Senior Design Project

bowling-ball Miami University's College of Engineering and Computing continues to develop and strengthen relationships with business partners to enhance the students’ experience and benefit the company. The Senior Design Project is an incredible way for students and companies to partner to solve an engineering and computing problem. Students gain real-world design and project experience while working through a design process. Businesses interact and engage with the students and benefit from the technical skills and expertise of the students and the faculty advisor while creating close relationships with the students for future work.

Senior Design Project Application

Company Benefits

Work first hand with creative and resourceful students:
- To recruit
- Build company’s brand
Diverse design team lead by faculty expert
Solve those nagging problems
Potential for new process, opportunities, and reduced costs

Student Benefits

Gain hands-on experience
Interact with industry professionals
Work closely with faculty advisor
Apply academic knowledge to real-world problems:
- Problem solving and critical thinking
- Project management
- Leadership
- Team-building
- Communication
- Technical

Company Expectations

Identify a project idea:
- Appropriate for an entry-level engineering or computing employee
- Eight-month timeframe (September to April)
- Three to five team members
- Not time sensitive but an issue that is on the back burner that no one else has time to address
- Multi-disciplines teams are acceptable and encouraged
Identify project champion who can commit to regular interaction with the student team including:
- Answering questions
- Providing feedback
- Attending the kick-off meeting
- Attending the project presentation
Provide all of the information, data, resources, and background necessary for the project team
Determine the project budget
Optional Company activities:
- Attend team meetings
- Host the students at your facility/site for a tour
- Make a tax-deductible donation to support the design team
- Provide employees to act as judges for the student presentations
Financial Commitment Options:
- Corporate Design Supporters financially support an existing design challenge and can provide employee(s) to support the design team - $5,000 annually
- Corporate Design Partners provide design challenge and employee(s) to support design team - $10,000 annually

Nonprofits, startups, Miami students

Miami engineering and computing students love to use their imagination and ingenuity to have an impact on their world. Students can share their expertise and determination with nonprofits and startups and can help fellow Miami students refine their entrepreneurial ideas by providing technical skills to the project.

Timeline

Senior Design Projects that start in Fall and end in Spring

August 1: Senior Design Project Application opens
August 15: Senior Design Application closes for Fall Semester Projects
Early September: Students matched with projects
Mid-September: Student team members meet with company liaison for kick-off meeting
December: Project Update
December: Electrical and Computer Engineering Presentations
Late April:
- Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering Presentations
- Computer Science and Software Engineering Presentations
- Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Presentations
- Senior Design Expo
- Alumni Conference and Senior Design Project Award Presentations

There are a limited number of Senior Design Projects that start in February and end in December. Please complete the Senior Design Project Application prior to December 1.

Senior Design Expo

2023 Senior Design Expo
Thursday, May 4
5:00-7:00

Questions, please contact Colleen at bushc4@miamioh.edu

Past Partners

Past Projects

Design of a natural gas leak management system for Ariel Pumping Systems
Design implementation of a low noise vacuum motor for the kaivac OmniFlex Cleaning System
Design of improved safety systems for Textron manufacturing equipment
Design of a blood flow simulator for testing blood pressure parameter variations
Build an app to plan swimming workouts and retain workout history. To enable any swimmer or coach to have visibility to their workouts in the: past, present, and future in order to track and monitor their progress as it pertains to all aspects of swimming.
Give employees at Worldpay the ability to pre-register their guests with building security ahead of time so that building security can expedite their guests check-in to the building. In addition to pre-registration of guests by employees, building security needs a system to keep track of guests they have checked in or out of the building for the day.
Build an online grant management system to simplify the grant-awarding process.
Solution to enable users to report lost or found dogs and facilitate communication between finders and owners.
Semi-automatically updating database that tracks MU Varsity Overwatch and Counterstrike teams and performs gameplay analysis.
Simulation Twinning via Algorithmic Methods for Power Circuit Component Failure
Using a Genetic Algorithm to find Type 3 Cellular Automata Systems
Synthetic Aperture Radar
Joint Trajectory Design and Radio Resource Management for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Investment Strategy for Stock Market
Wireless Power Transfer Plus Communications
Machine Learning-Based Driver Performance Prediction
Investigation of Hyperdimensional Computing
Solar Powered Vertical Take-Off Airplane
Lego Tactile Interface for Design Input
Power Amplifier Pre-Compensation for Satellite Comms
AFRL Oxymeter
Papermaking
EPA-UV LED Photocatalytic Fuel Vapor Emission Control Device
Ovarian Hormone Production
Design and Evaluation of a Psilocybin Biosynthesis Facility