ME UNDERGRADUATE: Senior Design

Past ME Senior Design Projects

• Black and Decker: orientation and assembly of electric drill casing
  
  
• Imperial Clevite: shaft-seal leakage testing
  
  
• Abbott Laboratories: packing of bottles and IV bags
  
  
• Empire Brush: automation of attaching broom-back bumpers
  
  
• Proctor and Gamble: replace missing pads on fast-moving conveyor
  
  
• Eaton Corporation: loading flexible golf club grips onto a moving jig
  
  
• Morganite: measurement of thickness of carbon motor brushes
  
  
• Loadmaster Industries: light weight garbage truck compactors
  
  
• Lufkin, Cooper Tools: fold extension rulers
  
  
• Lufkin, Cooper Tools: place folding rulers in display sleeves
  
  
• Gravely Internationl and Edgecomb Metals: marking sheet metal
  
  
• EMBREX: detect living embryos in turkey eggs
  
  
• EMBREX: inversion/alignment of turkey eggs
  
  
• Warner Company: cutting and packing artificial talc crayons
  
  
• Jenkins Metals: a more manufacturable carding machine vent
  
  
• AMP Industries: continuous electroplating process
  
  
• Stanadyne: assembly of a seven piece sink waste assembly
  
  
• Kennametal: insertion of tungsten-carbide cores into welding rods
  
  
• Balloon Works: controlling fire fighting/rescue balloons
  
  
• REGO: production testing of LP regulators
  
  
• Raleigh News and Observer: wrapping bundles of newspapers
  
  
• Burke Mills: handling and loading of dying spindles
  
  
• Gravely International (Ariens): new methods for disposal of lawn clippings
  
  
• ConvaTec: loading, accumulating and distributing burn patches
  
  
• Captive Aire Corporation: efficient commercial kitchen grease filters
  
  
• Schrader Bellows Division of Parker Hannifin: loading muffler filaments
  
  
• Raychem: place connector caps on telecommunications equipment
  
  
• Tipper Tie: loading strings of clips onto reels
  
  
• General Electric: loading and locking nuclear fuel pellets into casings
  
  
• Homelite Textron: automating starting/tuning string trimmer engines
  
  
• Toter: dumping wheeled trash containers into dumpsters
  
  
• UNC Department of Computer Science: tracking human head position
  
  
• NC DOT: handling weighing scales in enforcement cars
  
  
• Glaxo: quality assurance testing of child-proof cap tightness
  
  
• Siecor: fabricating fiber optic zipcord
  
  
• CertainTeed: shingle feeders
  
  
• Frigidaire: life test rigs for dishwasher doors
  
  
• AMP Industries: ergonomic linkages for hand operated crimpers
  
  
• Ingraham Clocks: clock motor & gear train torque measurement
  
  
• Abbott Laboratories: table top IV tubing coiling devices
  
  
• DRA, Inc.: exercise equipment for disabled persons
  
  
• Caterpillar: force feedback systems in backhoes
  
  
• Ingersoll Rand: a portable, eighteen horsepower screw compressor
  
  
• Abbott Laboratories: IV-bag storage and feeding machinery
  
  
• Kabi Pharmicia: IV-bottle insertion into sterilizer racks
  
  
• Square D: lamination stacking
  
  
• Balcrank Products: design of a modular pump controller
  
  
• Ingersoll Rand: design of a light tower mast
  
  
• AMSCO: design of sterilizer system, instrument support/containe
  
  
• EASCO: racking and de-racking mechanism for tool sockets
  
  
• Eveready: device to reorient flashlight batteries on an automated line
  
  
• General Electric: automatic application of rivets on electric boxes
  
  
• Porta-Nails: orienting, gluing and packing flat nails
  
  
• Caterpillar: design of wheel-loader lift and tilt kickouts
  
  
• Eaton Corporation: lash adjuster dis-assembly device
  
  
• Lenox Manufacturing: plate loading/unloading for vibratory finishing
  
  
• Danaher Tool Company: automatic loading device for tool sockets
  
  
• Gilbarco Incorporated: gas pump quick connection devices for test racks
  
  
• Schwitzer: orientation stand for turbocharger assembly
  
  
• Adams-Mills: a sock feeding device
  
  
• Styrotech Machines: label removal device for plastic drink bottles
  
  
• Caterpillar, Construction Machine Division: automatically greased link pin
  
  
• General Electric: a cabinet handle that interlocks with electric breakers
  
  
• Alternative Energy Corporation: an electric motor dynamometer
  
  
• Sara Lee Corporation: design of a remix lifting/dumping mechanism
  
  
• Caterpillar: design a window lift mechanism
  
  
• Gilbarco: new ways to measure volume of gasoline
  
  
• Square D: test equipment for motor starter relays
  
  
• John Deere (Homelite) Company: test stand for gasoline powered pumps
  
  
• Bromma, Inc.: all electric “Spreader” cargo lifter
  
  
• Bussmann Fuse Company: solder applicator
  
  
• Austin Quality Foods: cleaning device
  
  
• AKG Incorporation: assembling water-to-air heat radiators
  
  
• General Electric: fitting equipment into switch gear cabinets
  
  
• Athey Products: dust suppression system for street sweepers
  
  
• NATVAR: automatic winding of extruded plastic tubing
  
  
• OEM Worldwide: cost reducing a humidity switch
  
  
• Gilbarco: extended hose reach for gas pumps
  
  
• Bromma: over-height container lifting device
  
  
• Tipper Tie: automated winding system
  
  
• Caterpillar: hydraulic quick coupler
  
  
• John Deere: trimmer cutting head
  
  
• Ingersoll-Rand: noise reduction on compressors
  
  
• Tipper Tie: prototype winding system
  
  
• Ingersoll Rand: sound reduction for air compressors
  
  
• Tipper Tie: automated system for winding spools of ties
  
  
• Caterpillar: sound reduction for loaders
  
  
• Tipper Tie: tape adherence on aluminum clips
  
  
• Hughes Network Systems: satellite antenna pointing mechanism
  
  
• Moen, Inc.: loading/unloading PVD products
  
  
• Kennametal: blanchard grinding automation
  
  
• Caterpillar: design of bulldozer lift mechanism
  
  
• Honeywell: improved fixture for fuel control unit
  
  
• Moen: assembling a water valve
  
  
• Bayer: IR moisture measurement automation
  
  
• Caterpillar: air conditioning system design
  
  
• Abbott Laboratories: drying system for label adhesion
  
  
• Vermont American: assembling power-change hole saws
  
  
• Caterpillar: tension device for tracked vehicles
  
  
• Konica, USA: KMU adjusting wheel
  
  
• Bosch: application of damping material to dishwasher tubs
  
  
• Caterpillar: skid steer loader noise reduction to meet ISO standards
  
  
• Caterpillar: design of the pedal group for track type loaders