Engineering Senior Design
Senior design is an interdisciplinary program where a team of three to five engineering seniors dedicates over 1200 hours to developing a solution for a partner-sponsored project. Sponsors gain additional advantages by connecting with students who possess creative talents with strong employment potential, along with benefiting from the advanced research and technology resources at the University of Delaware.
Students not only design, build, and test solutions to their industry sponsor’s engineering challenges but also refine their technical and managerial skills as they transform ideas from concept to reality. Under the mentorship of a faculty advisor, they create multidisciplinary teams capable of tackling a range of technical issues.
At the conclusion of the semester-long course, students deliver a tangible solution to their sponsors’ original challenges, many of which are incorporated directly into the sponsors’ design and manufacturing processes. Students have access to state-of-the-art facilities to fabricate and test their designs at the University of Delaware, including the:
- Design Studio
- Machine and Electronics Shops
- Materials Testing Facility
- Computational Simulation Software
- Rapid Prototyping Systems
To date, the senior design program has collaborated with over 100 industry, academic, and community sponsors, addressed more than 500 design challenges, and graduated over 2000 engineering students.
Tackling two designs to protect football players
For their project with UD Athletics, mechanical engineering senior Raj Shah (Honors) and biomedical engineering seniors Emma FitzGibbon (Honors), Alyssa Giordani and Haonan “Switch” Huang created a prototype of a glove to protect the metacarpal bones of football players that have suffered a hand fracture.
Their prototype, which received the Rehabilitation Devices Award at the showcase, is a glove insert that has four carbon fiber bars and additional neoprene cushioning. The inserts can be customized to fit different glove sizes and provide lightweight, flexible protection for players during the long recovery process.
Sponsors
Do you have an idea for a medical device that needs prototyping, a clinical need that is unmet, or a need for a better alternative to existing medical solutions?
Biomedical Engineering Senior Design is now accepting Project Proposals for the Fall semester.
Submit a project proposal for evaluation!
Submissions due July 15th, at 11:59 PM EST
All healthcare professionals in hospitals, clinics, industry, business, academia as well as non-profits are welcome. Community members with ideas or unmet needs that can potentially be addressed through the design process are also invited to submit a project proposal
Additional questions?
Would like to set up a phone call or a zoom meeting to discuss the project?
Send an email to: ashutosh@udel.edu