Funder

Nevada National Security Site; Arcata; Cirque du Soleil; SNC Lavalin; ATKINS; Lockheed Martin; Raytheon; Las Vegas Paving Corp.; JT4; NV Energy; Southland; Cox Communications

Document Type

Booklet

Publication Date

Fall 12-6-2018

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Publisher Location

Las Vegas (Nev.)

First page number:

1

Last page number:

52

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 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 with 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, studying and teaching; Engineering design, contest; Science projects; Undergraduate students

Disciplines

Civil and Environmental Engineering | Computer Sciences | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Environmental Engineering | Environmental Sciences | Mechanical Engineering | Science and Mathematics Education

File Format

pdf

File Size

8.411 KB

Language

English

Comments

Senior Design Instructors:

Dr. David James, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dr. Ju-Yeon Jo, Department of Computer Science

Dr. Ming Zhu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Michael Genova, Department of Entertainment Engineering and Design

Dr. Zhiyong Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Senior Design Judges:

John Benner, Mission Support and Test Services LLC

Kyle Denman, Boxabl

Troy Foede, Clearwater Paper

Daniel Greenspun, Greenspun Media Group

Ping Lee, Stockpile Stewardship

David Shaw, GM- North America

Laura M. Tomlinson, U.S. Department of Engery

Justin Veilleux, FEA Consulting Engineers

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