For the second consecutive year, we attended UA’s Engineering Design Day. Senior engineering majors presented their two-semester capstone projects to judges and the community. This year, 616 students from every degree program in the engineering college displayed 118 projects supported by 64 corporate and university partners. The projects were useful solutions for engineering problems, space-related, biomedicine, renewable energy, and environmental technology. Each team received $4000 to make a prototype solution and they displayed a large poster, with the problem, explanation of the solution, outcomes, and solution. The students stood next to their projects and were eager to talk to everyone about them. We had a terrific time! We talked with students about everything from self driving cars to reuse of fuel cell byproducts, CPR technique, water distillation systems, autonomous lunar landers, drones for firefighting, naval drone recovery, wireless body temperature sensors, and more!
