Engineering Design Day Showcases Spartan Innovation

February 24, 2024

Continuing a tradition that began in 1994, the MSU College of Engineering hosted its annual Design Day to celebrate innovation driven by Spartan engineering
students.

Design Day is the premier academic event for the fall and spring semesters. It provides students the opportunity to share their latest technological advances and research with the MSU community and corporate partners.

This year’s fall semester event included 694 students representing 132 teams and seven courses in the fields of computer science and mechanical, civil, electrical and environmental engineering. Spartan engineers are not only evaluated academically for these projects, but also professionally by potential employers.

Among that group were 435 graduating seniors on 75 teams that presented their final projects, including 67 sponsored by corporate and community partners. The college’s Engineering Building also hosted a competition for 140 high school students.

 

2023 Design Day Winners

CE 495

Rolla C. Carpenter Senior Design Award

• Description: The Rolla C. Carpenter Senior Design Award ($700 and plaques) is presented to the best team as judged by the faculty and a panel of practicing engineers.
• Team 4: Red Cedar LLC – Consumers Energy New Lansing Operations Center
• Names: Alex Morley, Miriam Riviera, Kevin Sachs, Angelina Suchoski, Bobby Armstrong, Alexzandria Furchi, Jake Pozar

 

CSE 498

Auto-Owners Insurance Exposition Award

• Description: The CSE capstone team with the best overall Design Day performance is honored with the Auto-Owners Exposition Award, which is sponsored by Auto-Owners Insurance Company of Lansing, Michigan.
• Team Anthropocene Institute – Machine Learning for Optimization of Carbon Removal
• Names: Edie Haase, Nick Wang, Hemanth Yalamanchili, Jack Holscher, Ishita Kokil

 

MSU Federal Credit Union Praxis Award

• Description: The CSE capstone team that engineers the software system that is the most technically challenging is recognized with the MSU Federal Credit Union Praxis Award, which is sponsored by MSU Federal Credit Union of East Lansing, Michigan.
• Team Vectra AI – Malware Command and Control Channel Simulator
• Names: Andrew Vandercar, Trevor Davis, Ben Hayes, Nixon Holley

 

TechSmith Screencast Award

• Description: The TechSmith Screencast Award goes to the CSE capstone team with the best project video. The award is sponsored by the creators of Camtasia Studio, TechSmith of East Lansing, Michigan.
• Team TechSmith – ACE: Automated Content Editor
• Names: Gabriel Sotelo Justo, Riley Tucker, Emily Feuer, Joe Baran, Justin Masters

 

Amazon Sigma Award

• Description: The capstone team that delivers the best overall capstone experience is recognized with the Amazon Sigma Award, which is sponsored by Amazon of Seattle, Washington and Detroit, Michigan.
• Team Moii.AI – Small Object Detection Using CCTV Cameras
• Names: Hong Zhuang, Nathan Srivastava, Khushi Vora, Ian Valdovinos Granados, Angela Majestic

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Place Award

• Team MSU Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities: Alert System for Visually Impaired to Detect Electric Scooters
• Names: Vigneshwer Ramamoorthi, Pradnya Ghorpade, Shayna Wilson, Kattie Romero-Otero, Ayush Chinmay

 

Second Place Award

• Team FRIB (MSU Facility for Rare Isotope Beams): Camera-based Rotational Speed Detection System
• Names: Josh Warminski, Kevin Ladley, Andrew Reilman, Kevin Cawley, Easton Currie

 

Third Place Award

• Team MSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Sound-Activated Interactive Robot System
• Names: Luke Biddle, David Evans, Shane Morrison, Daniel Evans, Haoyan Hu

 

Mechanical Engineering

Edison Undergraduate Design Award

• Description: The Edison Undergraduate Design Award is given to the ME 481 Design Team that is judged to have produced the best technical design project.
• Team Village of Alanson (Mich.): Hand-Propelled Ferry to Sanctuary Island Park
• Names: Matthew Fular, Hunter Arnett, Celeste Salazar, Ethan Avery, Steven Coscino

 

ME 481 Project Presentation Award

• Description: The ME 481 Project Presentation Award is for the best presentation of a design project.
• Team Robert Bosch LLC: Fuel Cell Anode Recirculation Test Stand
• Names: Alexander Arnold, Carter Stefanovski, Ben Walters, Luke Roethemeyer, Bhanu Makkapati, Luke Schmidt

 

ME 470 da Vinci Award

• Description: The Leonardo da Vinci Award is presented to the team with the best machine design.
• Cereal Shaker Horizontal Motion Conveyor project – Team 6, Station A
• Names: Megan Fazio, Emilia Jakuc, Jeremy Kloss, Brandon Kortrum, Sam Rohrer