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Senior Clinic - Year 4
Senior Clinic - Year 4
Senior Clinic projects are completed by third and fourth year students. Projects typically include design and optimization of systems in a wide variety of applications but must be related to renewable energy; bioresources; sensors, optics, and imaging; robotics and industrial automation; or, advanced manufacturing and often involve building and testing a physical prototype.
Project: Patient-Specific Instrumentation for Hip Arthroplasty
Project: Patient-Specific Instrumentation for Hip Arthroplasty
Partner: SKYATECH
This project consisted of the development of patient-specific instrumentation to assist and improve the accuracy of the acetabular cup placement in a patient's hip during total hip arthroplasty.
Student Team: Tyler Green, Milo Ryan, Payton Smyth, Sydney Wheatley, Iker Zulbaran.
Project Website: projects.upei.ca/psi
Project: Design of an Air Handling Unit
Project: Design of an Air Handling Unit
Partner: Saeplast
This project includes the design and sizing of an outdoor air handling unit, filtration, cooling coil, and heating coils using heat recovery from rotational molding ovens, and the fan array to address pressurization issues in production spaces. Included in the design turnover package are mechanical and controls schematics, piping and instrumentation diagrams, as well as electrical and PLC control wiring schematics.
Student Team: Breanna MacAdam, Neil Sweetapple, Hussam Alzoubi and Dylan Power.
Project Website: projects.upei.ca/AHU
Project: Rotary Drum Filter Cover System
Project: Rotary Drum Filter Cover System
Partner: Atlantech Companies
The project is to redesign the cover system for one of Atlantech Companies' large capacity rotary drum filters.
Student Team: Claire Renken, Evan Hardwick, Patrick Kenny, Yuting Chen.
Project Website: projects.upei.ca/drumcover
Project: Climatrol Wet Bulb Temperature Control
Project: Climatrol Wet Bulb Temperature Control
Partner: Baltimore Aircoil Company
The purpose of this project was to design an automated airflow management system capable of maintaining a set wet bulb temperature within a lab, by means of controlling a series of fans and dampers.
Student Team: Daniel Mowat, Mike Parkman, Benoit Sampson, and Chad Stewart
Project Website: projects.upei.ca/tempcontrol
Project: No-Pull No-Lift Controller
Project: No-Pull No-Lift Controller
Partner: The AbleGamers Charity
Develop a video game controller for gamers with disabilities. The controller is made specifically for users who cannot hold a traditional controller or move a computer mouse. There are 8 pushbutton outputs which connect to an Xbox adaptive controller, allowing the user to map the controller movements to various actions in-game.
Student Team: Denaj Miller, Graham Ching, Muhanad Hilaneh, Ryan Unuigboje
Project Website: projects.upei.ca/npnl
Project: Video-Based Wind Measurement using Mirage
Project: Video-Based Wind Measurement using Mirage
Partner: Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM)
Provide CANSOFCOM with a passive, undetectable wind sensor to assist snipers in correcting rifle ballistics at long ranges. The prototype that the team has constructed analyzes mirage/heat haze and correlates it with crosswind speed. The team has found through early testing that the mean frequency of fluctuation of the mirage increases with wind speed.
Student Team: Sam Gard, Jessica MacDonald, Philip Tweel, Lucas Vanderaa.
Project Website: projects.upei.ca/wind
Project: Mobile Tire Recylcling Unit
Project: Mobile Tire Recylcling Unit
Partner: Exo-Cubic Solutions
Design a mobile tire recycling unit using Exo-Cubic’s current tire recycling technology. This system uses ultra high pressure water to essentially scrub the rubber from the steel lattice within the tire. This process leaves the consumer with rubber power and a steel carcass both of which can be reused in the manufacturing industry. The team had to design a system that could take this technology to the oil fields and mining quarries where it could recycle 5 ton haul truck and loader tires.
Student Team: Nicholas McRae, Bradley Norman, Omar Shokr, Nick Walker.
Project Website: projects.upei.ca/tirerecycling
Project: Vacuum Skid Booster Pump Premature Failure
Project: Vacuum Skid Booster Pump Premature Failure
Partner: Natures Crops
Investigate the premature bearing failure of a booster pump at Natures Crops which was a part of their vacuum skid in their process. In the pump specifications it indicates that this pump should last around 3 years without required maintenance but has been failing every 1.5 years creating more work and shutdowns for the vacuum skid. The team conducted system sizing and design analysis throughout the project to assess the issue and developed a system that can be implemented to detect when the bearing is beginning to fail to save cost on pump maintenance.
Student Team: Ben Fraser, Nate VanIderstine, Temi Twins, Elly Arsenault.
Project Website: projects.upei.ca/vacuumskid
Project: Integration of Automation, Controls, and Data Analysis for Tow Tank
Project: Integration of Automation, Controls, and Data Analysis for Tow Tank
Partner: Aspin Kemp & Associates (AKA)
The AKA tow tank is a small scale tow tank which is intended to be used for performing resistance tests on hull models, to help the designer make design decisions before proceeding to a larger tow tank. The goal of this project was to complete the integration of the dynamometer, hull model, and the motorized carriage of the UPEI tow tank. The team also made an excel macro for converting the test data into meaningful information for the user.
Student Team: Andrew Friedrich, Nick Landrigan, Elvis Nyong, Travis Speelman, Sharon Adeyemi.
Project Website: projects.upei.ca/towtankcontrol
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