ENSC-56 | Future Passenger Service Unit

» Patricia Graterol, Mechanical Engineering

» Sarah Jones, Mechanical Engineering

» Tristan Caryl, Eng. Management (Mechanical)

» Ryan Hardinge, Mechanical Engineering

ADVISOR: Marc Baumgardner

DAB: Nick Questad

SPONSOR: Boeing

LIAISON: Nick Questad,

Team ENSC-56 worked with Boeing to generate innovative ideas for the Passenger Service Unit (PSU) in a Boeing 737 to meet the needs of the future passenger. Using market research, creative idea generation, and frequent collaboration with their sponsors at Boeing, the team not only produced updates for existing features in the panel above the passengers but also proposed a handful of brandnew features for the PSU. Using feedback from presentations to both peers and Boeing engineers in Everett, the team then took their list of concepts and compiled them into a set of complete panel designs. ENSC-56 then used SolidWorks to design and 3D print parts which were used to assemble a semifunctional prototype to demonstrate how their ideas would look, feel, and operate in a real passenger plane setting.