Document Type

Booklet

Publication Date

12-5-2007

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Abstract

Part of every UNLV engineering student’s academic experience, the senior design project stimulates engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student in their senior year chooses, plans, designs, and prototypes a product in this required element of the curriculum. A capstone to the student’s educational career, the senior design project encourages the student to use everything learned in the engineering program to create a practical, real world solution to an engineering challenge.

The senior design competition helps to focus the senior students in increasing the quality and potential for commercial application for their design projects. Judges from local industry evaluate the projects on innovation, commercial potential and presentation quality. One overall winner, two winners from each discipline, and one multi-disciplinary winner (when applicable) are chosen and receive cash awards and commemorative plaques and medallions.

The competition has generated significant interest from the local community, and has provided additional motivation for students to be innovative and to produce quality projects.

Keywords

College seniors; Engineering – Study and teaching; Engineering design – Contests; Science projects; Undergraduate students

Disciplines

Civil and Environmental Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Environmental Sciences | Materials Science and Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Science and Mathematics Education | Sustainability | Urban Studies and Planning

Language

English

Comments

Instructors for Senior Design Program:

Dr. Jaci Batista, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Paolo Ginobbi, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering
Dr. Brian Landsberger, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Edward Neumann, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Walter Vodrazka, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

E-Club Faculty Members:

Dr. Laxmi Gewali
Dr. Henry Selvaraj
Dr. Rama Venkat
Dr. Zhiyong Wang

Senior Design Industry Judges:

Ron Gross, P.E., Special Programs Department, Remote Sensing Labs—Nellis AFB
Lee Kramer, Vice President of Engineering, Xtreme Manufacturing
David Peterson, Lochsa Engineering

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