Students may choose one of three project types:
All types may be pre-arranged (determined before class registration)
Spring '25 Senior Design Callout Meeting, Video from Sept. 9, 2024 --> Click Here.
Details on how to pre-arrange a project can be found here --> Spring 2025 ME463 Pre-Arranged Project Information.
If you don't wish to pre-arrange, or are unable, you will register for the course as you normally would any other course and then work with your ME463 lab instructor at the start of the semester to get assigned to a project and a team.
ALL projects must satisfy the course Project Selection Criteria.
Oct. 2: Deadline to submit/apply/upload your team for a Sponsor Project, linked below; QR code found at the end of each sponsored application form.
Industry-sponsored projects are sponsorships arranged with a student's intern/co-op employer, or are ME Corporate Partners, or are Companies who have brought a technical Design/Analyze/Build/Test challenge to the Senior Design Faculty.
Information on setting up an Industry Sponsored project can be found in the "Pre-Arranged Projects Information" files linked above.
You may also find the files below helpful when discussing a potential sponsorship with your employer.
- Soft actuation synchronized augmenting motion generation by analyzing the heartbeat patterns: View Now // Download
- Trade Show Pinball Machine: View Now // Download
Contact Professor Montalvo fmontalv@purdue.edu with questions or to set-up a sponsorship.
Faculty and students interested in proposing their own research project should look over the Spring 2025 ME463 Pre-Arranged Project Information presentation linked above, scan the appropriate QR code and complete the Qualtrics survey.
- SICK Lidar Challenge: View Now // Download
- DoD Capstone Design Marketplace Projects: View Now // Download
- Marine Energy Collegiate Competition 2025: View Now // Download
- Data center thermal management - Project A: View Now // Download
- UNDERWATER AUTOMATED LEVELLING TABLE: View Now // Download
- Hydropower Collegiate Competition: View Now // Download // More Info
- BackPack Mobile Mapping System: View Now // Download
- Development of Apparatus to Measure (self-)Thermophoresis in Microgravity: View Now // Download
Contact Professor Jensen jensen23@purdue.edu with questions or to set-up a sponsorship.
Student-initiated projects are projects that stem from ideas presented by ME463 students before the semester begins. To request approval for such a project, it must meet the selection criteria below and the Submission Form must be downloaded, filled out, and submitted as instructed.
Contact Professor Jensen at jensen23@purdue.edu or Professor Hirleman at hirleman@purdue.edu with questions.
