Escape Room Lock
Sponsor: Mason Torgerson (Garmin) and Leslie Bartsch Massey (FYP)
The First Year Program at the University of Arkansas teaches Excel by using spreadsheet problems. The first-year students are given a problem, and they work to calculate the answer using Excel. To make the task more interesting, the electrical engineering students will design a device that will open a puzzle box when the right combination of answers is entered. Design with MEEG
Team Members: Mason Andrews, Gavin Moore, Captain Pickett
GateMate
Sponsor: Jason Bailey/MEEG
The customer has a prototype of an improved levee-based irrigation system that allows remote operation of levee gates. The students will design the electronics necessary to raise and lower the gates when commanded to over a wireless network. The design must endure the harsh weather and environmental conditions of a rice field. Design with CSCE and MEEG.
Team members: Connor Whitlow, Gage Epperson, Colton Silvey
Lineus Break-Away IV Device
Sponsor: Lineus Medical
This is a device that separates IV tubing when tension is applied to prevent patient injury. The electrical engineering students will design the electronics to detect and report when the tubing has separated. This needs to be an extremely low-cost design while ensuring safety of the medical device.
Design with BMEG, CSCE and MEEG
Team members: Samantha Collier, Leanne Winston, Jake Dawson, Austin Plotts
Tissue Processing Unit
Sponsor: Local Northwest Arkansas Pathology Associate
Local Northwest Arkansas Pathology Associate Dr. Philip Ferguson seeks to provide access to tissue processing services alongside partners Samaritan’s Purse and Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) to improve disease diagnosis in lower-income countries. The electrical engineering students will design a low-cost controller for the tissue processing device. Design with CSCE, MEEG, and BMEG.
Team Members: Ethan McDougall, Joseph Florini, Zachary McCoy
69-13.2kV Distribution Substation
Sponsor: Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC) will mentor a group of electrical engineering students from the University of Arkansas to develop a protective relaying and control design for a 69-13.2kV distribution substation and 69 kV transmission line and prepare relay coordination and setting calculations of the completed design.
Team Members: Brooke Scott, Traveon Colbert, Maria Quintero-Pena
ESD Latch-Up Detection and Recording
Sponsor: Zong Chen
Students will design and build a device that will monitor, record, and analyze data that leads up to a transistor latch-up. A physical setup must be designed to allow devices to be electrically exercised to the point where the device will latch-up occur. Enough data must be recorded to allow the user to determine the conditions of the latch-up. This data must be transferred to a device for graphical display and analysis.
Team Members: Logan Gentry, Adrian Rodriguez, Peter Brinkman
Fan Test Fixture
Sponsor: Tim Brinklet, ABB
Students will design an automated system to create a fan curve for the shaft-mounted cooling device. To create a fan curve, speed and torque must be measured at various points. Fan power can then be calculated from these two measured values.
Team Members: Jeb Johnson, Vincent Hassman, Dylan Jetton
69/13.2kV Modular Substation
Sponsor: Sarah Jagessar, Black and Vetch
Each year as communities continue to develop, the load demand from customers to respective utilities gradually increases. This year, students at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville will need to develop a design for a 69/13.2kV Modular Substation
Team Members: Yen Pham, Jarod King, Josiah Tonsing, William Johnson
Faraday Cage detects & tracks outside and inside environments of seen and unseen disturbances
Sponsor: Mark Allen Lanoue
Students will design a device that detects anomaly targets in the environment utilizing lidar, infrared, and various frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum.
Team Members: Cameron Dalton, Harrison Dempsey, Cristhian Rodriguez Troncoso
Cut Polycrystalline Diamond with Next-Gen Electrical Discharge Machine (EDM) Development
Sponsor: Ben Fleming
The students will develop a controller for a machine that can shape Polycrystalline diamond with precision down to the micrometer level.
Team Members: Connor Breshears, Kendrick Washington, William Hay
2kV power supply
Sponsor: Paul Kantzar, Wolfspeed
The students will design a switching power supply that has a 12-volt DC input with an adjustable output that ranges from 0 to 2000 VDC at 100 mA. The footprint of the power supply must fit in the same footprint as a power supply currently on the market.
Team Members: Gavin Hisband, Marco Gonzales Flores, Auden Huff, Hart Hickman