Freshman and Senior Engineering Students Showcase Technology, Inventions This Thursday

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From autonomous robots designed to do maintenance and service work, to an autonomous tractor, to a rain harvesting system, engineering students will showcase their designs and inventions at Ohio State this Thursday.

Two events will highlight the year’s accomplishments of both first-year engineering students and seniors preparing for commencement.

Senior Engineering Capstone Design Showcase
Time: 12:00-3:00 p.m. 
Location: The Ohio State University Ohio Union, Archie M. Griffin East Ballroom, 1739 N. High St., Columbus

The 5th Annual Engineering Capstone Design Showcase is an opportunity to view remarkable engineering capstone design projects by senior students. The students spend one to three academic quarters on these individual, multidisciplinary and industry-sponsored senior capstone projects. 

Over 50 projects will be on display, including:

  • An autonomous tractor 
  • A wheelchair handcycle attachment
  • A rainwater harvesting system
  • A children’s novelty product
  • An automated system for assembly line inspection 

Judges will give awards to the top three projects at the showcase, which is sponsored by Ohio State’s Engineering Education Innovation Center and ArcelorMittal.

The Metro Early College High School & Dublin City Schools DESIGN Learning Center will also have five high school student teams presenting their engineering projects at the showcase. The senior students assisted the Mid-Ohio Food Bank by designing and building a cart to transport groceries from the food pantry to patrons’ homes. The teams were challenged with creating a solution that meets the needs of the users related to both environmental conditions and manufacturing costs. Teams will present their design solutions.

The Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors Nanotechnology Design Project Competition also takes place during the showcase event. Fourteen teams of bright and talented first-year engineering students have designed projects involving the use of microfluidics “lab-on-a-chip” to investigate the effects of surface features on cell adhesion. Teams display summaries of their projects through lab equipment, experimental tests, simulations, and results and analysis of their research.

First-Year Engineering Honors Robot Competition
Time: 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: The Ohio State University, St. John Arena, 410 Woody Hayes Dr., Columbus

Engineering students are using robots to efficiently do day-to-day maintenance and service work for the city this year.

The CITY, or Community Infrastructure That's Youthful, is the name of the course for this year’s College of Engineering Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors Robot Competition. The event marks the culmination of a yearlong, coordinated program in engineering, physics and mathematics.

Participating honors students worked for the past eight weeks to develop 9-by-9 inch autonomous robots that must complete several tasks on the 12- by-12 foot course created to simulate a city, including its suburbs and its downtown area.  

The robots must perform tasks involving collecting trash and/or recycling and depositing it to the proper waste container, installing a traffic light, and providing the correct amount of power to the city by adjusting the power supply. Finally, each robot must open the subway station for citizen access. The robots have just two minutes to successfully complete all designated tasks.  

The competition requires each of the 74 teams of three to four students to design, build and program an autonomous robot using creativity and engineering principles. A significant portion of their assignment involves planning, managing and documenting their work on the project.

 
News media: For more information, contact Candi Clevenger, Engineering Communications, (614) 292-1806, clevenger.87@osu.edu
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