Engineering Seniors Awarded $10,000 in Prizes at Engineering Design Day 2009

By Pete Brown - May 6, 2009, 12:47 pm

Senior capstone project sponsors awarded more than $10,000 in prizes for senior engineering projects presented at Engineering Design Day 2009.

Walter Seaman (left) and Matthew Leavy scrutinize their test apparatus, which they and their teammates designed to test how equipment seals withstand a simulated lunar environment.

This year’s event was held May 5 in the Student Union Memorial Center’s Grand Ballroom, and drew a crowd of about 800. The event was organized by the College’s Interdisciplinary Design Program, and Sponsored by Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems.

Flocking to the event were students, faculty, parents, high school students, industry sponsors, and the press. Local coverage appeared today in the Arizona Daily Star, the Arizona Daily Wildcat, and the Tucson Citizen.

The slideshow below features a selection of photographs from the event.

In the awards list below, clicking on the project title opens a new browser window and takes you to the Senior Capstone Project Database, which describes each project in detail. All projects are listed, not just those that were awarded prizes.

An 80-page booklet describing the program and all the projects can be downloaded in PDF format here (only 1.5 MB; separate window opens): EDD_2009_book.pdf

List of Awards

Award Title: Best Overall Design
Award Winning Project: Dynamically scaled oblique flying wing
Prize Amount: $1500
Prize Sponsor: Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems

Award Title: Best Overall Design, Runner Up
Award Winning Project: Multiscale biaxial optomechanical device
Prize Amount: $1000
Prize Sponsor: Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems

Award Title: Best Innovation in Engineering
Award Winning Project: Adiabatic cell using low reagent volumes
Prize Amount: $1000
Prize Sponsor: Ventana Medical Systems

Award Title: Best Engineering Analysis
Award Winning Project: Portable gluten biosensor
Prize Amount: $750
Prize Sponsor: Raytheon

Award Title: Best Technical Documentation
Award Winning Project: Mechatronic medical device deployment system
Prize Amount: $750
Prize Sponsor: Technical Documentation Consultants of Arizona

Award Title: Best Presentation
Award Winning Project: PedOne: pediatric electronic medical records
Prize Amount: $750
Prize Sponsor: Rincon Research

Leslie Wu tweaks the equipment that she and her team designed for a project on stochastic resonance.

Award Title: Team Leadership (1 of 2)
Award Winning Project Leader: Brigid Marshall
Project Title: Gravity-aligned collimator
Prize Amount: $250
Prize Sponsor: Honeywell

Award Title: Team Leadership (2 of 2)
Award Winning Project Leader: Amjad Mukhtar Chatila
Project Title: Brain wave activity alarm
Prize Amount: $250
Prize Sponsor: Honeywell

Award Title: Best Analog Design, First Place
Award Winning Project: Brainwave activity alarm
Prize Amount: $1500
Prize Sponsor: Texas Instruments

Award Title: Best Analog Design, Second Place
Award Winning Project: Telemetry system prototype
Prize Amount: $500
Prize Sponsor: Texas Instruments

Award Title: Best Use of Prototyping
Award Winning Project: Irrigation flowstream energy extraction and storage via turbine
Prize Amount: $750
Prize Sponsor: Phoenix Analysis and design Technologies

Award Title: Best Use of Off-the-Shelf Components
Award Winning Project: Leave-behind remote sensor
Prize Amount: $750
Prize Sponsor: Edmund Optics

Award Title: Fish Out of Water
Award Winner: Katia Shtyrkova
Project Title: Stochastic resonance
Prize Amount: $300
Prize Sponsor: Kristy Pearson


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