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Senior Design Expo 2024

Senior Design Expo 2024. Photo by Alex Parrish for Virginia Tech.
Senior Design Expo 2024. Photo by Alex Parrish for Virginia Tech.
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The 2024 Senior Design season featured 50 student projects. 26 of these were sponsored by industry, nonprofits, or other agencies. The year-long capstone project program closed with an expo held at Lane Stadium on April 26, when winners were announced after evaluation from a panel of judges for presentations, design, and innovation.

This year's winners were:

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One of this season's teams, Virginia Tech Grand Touring, received media coverage for their tenacity in bringing a car back from the dead. This video tells that story.

Team # Project Title Industry Sponsor Faculty Advisor
1 World Record Running Exoskeleton --- Asbeck
2 Characterization Tools for Soft Electronics and Soft Robots --- Bartlett
3 Ultra-Tall Synthetic Tree --- Boreyko
4 Modular Laser-Scanning System --- Ferris
5 Drone Deployed Microphone Arrays NASA Fuller
6 Non-Destructive Pipe Insulation Measurement Device NNS Fuller
7 In-Situ Molten Salt Corrosion by Optical Imaging --- Leong
8 Octobot – Plug-and-Play Modular Soft Robotic Arms --- Li
9 Chiropter – Flapping-flight Drone --- Mueller
10 Braiding Nanofibers --- Nain
11 Particle Ingestion Research on a Turboshaft Engine --- Ng
12 Ultrasound Imaging-Assisted Robotic Sorter --- Tian
13 Mind-Controlled Contactless Object Levitation and Translation --- Tian
14 Simulated Spent Fuel Uranium Thermoelectric Generator --- von Spakovsky
15 Development of a Portable MR-Compatible Tactile Stimulator --- Gurari
16 Engineering a Stereolithography (SLA) Bioprinter --- Behkam
17 Solar Powered Robot for Power Line Inspection and Monitoring --- Barry
18 Temperature Chamber for 1µm Resolution Additive Manufacturing --- Bohn
20 Liquid Propellant Nuclear Thermal Rocket --- Son
21 Deterrent of Animals that Damage Crops and Landscapes --- Kennedy
22 Energy Recovery From Waste Water --- Kennedy
23  Intelligent Steam-Vacuum Process --- Diller
24 Forest Fire UAV Platform --- West
25 VTGT --- Southward
26 Baja --- Bryson
27 Multi-Bevel Senior Design Scope  MAAG-Gala Gonzales
28 High Power Microwave Universal OBM Target Test Mount NSWC Raeymaekers
29 CETFAC Controlled Instrument Table NSWC Meadows
30 Laser Integrated Diagnostic Suite NSWC Gonzales
31 Nuclear Reactor Drive Shaft Cleaning Tool Framatome Pitchumani
32 Magnetic Gearing for Centrifugal Pumps Flowserve Ellis
33 Charcoal Briquette Compactor --- West
34 Motorized Backyard Chair QL+ Nowinski
35 One-Handed Bobsled Navigation for National Parabobsled Team QL+ Untaroiu
36 VEX-U Competition Boeing Nowinski
37 Multi-axis hWAAM Boeing Williams
38 Capstan NNS Warfford
39 Optimized Cooling for High-Power Avionics NGC Sole
40 Very Small Tactical Radio Interface Kit HII Mission Technologies Sole
41 Military ATV Mainstream Engineering Warfford
42 Development of an AGV Autonomous Navigation Platform Mack Trucks Wicks
43 Human Analog End Effector Fairbanks Morse Defense Naughton
44 Functional Robot for Identification and Retrieval Noblis Hamed
45  Energy Efficiency Solutions for HVAC Systems Alfa Laval Acar
46 EnterSafe Alan Tisdale Sole
47 3D Printing with Robot Arms Azoth Losey
48  Tunneling Robot Diggeridoos Kale
49 Scaled up Heating System for Microbial Compost Product Kenkashi Kasarda
50 Robotic Automation for Small Oyster Aquaculture Farms Annapolis Aquaculture Komendera
51 Formula IC SAE Clark
Joshua Sole

Joshua Sole
Professor of Practice / Senior Design Director
VT Mechanical Engineering
(540) 231-9932
jsole@vt.edu