Senior Design Day arrives
Seniors display Design endeavours
Sheeraz Hyder
Issue date: 4/25/08 Section: Campus News
A hardware-based encryption device called "Pandora's Box," a new way to create algae-based ethanol and an unmanned ultra-lightweight air vehicle. These projects and more were displayed in the Schaefer Center this past Wednesday as part of the annual Senior Design Expo. With around 71 projects, the expo gave graduating seniors the opportunity to showcase the projects that they had been working on since last September. These projects include long-standing traditional endeavors such as the Steel Bridge which won fourth place in the American Society of Civil Engineers' regional competition this year and newer efforts such as S.A.M.M.I.E.S. Pinball Table.
The design expo is "intended to provide a forum and one of the high points ... for graduating seniors to show the results of their major capstone project work to the whole Stevens community," according to Dr. Keith Sheppard, Associate Dean of Engineering at the Charles V. Schaefer, Sr. School of Engineering and Science (SES). Natalia Malantchnouk, who was part of the team that designed the algae-based ethanol, said that their "objective was to determine how much sugar was in algae" using High Performance Liquid Chromatography, which would "determine how much ethanol you could get in the end." Michael Bocchinfuso, part of the Pandora's Box team, offered a demonstration of the encryption system along with one of his partners, Derek Ives.
A new project this year was the Modular Green House, a cross-disciplinary project which included ten students from the Electrical, Computer, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Departments and the School of Business and Technology. Anthony Gude, one of the Mechanical Engineering majors on the project, said they aimed to create a house that was "environmentally friendly" and able to be "built in a short amount of time." The expo also offered undergraduates the opportunity to plan for their own senior design projects.
The design expo is "intended to provide a forum and one of the high points ... for graduating seniors to show the results of their major capstone project work to the whole Stevens community," according to Dr. Keith Sheppard, Associate Dean of Engineering at the Charles V. Schaefer, Sr. School of Engineering and Science (SES). Natalia Malantchnouk, who was part of the team that designed the algae-based ethanol, said that their "objective was to determine how much sugar was in algae" using High Performance Liquid Chromatography, which would "determine how much ethanol you could get in the end." Michael Bocchinfuso, part of the Pandora's Box team, offered a demonstration of the encryption system along with one of his partners, Derek Ives.
A new project this year was the Modular Green House, a cross-disciplinary project which included ten students from the Electrical, Computer, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Departments and the School of Business and Technology. Anthony Gude, one of the Mechanical Engineering majors on the project, said they aimed to create a house that was "environmentally friendly" and able to be "built in a short amount of time." The expo also offered undergraduates the opportunity to plan for their own senior design projects.