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All Past Tech Expo Projects
Spring 2024
The objective is to enable users to visualize the robot's environment directly in the HUD of the Vuzix glasses while utilizing the GyroPalm watch for control.
Spring 2025
To design a nine-foot animatronic shark, while having the ability to move through the water using pneumatic actuators embedded into the tail, pulling and pushing the tail from side to side from the to generate thrust.
Spring 2023
Our customer, Crown Equipment Corporation will be implementing our fully integrated engineering solution into their production line. During this project we focused on automating the pressing of two bearings into the upper tube of the steering column and r
Spring 2022
Endress+Hauser needs a portable demonstration unit that is easy to use with an easily accessible fluid. The unit must demonstrate the flow, level, and pressure of a fluid in an easy-to-understand manner for students and adults.
Fall 2024
The team is using resin based additive manufacturing, to develop a cost-conscious and scalable prototype for manufacturing, by manipulating properties like geometric shapes, that can concentrate light into power generation units.
Spring 2022
Public parks in Clay County, Indiana seek security measures to reduce vandalism on park grounds. The parks need an integrated system that can be replicated to work in different environments, with a design that has incorporated engineering problems such as
Spring 2025
We worked in conjunction with Capstone Team 14 to design a bike that uses human power, assisted with hydraulics, for propulsion, along with pneumatic and electronic functions.
Spring 2023
Our problems to overcome were fixing the previous years design faults including: glare, fly tube/food orientation, and camera angle/lense
Spring 2024
The purpose of our team is to redesign sealing elements of the BD3 version of the Burling valve in order to be compatable with superheated steam.
Fall 2024
In our current world fresh water is becoming harder to obtain all around the world, areas like Puerto Rico not only have to endure droughts but also contaminated ground water. By harnessing the ocean we can provide fresh water to more people.
Spring 2022
The task of this problem is to review the open-source plastic shredder CAD design, made by Mandin and provided by the client, and make changes to ensure that the product is functional, meets safety requirements, and will integrate well with the extruder.
Spring 2023
The purpose of this project is to produce a compact and mobile workstation that can cut and machine extruded aluminum structural members ready for assembly.
Spring 2022
Black Hawk Seals needs their current line of static seal products tested, analyzed, and compared to their competitors to allow them to bring a superior product line to the market.
Fall 2024
To make STEM education more effective and engaging, our project will integrate an interactive physical model with E+H sensors that will help children visualize and understand wave behavior in real time.
Spring 2022
The artist would like a solution that provides a minimum of 16 visible laser “strings” for an individual to play. This will allow for any personnel to play the harp with two diatonic scales. Once an individual breaks a laser’s light beam, the system must
Spring 2024
The goal of this project is to develop an efficient, economical, and sustainable carbon nanotube water desalination filter meeting Purdue Research Foundation specs for salt removal and low-energy operation.
Fall 2023
Black Hawk Seals is in need of data on static seal performance and a system that will evaluate seals at various parameters to test and collect that data. This will allow BHS to alter seals' design and material composition to develop superior products.
Spring 2023
Aiding in the development of exoskeleton technology by designing a test bench to measure the performance of the energy storage mechanism of a DIY exoskeleton. The test bench’s movements will be designed to mimic a human bending over.
Spring 2022
To study the interaction of dynamics and control systems, a cart with an inverted pendulum is made. A disturbance to the pendulum causes the cart to move and for the cart to come to a standstill, the pendulum needs to be in the balanced position.
Fall 2024
The Smart Learning Factory uses an OPC UA server with Kepware to collect and securely transfer data from PLCs, enabling users to control machines and processes remotely. The goal is to develop digital twins of lab stations for real-time data interaction.
Spring 2022
The team has researched different available technologies and has decided to work on developing three systems: mechanical, serialization, and thermal monitoring to determine the end of lifetime of a Stryker reusable medical device.
Spring 2023
The focus of this project is to work with SIA to realize the potential of augmented reality in the manufacturing environment.
Spring 2025
The problem that we are tasked with overcoming is to take a preexisting 3d printer and redesign it to make it more manufacturable. In order to improve manufacturability, many factors need to be improved upon, some of which are the cost to produce the pro
Spring 2022
Our scope of work over the past two semesters has involved development of a time study application that can be available across multiple platforms and work in online and offline environments all while being seamlessly integrated with enVista’s current LMS
Spring 2023
Team 25's goal is to figure out how to integrate AR glasses and the Gyropalm wearable into a robotic system that can identify, interact and move pill bottles for the pharmaceutical industry.
Spring 2023
A difficult problem in the pharmaceutical industry will be addressed using a robotic arm powered on ROS and the GyroPalm wearable. The advancement will feature an assembly line that will perform actions related to measurement, performance, and inventory.
Spring 2024
The purpose of our team is to create a pneumatic clutch system and all electrical components for the National Fluid Power Association’s Vehicle Challenge. The Vehicle Challenge hosted by the NFPA tasks teams from colleges across the country to build human
Spring 2023
The engineering problem our team will focus on resolving is creating an efficient electronics control system for the vehicle. The end customer is a team of industry judges for the competition assessing how well we have met the challenge requirements.
Spring 2023
CTS’ actuator product showed some inaccuracy because Hall states are not always changing relative to the coil states. The team believe this inaccuracy can be improved and increase the precision on the CTS’ actuator lines.
Spring 2022
For our project we need to create a growth chamber that can be stored in greenhouses and regulate growing conditions for plants. The goals of the growth chamber are to regulate humidity, temperature, and carbon dioxide levels. Our client, Professor Raghot
Spring 2023
Team 27 needs to create a testing unit for our client to be able to run various test on their products. This will use this information to revolutionize standards in their field.
Spring 2025
The objective of our project was to design a lightweight, durable, and self-sustaining tracking device capable of sending data wirelessly while operating in the high-altitude regions of southern Peru.
Spring 2022
The goal of this project is to build an automated greenhouse for GrowCery, which will be used as a teaching tool for educating students about food insecurity and the benefits greenhouses can have fighting these prevailing circumstances.
Spring 2024
Team 29 is automating the scanning and inspection process of parts manufactured by Howmet Aerospace using a ZEISS ScanBox.
Fall 2023
The cart is outfitted with an array of sensors. The data from the sensors cannot be easily accessed in the machine’s state and will need to be fully integrated. Endress+Hauser would like for the measurement values to be read in a real-time scenario.
Spring 2024
Create an apparatus that decontaminates large quantities of water infected with PFAS (forever chemicals) and pharmaceuticals using TiO2 and ultraviolet light.
Spring 2022
Our project examines the move from Document-based systems engineering to Model-based systems engineering through a Digital Thread. This allows for a feedback loop, thus reducing product definition change, missed change impact, and copy-paste propagation.
Spring 2024
The project involves designing and implementing a closed, controlled chamber with the capacity to regulate CO2 concentration, humidity levels, and temperature. Key tasks are specifying the canister and nozzle components for the CO2 control system, determi
Spring 2025
Current exoskeleton prototype has limitations in measuring certain mechanical parameters, our project focuses on refining the prototypes by incorporating human factors, improving attachment systems, and ensuring accurate sensor data into the design.
Spring 2022
Team 31 was asked to improve the talc application process on insulated cables. Research on this process laid the foundation for improving the preventative maintenance program. This resulted in an improved knowledge base, functionality improvements, and el
Spring 2022
Further development on Purdue’s Portable Engine Dynamometer. Implement and test an electronic control system to dynamically adjust loading and implement a dynamometer control and data acquisition system to perform automated test runs while recording data.
Spring 2025
As a dance instructor, Renee wanted to intertwine machine learning (ML) and art to create interactive art exhibits. She aimed to achieve this through motion capture; however, the first iteration used a less than ideal Motion Tracking Model.
Spring 2022
Transportation in urban areas can cause several issues. Two of the biggest being greenhouse gas emissions and congestion. Bike-sharing programs have shown to be effective, offering users the chance to easily rent a bike nearby and simply leave it when the
Spring 2025
This project addressed the challenge of validating and replicating the behavior of a line-following electric vehicle (EV) originally controlled by an FPGA-based Spiking Neural Network (SNN), using a newly developed analog SNN system. The problem centered
Spring 2024
The process of maintaining efficiency within a workplace is a strenuous task, which has only been compounded within the past decade. Extended lead times and heightened costs have led many industries to establish new methods of extending their equipment’s
Spring 2025
Fully simulate and train a hardware based Spiking Neural Network (SNN) using Python and optimize the synaptic weights on the neural network to be able to fine tune the performance of the SNN on a line-following EV car.
Spring 2024
The problem our team will focus on solving is the accessibility and affordability of 3D printer kits for engineering students in the smart engineering lab. There are few opportunities for the understanding and development of the 3D printers to progress.
Spring 2025
The primary challenge addressed by this project is the need for an interactive educational tool (a weather simulator), which currently does not exist on the market, that effectively demonstrates how these E+H sensors work in various weather environments.
Spring 2023
Tote Ranger is an autonomous inspection vehicle being developed for Amazon’s IND1 facility. It aims to reduce maintenance personnel's time spent investigating conveyor system damages.
Fall 2023
Beulah Inc. would like to automate their process of turning the large bundles of goat hair that they receive from their suppliers, into smaller bundles to fit their final product.