Senior Design
In 2017, a former team of mechanical engineering alums developed an adjustable, heated bench system for their senior capstone project that helps NBA players stay warm and ready for action when their number is called during games. Today, the project has turned into a commercially-licensed technology that has achieved over $1 million in sales, been installed by four total teams across the world鈥檚 top basketball league and been nominated for the Sports Business Journal鈥檚 2026 Best Technology Collaboration award.
Two groups of 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 mechanical engineering seniors at Western Colorado University (WCU) designed equipment for Mountain Rescue volunteers who navigate Colorado鈥檚 rugged backcountry. The projects, sponsored by the Western Mountain Rescue Team, were developed by students in the WCU-蜜桃传媒破解版下载 Engineering Partnership Program. As part of their senior design course, they aimed to solve real challenges faced during wilderness rescues.
Three engineering students at Colorado Mesa University (CMU), including students earning their bachelor鈥檚 degrees through the CMU-蜜桃传媒破解版下载 Engineering Partnership Program, designed and tested a custom ankle foot orthotic (AFO)鈥攁 wearable brace intended to better serve drop foot patients by improving stability, comfort and mobility.
Many industrial facilities rely on cryogenic gases for processes such as cooling, materials testing or energy transport. But before those gases can be used, they must be vaporized with electricity-intensive equipment that can cost companies tens of thousands of dollars each year. A team of seniors are working to address that problem by developing a heat-exchange device for their senior capstone project that captures waste heat circulating through refrigeration systems.
The CU Hydropower Team had a strong showing in this year's Hydropower Collegiate Competition, bringing home multiple awards including the best design award, the cybersecurity award, the best quick pitch award and the highly coveted first-place honor in the overall competition.
A group of mechanical engineering students at the College of Engineering and Applied Science designed and built the prototype with Lockheed Martin for their Senior Design project.
The global shortage of semiconductors 鈥 the computer chips that products such as smartphones, laptops, cars and even washing machines rely on 鈥 are motivating engineers to improve the inspection of the silicon wafers that semiconductors are fabricated from. To help accomplish that, Department of Mechanical Engineering students have built a silicon wafer center-finding improvement device
The seniors are working with Medtronic to design a soft robot that would give physicians more control as they examine the deepest part of a patient's lung and make the procedure less abrasive for the patient.
The students' device makes the disposal of scrap metal safer and more efficient. They completed the design as part of their Senior Design project sponsored by Accu-Precision, a Littleton-based manufacturer of custom parts for customers in aerospace and industrial sectors.
The vacuum, designed and built by the student team Urchin Merchants, could help save California鈥檚 underwater kelp forests by making it easier for divers to collect the purple sea urchins that are destroying the bull kelp population.