2015-2016: In collaboration with Schneider Electric, this student team designed a handheld data acquisition device to collect, digitize, and store the raw output signal from a Schneider Electric vortex flowmeter. The goal of the device was to support further product…
Elm Street Dam Removal Design, Kingston MA
2015-2016: In collaboration with Stantec and the Jones River Watershed Association (JRWA), this student team designed plans for the removal of the Elm Street Dam in Kingston, MA. The dam currently blocks the head-of-tide flow from Cape Cod Bay, inhibits…
Design of a Novel FIFA-Approved Soccer Ball
2015-2016: In collaboration with Under Armour and PSI91, this student team designed a novel soccer ball for use in international match play to help launch Under Armour into the global soccer market. The team completed an in-depth literature review of…
Design of a Reusable Clip Applier Attachment for the Lapro-Clip Device
2014-2015: In collaboration with Medtronic (formerly Covidien), this student team designed a reusable clip applier attachment for the Lapro-ClipTM clip applier device, which is used in Minimally Invasive Surgery to ligate blood vessels. The goal of the attachment was to…
Process Design for Waste Heat Recovery
2014-2015: In collaboration with Dresser-Rand, this student team focused on waste heat recovery in manufacturing facilities. The project had two main components: developing a process design for implementing a waste heat recovery (WHR) system and then applying this process to…
Design of a Low-Cost, User-Serviceable Closing Mechanism for an Electrochemical Cell
Dam Rehabilitation Design for the Tyler Dam in Marlborough, MA
2014-2015: In collaboration with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, this student team completed a dam rehabilitation design for the Tyler Dam in Marlborough, MA to prevent erosion of the earthen portion during overtopping flows. Tyler Dam requires rehabilitation so that…
Design of MassCentral Rail Trail Spur to Main Street in Leeds, MA
2014-2015: In collaboration with the Northampton Department of Public Works (NDPW), the Northampton Office of Planning and Sustainability (NOPS), and two community groups (the Leeds Civic Association and the Mill River Greenway Initiative), this student team designed an access spur…
Design of a Low-flow Measurement Device for Integration with a Vortex Flowmeter
2014-2015: In collaboration with Schneider Electric, this student team designed a low-flow measurement device for integration into Schneider Electric’s current vortex flowmeter, thus expanding the vortex flowmeter’s range of use in low-flow applications. The team conducted a thorough review of…
Personal Cooling System Design for Special Operations Forces
2013-2014: This student team collaborated with the Department of Defense Special Operations Command (DoD-SOCOM) through the Stevens Institute Capstone Design Marketplace. Maintaining core body temperature is vital to Special Operations Forces when they are on missions in hot environments. Detrimental…
Design of an Adjustable Impeller Eye Labyrinth Seal
2013-2014: In collaboration with Dresser-Rand, this student team designed an impeller eye labyrinth seal that allows clearance to be adjusted without disassembling the centrifugal compressor that houses the seal. Leakage across the impeller eye seal is a critical factor influencing…
Design of a Plastic Waste Management System for Portobelo, Panama
2013-2014: In collaboration with Future Scientist, a charitable organization that conducts science-based community development projects, this student team designed a plastic waste management system for Portobelo, Panema. Portobelo has irregular garbage collection and no home collection for recycling. Solid waste, particularly…
Design of a Radar System to Count Bat Population
2013-2014: In collaboration with the MITRE Corporation, this team designed a radar and signal processing system to determine the population of bat colonies accurately and precisely. Bats are considered an indicator species, meaning that the biodiversity and health of an ecosystem…
Design of a Radar-Laser System to Zap Malaria-infected Mosquitoes
2013-2014: In collaboration with the MITRE Corporation, this student team designed a radar and signal processing system to provide aiming information for a mosquito-zapping laser in malaria-prone areas. The radar system was designed to be ground-based and deployed close to a…
Design of an Affordable Silage Leachate Treatment System
2013-2014: In collaboration with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), this student team developed an affordable, scalable treatment system for sileage leachate to be used on small dairy farms, continuing work from a 2011-2012 Design Clinic team. Silage leachate is the…
Sustainable Stormwater Management Designs for the Mill River
2013-2014: This team collaborated with the Northampton Department of Public Works, the Northampton Office of Planning and Sustainability, and the Smith College Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability on sustainable stormwater management for the Mill River. The project…
Design of a Device to Grow Organic Single Crystals for Use in X-ray Diffraction Experiments
2013-2014: In collaboration with Pfizer, this student team designed a simple and flexible laboratory device for medicinal chemists to identify conditions and reliably grow single crystals in a short time period. X-ray diffraction is an important tool for characterizing new active…
Design of an Economically Competitive Membrane Distillation System
2013-2014: In collaboration with W. L. Gore and Associates, this student team designed a membrane distillation system to produce potable water from seawater. Membrane distillation (MD) is a thermally-driven separation process in which one component of a hot liquid mixture preferentially…
Design of a Scalp Cooling Device to Reduce Hair Loss during Chemotherapy
2012-2013: In collaboration with 3M and three engineering students at Marquette University, this student team developed a scalp cooling device intended to reduce chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA). Several scalp cooling technologies are currently available in Europe and Canada, but the U.S.…
Design of an Impeller Labyrinth Seal
2012-2013: In collaboration with Dresser-Rand, this student team designed and prototyped a novel impeller labyrinth seal to maintain concentricity, reduce wear, and improve aerodynamic performance. Labyrinth seals are a key component in reducing gas leakage in centrifugal gas compressors; the…