A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
Mike Collins Professor and Chair
Welcome to our tenth annual Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Symposium.
This exciting event provides our final-year student teams an opportunity to showcase their design projects to the general public, to industry partners and sponsors, and to the university community.
The students have worked hard from conceptualization to finished product and are being judged on a variety of skills. Their end-to-end process included identifying needs, creating solutions and designs to address a variety of challenging problems in diverse areas including: novel commercial devices, automotive improvements, health monitoring equipment, alternative energy production, and assistive devices. They demonstrated their competence in applying the knowledge and skills acquired over the course of their undergraduate academic and co-operative work terms.
This is also a major component in our continuous improvement plan for the Mechanical Engineering program, a plan for providing the best possible education experience for our students. The enthusiasm with which these teams present their work should be evident, and attests to the effort and teamwork that they have put into their projects over the past eight months.
We invite you to engage with the students about their designs, admire the presentations and prototypes in the platform, and check out their videos. When you are inspired and excited by the students’ work, feel free to suggest other design project challenges and opportunities to them and their course instructors (contact information at the end of this brochure). To find out more follow us on our website.
Sincerely,
Mike Collins Professor and Chair Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering