We’ve been waiting all year and it’s finally here: Engineering Days 2024!
On Friday, April 19, the Lory Student Center will be overrun with senior design projects from our undergraduate engineering majors for Engineering Days, affectionately known as “E-Days.” From rockets and robots to eco-friendly cookstoves and electric cars, you don’t want to miss this annual event. E-Days is free and open to the community.
Find out what the engineers of the future have designed! 10 things you need to experience at E-Days 2024:
Sustainable Cookstoves
Environmental and mechanical engineering majors have designed a cookstove to run on multiple alternative fuels to reduce reliance on biomass fuels, like wood and coal, which generate high carbon emissions and contribute to poor air quality.
RamBot
Meet RamBot, a quadrupedal robot that can strut, dance, and do a push-up. Always the center of attention at K-12 outreach events, RamBot is a poster child of technological prowess. A team of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering students are the brains behind this fun project.
Arduino Farm
Working closely with CSU’s Department of Horticulture, electrical and mechanical engineering students have created a high-tech solution for farmers hungry to optimize their operations and save money. The team’s fully automated hydroponic greenhouse harvests the power of technology to help food producers conserve space and water, while reducing labor costs.
Open Source Insulin
With insulin prices skyrocketing and out of reach of many diabetics, an emergency can be life-threatening. Students across majors, sponsored by our capital venture program, hope to change that. The team is developing reliable emergency products that are shelf and temperature-stable to treat hyperglycemia in diabetic patients when they need it most.
All-Terrain Wheelchair
Spending time in the great outdoors is often taken for granted. Hiking trails are typically inaccessible for individuals with limited mobility. All-terrain wheelchairs capable of navigating trails are rare, and expensive to obtain. A mechanical engineering senior design team is partnering with The Lockwood Foundation to create a sleek, cost-effective, all-terrain wheelchair to enable individuals with limited mobility to explore the great Colorado outdoors.
Step Up Prosthetics
Prosthetics are typically made for adults, but smaller, kid-sized prosthetics can be difficult to come by and expensive, especially in low-income countries and communities. Mechanical and biomedical engineering students are developing an in-house manufacturing system that will enable communities around the world to custom-build prosthetic feet for children and adolescents. The team is working with Colorado clinics and CSU biomedical and mechanical engineering student Garrison Hayes, who uses a prosthetic leg, to test prototypes.
Snowflake Sensing System
An electrical and computer engineering senior design team will be the first to confirm that no two snowflakes are alike. They have created a sensing device that leverages the power of machine learning to study snow, the least understood aspect of the global water cycle. Their system captures crisp images of snowflakes to advance understanding of winter storms.
Poudre Canyon Deluge Defenders
The devastating Cameron Peak wildfire in 2020 was followed by extreme flooding, causing fatalities and damage. Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Poudre Canyon Deluge Defenders are working to save lives by enhancing the emergency response capabilities in Larimer County. They are developing models to measure the level of river flow and flooding the existing infrastructure can withstand.
Carbon Capture
Removing carbon from the atmosphere is a major global concern to help fight climate change. Sponsored by by our capital venture program, the Carbon Capture team is developing a device that can capture carbon directly from the air. The device could lead to storing carbon sustainably or even converting it into valuable byproducts.
Ram Racing – Formula SAE racecar
Ram Racing is an interdisciplinary student organization and senior design team who work together to design and manufacture a formula-style racecar for the annual Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) international competition. The team will be at E-Days with a few Ram Racing cars including the 2023 and 2024 competition cars.
About E-Days and senior design projects
Engineering students at Colorado State University will hold the annual E-Days Senior Design Showcase and Celebration on Friday, April 19 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the Lory Student Center and Plaza. E-Days is free and open to the community.
Explore more projects from across all of our majors on our department websites:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- College event page
– Taryn Bradley, Jana Crouch, Russell Dickerson, and Andrea Leland
