Manufacturing and Design Engineering (MaDE) Featured Projects
Browse our projects gallery to see examples of past projects.
Sno-Gro Boots
Children’s winter boots that can expand up to three sizes.
Many families face the recurring expense of buying new winter boots for growing children each year.
This project, called Sno-Gro Boots, aims to create footwear that lasts for more than just one season, addressing both economic and environmental concerns.
Assists
Assists uses soccer-style goals, LED lights, and an electronics system to simulate professional passing trainers.
In soccer, the ability to anticipate the arrival of a pass, receive it, and accurately redirect it is essential to executing a game plan.
But it can be difficult for players to develop these skills without multiple players to simulate game scenarios.
Optik
Optik, an all-in-one case for biweekly contact lens wearers.
Biweekly contact lens users often find it difficult to remember to change their contacts on time.
Students designed Optik, a product that includes a reservoir pre-filled with two weeks worth of contact solution.
Fountain Flex
Fountain Flex, a sleeve and funnel, allows users to easily fill water bottles.
It can difficult to refill a water bottle due to issues with water pressure, shallow basins and bottle sizes.
With Fountain Flex, users can easily attach a funnel to the rim of a bottle.
Skallagrim's Forge
A visitor experience for an exhibit that celebrates the cultural importance of Skallagrim's anvil stone.
Preserving the history of the anvil stone.
A visitor experience dedicated to Skallagrim's anvil stone.
Baseball Sensors
Using audio data to make better calls
Twenty percent of close-play calls are later deemed incorrect by video replay.
With ever-intensifying demands for umpires to get the calls right on the field, a group of four undergraduates developed a solution to improve the accuracy of calls at first base.
TA-DA
An expandable electric car that promotes car sharing.
Challenging traditional transportation systems and inefficiency.
An expandable electric car that promotes car sharing by reconfiguring the vehicle into different multipurpose rooms at the push of a button.
Rest
A multi-functional public seating piece that allows one or multiple users to work or relax.
Tired of sitting on the ground outside or leaning on walls around campus?
This human-centered, multi-functional public seating piece improves comfort in public spaces.
Illuminating Test Strips
An HIV testing solution that rapidly tests infants and those who live in inaccessible testing areas.
Three students are working to improve rapid HIV testing for infants in Africa.
The team is working to identify what in the testing process contributes to the number of false negatives.