FASENMYER DESIGN CONFERENCE
SHOWCASES STUDENT INGENUITY 18
MORE THAN 280 STUDENTS presented their capstone projects
during the School of Engineering’s Richard J. Fasenmyer Engineering Design Conference. The projects included a robotic drum kit, a cold-weather pickleball, and a titanium-alloy container for the core samples NASA plans to collect from the Psyche asteroid. “Capstone research teams work closely with business and industry sponsors to develop creative solutions to engineering design challenges,” said Dr. Tim Kurzweg, director of the School of Engineering. “The process distills what students have learned in class and in the lab and applies that knowledge to integrated engineering projects.” This year’s conference included projects sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Parker LORD Corporation, Wabtec, and Westinghouse Electric. NASA funded six teams, each of which advanced an element of the Psyche mission, which will study the remnant core of a metal-rich asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.
