Projects

Students are required to participate in projects as part of their curriculum, and often initiate or extend required projects with club initiatives in FEAST (Future Energies & Sustainable Technologies club) or RMI (Robotics & Machine Intelligence club). Projects are often highlighted during our annual symposiums as part of scholarship day -- an all-day campus-wide event of student research that may even include Freshman engineering competition. Recently, much of our student research and curriculum has become focused on sustainability; and our entire college has been moving towards more sustainability. This has even become one of our President's Strategic Plan initiatives.

 Senior Projects

2012
Solar Panel Sun Tracking (E. Starkey ’12, A. Vanderpool ’12, M. Yorgey ’12)
Solar Panel Cooling (M. Rice ’12 and S. Sheehan ’12)
SunPlug: Plugging into the Sun (G. Koep ’12 and A. Vanderpool ’12)
Project E-Rod: A Personal Transportation Unit (P. Albor ’12, C. Glass ’12, J. Hypnarowski ’12)
Harnessing the Sun: Solar Power at Elizabethtown College (G. Koep ’12)
The Computational Analysis of Lamella Orientation and Size in Ultra-High Molecular Weight  Polyethylene (K. Seymour ’12)
Steel Tubing and Welding Fatigue Test Analysis: A BMX Approach (B. Wenger ’12)
E-TRK: Development of Real-Time Motion-Capture Software (K. Seymour ’12 and R. Speiden ’12)
Granola Packaging (G. Moi ’12, D. Boyer ’12, K. Hersom ’12)
Design and implementation of a Fiber-Optic Communication Link (T. Aung ’12)

2011
Wunderbot Vision Upgrades (M. Conlow ’11)
Genetic Algorithms (A. Jordan ’11)
Automated Hydroponic Garden Using a Phoenix Contact NanoLC PLC (D. Fenton and J. Westman ‘11)
Assistive Technology Controller and Virtual Keyboard (A. Jordan ’11, C. Ramos ’11, P. Brenner ‘11)
Regulating the Temperature of Solar Panels (B. Horst ’11)
Design and Construction of a Hydraulic Press (T. Iezzi ’11)
Brushless DC Motor Control (J. Peropat ’11)
Study of a Guitar’s Natural and Pinch Harmonics (C. Oswald ’11)
 
2010
Neural Network Based Traffic Control (M. Drob ’10 and J. Macus ’10)
Wunderbot V System Integration (M. Patrick ’10)
Novel Techniques in Halyomorpha Halys (M. Eckenroth ’10)
PTU: Personal Transportation Unit (D. Schmidt ’10, B. Bolling ’10 and T. Stepp ’10)
Musical Conducting Training Platform: Using the Nintendo Wii Remote as an Infrared Camera to Monitor Hand Position (E. Metz ’10)
Design & Implementation of a Hydraulic System in Tempest Theatre (J. Schwetz and R. Mains ’10)
Client-Server Data Application System for High Steel Structures, Inc. (T. Lwin Aung ’10)
Development and Efficiency of Green Roofing Systems (A. Soltis ’10)

2009
Digital Motor Controller for Electric Car (N. Diaduk ’09)
Personal Transportation Unit (D. Lappin ’09 and J. Hypnarowski ’09)
Use of a Judo Breakfall Technique to Reduce Hip Impact Force During a Lateral Fall (S. Lehman ’09)
An Undergraduate Study of “From Big Crunch to Big Bang” (B. Bear ’09)
Automation Application for Phoenix Contact nanoLC Programmable Logic Controllers (J. Cain ’09)

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)
Wunderbot Wireless Communication  (J. Crouse S'08)
Wunderbot Vision (J. Painter S'08).
Wunderbot Path Planning (D. Coleman S'08)

Note: Most Robotics & Machine Intelligence Projects prior to 2008 are archived in RMI website Archive 

2007
Hydraulic Pneumatic Energy Storage (R. Blevins S'07)
Geometry Optimizations of Conformers of Alanine Using Different Electronic Structure Techniques (E. Prettner S'07)
The Accelerating Universe (R. Dunstan S'07)

2006
Autonomous Computerized Chess (Sudip Shrestha S'06)
Biodiesel Study (C. Felts S'06)
Asphalt Lab Improvement Project (M. Freeborn S'06) 
Artificial Fire Log Machine (B. Carvell F'06)
Top-Down Mapping the Hot-Mix Asphalt Handbook (C. Notarangelo S'06)

2005
Ecuadorian Rain Forest Conservation, Research, & Community Development Initiative (J. Cruz S'05)
Solar Boat / Solar Splash (C. Heisey S'05)

Earlier Projects 
Slate Cutting & Quarrying (R. Terrzas 03-04) Force Platform Design (M. Feshler 01-02)
Motor Drive (Collaboration 99-00)   
Sledding Biomechanic Computer Simulations (C. Blease 01-02)
Producing a Generalized Metric over Z_N (W. Raws 01-02)