This fall’s Senior Design Day featured a wide variety of projects that involved everything from processing coffee beans to swarming drones to scanning eyeballs. with companies Each semester, ISE seniors partner with local companies like Duke University, East Fleet Readiness Center, EyeCheq, JavaMasters, NIOSH and Tindall, to develop innovative solutions to the companies’ real-world problems. Senior Design Day was their opportunity to put all of their hard work on display.
And the winners are …
1st Place
Team Duke University
(left to right) Daniel Richter, Thomas Hanson, McCall Branson and Johanna Argueta-Cabrera
The students used optimization tools and simulation modeling to create an emergency evacuation plan for Duke’s east campus.
2nd Place
Team NC State Waste Reduction & Recycling
(left to right) Mussa Tuli, Wasef Shaqlus and Katie Hallenbeck
The students used optimization tools to drastically reduce the time and distance the trucks spend collecting waste.