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…