Technical Presentation Schedule
Engineering Design EXPO capstone teams will present their industry sponsored projects during technical presentations held via Zoom. These sessions are open to the public.
Schedule below. Zoom links will be provided closer to the event.
Thursday, April 24
Attend the Zoom Session or in-person at EP 234A to view the following project presentations:
- 1:30 p.m. — Electronic Throttle Controlled Snowmobile Transmission System (sponsor: U of I Clean Snowmobile Club)
- 2 p.m. — Forklift Floor Plate Improvements for a Quieter Design (sponsor: Hyster-Yale)
- 2:30 p.m. — Forklift Overhead Guard Vibration Reduction (sponsor: Hyster-Yale)
- 3 p.m. — Precision Overlay Installation Tool (sponsor: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories)
- 3:30 p.m. — Sheet Metal Fatigue Testing Frame for Targeted Location Research (sponsor: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories)
- 4 p.m. — Lever Drag Single-Action Offshore Fishing Reel (sponsor: Hard Chargin’)
- 4:30 p.m. — Reusable Mold for Nuclear Fuel Rod Casting (sponsor: Idaho National Laboratory)
Technical presentations in this session will be facilitated by Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Christopher Bitikofer.
Attend the Zoom Session or in-person at JEB 331 to view the following project presentations:
- 2 p.m. — Drone Integration with a Thermal Camera (sponsor: U of I College of Natural Resources)
- 2:30 p.m. — Automated Yeast Image Analysis (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Biological Sciences)
- 3 p.m. — Purpleframe: Vulnerability and Security Testing Framework (sponsor: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories)
- 3:30 p.m. — Band Robot (sponsor: U of I Vandal Marching Band)
Technical presentations in this session will be facilitated by Computer Science Senior Instructor Bruce Bolden.
Attend the Zoom Session or in-person at Idaho Commons, Crest-Horizon Room to view the following project presentations:
- 2 p.m. — Grangeville Water Tank (sponsor: JUB Engineers)
- 2:20 p.m. — Kuna Neighborhood Improvements (sponsor: Consor Engineers)
- 2:40 p.m. — Citywide Pedestrian Crossing Improvements in Pullman Washington (sponsor: Kittelson & Associates)
- 3 p.m. — Livingston Stone Nation Fish Hatchery Supply Pipeline (sponsor: Schnabel Engineering)
- 3:20 p.m. — Downtown Lewiston Main Street Improvements (sponsor: Welch Comer)
- 3:40 p.m. — Bull Run Filtration - Active Treatment System Design (sponsor: MWH Constructors)
- 4 p.m. — Zink Dam Recreational Whitewater Feature (sponsor: Black and Veatch)
- 4:20 p.m. — Weston-Fairview Road Bridge Replacement (sponsor: HDR Inc.)
- 4:40 p.m. — New Path 2 Project (sponsor: KPFF Consulting Engineers)
- 5 p.m. — Kokanee Cove (sponsor: KM Engineering)
- 5:20 p.m. — South Cemetery Road Construction (sponsor: Horrocks Engineers)
Technical presentations in this session will be facilitated by Civil Engineering Professor Fritz Fiedler.
Friday, April 26, 2 - 5 p.m.
Attend the Zoom Session or in-person at JEB 331 to view the following project presentations:
- 2 p.m. — Cloud Control and Support of Remote AMD PRO PCs (sponsor: Hewlett-Packard)
- 2:30 p.m. — Cloud Tools for Data Modeling (sponsor: Lightcast)
- 3 p.m. — Virtual Professor (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Computer Science)
- 3:30 p.m. — Microchip Clean Room Virtual Reality Simulation (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Computer Science)
- 4 p.m. — Image-based Fibre Tracking (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Computer Science)
Technical presentations in this session will be facilitated by Computer Science Senior Instructor Bruce Bolden.
Attend the Zoom Session or in-person at GJL 218 to view the following project presentations:
- 2 p.m. — Scale Model Power System (sponsor: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories)
- 2:30 p.m. — High Efficiency Solar Cells (sponsors: Micron Technology, Inc. and Idaho Workforce Development Council)
- 3 p.m. — RISC V Control Flow Integrity Verification Suite (sponsor: Idaho Scientific)
- 3:30 p.m. — Incoming Radio Signal Direction Finding using an Antenna Array (sponsors: U of I Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering and College of Natural Resources)
- 4 p.m. — Cube Satellite: A modular approach to space research (sponsor: NASA Ames)
- 4:30 p.m. — Increasing STEM Interest One Robot at a Time (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Electrical and & Computer Engineering)
Technical presentations in this session will be facilitated by Electrical and Computer Engineering Instructor Kip Sikes.
Attend the Zoom Session or in-person at EP 413 to view the following project presentations:
- 2 p.m. — Silent & Smooth Single-Use Speculum (sponsor: U of I WWAMI)
- 2:30 p.m. — Toner Cartridge Sustainable Housing Redesign (sponsor: Hewlett-Packard)
- 3 p.m. — Low-Cost Shear Stress Bioreactor to Enable Tissue Engineering Res. (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering)
- 3:30 p.m. — Bench Scale Yeast Fermentation Bioreactor for Teaching Control Sys. (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering)
- 4 p.m. — Acoustics in Soil: Imaging Plant Roots & the Rhizosphere (sponsor: Precision Ag Sensors)
- 4:30 p.m. — In-Field Agriculture IoT Sensing Network (sponsor: U of I College of Agricultural and Life Sciences)
Technical presentations in this session will be facilitated by Biological Engineering Associate Professor Russell Qualls.
Attend the Zoom Session or in-person at EP 324A to view the following project presentations:
- 2 p.m. — Color-Coded Ammunition Components (sponsor: CCI Speer)
- 2:30 p.m. — Sprayer Drone for Precision Agriculture (sponsor: U of I College of Agricultural and Life Sciences)
- 3 p.m. — Viability of High Efficiency Tailless Aircraft (sponsor: NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium)
- 3:30 p.m. — Modular Harness Formboard System (sponsor: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories)
- 4 p.m. — Portable Chair Lift Assist (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 4:30 p.m. — Automated Ring/Mount Crossbolt Press (sponsor: Nightforce Optics)
Technical presentations in this session will be facilitated by Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Michael Maughan.
Attend the Zoom Session or in-person at BEL 346 to view the following project presentations:
- 2 p.m. — Maximizing Value Captured from Produced Water (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering)
- 2:30 p.m. — Membrane Separation of Tritium and Helium Extracted from Exit Signs (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering)
- 3 p.m. — Life Support Systems: Mitigating Dust in Lunar Habitats (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering)
- 3:30 p.m. — Biocompatible Crosslinker Scale-Up (sponsor: U of I Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Technical presentations in this session will be facilitated by Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Matthew Bernards.