Examples of Student Projects
Our students benefit from capstone projects to apply technical skills and hone soft skills. They help industrial sponsors solve real problems and make connections to jump start their careers. This is just a sampling of past projects.
Clinton Prairie Schools - Transportation
Decatur County and Decatur County Visitors Commission: Solar Eclipse Planning Logistic
Indiana Tourism Association: Solar Eclipse Event Planning
Purdue Student Success Programs: Testing Center Co-Location
Spencer County Visitors Bureau: Solar Eclipse Planning Logistics
Other Examples of Previous Projects
- Maximize (process & supply for) car seat plastics recycling
- Optimize vegetable seed production across multiple global locations
- Initiate a newly purchased hydroponic growth system, layout the area, and assess efficient and effective work flow design
- Optimize bed count with hospital forecasts at multiple Indiana Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) locations
- Reduce yield loss and environmental impact for our [product] production lines; process flow, identify loss points, quantify, prioritize losses, root cause, plan, implement, and estimated savings
- Design and recommend plant expansion layout: process mapping, flow analysis, simulation (Arena) of throughput and workstation design
- Design and implement a process control for food preparation and service to allergy sufferers in dining and catering services
- Aid data-driven decision making: evaluate and provide cost analysis of an IoT (Internet of Things) manufacturing monitoring platform
- Reduce clinician burnout and increase efficiency regarding electronic medical records activities
- Optimize transportation services to provide easy, safe, and supportive transportation for long term care clients' appointments
- Improve efficiency, effectiveness and accuracy of a sales forecasting model that includes a visualization tool, enabling quicker and more robust decision making
- Create an interactive chat bot for noise repair diagnostics