Past Senior Design Projects

Won 1st Place

Duke Emergency Management

Student Team: Daniel Richter, Thomas Hanson, Johanna Argueta-Cabrera

Duke University wanted to develop a mass evacuation plan for its East Campus in case of an emergency. The student team used linear programming and optimization in Python and stochastic event simulation in Simio, to estimate evacuation times under changing conditions and create visualizations of optimal pedestrian routes to points for transportation to safety. In addition, They recommended methods for communicating evacuation orders and tracking evacuees based on existing research and engineering standards.

EyeCheq

Student Team: Harley Kugler, Josh Sumner, Lisa Nenno, Sean Nguyen

EyeCheq is a startup company that has developed the world’s first fully autonomous health and eye screening kiosk. EyeCheq faces vulnerability to supply chain disruptions, particularly from China and Taiwan. The senior design team focused on developing a contingency plan for critical components essential for EyeCheq’s kiosk functionality

Fleet Readiness Center -East (FRC-E)

Student Team: Joshua Mayfield, Nicole Felice, Rebecca Daniels

FRCE wants to improve its project management processes and decision-making capabilities by creating Power BI dashboards. The student team restructured, improved and made calculations on the data of the facility and equipment projects to create a unified spreadsheet using Excel files and queries in Microsoft Access. They used the master spreadsheet to create Power BI dashboards and graphics for three management tiers of FRC-E to better manage their projects.

JavaMaster

Student Team: Matthew Mendez Lagunes, Sylvana Megally, Zane Shockley,  Zachary Warren

The assembly of JavaMaster’s 1500 coffee roaster is time-consuming and lacks ergonomic design. Also, their new North Wilkesboro facility needs to be properly configured to reduce bottlenecks and increase throughput. The senior design team optimized the JMI 1500 coffee roaster by reducing assembly time through spatial reconfiguration and connector-enhanced wiring. They identified throughput limits and bottlenecks in JavaMaster’s air roaster bean roasting process by creating a Simio model.

NC State Electric Vehicle Integration

Student Team: Aiden Clabby, Justin Polonio, Matt Cody, Virginia Jackson

NC State encourages employees and students to use electric vehicles to reduce campus air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. To accomplish this goal, the university needed to provide a system of charging stations throughout campus. The student team developed dynamic tools for optimizing the charging schedules and a proposed schedule to be introduced during the electrification process. The scalable solutions will help aid in future planning, maximizing electric vehicle deployment and calculating substantial carbon emission reductions for a more sustainable university.

Won 2nd Place

NCSU Waste Reduction & Recycling

Student Team: Katie Hallenbeck, Mussa Tuli, Wasef Shaqlus

NC State Waste Reduction and Recycling needs to reduce the time trucks spend on the roads while optimizing both routes and schedules for landfill, recycling and compost waste collection. Using optimization tools, the student team drastically reduced the time trucks spend on the roads, as well as created a flexible tool that responds to variable vehicle availability.

NIOSH

Student Team: Robert Warner, Sammi Eason, Will Dedmon

Construction work is among the industries with the most fatalities. NIOSH researchers are utilizing drone-swarming technology to enhance construction site surveying in order to minimize accident rates. The student team developed a computer vision algorithm to detect fall hazards using aerial images to reduce worker injuries and potentially save lives.

Fan Favorite

Tindall

Student Team: Chaandmon Croft, Dylan Broadway, Tommy Mattison

Due to increased volume, Tindall is in need of more storage space and an efficient layout to minimize double handling. The student team reviewed the current layout, and with the use of optimization tools, they were able to develop a new optimal layout utilizing a narrow aisle forklift that resulted in a 75 percent increase in storage space.

Becton Dickinson

Student Team: Patrick Murray, Exauce Mungani, Ben Stonefield, Olivia Lowe

Becton Dickinson’s distribution center in Four Oaks faces challenges regarding pallets being left on the dock, poor communication within shifts, and safety concerns within their Less-than-truckload staging area. Our project provides a set of hierarchical and well-researched recommendations to address these issues.

C2 Gripz

Student Team: Neel Patel, Carson Shortt, Joshua Ausdenmoore, Shrikar Mummadavarapu

C2 Gripz has created an Xbox controller grip attachment designed to improve gameplay and comfortability. Their internal testing has concluded that the grips improve in-game performance, what they’d like to know is why that is from a scientific and ergonomic standpoint.

Central Comm College

Student Team: Noah Almond, Kinsley Reedy, Johnathan Moore, Adonis Belton, Kendra Canegata

Central Carolina Community College acquired the former Marelli facility in Sanford, NC. They have tasked our team with forecasting their enrollment and designing a functional layout that will transform the ~220,000 sqft facility into an education center focused on addressing the workforce needs of advanced manufacturing and biotechnology

Duke EM A (Fuel Tracker)

Student Team: Klaus Matthews, Rebekah Sumrell, Hannah Pippin, Tabitha Johnson, Sydney Shofner

Duke Enterprise’s fuel supply system is looking to improve it’s systems after the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack. Without a steady supply of fuel, lives and critical research are at risk. To prevent this from happening, our team have developed an emergency fuel shortage dashboard and protocol.

Fan Favorite

Duke EM B (Supply)

Student Team: Tyler Brading, Meredith Robbins, Megan Rogers, Jenna Stamatov, Jhanvi Patel

Our team is creating an emergency water distribution plan for Duke University that prioritizes the safety of students, allowing them to focus on their studies without disruption. This includes creating a 72 hour plan that optimizes supply chain distribution and ensures water supply from the onset of the emergency.

FRC-E

Student Team: Eloy Parilla, Grace Turcola, Nate Dubbs, Miguel Perea-Munoz, Claire Shepherd

Fleet Readiness Center – East is running out of warehouse space and is looking for a system to record and track customer inventory. Our team developed suggestions to optimize warehouse space, created a Microsoft Access tool to track inventory and prologue the need for more warehouse square footage.

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotech

Student Team: Caleb Brewer, Aaron Haberkorn, Faith Hefner, Hazem Sbei

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies is building a new bulk drug substance manufacturing plant in Holly Springs, NC. Our team was tasked with modeling the future production process identify the bottleneck and discover the optimal interval time of batches being released into the process.

GE Aerospace A (LEAP)

Student Team: Daniel Harby, Peter Chryst, Annie Ni, Chip Martin

GE Aerospace seeks to implement an addon system to address the LEAP 1-B spool backlog and increase profitability by reducing machine downtime and improving productivity. This project involves researching eAndon systems, presenting options to GE, and creating a plan to implement a purchased or home-grown system to fix the LEAP line’s issues.

Won 3rd Place

GE Aerospace B (FPI)

Student Team: Suzy Szymeczek, Jack Casterella, Seeta Lemon, Michael Mahoney

GE Aerospace is searching for potential upgrades with their fluorescent penetrant inspection line for various aircraft engine components. Our team was tasked with performing analysis on their current line and making recommendations for additional machines to improve efficiency and automation.

Won 1st Place

NC State WRR/Sustainability

Student Team: Joshua Sine, John Carl Wharton, Amrutha Amarnath, Andy Guo, Davis Hoover

NC State Waste Reduction and Recycling provides an in house waste collection service for all university facilities. Our senior design team was contracted to improve route efficiencies and reduce total Greenhouse Gas emissions. Our recommendations improve their process through calculated optimal routes and usage of alternative eco-friendly fuel.

Won 2nd Place

restor3d

Student Team: Chris Cotrupi, Isaac Russell, Zach Pittman, Chris Giattino

Restor3d seeks to improve the accuracy of its post-processing method for the Talus implant. The current process results in a high rate of out of specification products that must be reworked in order to meet standards. Upon implementing our process, restor3d will more effectively use their time, money, and effort.

Siemens Kitting

Student Team: Lucas Mallison, Mackenzie Marino, Ashley Stanfield, Ian Turner

Siemens has enlisted a team of NC State University ISE students to help resolve inefficiencies within their warehouse operations. The purpose of this project is to design a storage and transportation tool that reduces non-value-added activities during the material collection and assembly process of a single product, Retrofit.

Siemens Warehouse

Student Team: Nathaniel Polzin, Luke Sprinkle, Bailey Walston, Adam Telli, Elizabeth Beese

Siemens has an opportunity to maintain a better organized warehouse system, resulting in higher inventory holding costs and increasing the time it takes to move parts from inventory to the production lines. Our recommended solutions will optimize part storage locations, creating more efficient order picking jobs and reducing part travel times.

Vanguard Furniture

Student Team: John Ellis, Nathan Mitten, Matt Strickland, Taylor White

Vanguard Furniture owns a manufacturing facility that is not sufficiently heated by the existing wood-fired boiler. Our team has been tasked with evaluating heating solutions and benchmarking them based on performance, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness. We propose multiple solutions and gives recommendations based on sustainable and economic perspectives.

Wake County Housing

Student Team: Jordan Roed, Luke Sanchez, Sam Jarrett, Jacob Schraufnagel

Wake County Housing is looking to improve its current process for storing data to avoid duplicate and cluttered data that cannot be reported. We built a data dictionary to streamline their data and act as a single source of truth and supplemented it with a process map detailing the data flow.

Yepzy

Student Team: Rina Davila Severiano, Noah Bowman, Tabitha Anderson, William Franzoni

Yepzy has contracted our team to create an algorithm that will reduce the cost of remittances for H-2A and H-2B visa holders. The algorithm optimizes the value protection, liquidity effect, delivery mechanism, and transfer speed of remittances to maximize the amount of money sent to loved ones abroad.