In the IME department 25 seniors are busy wrapping up seven projects for presentation at the 37th Conference on Senior Engineering Design Projects, Tuesday, November 29, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Six College of Engineering and Applied Sciences departments will present 35 projects at the Parkview Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The IME projects will be presented in Room D-208 from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Chairing the IME session is Dr. Betsy Aller, coordi-nator and instructor of the IME multi-disciplinary senior proposal and senior project classes.
Bronson Methodist Hospital is sponsoring a project to increase the amount of time that nurses spend delivering direct patient care. To improve nurse efficiency, the team of Jeff Hills, Josh Maes, Corey Semrow, and Carl Utess evaluated current supply processes and studied innovative supply systems based on time and motion studies.
A project to improve the production system for Stryker Medical’s Stair Chair Pro involves Abdullah Al-Abbas, Maria Candela, Deanna Cunningham, and Daniel Grupp, who used work measurement techniques, statistics, and simulation models to evaluate the current production model and propose a re-design to improve the system.
To find a safe and efficient process for moving a bulkhead (pool divider) in WMU’s natatorium, Megan Lamont, Alejandro Rodriguez (in photo), and Justin Vriezema considered safety, time, and cost in their analysis of the existing system and resulting recommendations.
Using virtual reality simulation, Advisor Pavel Ikonomov and seniors Brad Armstrong and Dana Gronau examine the control unit for a robot they used in a senior project that explores interaction between a virtual robot and a virtual human. The robot is programmed with intelligence to determine what humans are doing. “If a human gets in the way of the robot, the robot sensors go off, and the robot backs away and finds another path to keep working without harming the human,” Armstrong said.
Jeff Leppert, Craig Nelson, Michael Perry, Jason Phillips, and Warren White present the results of their investigation of options to meet international electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requirements that multiple electrical or electronic systems function in the same environment without interfering with each other, for sponsor Kohler Company.
Adam Ritchie, Luka Bacal, Matt Getty, and Ryan Severns will present a ventilation ducting hole cutter in a project sponsored by EZ Concepts and for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) industry.
Clint Barnard, Mark Gajsiewicz, and Roger Anthony produced guidelines for using reverse engineering for complex parts.
Advisors for this semester’s projects include Larry Mallak, Steven Butt, Tycho Fredericks, James VanDePolder, Mitchel Keil, Pavel Ikonomov, David Lyth, and Jorge Rodriguez.
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