrates of Varying Topographies

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Dylan Balter (dbalter@purdue.edu)
Alex Bauer (bauer85@purdue.edu)
Reese Holloway (hollowr@purdue.edu)
Mark Ragei (mragei@purdue.edu)
Jacob Weber (weber164@purdue.edu)
Sujal Yagnik (syagnik@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Our goal is to design a tool that can efficiently and cleanly transfer graphene through the use of a repeatable, effective process. This involves the use of automated controls and electronics, as well as fundamental mechanics. Along with this, transfer will be validated through the RAMAN microscope.

U09 (NE): PUR-2 Pebble Bed Microreactor

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Richard Capitan (rcapitan@purdue.edu)
Mitchell Ferrel (ferrelm@purdue.edu)
Maddi Green (green326@purdue.edu)
Connor Meeks (meeks17@purdue.edu)
Milo Scheulen (sscheule@purdue.edu)

Project Description

This project is a simulated core model for a novel nuclear reactor to be constructed on Purdue campus: a Pebble Bed Fast Used Fuel Reactor (PURE) micro-reactor with the ability to utilize spent nuclear fuel.

U10 (IDE): Cerebend Stent

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Omar Abdalla (oabdall@purdue.edu)
Don Jones (jone1741@purdue.edu)
Theodore Lester (lester13@purdue.edu)
Christina Mangione (cmangion@purdue.edu)
Sadhana Venkataraman (venkat50@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Our team designed a stent to move the superior cerebellar artery away from the trigeminal nerve using the shape memory properties of nitinol. We used a specific alloy of nitinol that changes states at body temperature, so by deploying the stent intra-arterially, pressure on the nerve is reduced.

U11 (IDE): User-Friendly Automated Effect Control for Live Entertainment

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Shepherd Dick (dick21@purdue.edu)

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A theatre engineering concentration capstone where I am designing a motor controller that can interface via control network with standard entertainment control systems (e.g. receive DMX messages from a lightboard). Used to control an automated campfire effect in a theatre department production.

U12 (STU-ORG): Purdue Aerial Robotics Team (PART)

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Mason Adams (N/A)
Keshav Agarwal (agarw210@purdue.edu)
Hadi Ahmed (ahmed138@purdue.edu)
Corey Auerbach (cauerbac@purdue.edu)
Joseph Baker (Baker711@purdue.edu)
Ishaan Bhargava (Ibharga@purdue.edu)
Harrison Booker (hbooker@purdue.edu)
Matthew Bourghol (mbourgho@purdue.edu)
Drew Bruns (bruns18@purdue.edu)
Vincent Chan (chan292@purdue.edu)
Eric Chen (chen3240@purdue.edu)
Haoyuan Chen (chen3269@purdue.edu)
Abhi Datla (datla@purdue.edu)
Alexa DeMuth (demutha@purdue.edu)
James Doyle (jcdoyle@purdue.edu)
Aadi Duggal (duggal0@purdue.edu)
Gavin Ellis (ellis136@purdue.edu)
Youssuf Elshall (N/A)
Dylan Esguerra (Desguerr@purdue.edu)
Vanessa Farrell (vfarrell@purdue.edu)
James Ficarro (jficarro@purdue.edu)
Awadhoo Ghatge (amghatge@purdue.edu)
Ian Greene (greenei@purdue.edu)
Kevin Gu (gu296@purdue.edu)
Nanami Hariguchi (nhariguc@purdue.edu)
Ethan Hawn (hawne@purdue.edu)
Te Yu Hsin (N/A)
Yule Huang (huan1626@purdue.edu)
Keshav Iyengar (N/A)
Sankaran Iyer (iyerss@purdue.edu)
Leonard Jung (jung340@purdue.edu)
Evan Kamm (kamm@purdue.edu)
John Kang (kang458@purdue.edu)
Suraj Kolli (kolli2@purdue.edu)
Nikki Kozel (nkozel@purdue.edu)
Joe Latta (jjlatta@purdue.edu)
Raymond Li (li3942@purdue.edu)
Kevin Lim (lim332@purdue.edu)
Leon Liu (liu3362@purdue.edu)
Nicole Lueck (nlueck@purdue.edu)
Cavanaugh Mair (cmair@purdue.edu)
Miles McClain (mcclai18@purdue.edu)
Jacob Merkley (merkleyj@purdue.edu)
Sean Milstead (smilstea@purdue.edu)
Yasser Mohran (ymohran@purdue.edu)
Diego Montes (montes10@purdue.edu)
Kasidit Muenprasitivej (kmuenpra@purdue.edu)
Gahn Mungarndee (gmungarn@purdue.edu)
Jesus Munoz (jmunozhe@purdue.edu)
Vijay Nadgauda (vnadgaud@purdue.edu)
Bruno Navaresse (bnavares@purdue.edu)
Eric O'Keefe (okeefee@purdue.edu)
Matthieu Opdyke (mopdyke@purdue.edu)
Junpei Ota (N/A)
Adrian Pajaron (apajaron@purdue.edu)
Vivek Panchagnula (rpanchag@purdue.edu)
Rishabh Pandey (N/A)
Aarya Patel (N/A)
Gergo Petruska (gmpetrus@purdue.edu)
Akhilesh Prasad (prasad52@purdue.edu)
Mohammad Rezqualla (mrezqall@purdue.edu)
John Rolfe (jrolfe@purdue.edu)
Leo Sakuma (lsakuma@purdue.edu)
Diego Sanchez (sanch327@purdue.edu)
Joao Paulo Schott Ymayo (jschotty@purdue.edu)
Max Sedlak (sedlakm@purdue.edu)
Evan Springer (spring21@purdue.edu)
Andrew Swanback (aswanbac@purdue.edu)
Kai Thong Tan (tan314@purdue.edu)
Alex Taylor (taylo862@purdue.edu)
Paul Teter (pteter@purdue.edu)
Nofel Tiwana (ntiwana@purdue.edu)
Julian Triveri (N/A)
Elliott Tsui (etsui@purdue.edu)
Duncan Van (vand@purdue.edu)
Raghava Vivekananda Panchagnula ()
Isaac Wegner (iwegner@purdue.edu)
Joseph Wojcicki (jmwojcic@purdue.edu)
Wilson Wong (wong368@purdue.edu)
Killy Yang (yang2137@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Purdue Aerial Robotics Team (PART) has developed a two-vehicle platform that features a composite airframe, autonomy algorithms, and an object detection pipeline. PART's Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) air-drops an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), both of which perform autonomous navigation and remote sensing missions representative of real-world deployments. Direct applications include search and rescue, wildfire control, package delivery, border patrol, and emergency response for natural disasters.   PART's strategic goal to execute a comprehensive approach to interdisciplinary design, prototyping, and systems engineering is backed by an undergraduate team of 75+ students from a wide variety of technical and interest areas. The 2022 UAV is a product of thorough research, iterative testing, and modern manufacturing methods.  The team is working towards the 2022 AUVSI SUAS competition, which features teams from over 70 universities worldwide. On March 5th the team conducted three successful test flights at Staggerwing Field in Lauramie Township IN. The UAS flew for a total of 15 minutes, and demonstrated its design performance by flying a mission subject to 25 mph constant winds gusting to 40 mph. The UAS exhibited superb flying qualities while under  autonomous and manned control. PART aims to place in the top three at the AUVSI competition and hopes to bring light to Purdue's engineering program and teams on a global stage.

U13 (EPICS): Untying the Knot: Saving Time, Managing Cables, and Minimizing Damage in a Health Care Environment

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Maya Godbole (mgodbole@purdue.edu)
Emily Linder (ejlinder@purdue.edu)
Ella McCoy (eimccoy@purdue.edu)
Carl Russell (russe160@purdue.edu)
Josephine Schlosser (jrschlos@purdue.edu)
Trevor Sheehan (tmsheeha@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Healthcare professionals face tangled and damaged cables when taking a patient’s vitals. This has become a widespread problem in the industry which not only wastes valuable time, but also comes as a monetary cost for healthcare institutions. The Vital Management team of EPICS BME is working to reduce these challenges with a retractable cable system. This novel system consists of a main axel and circular spring which work together to wrap a selected cable in an organized fashion. This device would protect cables and make the usability much more convenient. In the previous semester, the team so far has design a computer aided model and have a functional proof of concept 3D printed prototype. The team aims to have a final deliverable project by the fall 2023 semester and implement its solution into the IU Health Simon Cancer Center.

U14 (ME): Camel Bots - Mobile Water Treatment Plants

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Lucas Allegrette (lallegre@purdue.edu)
Greg Derfus (gderfus@purdue.edu)
Cameron Harvey (harvey83@purdue.edu)
Jacqueline Leal (leal6@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Camel Bots are autonomous robots that transport a microscale water treatment plant to isolated communities where access to safe & clean water is unreliable, such as in India, Africa, and Central/South America. Rainwater or graywater will be input and treated in three distinct stages.

U15 (ME): Regenerative Bike Braking

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Nicholas Block (blockn@purdue.edu)
Ricardo Carbajal Diaz (rcarbaja@purdue.edu)
Matthew Lange (lange35@purdue.edu)
Marcus Lannie (mlannie@purdue.edu)
Adam McGoff (amcgoff@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Thousands of preventable bicycle accidents occur annually in the United States. One of the best ways to avoid these accidents is enabling cyclists to quickly pass through intersections, improving traffic flow and reducing collision points. Current solutions available on the market make this safety possible only for motorized bicycles, but Mystery Inc. is bringing this capability to bicycles without the complication of electronics.   A fully-mechanical, regenerative bike braking solution eliminates the complexity of charging batteries and maintaining an electrical system when converting energy lost to braking to usable energy. By integrating a torsion spring, planetary gearset, and clutch mechanism, the team designed a go-to-market ready product that can be attached to any bike to provide a “boost” of the stored braking energy at the user’s command. Further, this competitively-priced solution encourages biking by empowering cyclists to travel the same distance with greater safety and less effort.

U16 (AAE): UAFS - Unmanned Aerial Fire Surveillance

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Matthew Toth (toth34@purdue.edu)

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A DBF (Design Build Fly) project that involved working with a team of BYU & Clemson students. We built a drone that is hand launched and capable of spotting fires while flying autonomously. This project was completed over an Academic year and was supported by Phil Baldwin.

U17 (AAE): Pelican Deliveries: Taking Food Delivery Airborne (AerosPACE Program)

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Richard Fu (fu235@purdue.edu)
Aaron Guo (guo484@purdue.edu)
Matthew Lomeo (mlomeo@purdue.edu)
Connor Turner (turne272@purdue.edu)
Sharon Xu (xu1195@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Our project is a two-semester design-build-fly project satisfying senior design credit in the AAE program. Our mission is to complete food and drink delivery in a college campus setting. This is accomplished using a tandem tilt-wing, quad-rotor, vertical takeoff and landing drone. We defined the mission ourselves and developed the aircraft from conceptual design to a manufactured and demonstrated prototype.

U18 (AAE): Need for Seed

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Brandon Dimitri (bdimitri@purdue.edu)
Cade Jorgenson (jorgenc@purdue.edu)
Raymond Shi (shi430@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Need for Seed is a fixed wing plane designed to perform a mission of aerial reseeding. Reseeding is beneficial for many areas to help with erosion control and to increase soil biodiversity. However, at certain locations, manually planting seeds by hand may be difficult and even dangerous. Such is the case at Kennecott Copper Mine in Utah where digging has created a large area lacking in any ground cover vegetation and dangerous terrain if planting was to be done by hand.  This plane was designed specifically with Kennecott Copper Mine in mind, but it could be used for any aerial reseeding application. The plane is capable of carrying a payload capacity of up to 2.5 lbs of seeds which are dropped out of the underside of the plane through the use of a custom designed and 3D printed drop mechanism which can be controlled to drop seeds on command. The plane also has a Pixhawk autopilot integrated for autonomous flight and mission planning capabilities.  The plane was designed as part of a multi-university project in collaboration with both Clemson and Bingham Young Universities. Each played a role in manufacturing part of the plane, and finally assembly was completed at Purdue.

U19 (ME): Fau-Set

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Nitya Agrawal (Agrawa90@purdue.edu)
Jennifer Ascher (jascher@purdue.edu)
Chris Fadel (Cfadel@purdue.edu)
Eugenio Frias-Miranda (Efrias@purdue.edu)
Trevor Ladner (Tladner@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Salons in the US are a nearly 40 billion dollar industry, but many essential tools like the shampoo bowl have seen little innovation since they were first patented in 1939. We at DRP engineering are looking to change that by inventing the first product that can automate the temperature selection process for shampoo bowls without impacting existing plumbing.   Setting the perfect water temperature can be a tedious process, but the Fau-Set eliminates this issue by placing control in the hands of the client. Rather than verbally communicating desired changes to the stylist, the client holds a remote that sends these values to a control system. The system’s embedded sensor measures temperature and makes necessary adjustments by manipulating the faucet position with a motor and gear train. A user interface allows the stylist to select different temperatures for different products.  With a sleek design and a sophisticated control system, the Fau-Set blends electrical and mechanical technologies to adjust temperature within 2 degrees of the desired temperature all in under 30 seconds. It costs only $499, less than all of its competitors, and has an easy installation process that requires removing only one set screw from the original faucet. The Fau-Set is the next step in faucet innovation, empowering users to take control of their salon experience.

U20 (ME): Purdue Formula SAE

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Arpit Agarwal (agarw162@purdue.edu)
Nicola Bernardo Fava (nbfava@purdue.edu)
Nicholas Canovas (ncanovas@purdue.edu)
Aniket Chowdhury (aroychow@purdue.edu)
Troy Crooks (crookst@purdue.edu)
Antonio de Jesus Aguirre Carballo (adaguirr@purdue.edu)
Hugh Feehan (hfeehan@purdue.edu)
Max Gal (mgal@purdue.edu)
Tyler Green (green338@purdue.edu)
Andrew Hunt (hunt143@purdue.edu)
Moonseong Kim (kim2836@purdue.edu)
James Kinsella (kinsellj@purdue.edu)
Cole Kniesly (chkniesl@purdue.edu)
Alexander Krueger (kruege18@purdue.edu)
Siddarth Kumar (kumar375@purdue.edu)
Raunaq Kumaran (rkumaran@purdue.edu)
Keith Kurisko (kkurisko@purdue.edu)
Michael Lucarelli (mlucarel@purdue.edu)
Zachary MacNab (zmacnab@purdue.edu)
Isaac Martinez (mart1731@purdue.edu)
Adarsh Mattu (amattu@purdue.edu)
Noah Mundy (mundyn@purdue.edu)
Dominic Nocon (dnocon@purdue.edu)
Sam Park (park1148@purdue.edu)
Jacob Peddycord (jpeddyco@purdue.edu)
JP Peerbolte (jpeerbol@purdue.edu)
Theodoros Phocas (tphocas@purdue.edu)
Sarah Rogers (roger305@purdue.edu)
Helen Rumsey (hrumsey@purdue.edu)
Aiden Sarver (arsarver@purdue.edu)
Emma Schultz (easchult@purdue.edu)
Maoyuan Shi (shi522@purdue.edu)
Arnav Sinha (sinha54@purdue.edu)
Mateusz Skrzyszowski (mskrzysz@purdue.edu)
Stefan Steyn (ssteyn@purdue.edu)
Khoa Thai (kthai@purdue.edu)
Jonathan Tyler (tyler31@purdue.edu)
Carson Williams (will2110@purdue.edu)
Frank Xia (xia107@purdue.edu)
Chenkai Zhang (zhan3907@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Each year our team designs, builds, and manufactures and open wheel, formula style racecar. We enter it in the SAE Collegiate Design Series to compete against universities from around the world, where it is judged on a number of performance aspects, such as straight-line acceleration, lateral acceleration, and overall performance. We are also judged on our engineering decisions and the cost of our vehicle.

U21 (EPICS): Marikadjy

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Noah Criswell (ncriswe@purdue.edu)
Soumalya Das (das154@purdue.edu)

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Marikadjy is an EPICS project from the DISC (Database and Innovative Software for the Community) team. It is an app built for iOS and Android that is intended to provide language application materials to the Mebêngôkre community (a native community in Brazil) as well as college students who are studying abroad, by means of bridging the language barrier between English, Portuguese, and Mebêngôkre. In this way, the language of the natives can be preserved and in turn, we envision the app to empower outsiders who immigrate to understand basic terms in Mebêngôkre and translate between provided languages as they see fit.

U22 (IE): Schedule Optimization and Feasibility Study

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Irfan Bin Ashraf (mbinashr@purdue.edu)
Joseph Ching (jching@purdue.edu)
Ashley Huneycutt (ahuneycu@purdue.edu)
Eric Martinson (mart1574@purdue.edu)
Kaleigh O’Hara (ohara8@purdue.edu)
Shreya Venkat (venkat3@purdue.edu)

Project Description

With a growing student population and changing faculty needs, instructor-course assignments are becoming an increasingly complex task. The Assistant Head of IE requests an instructor assignment tool that speeds up the course assignment process, runs alternatives for the current scheduling period and tests future growth scenarios and curricular changes to inform strategic planning. The project’s success will be measured by the ease of implementation and the reduction of manual scheduling for the primary user, with the goal of cutting the time of manual scheduling by over half. With a growing student population and changing faculty needs, instructor-course assignments are becoming an increasingly complex task. The team has built an integer programming model to automate a routine administrative task and provide predictive capacity for the department. The model optimizes faculty-to-course match preferences for undergraduate and graduate courses. The product is flexible and user-centric, allowing the user to add instructional capacity or drop courses when courses are not filled.

U23 (ME): Motorcycle Lifting Hitch Carrier

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Noah Clark (clark600@purdue.edu)
Thomas Ericks (erickst@purdue.edu)
William Graber (wcgraber@sbcglobal.net)
Ethan Radke (radkee@purdue.edu)
Ryan Randolph (randolr@purdue.edu)

Project Description

RevMech designed and prototyped a motorcycle lifting hitch carrier which attaches to any standard 2” vehicle trailer hitch. This device provides a safe and quick way for a single person to load and secure a motorcycle to their vehicle for transportation. The motivation for this project is driven by clear safety issues with many carriers currently on the market. Current market solutions are not safe for one person to use because the user is required to push a couple hundred-pound motorcycle up a ramp and balance it while trying to secure it with ratchet straps. This process led RevMech to design a hitch carrier that is safe for one person to use without sacrificing loading time, load capacity, or device weight.      The design implements an electrically powered lift system controlled via a momentary rocker switch. Power is supplied via a 7-pin trailer connection commonly found on newer trucks and some SUVs. A worm-drive winch pulls a 4-arm link system to lift the motorcycle. The lift system is connected to a “V” shaped frame which keeps the motorcycle tires centered along the frame and prevents them from slipping off. The motorcycle is secured to the frame using a foot-activated front wheel clamp. The clamp holds the motorcycle upright so that the bike cannot tip over unlike traditional designs. While the bike is being held up with the clamp, straps are placed over the foot pegs to further secure the motorcycle to the frame. Many small design choices and innovations, such as a limit switch and a locking pin in the 4-arm link system add to the overall safety and ease of use of the device. Our device is calculated to have a carrying capacity of 450lbs while only weighing 86 lbs.

U24 (ECE): "Noggin"

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Ryan Domanski (rdomansk@purdue.edu)
Mooyeon Kim (kim3244@purdue.edu)
Akshaj Prasannakumar (aprasan@purdue.edu)
Dev Shah (shah418@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Our project is a smart hard hat. There are two parts. The wearer side will detect if the user has fallen, has been struck to the head by an object, there is an alarming heart rate, or there are harmful levels of carbon monoxide. These event notifications will get sent to a supervisor side. On this side it will have an LED display with some information as well as audio and visual alert notifications.

U25 (ABE): Access to Energy and Transportation for Small-Holder Farmers

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Michael Boland (bolandm@purdue.edu)
Tyler Hilgeman (thilgema@purdue.edu)
Clare McNicholas (mcnichoc@purdue.edu)
Qingzhuo Qi (qi97@purdue.edu)

Project Description

In Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculturists have often experienced set-backs due to a lack of transportation and/or machines that can aid their field work. Due to the significant lack of resources, especially replacement parts, in that region of the world; receiving brand new equipment has typically resulted in causing farmers to struggle with repairs, replacements, and maintenance, rendering the new equipment useless to them in the long run.   The solution is simpler machines that could be constructed and repaired with materials more readily available in Sub-Saharan Africa. This need is the basis of what has developed into the PUP project (started in 2008), which has focused on new developments for small-scale, utility vehicles that can be used for the transportation of agricultural materials, provide power units for resource allocation and to operate implements in the field. Some previous projects have looked specifically at improving the drive mechanism for these vehicles or developed mechanisms to offer variable torque outputs, while others focused on adding implements or improving the simplicity of the design to increase ease with which they can be produced in Africa.   The goal of this year’s project is to make improvements to the Ag-Rover model that address the needs and issues that emerged during project screening. The driving force behind interest in the Ag-Rover was led by specific interest in improving the Ag-Rover from the project’s partners in Kenya at the Tumaini Innovation Center. The key issues that arose during screening came from two avenues: surveying of Ag-Rover users and field-testing data. The major findings were that there were various safety and ease of use factors to improve, along with the need for continued improvement of the hydraulic driveline design. The team has designed a build a hydraulically driven Ag-Rover with much improvements on the safety and durability of the vehicle.

U26 (EPICS): EPICS PHARM - MAS

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Madilyn Arnold (arnol179@purdue.edu)
Stephanie Cannon (cannon33@purdue.edu)
Esther Chung (erchung@purdue.edu)
Sung-En Lien (lien1@purdue.edu)
Yu Che Lin (lin1380@purdue.edu)
Po Han Liu (liu3155@purdue.edu)
Sydney Nelesen (snelesen@purdue.edu)

Project Description

We are creating a vending machine that will be used in the Purdue Pharmacy that dispenses unit of use products. This project focuses on incorporating a user interface design that uses barcodes to then move a basket to a location to pick up the product from the slot associated with that product. We use conveyor belts, motors, a basket and pulley system, software, and a interface design to achieve this goal.

U27 (ME): Spiceify

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Sam Armour (armour1@purdue.edu)
Yash Chawla (ychawla@purdue.edu)
Srividya Gandikota (sgandiko@purdue.edu)
Ryan Hentrich (rhentric@purdue.edu)
Akash Lokram (alokram@purdue.edu)
Jacob Nylen (jnylen@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Spiceify is an autonomous spice storage, grinding, and dispensing device that enables more efficient cooking for both home and professional chefs. Users can interact with Spiceify via a touch-screen to select spices or custom spice blends in preset amounts as required. Spiceify takes care of the rest. Motors coupled with solenoids run along rail systems to engage with the different spice containers and dispense the spices while also enabling grinding if required. Spices are collected in a central collection bowl in the center of the device. This process makes food preparation less tedious and allows the chef to focus on other aspects of cooking while Spiceify takes care of the flavor.

U28 (AAE): Asteria

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Coleton Bickle (cbickle@purdue.edu)
Matthew Bransky (mbransky@purdue.edu)
Aman Chokshi (achoksh@purdue.edu)
Kyle Citro (kcitro@purdue.edu)
Matthew Cochran (cochra30@purdue.edu)
Darya Corry (dcorry@purdue.edu)
Brendan Gillis (gillisb@purdue.edu)
Braden Grossfeld (bgrossfe@purdue.edu)
John Heil (heil3@purdue.edu)
Robert Jones (jone1744@purdue.edu)
Joseph Kirchhoff (kirchhof@purdue.edu)
Alex Norkus (anorkus@purdue.edu)
Josh O'Meara (omeara2@purdue.edu)
Jacob Perry (perry185@purdue.edu)
Claudia Pollmacher (cpollmac@purdue.edu)
Philip Ra (mra@purdue.edu)
Sarah Whisman (swhisma@purdue.edu)
Leila Yanni (lyanni@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Our project is to develop an interstellar probe that will reach the IBEX Ribbon and pass the Heliopause within 10 years of its launch. The goal is to define and evaluate the makeup of the IBEX ribbon. During the course of our mission, we will pass by Jupiter and be releasing an impactor that will collide with Europa to gather data of the moon's surface makeup.

U29 (ME): A.H.G.S. (Autonomous Home Gardening System)

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Eliana Arroyo-Fang (earroyof@purdue.edu)
Elizabeth Graf (graf9@purdue.edu)
Jordan Harris (harri755@purdue.edu)
Mitchell Howe (howe34@purdue.edu)
Adam Kleber (kleber0@purdue.edu)

Project Description

EXTENDO Industries works to create more for the future. More utility, affordability, and quality of a product while minimizing various aspects of space and complexity of operation.  Our team has decided to create A.H.G.S.—an Autonomous Home Gardening System— that can be used as an affordable, smart, indoor garden for fresh produce and herbs. Extending to markets such as urban food deserts, non-green thumb gardeners, frequent travelers, and growers everywhere, A.H.G.S. is an intelligent gardening system that monitors plant and soil conditions while utilizing sensor feedback to ensure healthy plant growth for all users.  We, at EXTENDO Industries, have engineered a programmable system based on plant type requirements that can be altered to grow your favorite vegetables, herbs, and even flowers. With the affordable cost, aesthetic design, and easy-to-use system, A.H.G.S. can give you more enjoyment in growing.

U30 (ECE): RevEx

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Swagat Bhattacharyya (bhatta21@purdue.edu)
Zach Ghera (zghera@purdue.edu)
Isaac Hagedorn (ihagedo@purdue.edu)
Matthew Rumple (rumple0@purdue.edu)

Project Description

The project is a non-optical virtual reality controller with haptic feedback.

U31 (ABE): INCS - Hydroponic Greenhouse With An Attached Wastewater Treatment Structure

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Christian Coe (ecoe@purdue.edu)
Sokhna Sall (ssall@purdue.edu)

Project Description

This project focuses on solving some of the water issues related to the waste of greywater as well as irrigation in countries such as Senegal. The first part of the system is a developed wetland meant to take in and filter greywater and rainwater for use in the greenhouse or other systems. The second part of the system is the greenhouse with a gravity fed hydroponic system.

U32 (ME): Pill Bottle Opener

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Jack Shafer (shafer30@purdue.edu)
Jiahao Frederik Zhu (zhu999@purdue.edu)
Walter Smith (smit3543@purdue.edu)
William Williams (will1941@purdue.edu)
Daniel Barbosa-Rodriguez (arbosar@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Many people in need of prescription drugs have great difficulty opening medication bottles provided by pharmacies. Health conditions such as arthritis, CP, and Quadriplegia, make opening child-safe pill bottles challenging. Hyperion Engineering aims to address this issue by offering a device that can open and close these bottles autonomously. The user need only place a bottle in the device and toggle a switch to select between opening and closing the bottle. This system is completely unique being the only device available that offers autonomous bottle opening. All other market alternatives intended to aid in opening prescription bottles still require physical exertion from the user. It is believed the device designed will be profitable and is expected to generate over $100,000 in revenue in its first year of sales. Hyperion Engineering proudly presents our innovative solution to a problem millions of people face every day.

U33 (EPICS): EPICS GLASS MOUNT

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Atthin Chandrashekar (chand158@purdue.edu)
Lauren Davern (ldavern@purdue.edu)
Luke Ford (ford210@purdue.edu)
Lo Tsz Fung (lo91@purdue.edu)
Kate Hawkins (hawkin70@purdue.edu)
Owen Mamrol (omamrol@purdue.edu)

Project Description

We are building an electromechanical wheelchair tablet mount that can be used by students with disabilities to help them gain independence in the classroom. It will allow the student to communicate with others and do tasks more freely without relying on a caregiver to come move their tablet out of the way. The student is able to use an adaptive switch to switch between two default positions initialized at set up however many times they need it throughout the school day.

U34 (IDE): Advanced Motorsports Head Restraint System

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Kyleigh Dalkin (kdalkin@purdue.edu)
Camile El-Bayar (celbayar@purdue.edu)
Rachel LeFebvre (rlefebvr@purdue.edu)
Jean-Baptiste Petit (petitj@purdue.edu)

Project Description

A further developed head restraint system for high-speed motorsport crashes, including Formula 1, Rally, Off-road racing. The device uses an intricate gear box and torsion springs to slow down the forward movement of the head during an impact/crash to reduce concussions before locking at a safe, maximum travel to prevent neck injuries and/or death. The device is adaptable to most vehicles used in motorsports as it can be mounted to a roll cage or directly to a chassis. It also includes a quick release system to be able to detach the helmet from the device in case of emergency.

U35 (ECE): Vrms

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Emma Clary (clarye@purdue.edu)
James Donnelly (donnell9@purdue.edu)
Brian Latimer (Blatimer@purdue.edu)
Matthew Wen (wen101@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Vrms is a robotic arm that can be controlled remotely with a virtual reality headset. The purpose of this project is to be able to perform human like arm movement while being remote in case if the task is too dangerous for a normal human to do.

U36 (ME): PRO-BRO

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Aaron Harp (amharp@purdue.edu)
Cole Heald (cheald@purdue.edu)
Adriana Hisham (akhairul@purdue.edu)
Kait Kelsey (kelsey7@purdue.edu)
Alondra Ramos (ramos78@purdue.edu)
Vivek Singh (singh456@purdue.edu)
Ryan Soltis (rsoltis@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Overpopulation, intensive industrial water activities and climate change are some of the occurrences that exacerbate water scarcity globally. Lack of access to clean drinking water demands a solution that meets the economic, environmental, and social needs of this complex problem. Over 70% of the earth surface is covered by oceans yet its water remains unusable due to the high salinity of seawater. However, using desalination, this water can be converted into clean drinking water. Reverse Osmosis (RO) is the most common desalination technology but is energy-intensive due to the high pressures required. With desalination’s proximity to coastal areas, there is an opportunity to use energy harnessed from wave power and mitigate desalination's carbon footprint.  In response to this issue, our team has developed PRO BRO. The system uses wave power to power clean water production before recycling the brine for electricity generation in pressure retarded osmosis.

U37 (ECE): gimbal vehicle

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Zeren Li (li3103@purdue.edu)
Bohang Ni (ni67@purdue.edu)
Deyuan Sun (sun829@purdue.edu)
Haiwen Zhang (zhan3237@purdue.edu)

Project Description

We will design a Gimbal Vehicle infrastructure. This vehicle is capable of omnidirectional moving by using omni wheels (mecanum or other wheel can achieve the function). This vehicle’s gimbal is capable to maintain a horizontal and vertical stable regardless of the status of chassis. We can manually set the direction that the gimbal is facing or let it faces to a default direction. Also, users can monitor IMU parameters of the vehicle in real time from the LCD screen on the controller. Other users are capable to add more functionality to our infrastructure. I.e., adding water gun to become a fire extinguisher, adding a camera to become a video recorder.

U38 (ECE): Haptic Piano Tutor

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Phillip Archuleta (parchule@purdue.edu)
Elijah Berscheid (ebersche@purdue.edu)
Carrie Li (li2899@purdue.edu)
Soham Ray (ray115@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Haptic Piano Tutor (HPT) will detect the position of a player’s hands and fingers and provide simulated-force haptic feedback to guide the player to the correct position to play a preset song. HPT will track the finger and hand positions on the piano. Haptic modules will vibrate to guide the user’s fingers and hands to the intended positions for a given musical sequence. A microphone will monitor the notes that are played, allowing progression in the music when any note is played. A user interface will be present to allow the user to change settings, calibrate the system, and select a piece of music from a pre-programmed library.

U39 (IDE): Emotion Tracking Visual Scheduler

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Joe Fiebig (jfiebig@purdue.edu)
Austin Gill (gill65@purdue.edu)
Ben Masters (master19@purdue.edu)
Chloe Otis (otis0@purdue.edu)
Kirsten Wozniak (wozniak8@purdue.edu)

Project Description

The goal of our project is to answer the question of: How can we create a device that mitigates the impact of anxiety experienced by children with autism in the classroom as well as allow researchers and professionals to better understand behavioral responses? To achieve this, the final deliverable is an interactive schedule that can track basic emotional feedback for activities throughout the day. A scheduler software will be delivered in the form of an HTML website with both a student mode and an administration mode. The teacher will be able to create individual schedules for students that will guide them through their day at school. Within the schedule, students will be able to input how their emotional state and the software will associate those inputs with the activities. Teachers will then be able to download a csv file for each student that provides the child's inputted emotions and what activities they are associated with. The final physical deliverable will be a 3D printed device that can house a phone for simulations of the website. The device will come with functioning buttons that light up when a specific emotion is chosen. This function will alert teachers when a student is feeling overwhelmed through the visual cue (the lights).

U40 (ME): Vitamin Bee

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James Baxter (baxter26@purdue.edu)
Jacob Rensner (jrensner@purdue.edu)
Tyler Schostek (tschoste@purdue.edu)
Allen Yin (yin147@purdue.edu)
Jacob Zajac (zajac3@purdue.edu)

Project Description

To keep up with pollination efficiency demands and ensure bee survival in harsh winter climates, commercial beekeepers often feed honeybees food supplements. This means bees spend more time pollinating crops and less time producing honey as food. However, a major problem lies in the vast amounts of time beekeepers have to spend making the sugar-water (syrup) mixture and individually distributing it to up to 10,000 hives spread across hundreds of miles. Vitamin Bee aims to save time and therefore money in the beekeeping industry by automating the feeding process. Relying on solar panels and deep-cycle batteries for power alongside large storage tanks of water and high-fructose corn syrup, Vitamin Bee will automatically measure out the proper ingredient ratios, mix the syrup until homogenous, and distribute it to a large collection of hives. The device will run for several months at a time, eliminating the need for frequent on-site visits.

U41 (IDE): Project Blū

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Jack Costello (costel12@purdue.edu)
Elizabeth Jensen (jensen68@purdue.edu)
Thad North (northt@purdue.edu)
Logan Noster (lnoster@purdue.edu)
Laura Zerla (lzerla@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Our project involved finding a compassionate design solution to the problem of drowsy driving. Our main project deliverable is an inexpensive, neck drape designed to provide different stimuli to the driver: blue light, sound, vibration, and temperature cooling. After researching, we found each of these stimuli helps keep the driver awake, yet with potential exception of blue light, will allow the driver to sleep after returning home. Keeping in mind user preference and the possibility of distraction to passengers and other drivers, the user will be able to set the intensity of the sound and light with a sliding potentiometer. The temperature cooling will be provided through Peltier modules, placed behind the neck. Vibration motors near the collar bone will provide small quakes to the driver. Small speakers are placed near the driver's ears, while blue LED lights are near the ends of the neck drape pointing back to the driver's head. A microcontroller will run an Arduino code that randomly cycles through the sound, vibration, and cooling stimuli; the blue light will be constant.

U42 (ME): The Parcel Placer

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Ethan Anderson (ander939@purdue.edu)
William Dobbs (wdobbs@purdue.edu)
Jacob Schmiedel (jschmie@purdue.edu)
Matt Single (single0@purdue.edu)
Noah Witkowski (nwitkows@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Every day in the United States, over 53 million packages get delivered to consumers, and this number continues to climb. As people continue to shop online more and more, delivery speed and accuracy is becoming increasingly important. Purdue Package Solutions’ Parcel Placer provides an innovative opportunity for delivery companies to reduce time between stops along routes and driver stress. By reducing the time between stops by even seconds, millions of dollars can be saved due to the sheer volume of packages being delivered. In today’s current state of package delivery, the driver must go stop to stop and look for the package to be distributed in the back of the truck or van at each stop. This time spent searching for packages is extremely costly and is the main area of targeted improvement for the Parcel Placer. The Parcel Placer will locate and prepare the next package for delivery by placing it next to the door so that the driver does not have to waste any time searching for the package, and instead can make more efficient routes and deliver more packages in shorter amounts of time. The Parcel Placer utilizes a custom QR code reader for locating and scanning packages and has a full range of motion in all 3 coordinate axes.

U43 (AAE): Interstellar Probe - Project Shackleton

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JJ Bagdan (jbagdan@purdue.edu)
Austin Barrow (abarrow@purdue.edu)
Thomas Beimrohr (tbeimroh@purdue.edu)
Jeremy Casella (jcasell@purdue.edu)
Maria-Elaina Estrada (estrad20@purdue.edu)
Vinny Haight (vhaight@purdue.edu)
Eli Harris (harri751@purdue.edu)
Charlie Jansen (jansen16@purdue.edu)
Brendan Jones (jone1777@purdue.edu)
Noah Lindemann (lindemn@purdue.edu)
Zehao Lu (lu752@purdue.edu)
Tabitha Macko (tmacko@purdue.edu)
Kole Pempek (kpempek@purdue.edu)
Conner Phillips (phill292@purdue.edu)
Lauren Risany (lrisany@purdue.edu)
Patrick Vinchur (pvinchur@purdue.edu)
Eric Williamson (will1904@purdue.edu)
Vladimir Zeltsman (vzeltsma@purdue.edu)

Project Description

The aim of this project is to fully design a spacecraft and a corresponding mission for the spacecraft to travel to the heliopause, the transition between our solar system and interstellar space. The project outlines a full approach for the spacecraft to obtain critical science which will help further our understanding of our solar system and its formation along with developing in-situ research about interstellar space which is essentially nonexistent at this point. The primary requirement driving this mission outside of this science acquisition is that the spacecraft must reach the heliopause in ten years, far faster than any spacecraft has previously done. Covered in the scope of the project is a full mockup of the physical spacecraft, cost and budget analysis covering the entire operational lifespan of the spacecraft and its corresponding ground support facilities, structural analysis to ensure that the instruments on board will be able to withstand the high levels of radiation that will be encountered, and a trajectory design which allows the spacecraft to reach its goals in the required time frame while still remaining within the capabilities of the next generation of launch vehicles.

U44 (ME): Multi-Grip, Body-Powered Prosthesis

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Zachary Harbin (harbinz@purdue.edu)
Lauren Lopez (lopez347@purdue.edu)
Nadia Mahmood (mahmoon@purdue.edu)
Alexa Mushovic (amushovi@purdue.edu)
Cooper Tavss (ctavss@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Currently on the market, there are two general types of prosthetic hands: the mechanical option powered by natural body movements and the more-flashy robotic option driven by muscle signals. Where the robotic hand provides more finger dexterity and a cleaner hand design, it often possesses a “lag” between when the user’s brain signals the hand to move and when the movement actually occurs. The mechanical, body powered option however provides a clear relation between the movement of the person’s body and the grip of the hand, but the actual prosthesis usually resembles more of a hook/claw as opposed to a hand and is geared towards one specific type of grip. The multi-grip, body powered prosthesis serves as a more adaptable prosthesis that combines the best factors of both types. Housed in a body powered, purely mechanical brace, it allows users to toggle on/off individual fingers to accommodate specific tasks through different grip types such as a pinch, point, or full grip. This unique prosthesis blends the intuitive nature of body powered devices with the versatility of a robotic hand so users don’t have to choose between function, versatility, and a prosthesis that resembles a hand. The project aims to provide something new to the prosthesis community and fills a largely unmet need of an affordable, adaptable device for daily living.

U45 (EPICS): BIOL (Biology Online Learning App)

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Anika Bajpai (bajpai0@purdue.edu)
Alonso Cestti (acestti@purdue.edu)
Sohee Kim (kim3731@purdue.edu)
Justin Lukowski (jlukowsk@purdue.edu)
Shah Mahir (smahir@purdue.edu)
Mary Newell (mbnewell@purdue.edu)
Vishrant Saagar (vsaagar@purdue.edu)
Garrett Seawright (gseawrig@purdue.edu)
Ming Yan Ti (mti@purdue.edu)
Yoon Suk Uhr (yuhr@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Biology Online Learning (BIOL) is an online platform that targets high school students learning biology in schools in the United States. Its main objective is to be a supplementary tool for students to test their understanding and communicate their questions to their teachers easily. Additionally, BIOL aims to create a way to incentivize students by creating friendly competition between them using quiz leaderboards. Both teachers and students will have different uses for the platform. When used by teachers, BIOL will provide them with tools to upload quizzes, track their students' performances in the quizzes they take, and answer their students' questions in a designated help center. When used by students, the application will provide them with a quiz bank and different concentrations they can choose from, a way to track their grades, and answers from their teachers in the help center.

U46 (EPICS): Pill Minder

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Christopher Chang (chang745@purdue.edu)
Gavin Ellis (ellis136@purdue.edu)
Calla Tucker (tuckercg@purdue.edu)
Elizabeth Vojtisek (lizzievojtisek@gmail.com)

Project Description

The Pill Minder project is a subteam of the Purdue EPICS Biomedical Engineering Team. We are partnered with Dr. Deborah Spoerner, a pediatric nurse practitioner who currently serves on the taskforce for Prevention of Overdoses and Treatment Errors in Children (PROTECT) at the Centers for Disease Control​. In 2017, nearly 52,000 children under the age of six were treated in ERs for accidental medicine poisoning. Childhood overdoses such as these can happen quickly and are often due to unsafe medication storage. The goal of this project is to create a child resistant pill container that allows the user to store medication for each day of the week while helping to mitigate these ER visits. Our prototype features a two-factor passive lock, meaning that two actions must be performed in order for it to be unlocked. Also, the device will lock upon closure without any further user action due to the incorporation of compression springs. Our design is fully 3D printed in order to optimize its manufacturability in the future. The Pill Minder is designed to significantly delay a child’s access to contained prescription medication, allowing an adult to notice the situation and intervene. The team is moving into a final prototyping and testing phase in partnership with BrightStar Care and the Ben and Maxine Miller Child Development Laboratory School. We aim to deliver at the end of the spring 2022 semester following our testing.

U47 (): Sensor Activated Prosthetic Hand

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Ari Atlas (aatlas@purdue.edu)
Kevin Bautista (kbautis@purdue.edu)
Molly Dye (mndye@purdue.edu)
Tyler Evans (evans415@purdue.edu)
Richard Yuan Fung (fu235@purdue.edu)
Moses Hamm (hammmj@purdue.edu)
Alyssa Richards (richa527@purdue.edu)
Chris Shr (cshr@purdue.edu)
Harold Paul Pey Tan (tan300@purdue.edu)

Project Description

Our team is developing an actuating prosthetic device for our client: Domenico. He is a professional chef in Italy who lost much of his right hand in a meat grinder accident when he was very young. He struggles with confidence and function, so we are working toward a solution that can help him with both of these issues. Our team is working to utilize a sensor and processing package that can detect muscle activation in the arm and trigger the motors embedded in our device.

U48 (VIP): FEMTA Suborbital Spaceflight Test

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Olukunle Akinleye (oakinley@purdue.edu)
Gouri Bellad (gbellad@purdue.edu)
Joseph Kawiecki (jkawiec@purdue.edu)
Max Lantz (lantz5@purdue.edu)
Carly McKean (mckean1@purdue.edu)
Ankit Mondal (mondal11@purdue.edu)
Abhirama Rachabattuni (arachaba@purdue.edu)
Evan Rittner (erittner@purdue.edu)
Yashoheet Sethi (ysethi@purdue.edu)
Hersh Thapar (hthapar@purdue.edu)
Ata Toraman (atoraman@purdue.edu)
Jacob Valdez (valdez24@purdue.edu)

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FEMTA (Film Evaporation MEMS Tunable Array) is a micropropulsion system designed for small satellite attitude control using ultrapure deionized water as propellant. This system requires zero-G environmental testing for its propellant management system, which is the objective of the FEMTA Suborbital Flight Experiment. This propellant management unit is a vapor pressure driven pump using hydrofluoroether to expand a diaphragm and increase pressure, ensuring constant propellant flow. An engineering test unit is complete and testing (performed in vacuum and lyophilizer chambers, phasing in “dry” and “wet” system operations) continues to reveal areas where updates are necessary; these iterations will be compiled into a second pre-flight test unit targeted for completion this spring. The experiment’s suborbital flight provider redefined payload sizing requirements at the beginning of this semester, influencing form changes to electronics and flow loop components and allowing the implementation of wire harnessing features. An in-progress flow hardware rework, motivated by repeated propellant leakage, aims to replace all-purpose pipe fittings and solenoids with microfluidics to reduce mass, clutter, and failure risk. In parallel, this update will add a simple, vacuum-compatible propellant loading and drainage system to simplify the integration and test processes. Due to redundancy with currently installed flow sensors, infrared sensors for air pocket detection were removed. Potential points of failure are hardwired to LEDs on an in-house printed circuit board monitored by cameras as a failsafe for recorded telemetry. These system design changes will complement the setup currently in place to form an efficient and reliable testbed for the FEMTA micropropulsion unit, ready for suborbital flight in Q3 2023.

U49 (ME): Eco-Pod

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Jannis Brudy (jbrudy@purdue.edu)
Naomi Frank (frank73@purdue.edu)
Philipp Kunze (kunze@purdue.edu)
Tim Miller (mill2310@purdue.edu)
Andy Shinnerl (ashinne@purdue.edu)
Jackson Spurling (jspurli@purdue.edu)

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The Eco-Pod is a self-sustaining miniature greenhouse that can completely care for a small plant including plants with a variety of needs. The Eco-Pod controls light levels, humidity, soil moisture levels, and temperature of around 2 cubic feet of space to allows plants to grow. By inputting the needs of a specific species of plant, the Eco-Pod adapts and maximizes its growth potential. The Power-Plants team hope that by creating this product growing your own plants will be easier than ever before.

U50 (STU-ORG): Rocket League, by Purdue Autonomous Robotics Club

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Haddy Alchaer (halchaer@purdue.edu)
James Baxter (baxter26@purdue.edu)
Shreyas Chinnola (schinno@purdue.edu)
Brendan Duffy (duffy45@purdue.edu)
AJ Ernandes (aernande@purdue.edu)
Srividya Gandikota (sgandiko@purdue.edu)
Daniel Gerblick (dgerblic@purdue.edu)
Chris Hall (hall488@purdue.edu)
Robby Housman (rhousman@purdue.edu)
Robert Ketler (rketler@purdue.edu)
Romy Kim (kim3554@purdue.edu)
Kevin Lim (lim332@purdue.edu)
Harrison McCarty (mccarth@purdue.edu)
Dhirodaatto Sarkar (sarkar40@purdue.edu)
Rajeev Sashti (rsashti@purdue.edu)
Jake Tockerman (jtockerm@purdue.edu)

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The goal of this project is to build a system of scaled autonomous vehicles that play head-to-head in a game of high-speed soccer. Each autonomous car makes its own decisions as it plays, and it executes these plans without human interaction, using a computer vision system for feedback. Inspiration draws from the game, Rocket League, in which rocket-powered vehicles play soccer in 3v3 matches.   This current semester, our focus has been on creating an interactive demo, where a team of human controlled cars compete against a team of autonomous cars. We're very near to this goal, and plan to be able to present this at the expo. Volunteers will be given an Xbox controller which controls a given car on the field. Other cars on the field will be controlled by other volunteers, or by the autonomous system. The autonomous system is run on several desktop computers adjacent to the field and controls are delivered to the cars via a radio link. Once the volunteers are ready, a "match" would begin and the human and computer would compete against one another to score goals using their RC cars. After a given amount of time has passed or score is achieved, a new volunteer can try.  The cars are small scale, approximately 6 inches long, and the field (3m x 4.25m) is enclosed with pool noodles. The cars are artificially limited in speed, and there is a centralized "kill switch". The balls in use are foam. We do not believe a live demo will pose any significant risk to spectators.  This project is one of several run by the Autonomous Robotics Club of Purdue: https://www.purduearc.com/. The club's mission is to give students real-world experience through building robot hardware and software, while solving state-of-the-art robotics problems.

U51 (ECE): Mario Kart

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Jorge Apolo (apoloj@purdue.edu)
Jake Doan (doan5@purdue.edu)
Andre Hatushikano (ahatushi@purdue.edu)
Da Yeon Nam (nam44@purdue.edu)

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We are making Mario Kart in real life. For those that don't know Mario Kart, it is a racing game with "power ups" that appear on the screen. These power ups are speed boost, throwable things, and other various things. We are using RC cars and NFC tags to hold races. We use the NFC tags to act as the "power up block" and a reader on the car to detect when one was ran over. We then use microcontroller communication using the ESP-NOW to "power up" the car.

U52 (ABE): cArgo

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Matthew Chan (chan250@purdue.edu)
Andres Dextre (adextre@purdue.edu)
Grace Lee (lee2996@purdue.edu)
Madhumitha Prakash (mprakas@purdue.edu)
Karthik Ravichandar (ravichak@purdue.edu)
Hailey Szadowski (hszadows@purdue.edu)
Miles Thompson (thomp644@purdue.edu)

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The COVID-19 pandemic strained global diagnostic capacities and highlighted the limitations of conventional lab-based assays. Early pandemic testing kits were reported to have false-negative rates as high as 29%. In an effort to provide accurate, non-invasive, affordable, and rapid Point-of-Care (POC) diagnostic tests for COVID-19 and other emerging pandemics, Purdue iGEM has spent the previous two years working on cArgo: an Argonaute mediated microfluidic diagnostic device which can be adapted to detect any viral pathogen. cArgo extracts viral RNA from saliva for amplification and conversion into dsDNA. The TtAgo Argonaute protein then cleaves the dsDNA using viral strain-specific DNA guides producing ssDNA fragments. These fragments serve as secondary guides allowing the Argonaute to cleave the molecular beacon emitting a quantifiable fluorescent signal for conclusive result determination. Coupling the biologics with chip barcoding and app integration, we hope to revolutionize POC Diagnostics while making data more accessible for simultaneous detection and contact tracing.

U53 (ME): Assistive Shower Chair

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Hongbo Lu (lu668@purdue.edu)

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Most people will be aware that when taking a shower, the floor will be either designed to be anti-slip, or an anti-slip mat will be installed on the floor. However, not all of the bathrooms are modified to be anti-slip. In fact, more than 50% of the reported falls are from those bathrooms which haven’t been modified yet. Meanwhile, according to the CDC, among the reported falls of the elderly adults, an average of 58% are related to difficulty in taking showers, mainly because of lack of muscle strength. Based on the potential hazardous situation that the elderly adults and people with certain disabilities may face, the Team “The Pivot Company” are eager to design an innovative, safe, while cost-effective product, minimizing the injuries caused by falling on the slippery bathroom floor, while assisting our customers to stand and sit during the shower.

U54 (IDE): Addressing Sensory Overload Through Soft Robotics

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Portia Baratta  (pbaratta@purdue.edu)
Colette Frickey (cfrickey@purdue.edu)
Nitin Pauletti (npaulett@purdue.edu)
Steven Randall (randal10@purdue.edu)
Mason Trenaman (mtrenama@purdue.edu)

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Our project focuses on creating an assistive device for children suffering from sensory overload. The goal is to create a product that provides comfort with overstimulated signals trigger frustration, anxiety, and discomfort. Utilizing air powered soft robotics, we built a plush toy that mimics the feeling of holding hands. Shaped like a cartoon hand, each digit inflates and curls around the users hand when pressure is applied to the palm of the hand. Each digit is made from liquid silicone poured and cured in molds designed to create a curling actuator.

U55 (VIP): Business Card Reader

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Mason Burgess (burges15@purdue.edu)
Tanon Chokkhanchitchai (tchokkha@purdue.edu)
Harsh Ranawat (hranawat@purdue.edu)
Wenhui Yang (yang1585@purdue.edu)

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Purdue University hosts several career fairs each year, with all of them resulting in several thousands of business cards being printed. The goal of the Business Card team to develop a mobile application which can take a picture of a business card by camera or upload a business card image from one’s smartphone storage, extract useful information from it, and store it into the contact list of the user’s phone. This reduces the overall need for paper usage at career fairs and other business-related events. The project team is structured into two sub-teams. While one sub-team is working on application and server development, the other works on the image processing algorithm. For the interface sub-team, the primary goal is to develop a mobile application in Android Studio that communicates with an external server to run the other team’s image processing algorithm. On the other hand, the algorithm team is working on developing an algorithm to extract characters from images of business cards. The methods implemented include traditional signal processing techniques such as 2-dimensional convolution as well as more recent algorithms such as machine learning.

U56 (ECE): Take-Off

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Scott Fang (fang299@purdue.edu)
Laula Huang (huan1650@purdue.edu)
Kyle Li (li3983@purdue.edu)
Chin Yang (yang2054@purdue.edu)

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The team proposes autonomous robots that can precisely drive beneath and attach food cabin underneath the drone. It bridges the automotive and aerospace domains by combining the flexibility of a ground vehicle with the freedom and speed of a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) air vehicle. By bridging separate local delivery areas using drones, it could expand the coverage area of autonomous food delivery to a bigger network.

U57 (EPICS): MOBI BB8

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Sarah Chalmers (schalme@purdue.edu)
Isaac Cordts (icordts@purdue.edu)
Kyleigh Dalkin (kdalkin@purdue.edu)
Val Ellis (ellis170@purdue.edu)
Karsten Hilgarth (khilgart@purdue.edu)
Pranesh Monda (pmonda@purdue.edu)
Orlando Sellers (osellers@purdue.edu)

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My EPICS senior design, has been to deliver the electrical internals for a market ready prototype for a beeping for the National Beep Baseball Association (NBBA). The NBBA is a league for people who are blind or visually impaired, a severely underrepresented group in sports. The only league approved beep baseball is outdated, and somewhat fragile. So Indy Edge, the Indianapolis based Beepball team tasked Purdue EPICS to create a replacement.  The ball is required to beep at a certain frequency, be rechargeable and have an ~1400Hz pitch

U58 (STU-ORG): Vertical Flight Systems Purdue

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Brandon Dimitri (N/A)
Yuki Kurosawa (N/A)
Karan Motwani (N/A)
Advait Shirbhayye (N/A)
Dinesh Ganesh (N/A)
Alex Wright (N/A)
Lavanya Swaminathan (N/A)
Therese Malinowski (N/A)
Aditya Kini (N/A)
Owen Johnson (N/A)
Ryan Shobe (N/A)
Mihir Ghonge (N/A)
Luke Bohlig (N/A)
Olive Marangoni (N/A)
Rishabh Midha (N/A)
Bobak Eizadkhah (N/A)
Eric Luscher (N/A)
Konrad Kawnatra (N/A)
Hersh Thapar (hthapar@purdue.edu)

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Our organization seeks to bring Boilermakers enthusiastic in applying their knowledge and get hands-on experience in pursuit of tackling real world challenges in Urban Air Mobility. From conceptualizing a feasible design to putting it to life through manufacturing, our team encourages members to get their hands on designing the controllers, analyzing structural integrity, and testing flight capabilities of our vehicular components. We are currently working on creating our first iteration of our eVTOL aircraft, capable of carrying a payload of 25 pounds with a flight time of 15 minutes. It serves as a proof of concept for UAM Single Package Delivery. Our long term goal is to tackle passenger transport capabilities by iteration three.

U59 (VIP): SWARMS: Multi-Agent Control Simulation Platform

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Amikosh Dube (dubea@purdue.edu )
Harrison Booker (hbooker@purdue.edu)
Harrison Wongsonegoro (hwongson@purdue.edu)
Jason Park (park1036@purdue.edu)
Arjith Jegannathan (ajeganna@purdue.edu)
Konrad Kawnatra (kkawnatr@purdue.edu)
Shashank Sridhar (sridha26@purdue.edu)
Jack Roy (roy107@purdue.edu)
Sullivan Cisco (scisco@purdue.edu)
Dulani Wijayarathne (dwijayar@purdue.edu)
Younggil Chang (chang529@purdue.edu)

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The SWARM Simulation platform provides a novel web-based application for researchers to design, implement, and evaluate multi-agent flight control algorithms while reducing computational requirements for the end users. By leveraging cloud services, SWARM is a scalable, realistic, and user-friendly simulator. The platform provides downloadable data log files and visualizations of the simulation results, such as drone positions over time.  The platform ensures security of user data by automatically patching codebase vulnerabilities, and prevents unauthorized access and communications between drones. SWARM provides various realistic benchmarks to reduce development times and costs for real-world scenarios. The platform includes built-in libraries of common swarm functions, including task allocation and obstacle avoidance (utilizing LiDar sensor data from the platform). Our future plans include improving the security capabilities, the data portal, and adding disaster management scenarios on the infrastructure side. We also plan to improve our existing algorithm implementations and implement built-in machine learning capabilities.

U60 (ECE): Hyper Hydration Device (H2D)

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Indraadityan Logamurugan (ilogamur@purdue.edu)
Naveen Vivek (vivek@purdue.edu)
Tuhin Sarkar (sarkart@purdue.edu)
Apoorva Ravi Balasubramanian (aravibal@purdue.edu)

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Hyper Hydration Device (H2D) is a device that can transform an ordinary water bottle into its smart equivalent. This device is a small puck-like structure that is placed below a water bottle and interfaces with a mobile application via Bluetooth to provide statistics regarding water consumption, and reccomendations for increasing liquid consumption based on physical activity data.

U61 (EEE): Gleaners Food Bank Solar Installation

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Marcellus Chang (Chang654@purdue.edu)
Abigail Divish (adivish@purdue.edu)
Nicolas Cubides (ncubides@purdue.edu)
Matthew Breitenstein (mbreite@purdue.edu)
Elizabeth McCleery (emccleer@purdue.edu)

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Gleaners Food Bank, a food supplier to the underprivileged in Indiana, aims to transition to solar energy. Their current energy needs are being met entirely through power purchased from the grid, predominantly sourced via fossil fuels. This reliance on fossil fuels creates a vulnerability to energy emergencies and creates greenhouse gas emissions that are related to an increase in global temperatures, i.e. climate change. Decreased emissions will positively improve the surrounding community by lowering the risk of respiratory health issues, improving air quality, and decreasing pollution. This transition will reduce their overall environmental footprint and increase resilience while freeing up more budget for their food bank.  The project requires a thorough analysis of monetary and spatial constrictions when implementing solar panels on the warehouse roof. Analysis on whether solar panels can effectively replace electrical usage in the months with the highest use and whether the solar flux during these months would be adequate to replace their energy needs is required. Cost analysis regarding implementation, size, scope, installation, and payback periods would also be needed. Lastly, an understanding of federal, state, and local laws and requirements would be required, as there are restrictions regarding overproduction of energy in the state of Indiana. Solar energy can be sold back to the grid currently, but the state of net metering in Indiana is ever changing.

U62 (EEE): White River North Water Treatment Expansion

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Annalynne Doll (doll12@purdue.edu)
Troy Weber (weber159@purdue.edu)
Nathan Strang (strangn@purdue.edu)
Kayley Uy (uy1@purdue.edu)

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Citizens is a utility company that serves and supplies more than 850,000 people with water, wastewater, natural gas, chilled water, and steam. The current water system they have implemented treats water from ten water treatment plants where four of them are sourced from surface water and six from groundwater. The in question is one of the surface water treatment plants at the WRN facility. The WRN surface water plant has a current capacity of 34 MGD and is being expanded to treat a capacity of 49 MGD in response to the growing population. Our team has elected to evaluate the White River hydrology, the sedimentation basin complex, as well as the disinfection system. These systems are necessary to review as an increase in capacity means there will be more water to treat. Water treatment is very specific in the times and quantities of materials used to treat water to the mandated standards. Therefore, these times and quantities of materials need to be reassessed so that the health and safety of the public are not harmed. According to the National Society of Professional Engineers, it is of the utmost importance that engineers hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public. By redesigning the existing water treatment facility so that the expansion meets water treatment goals, we are upholding this canon. The briefs compiled in this project report allow for the improvement of public health, safety, and welfare as we are ensuring the WRN expansion will supply the growing population in addition to the supplied water being treated to the appropriate standards as mandated by the Safe Drinking Water Act.

U63 (EEE): Whirlpool Product Assessment

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Connor Burnett (burnettr@purdue.edu)
Steven Rowsey (srowsey@purdue.edu)
Jake Strnad (jstrnad@purdue.edu)
Charlie Graham (graha162@purdue.edu)

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We are working with Whirlpool to perform a life cycle assessment (LCA) on a combination washer and dryer unit that is currently in-development. This study covers the manufacturing, transportation, use, and end-of-life phases of the unit's life cycle. The model for our LCA was created using Simapro and Simapro datasets along with a bill of materials provided by Whirlpool. The model looks at impact categories using Traci 2.1.

U64 (EEE): American Structurepoint Lift Station Design

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Abby Francis (franci49@purdue.edu)
Wren Weyenburg (wweyenbe@purdue.edu)
Adam Matthews (matthe35@purdue.edu)
Tem Tedala (ttedla@purdue.edu)

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Our team worked with American Structurepoint to design a new lift station for the Gary Sanitary District, where new casino was built and was to be serviced by a left station that did not have adequate capacity to handle the flow. The design process consisted of evaluating/analyzing existing flow data, calculating rainwater infiltration into the sanitary system, estimating flow from the development, using hydraulic principles to calculate necessary pump capacity, and completing a preliminary lift station design.

U65: Automated Pipe Cutter

U66: UniVRsity

U67: Putting the Bite Back into History: Manufacturing Bone Marks Without Live Specimens

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Erika Denker (edenker@purdue.edu)
Hunter Velasque (hcvelasq@purdue.edu)

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Some of the most mysterious yet telling artifacts from archaeological sites come in the form of animal remains with bone surface modifications (BSM) left on them from ancient predators. These marks left behind on fossilized bone can provide valuable insight into predator-prey relationships in the past and help researchers determine facts about a site’s paleoecology. The current best field practice to identify the creators of BSM involves morphological comparison of the found marks with marks of known origin. However, marks of known origin can be difficult to procure, especially when working with animal BSM; carnivores can be dangerous and unpredictable. This results in a large, previously unsolvable issue: how does one go about procuring carnivore known origin BSM without endangering researchers and retaining control of all variables? To reliably accomplish this, we constructed JAWS (the Jaw Actuating Wildlife Simulator). The device, using a surrogate animal skull, employs pneumatics to produce a compressive force comparable to the animal’s actual bite force. The pneumatic system is mounted on an adaptable framework so one can exercise full control over force placement and strength. In addition, this flexibility allows researchers to take marks from specimens of various sizes. Once marks are procured, they undergo 3D morphometric analysis and Bayesian inference to determine whether the device creates accurate marks via comparison with marks of known origin. From this point, this large catalog of data points can be used to train deep learning AI to accomplish this task in a fraction of the time. Once catalogs of JAWS marks are created, archaeologists will more reliably be able to match their own marks of unknown origin, drastically improving identification rate and wait time. In conclusion, we combine the engineering design process with anthropological statistical analysis to create an unprecedented solution for creating BSM without live specimens.