Fall 2019
Sponsor: Texas Instruments
Project Objective: Identify opportunities for the use of robots to positively impact society, thereby improving our lives, within the next ten years.
Spring 2019
Sponsor: Wabtec
Project Objective: Design a regional lightweight locomotive system that can be sold across multiple regions, countries, and customers.
Fall 2018
Sponsor: Imerys
Project Objective: Water Health: Field Pollution Mitigation System – Students are tasked with designing a system that will effectively mitigate the effects of agricultural pollution caused by runoff from agricultural fields during storm events
Spring 2018
Sponsor: Lockheed Martin
Project Objective: Factory of the Future – Students are tasked with identifying opportunities and designing solutions to enable the “Factory of the Future”
Fall 2017
Sponsor: Delphi
Project Objective: Identify technologies and opportunities to achieve the vision of safe and connected electric and autonomous vehicles
Spring 2017
Sponsor: GE
Project Objective: Develop a strategy on how to best extract Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from a fictitious ore deposit located in the Pocono Mountain region of northeast Pennsylvania.
Fall 2016
Sponsor: Chevron
Objective: Keeping sustainability and stewardship of the environment in mind, as well as the need to remain a safe and profitable business, design an opportunity to improve upon common
industry practices in shale development.
Spring 2016
Sponsor: Lockheed Martin
Project Objective: Leverage additive manufacturing technology to solve new problems or redesign existing solutions. Use additive manufacturing’s ability to create geometries that were previously impossible to reduce weight, cost, and assembly time. Improve designs iteratively through rapid prototyping made possible with desktop additive machinery
Fall 2015
Sponsor: GE Transportation
Project Objective: Pittsadelphia is looking for the design of a cost-effective freight shipping system that reduces smog and meets EPA requirements, while maintaining or increasing freight capacity into and out of this important port city.