To kick off Alumni Weekend, the College of Engineering and Computational Science (CECS) hosted the Senior Design Trade Fair on April 24 in Lockridge Arena. Seventy alumni judges evaluated 42 design teams as they presented their projects. Teams were scored on their project content, design content, poster and display, dialogue and overall impression. Five teams were selected as overall trade fair winners.
“I'm extremely proud of the teams that presented at Trade Fair and all of the work that went in to their final projects,” said Jered Dean, mechanical engineering professor. “While the competition was close, the CSM FourCross team stood out because of the way that they balanced the needs of all the stakeholders in the design to arrive at a simple, practical solution.”
Overall Trade Fair Winners
1st Place (CSM FourCross – Team 11)
- Emily Hixon
- Abigail Krycho
- Clayton Boatwright
- Jacqueline Stabell
- Hannah Margheim
- William Pietra
- Brian Stack
2nd Place (Wingin' It - Team 35)
- Gabriel Alvarado
- Andrew Boissiere
- Ashley Hertzler
- Mathew Jirele
- Kit Lewis
- James Wilkerson
- Matthew Brady
- Richard Nguyen
3rd Place (Zephyrus - Team 42)
- Cabe Bonner
- Kelsey Wokasch
- Alex Dell
- Jyotsana Gandhi
- Katherine Rooney
- Aaron Troyer
- Jeremy Webb
- Zachary Weber
- Kevin Tan
4th Place (OmniPumps - Team 31)
- Eric Chapa
- Nicole Davis
- Aaron Faulkner
- Adam Mowery
- Logan Ramseier
Kid's Choice (Colorado AdvantEdge - Team 6)
- Erika Blair
- Katherine Poffenbarger
- Kendrick Stalnaker
- Justin Loeffler
- Michaela Hammer
- Julia Morin
- Kevin Tornes
Essay Contest Winners
- 1st Place: "Fun Theory" by Dustin Burner
- 2nd Place: "How a Camera Mount Revolutionized Video and Internet Content" by Benjamin Paley
- 3rd Place: "Mile Per Gallon Readouts: Changing Driving Behavior Through Feedback" by Kevyn Young
Background
Each year senior students in the civil, electrical, environmental, and mechanical engineering programs in the CECS take a two-semester course sequence in engineering design targeted at enhancing their problem-solving skills. Corporations, government agencies and other professional organizations, as well as individual clients, provide projects for the student teams of five to eight students to work on. Students spend the academic year developing solutions for the projects to which they have been assigned, using tools they have learned throughout their careers at Mines.
View a full list of projects. Check out Mines Radio, The Blastercast, to listen to interviews with the team.
Contact:
Kathleen Morton, Communications Coordinator / 303-273-3088 / KMorton@mines.edu
Karen Gilbert, Director of Public Relations / 303-273-3541 / KGilbert@mines.edu
