The Michigan State University College of Engineering celebrated the 30th anniversary of its premier undergraduate event on Friday, April 19, 2024.
Called Design Day, it features competitions and project presentations from a variety of engineering classes. It gives students the opportunity to apply the knowledge and experiences they have gained during their engineering education.
The event, held at the end of every fall and spring semester, includes Capstone Projects completed by teams of seniors during a 15-week capstone course and presented on Design Day.
Teams put their best efforts forward to solve real-world problems for the college’s industry and corporate partners, and a panel of corporate judges presents awards to the most impactful, presentable, innovative, sustainable, well-designed and technically challenging projects.
The Spring 2024 Design Day held in the Engineering Building, included nearly 1,000 Spartan Engineering students representing 10 degree programs, 14 courses, and 207 teams. Among this group were 625 senior students involved in 126 capstone teams. Fifteen awards were presented at the Spring 2024 Design Day.
A look at the honorees:
Applied Engineering Sciences
Mike Sadler Competitive Edge Award
For team that strives to achieve highest possible outcome to attain next level of success.
Team Munters FoodTech
Project: Product Packaging Design Optimization
Team members: Jade Candela, Michael Harper, Hana Duncan, Kyle Lee, Kaylin Nguyen, Isaac Richardson
Most Impactful Award
Team Perrigo
Project: Machine Vision Test Unit
Team members: Cameron Cowland, Chance Wilczynski
Most Sustainable Award
Team Kautex Textron
Project: Identifying a Circular Economy for Plastic Composites
Team members: Jack Deak, Natalia Pittendrigh, Yashi Kumar, Shreya Peddi, Kaitlin Ifkovits, Charles Eppink
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rolla C. Carpenter Senior Design Award
Presented to best team as judged by MSU College of Engineering faculty members and a panel of practicing engineers.
Team Spartan Associates
Project: Consumers Energy New Lansing Operations Center
Team members: Colin Edwards, Dana LeFevre, Andrew Carter, Olivia Hagan, Laura Hershauer, Sarah George, Ryan Soto
Computer Science
Auto-Owners Insurance Exposition Award
Presented to team with best overall design.
Team TechSmith
Project: Enhanced Video Assistant
Team members: Albert Cho, Kyle Nowak, Sriram Seelamneni, Emmett Barrett, Carter Salna, Chirag Rudrangi
MSU Federal Credit Union Praxis Award
Presented to team with most technically challenging software system.
Team MillerKnoll
Project: Product Lifecycle Tracing System
Team members: Ashley Jarria, David Xiong, Keshav Babu, Felix Liang, Mohammad Zaman
TechSmith Screencast Award
Presented to the team with video that best describes and demonstrates a software product.
Team General Motors
Project: Recovery of Lost and Stolen IT Assets
Team members: Auden Garrard, Hunter Jones, Joel Marshall, Jemin Han, Seth Youngstrom
Amazon Sigma Award
Presented to team that demonstrates best overall Capstone experience.
Team Vectra AI
Project: Hybrid Cyberattack Simulator
Team members: Nathan Motzny, Henry Barton, Alisha Brenholt, Campbell Robertson, Andrew Talbott
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Place Awards
Team MSU College of Music
Project: Feel the Music
Team members: Jason Ahn, Spenser Lafferty, Maria Scannell, Jason Shell, Andrew Morgan
Team MSU D-Cypher Lab
Project: Design of Hardware-in-the-Loop Fire Simulator
Team members: Alayna Schumaker, Nick Fedewa, Najiha Jaigirdar, Doriana Vuljaj
Second Place Awards
Team Fraunhofer USAProject: The Design and Fabrication of an Inkjet Printer for Selective Diamond Growth
Team members: Scott Risdon, Andrei Bodea, Herminee Orzech, Morgan Gates, Joey Lopez, Ruiqi Lu
Team MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: 24W DC-DC Converter
Team members: Ben Torok, Jake Cabana, Ben Schuchardt, Manan Patel, Douglas Bombard
Mechanical Engineering
Presentation Award
Presented to team with best presentation.
Team Pratt Miller
Project: FSAE Front Outboard Electric Motor Assembly
Team members: Cameron Hesano, Rafael Abage, Matthew Ajlouny, Anissa Sant, Ronak Patel
Edison Undergraduate Design Award
Presented to team with best technical design.
MSU Combat Robotics Team
Project: Combat Robotics Vehicle Design and Development
Team members: Owen Korff, Ryan Prost, Nicole Gibbons, Ellie Clark (also sponsor), Ari Bozann, Ahmed Abboushi
da Vinci Award
Presented to team with best machine design.
Team 13, Station B
Project: Cornhole Bag Launching Mechanism
Team members: Jack Darrow, Connor Mackenzie, Luke Naughton, Kaden Swierkos, Kieran Velasquez
Written by Eric Lacy, lacyeric@msu.edu. See more at the Engineering Media and Public Relations page.