Document Type
Booklet
Publication Date
12-7-2005
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
Repository Citation
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(2005).
College of Engineering Senior Design Competition Fall 2005.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/coe_senior_projects/12
Included in
Civil and Environmental Engineering Commons, Electrical and Computer Engineering Commons, Materials Science and Engineering Commons, Mechanical Engineering Commons, Science and Mathematics Education Commons, Sustainability Commons, Urban Studies and Planning Commons
Comments
Instructors for Senior Design Program:
Dr. Shashi Nambisan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bill O'Donnell, for the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering
Dr. Zhiyong Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
E-Club Faculty Members:
Dr. Laxmi Gewali
Dr. Henry Selvaraj
Dr. Rama Venkat
Dr. Zhiyong Wang
Senior Design Industry Judges:
Adam C. Godorov, Project Manager, Nevada Power Company
Kevin McOsker, P.E., Principal Engineer, Clark County Department of Development Services
Michelle Miller, Project Manager Nuclear Nonproliferation,Bechtel Nevada