Student Design 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: Design a Light Touch, Low Cost Joystick for Gaming

Partner: AbleGamers Canada

The student project team will design a light touch, low cost joystick which can be used by players who do not have the fine motor control movements needed for control sticks on traditional gaming controllers.   

Student Team: Damien Doucette, Jared Young, Amer Ahmed, Kaz Otedoh, Bader Alsadi.

Project: Extend Wet Bulb Controls to Maintain Homogeneous Wet Bulb within a Test Lab

Partner: Baltimore Aircoil

The student project team will extend the previously developed WB controls to maintain a homogenous WB within a test Lab.

Student Team: Prince Ogbodo, Tyler Jeffrey, Prabhakar Bholah, Jakob Bryant, Zidhaan Firoze.

Project: Design a Multisensory Input Puck

Partner: Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM)

The student engineering project team will collaborate with a computer science student project team to design a multisensory input puck to be worn by deployed personnel (i.e., temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, heart rate, etc.).  In general terms, the fourth year engineering team will design and create the hardware component of the wearable device and the computer science team will design and develop the associated software as part of their senior Capstone project.

Student Team: Adam MacLellan, Ahmed Abotira, Seyi Afolayan, Zeyad Elkallaf, Salma Elmalt.

Project: Process Water Reduction - Plant 1 and Plant 2

Partner: Cavendish Farms

The student project team will work with Cavendish personnel on identified opportunities to either substitute fresh water source with downstream recycled water (ie. water loops) and design water recycle/loop system(s) for areas with most potential for fresh water savings, or design an alternate system for conveyance of product or waste vs. using fresh water.

Student Team: Bassey Amba, Nora MacLean, Dylan Cyusa, Khidaf Aijaz.

Project: Design a Printed Circuit Board Pulverizing Station for Recycling

Partner: Exo-Cubic

The student project team will design a proof-of-concept ultra high-pressure water (UHPW) circuit board pulverizing station, complete with automation and controls. The objective of the recycling station is to replace the first four steps of the recycling process described above. It is expected that the UHPW station will have a lower capital cost and lower operating cost than the four pieces of equipment that it is replacing. (The clinic partner will provide a 40,000 psi Hammelmann pump to be incorporated into the design of the chamber.)

One outcome of the project is an analysis of the physical and chemical characteristics of the new fiber that is generated from the pulverizing process and suggestions on how best to repurpose this fiber.

Student Team: Abhi Patel, Amr Elkady, Cale MacKay, Tanguy Rugamba, Suliman Antoun.

Project: Automate the Lozenge Blistering Process

Partner: Island Abbey

The student project team will design a solution to automate the process from 1) collecting the lozenges that are ejected from the cooling tunnel, 2) passing them through a metal detector, and 3) automatically placing the lozenges in the pockets of the formed blister. The solution will include capital cost estimates and calculations on return on investment (ROI).

Student Team: Demi Adebanjo, Osahon Enobakhare, Yvan Cheung Chin Yan, Liam Passfield.

Project: Design a Single Axis Tracker for Ground Mount Solar Installations

Partner: Sunly Energy

The student project team will design and build a prototype single axis tracker for Sunly ground mount installations that will automatically adjust the panels on the east/west axis to align them with the sun throughout the day.

Student Team: Kyle Kennedy, Sai Pulickal, Donald Duru, Mitchell Collins, Kaelyn MacLeod.

Project: Design a Ducted Fume Hood

Partner: Torvan Medical

The student project team will design and build a prototype bench top ducted fume hood. Consideration will be given to the materials used (resistant to chemicals and solvents), manufacturability, sanitary design, and standard air handling and enclosure requirements. The fume hood will be designed with applicable sensors and will have automation and controls complete with a user friendly touchscreen GUI.

Student Team: Laura Mohan, Jawad Adisa, Ali Muise, Will Wonodi.