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Remote Freedom, Dominic M. Florin
Remote Freedom, Dominic M. Florin
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Increasing mobility is a key to ensuring that a disabled child feels accepted and as normal as possible. The object of Remote Freedom is to provide an inexpensive design that will modify a toy vehicle so that it can run remotely. The case that we designed for was a child with cerebral palsy. Originally the toy vehicle on the market needed major modifications both for the safety of the child and the addition of the remote control The main components that were added were a safety harness, a roll bar and motors to control steering and speed.
It was discovered …
Dual Adaptive Recumbent Trike, Jason V. Eastman
Dual Adaptive Recumbent Trike, Jason V. Eastman
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
The DART team's objective was to develop a tandem recumbent tricycle that would be economical, easy to build, and adaptable. This would involve designing, building and testing the tricycle.
Research And Design Of A High L/D Aircraft, Blake Ashby, Gregory Nielson
Research And Design Of A High L/D Aircraft, Blake Ashby, Gregory Nielson
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
This senior design team, consisting of Blake Ashby, Shelly Barlow, Greg Nielson, Deryl Snyder, and Chris Wright, designed, built, and flew an airplane that met the requirements of the Cessna/ONR Student Design/Build/Fly Competition sponsored by AIAA. This radio-controlled airplane was designed to fly the most laps around a course in seven minutes using only 2.5 pounds of NiCad batteries. A total of three senior design teams from Utah State University designed separate airplanes. Though all three teams designed, built, and tested complete airplanes, each emphasized a different aspect of a successful entry. This team emphasized theoretical and numerical analysis in …