The team is dedicated to the meticulous modification and integration of a sensing and control system within an existing controlled environment chamber, building upon the groundwork laid by a previous capstone project. Their primary goal is to automate the adjustment of critical parameters essential for plant life, encompassing CO2 concentrations, air temperature, and humidity.

The tap water that goes to everyone's home has chemical contaminants in it, including PFOA compounds and pharmaceuticals. Deactivating these carcinogenic and mutagenic is an important step in the water treatment process to improve the health of the population. Using UV light and TiO2, as much as 80% of these harmful chemicals can be deactivated from the water. Our team's goal is to have a scalable working model that will be suitable for industrial uses and Residential uses. Before Thanksgiving there will be three or four working models that need to be coated in TiO2.

At Howmet Aerospace's LaPorte, Indiana facility, a ZEISS ScanBox is used to inspect manufactured parts for defects. The ScanBox, which has been donated to Purdue by Howmet, is an industrial 3D scanner that creates a digital twin of the manufactured part and compares it to its nominal counterpart. Team 29 has been tasked with the following: 
1. Design a fixture to hold the Howmet part that optimizes the quality of the scan while keeping part-to-part scan time below 50 minutes. 

Team 27 has been tasked to create a testing unit paired with Solid Works failure analysis to become an industry leader in their field. Though various testing scenarios, the client should be able to predict more accurately the customer's needs. This will save the client and customers money in the long run and give data to provide reassurance that the products will last.

CTS has an ongoing problem that causes actuators to not be able to land consistently on some motor step commands. As the current customer’s spec has a large margin of error, this has not affected the current product series. However, increasing accuracy may open additional markets to CTS. This led to an investigation to determine potential causes for the inability to land consistently on individual motor steps. There are six possible Hall states, which should occur with an equal probability if the stopping locations are randomly distributed.

Purdue University has been participating in the Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge for around 10 years. The objective of our project is to improve the design of the bike, specifically in the electronics aspect. The problem faced last year was the low speed and endurance of the bike. This project will focus on the elaboration and construction of electronics for the hydraulics and an electronic control system for the bike. 

This project is an adaptation of an existing human powered hydraulic bicycle designed by Purdue’s Fluid Power Club in 2022. The bicycle is a part of a larger competition, The Vehicle Challenge, sponsored by the National Fluid Power Association. The Vehicle Challenge invites students across universities to study fluid power by designing and building a hydraulic system that uses a human as the prime mover. The bicycle competes in four categories of races – sprint, efficiency, regenerative, and endurance.

The purpose of this project is to address several problems related to sorting and handling in the pharmaceutical industry. The solution includes controls from a wearable device known as the GyroPalm, enabling users to gain remote accessibility and versatility outside of an enclosed environment. The project provides a substantial workflow improvement to researchers, pharmacists, or manufacturing operators. The advancement integrates the technology of the GyroPalm with a 5-axis robotic arm, thus the user of the technology will be able to perform actions handsfree.

Team 25 aims to integrate GyroPalm’s wrist-mounted gesture tracking technology with AR glasses technology to interact with other devices in the user’s sightline. Currently GyroPalm’s technology is being used in home automation, and our team aims to prove that it can also be used well in a professional setting such as manufacturing or pharmaceuticals. Success in this project will allow GyroPalm to present itself to a new customer base and will also provide useful automation and information services to clients who utilize this technology.

This project is dedicated to exploring the potential of augmented reality in manufacturing. To accomplish this, our team is working with Subaru of Indiana Automotive using the Microsoft HoloLens 2 headset. As a proof of concept, we created a 10 minute tutorial of assembling a camshaft carrier assembly for a 2.5L Boxer engine. This tutorial was tested on a group of SIA associates with experience and a group without experience. That data was compared to a control group using a similar PowerPoint tutorial and analyzed.