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Jme 4110: Portable Car Wash, Coleman Kaufman, Sara Wilson
Jme 4110: Portable Car Wash, Coleman Kaufman, Sara Wilson
Washington University / UMSL Mechanical Engineering Design Project JME 4110
We met with our target customer to understand their needs for the ideal portable car wash. Their key needs included use by any sized passenger vehicle, washing the car as good as a community car wash, and must be portable. We started by researching current products that could match these needs, and then we sketched four of our own designs to match our customer’s needs. With these design sketches we used a metrics tool to determine which design was the best. From there we did engineering calculations to analyze the trouble spots in our design, such as the water pressure …
Jme 4110: Drag Line Wind Energy Generator, David Gengenbacher, Mouhamadou Bamba Kane, Brian Bakula
Jme 4110: Drag Line Wind Energy Generator, David Gengenbacher, Mouhamadou Bamba Kane, Brian Bakula
Washington University / UMSL Mechanical Engineering Design Project JME 4110
The goal of this project was to develop a prototype capable of power a 10 watt light bulb using only the energy from wind.
Jme 4110: Water Reservoir Energy Storage, Kristen Grace, Supapan Thammanok, Leticia Zoratto Lunge
Jme 4110: Water Reservoir Energy Storage, Kristen Grace, Supapan Thammanok, Leticia Zoratto Lunge
Washington University / UMSL Mechanical Engineering Design Project JME 4110
The goal of this project was to create a demonstrative model of a Pumped Hydroelectric Storage System (PHS). A PHS stores energy by draining water from an upper reservoir through a turbine to generate electricity. This water is then pumped from a lower reservoir to the original upper reservoir to restart the system cycle. Using existing PHS applications, a small-scale prototype was built using an aquarium pump and mini turbine, along with PVC and plastic containers. When water is run through the system, a multimeter can be used to show the power output of the system. In addition to functionality, …
Jme 4110: Data Cooling Center, Christopher Schmidt, Brennan Fogarty, Suruchi Aryal
Jme 4110: Data Cooling Center, Christopher Schmidt, Brennan Fogarty, Suruchi Aryal
Washington University / UMSL Mechanical Engineering Design Project JME 4110
The group will design a way to efficiently move heat within a framework of using dielectric fluid as a heat transfer medium. The heat will be removed from a data center or a simulated data center. The group will evaluate the best possible design with the understanding that cooling data centers generate a large amount of heat. The design will also be constructed in such a manner that it can be scaled up to a larger size. Dielectric fluid will be used due to its efficiency compared to that of an air cooled system or a compressed refrigerant system. Account …
Jme 4110: Vibratory Parts Feeder, Adin Stambolic, Patrick Edward Vastola, Noah Herrin
Jme 4110: Vibratory Parts Feeder, Adin Stambolic, Patrick Edward Vastola, Noah Herrin
Washington University / UMSL Mechanical Engineering Design Project JME 4110
Design an inexpensive, modular and tunable vibratory feeder to move different size particles from one place to another. The feeder can change according to the shape and size of the particles while in use.
Jme 4110: Lego-Lock Block, Diana Engelhardt, Dmitriy Kornyukhov, Chelsea Borders
Jme 4110: Lego-Lock Block, Diana Engelhardt, Dmitriy Kornyukhov, Chelsea Borders
Washington University / UMSL Mechanical Engineering Design Project JME 4110
Design a building block device that assembles similarly to a LEGO brick, but also has the capability to lock an assembly state between two bricks. Scale (size) not critical for this proof of concept (standard LEGO blocks may be too small for this first attempt).
Jme 4110: Mass Production Of Multi-Sphere Approximated Parts, Christopher Hartley, Chad Gorski, Matthew Brady
Jme 4110: Mass Production Of Multi-Sphere Approximated Parts, Christopher Hartley, Chad Gorski, Matthew Brady
Washington University / UMSL Mechanical Engineering Design Project JME 4110
For this project, the team needs to design a mass production manufacturing process. The product of the process will be parts that represent, as closely as possible, approximations of parts developed using Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) software. Since the software uses spheres to efficiently model complex parts, the manufacturing process must also utilize spheres as the building blocks for the approximated parts. As a proof of concept, this project uses river pebbles as the parts being approximated by the software and modeled by the multi-sphere production process.
Jme 4110: Extended Hole Punch, Lucas Mennemeier, Jason Zobrist
Jme 4110: Extended Hole Punch, Lucas Mennemeier, Jason Zobrist
Washington University / UMSL Mechanical Engineering Design Project JME 4110
DESIGN AND DEVELOP A WORKING PROTOTYPE OF A SINGLE-HAND, SINGLE-HOLE PUNCH WITH AN EXTENDED THROAT THAT WILL BE ABLE TO REACH FURTHER INTO A SHEET OF PAPER THAN A STANDARD SINGLE-HOLE PUNCH. THIS CAN BE A PUNCH ATTACHMENT OR A STAND-ALONE DEVICE. EITHER DESIGN CHOSEN WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO BE CONVERTED INTO AN EMBOSSING TOOL FOR EMBOSSING SEALS INTO DOCUMENTS