Common luxuries are often out of reach for people with disabilities, especially with limited ADA-compliant hotel rooms. These rooms meet the bare minimum and lack decent mobility space caused by large furniture and small room sizes. A hotel room is naturally static, leaving customization out of the question.

This project involved a upgrade to a system that was put into operation in 2002. The system is an Adaptive Secondary. This project encompassed the management and fulfillment of requirements to fulfill science requirements.

This project was to implement a program for the tracking of expiration date, consumption, and reordering of consumable chemicals. Essentially eliminating the waste of time, money, and project delay due to inadequate monitoring of something as simple, but important, as consumable chemicals.

This project, officially titled “Analyzing the Materials Return Process at SRP,” is sponsored by Salt River Project, a utilities company based in central Arizona. SRP ultimately hopes to improve their sustainability measures by reducing waste through a combination of downstream and upstream waste diversion initiatives, specifically in their reverse logistics sector. Our capstone team is therefore working to understand SRP’s Materials Return Process in order to identify inefficiencies in the returns process, estimate their financial and sustainability impacts, and provide recommendations for mitigating the occurrence and mishandling of returned parts.

The X-Force Operational Energy Team worked with the Department of Defense to build a prototype war-game that can be used to teach users about the importance of operational energy and risk mitigation, as well as provide analytical data for desired scenarios. This prototype allows users to input a scenario of nodes and edges with defined start and end points, and simulate the best possible routes to accomplish the goal of getting a maximum amount of fuel capacity from start to finish. Along the way, numerous risks may affect the optimal routes, and changes can be made by users to improve the network and minimize risk.

This project carried out high-level planning for expanding commercial food production at Intentional Foods, a cafe serving foods that are free from the top eight major food allergens. A combination of high level planning, determining governmental regulations, and developing standardized operating procedures were carried out to lay the foundation for a successful rollout of expanded production.

The RTEM (Rapid Testing for Epidemic Modeling) COVID-19 Capstone project aims to better understand the current pandemic through the application of stochastic simulation. Work throughout the year consisted of literary research, model enhancement, and vaccine parameter analysis phases. By the end of the year, the RTEM model gained valuable vaccine administration capabilities that enhanced understanding of overall pandemic behavior.

For this project, the Salt River Project (SRP) has contracted ASU’s Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service (RMWSSS), who had partnered with ASU’s School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE) to address SRP’s inefficiencies in their waste disposal system. The issue being addressed aligns with SRP’s 2035 Sustainability Goals, which highlight the organization’s commitment to a sustainable future for the communities they serve here in Arizona. The goal of this project was to provide evidence-based recommendations through data collected during the project including 6 material waste streams: trash, cardboard, wood, steel, wire, and recycle.

The small format is defined as an item that has in all dimensions less than 3”,” and is calculated to form 10% of all trash weight and also represent 35 to 50% of all the number of items. So PakGreen in an association with InnovationSpace is trying to solve this problem

An opportunity exists to optimize report dissemination throughout the Sales sector of United Parcel Service. Utilizing tools such as Access and SharePoint have provided solutions to this opportunity in the form of reduced work hours spent towards report development and automation of report dissemination.

Process improvement for the ASU Nursing school specifically focused towards improving the process that matches nursing students with preceptors (internship sponsors).

In order to mitigate risks and uncertainties, Telgian Fire Safety requested the development of a Complexity Model to help predict the complexity of new customers. In order to accomplish this task, an analysis of their current customers and their respective complexities had to be done. This resulted in a complexity model that predicted complexity with an accuracy of 81%.

GeoExploit’s goal is to create a geospatial workflow within ArcGIS Pro that uses ground truthing and curation technology to model footprints of objects within SAR data using deep learning to create and organize JSON files for PSG.

A New Leaf is a non-profit organization focused on providing essential community resources to families and individuals using volunteers, donors, and employees. Our job was to conduct market research of common nonprofit salaries and find an efficient way to integrate them with employee performance reviews within their new Human Resources Information System. Using this additional information, A New Leaf can ensure they provide competitive pay to the employees that make their vision possible.

The main objective of project X-Force is to modernize the way the Fairchild Air Force Base forecasts, assigns, and schedules the work to be done at the air base. The project spreadsheet combines the different operations of the air base, these operations are the Manpower, Scheduling, and Production departments. The final output of the project document will be operated by the Production Crew Chiefs on a daily basis.

During the past year, we have helped global companies who have committed to having recyclable packaging by 2025 uphold their pledge. By drawing inspiration from international Material Recovery Facilities, we have developed an infrared optical scanner that can sort out different types of plastic and can be adjusted to accommodate different sizes. By inserting this product in the residual waste stream, we can reduce the amount of material transported to landfills, improve recycling of small format plastic, and increase profit margins in the waste management system.

With travelers at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport experiencing long waiting times during TSA screening checkpoints, it is inevitable for the airport to receive complaints. In collaboration with TSA and the CAOE, our capstone team had the opportunity of developing a possible solution. The Visual Analytics and Decision Support System or VADSS is an analytical tool created through Excel that allows TSA analysts to make effective staffing decisions and allocate workforce where they are most needed, reducing the queue waiting times for travelers.

This project was looking to solve the problem of lengthy and static products used by the United States Marine Corps (USMC) when conducting country analysis. We provide a brief overview of the target country, Philippines, and a proposed new methodology that encompasses both expert and objective data for the decision support system of the decision maker. By using the currently used expert data and combining it to other open source data sources we would be able to create a more dynamic system that would allow leaders to have better knowledge bases when making decisions.

This project focused on SDOH and THWB at a non-profit organization called A New Leaf. The team interviewed case managers within the program and developed process maps and gathered data from surveys they created.

From booming oil fields to rural farming communities, McKenzie Electric is an electric cooperative that delivers electricity across their highly integrated power lines to serve all region members. As a Project Manager, I will walk you through the entire design of a three-phase service installation requested for the Three Affiliated Tribes' new administration building. From site visits to creating contracts and estimates to even closing out a project, you will know what it takes to becoming a Power Design Project Engineer Manager.

This project was designed to implement a tracking system that would allow the sponsor, Northrop Grumman, to evaluate the performance of the equipment used in their manufacturing processes. The project also implemented a dashboard system allowing the automated calculation of performance indicators and metrics such as OEE.

Even when complying with ADA standards, hotels are often uncomfortable, unaesthetic, and not luxurious for many disabled guests. Our project aimed to find a way to ensure that hotels were more accessible to guests, and we strove to decrease the distance many guests would have to surpass to turn off the lights, reach the phone, or other menial tasks. We developed the app EasyHub so that hotel guests could take control of their stay and customize it to ensure a comfortable and luxurious stay.

Solving small format plastics recycling problem in the current US system. Data Collection made and introduced the proposal innovative solution the MicroContainers.

Team Robotics Eats has automated the injera making process. This device allows for the perfect pour that has been passed down in the Ethiopian community. This will allow restaurants and home users to make their own fresh injera instead of ordering it from unknown vendors.

Collecting In-kind donations to send overseas to areas where Helping Hand for Relief and Development works in the most efficiently as possible. Kanban Training for staff and volunteers as well as Lean Methodology to reduce the waste both in material and time.

The IT Resources Action Tracking Tool project is designed to optimize the workflow of the customer technical representative (CTR) at the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR). The project incorporates many different forms and databases into a unified tool which will strive to increase task turnaround time, eliminate waste, reduce training time, and bridge the gap between different departments from the CTR’s perspective. Using appropriate IEEE standards, the project is to be within the scope of NAVWAR and its NMCI-enabled (Navy/Marine Corps Intranet) hardware and software services.

Our project involves research into different fabrication systems to improve the current Boeing 737 plane production process. Our team researched companies from the aerospace, automotive, construction, and shipping industries. After the research had concluded, a decision matrix was done to find the optimal fabrication strategy.

Our project goal was to create a product or service that allowed all guests to enjoy all hotel amenities regardless of physical or mental ability. While there are ADA standards for all hotels, we were tasked with going beyond that to create actual comfort in the hospitality experience for all guests.

The purpose of the project is to provide the Edson College of Nursing with an algorithm that would streamline the tracking and placement of nursing students at available clinical sites. Our research, along with our analysis of acquired clinical requirements and healthcare facility capacity, was to be used to aid us in the creation of an adequate operating model. This step was altered with the introduction of Exxat, a clinical education management software, and all of our efforts were redirected to assist the Edson College in the assimilation of Exxat.

This project has been sponsored by Make-A-Wish Alaska/Washington. The primary objective is to create a management system to support the annual fund, and ultimately increase donor retention.

Our project is to eliminate waste from the system. One type of waste is inventory, so our main goal is to reduce inventory. More interesting details will be shared during our event.

The ASU TSA CAOE Capstone Team developed a tool to help the Sky Harbor TSA determine each month's optimal covert testing frequency. The primary data for this project came from 5 years of covert testing results, but the team also received data on TSA employees' sentiments about covert testing by performing two surveys. While the optimal covert testing frequency can't be discussed because it is SSI, the team is able to demonstrate how our tool calculates it using dummy data.