Elizabethtown students are involved in numerous projects in and around campus. Below the projects are divided into three categories: Club-based, Student Projects (freshmen, sophomore, and junior), and Senior Projects.
Club-based Projects:
Robotics & Machine Intelligence
Future Energies & Sustainable Technologies (Club Webpage)
Student Projects (1st - 3rd year )
1st-year Fall Community-based Projects
- 2008 Projects
Ball Maze
Benches
Bethesda Mission- Desk
CATRA renovations
Garden Cart
Prop Cart
Scooter Boards- 2007 Projects
Moveable Table for a Shrink Wrap Tunnel
Doll House for Child Care Center
Lockable Playground Storage Benches
Grape Arbor
Steps to City Garden- 2006 Projects
Building a Playhouse
Connector Ramp
Shelves for the YWCA
Wheelchair Ramp
- 2005 Projects
Proximity Sensors for Powered Wheel Chair
Wheelchair Ramp
Nine Toyboxes for Milagro's House in Lancaster, PA
Civil Engineering/Database Development
Gazebo for Ronald McDonald House in Hershey
- 2004 Projects
Proximity Sensors for Powered Wheel Chair
Wheelchair Ramp(Harrisburg)
Ten Toyboxes for Brethren Transitional Housing(harrisburg)
Civil Engineering/Traffic Light Project
Green Powered Standalone Cabin Design Study
Vertical Maze & Rail Rework
Basement Access Addition
Dollhouse Refurbish & Wining
New Dollhouse Construction & Wining
Jigs for Life Skills- 2003 Projects
Jigs for Life Skills
Wheelchair Ramp(Harrisburg)
Dollhouse
Wheelchair Ramp(Manor Township)
Footbridge Handrail
Wheelchair Ramp(Lancaster)
Display for Hands-on-House
Robot-Light Source Searcher
Spring (Vertical) Design & Build Projects
- Vertical Design & Build Project 2007-2008
- Solar Cabin Hydrogen Energy Storage
Solar Boat
BBQ Conversion to Hydrogen Fuel
Small Engine Conversion to Hydrogen Fuel
Concrete Curing Sensing System
Bio-diesel from Waste Vegetable Oil
Wunderbot
3-d Modeling for Professional Presentations
Robotic Arm Development
PSoC Alarm Clocks
Excel (Crystal Ball) Hershey Foods Simulation Project
Hershey Foods Arena Simulation Project- Bagger Optimization
Hershey Foods Arena Simulation Project- Truck Delivery Optimization- Vertical Design & Build Project 2006-2007
Solar Cabin Communications
Solar Cabin Heating/Cooling system
Solar Boat
Camera mounting system forBiomechanicslab
Clare House Project
Biodiesel from Waste Vegetable Oil
Wunderbox IV
Design a community-center for South Africa
- Solar Cabin Design & Build Project 2005-2006
Planning, Budget, Timing, Procurement Overview
Cabin Structure
Bridge and Foundation
Solar Panel Support
Power Distribution Design
Control System Design
Pneumatic/Hydraulic Energy Storage Design
Hydrogen Energy Storage Design
- Alternative Energy Storage Systems 2004-2005
Micro-scale Compressed Air
Ultra Capacitors
Pumped Hydrogen Flume
Magnetic Pendulum System
Induction Flywheel- Solar-Powered Vehicles 2003-2004
Team Box4
Team Hummer3
Team Phoenix
Team UC2- Solar-Powered Boat 2002-2003
Team USA
Team International
Team Upperclass
- Earlier Projects
Toy & Game Projects 2002-2003
Dunk Tanks 2001-2002 (no webpage)
Calibration Frame 2000-2001 (no webpage)
Blimp 1999-2000
Selected Senior Projects
Note: Robotics & Machine Intelligence Senior Projects are archived on the Robotics & Machine Intelligence Lab webpage
2008
Secondary Hydrogen Energy Storage System: Design and Implementation of a Device and Control System for Storage of Excess Solar Energy (G. Chong S'08)
Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) Freezing Experiment (C. Yorgey S'08)
Unlocking a Door with a Cellphone (A. Carrow and C. Weaver S'08)
Wireless Open Source Digital Audio Server (D. Graybeal S'08)
The Join Architecture for Unmanned Systems (J. Crouse S'08)
Senior Project in Computer Engineering (J. Painter S'08)
Wunderbot; Robotics and Machine Intelligence (D. Coleman S'08)
2007
Hydraulic Pneumatic Energy Storage (R. Blevins S'07)
Geometry Optimizations of the Conformers of Alanine using different electronic structure techniques (E. Prettner S'07)
Reaction to a Balance Disturbance in College and Middle Aged Women (G. Brock Jr. S'07)
The Accelerating Universe (R. Dunstan S'07)
2006
The Artificial Fire Log Machine (B. Carvell F'06)
Top-Down Mapping the Hot-Mix Asphalt Handbook (C. Notarangelo S'06)
Asphalt Lab Improvement Project (M. Freeborn S'06)
Autonomous Computerized Chess (Sudip Shrestha S'06)
Biodiesel Study (C. Felts S'06)
2005
Ecuadorian Rain Forest Conservation, Research, and Community Development Initiative (J. Cruz S'05)
Solar Boat / Solar Splash (C. Heisey S'05)
Earlier Projects
Slate Cutting & Quarrying (R. Terrzas 03-04)
Sledding Biomechanic Computer Simulations (C. Blease 01-02)
Force Platform Design (M. Feshler 01-02)
Producing a Generalized Metric over Z_N (W. Raws 01-02)
Motor Drive (Collaboration 99-00)
