Senior Design Partnership

Have a project idea you haven’t had time to pursue? Facing a challenge that needs a fresh perspective? Partner with senior-level engineering students through their capstone course. This is a great opportunity to collaborate with motivated student teams who can apply their skills to develop practical, innovative solutions tailored to your needs.

Project Overview

A senior design project is a team-based, hands-on experience where students tackle real-world engineering challenges. It’s the final step in the undergraduate program, where students put everything they’ve learned into practice. Companies identify a problem and work with faculty and students to come up with design ideas, choose the best solution, and develop it while keeping things like safety, ethics, and cost in mind. Along the way, they manage their project like professionals—tracking progress, meeting deadlines, and communicating with industry and faculty mentors. By the end of the course, each team presents their work through a proposal, progress updates, a final report, and a presentation.

Project Application

Submit your project proposal via this form and it will be reviewed for consideration. Note: Some senior design courses are one semester, the majority are two semesters.

Project Schedule

Application Portal Opens: June 1

Project acceptance notification: August 15

Projects assigned to student teams: Early September

Design Reviews: Oct, Nov, Feb

Design Show: April

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Past Project Examples

Self-Cleaning Water Pump Intake Screen

Project Goal: Design a water pump intake screen that would clean itself.

Technical Areas: CAD, fluid dynamics, flow modeling.

Number of Students on Team: 2 Mechanical Engineering, 1 Electrical Engineering, 1 Computer Science.

Flexible Wings for Supersonic Flight

Project Goal: Design, build, and test a flexible wing specifically designed for supersonic flight.

Technical Areas: Machine design, aerodynamics, material science.

Number of Students on Team: 4 Mechanical Engineering.

AI Based Voice Transcription and Classification

Project Goal: A project that uses whisper.cpp to convert speech audio files to text and then match that text to defined Intents.

Technical Areas: C++, x86, Ubuntu Linux, HTML5.

Number of Students on Team: 3 Computer Science/Computer Engineering.

Phased Array Antenna Project

Project Goal: Test an algorithm and hardware together that was designed by a previous senior design team, using a phased array antenna system to locate a signal as quickly as possible.

Technical Areas: antenna theory, signal processing, and RF technologies.

Number of Students on Team: 4 Electrical Engineering, 2 Computer Science, 1 Computer Engineering.