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Table of Contents 

Welcome from the Dean! ................................ 3 

Building Map ! .............................................. 4-5 

Engineering Programs at WSU! ..................... 6 

Index of Projects by Title! ............................... 7 

Project Listing! .......................................... 8-15 

Awards Banquet Program! ........................... 16 

List of Awards! .............................................. 17 

Be Sure to Visit: 

Wallace Hall, all floors 

Aerospace 

Electrical & Computer Science 

Kansas BEST Robotics 

Sponsor Booths 

Engineering Research Laboratory Building 

Aerospace 

Bioengineering 

Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation 

Projects by EECS 

Engineering Building, 2nd Floor 

Industrial & Manufacturing 

Mechanical 

Event Highlights 

Hands-on Activities for Kids 

(sign up required in advance) 

This year over 400 children from local 

schools in grades 5-8 are expected to attend 

EOH. Activities include gliders, egg drop, 

wind turbines, roller coasters, race cars and 

more! 

Tours for the General Public 

Most engineering laboratories and NIAR 

open their labs for tours. This is a great way 

to see how the research done at the College 

of Engineering impacts our community, state 

and society. 

Lunch on the Patio 

From 1-2 pm, lunch will be served on the 

Wallace Hall patio for $5.00 per person. 

Awards Banquet 

Held on Saturday, May 5, 6:30 pm at the 

downtown Hyatt Regency. Tickets must be 

purchased in advance in the Dean"s Office. 

Our Sponsors 

We believe the contribution made by the 

sponsors to the Engineering Open House is 

a vital part of the success of our event. 

THANK YOU to those who have contributed 

time and money to support this effort of our 

students, faculty and staff. You are important 

to us and your belief in the College is valued 

and appreciated. 

Diamond ($2,000+) 

The Boeing Company 

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. 

Bombardier Learjet 

Cessna Aircraft Company 

Koch Industries 

Platinum ($1,000+) 

Airbus 

MKEC Engineering Consultants, Inc. 

Professional Engineering Consultants, P.A. 

Gold ($500+) 

Garmin 

Clark Beck 

Award Only ($25+) 

Ad Astra Kansas Initiative Foundation 

AIAA, Wichita 

American Society for Quality, Wichita 

APICS Wichita Professional Chapter 

IEEE, Wichita 

SAE International, Wichita 

Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Wichita 

Society of Women Engineers, Wichita 

WSU High Performance Computing Center

Special Thanks 

Dean"s Office staff 

Karen Reynolds & Ana Lazarin 

Engineering Student Organizations 

NIAR & Tracee Friess 

WSU Foundation, Megan Smith 

WSU Duplication Station, Reservations, 

Police, Fire Safety, Physical Plant 

Welcome from the Dean 

It is with pride and appreciation that I welcome you to the 

57th annual Wichita State University (WSU) College of 

Engineering (CoE) Open House. We are excited about the 

opportunity to share with you the work done by our 

committed and talented students, our facilities, including 

the Engineering Research Building, Wallace Hall, and the 

National Institute of Aviation Research. 

In your tour today, you will find many award-deserving 

projects representing creative and innovative solutions to 

real world problems. I would like to encourage you to talk 

to the students as you tour the facilities and projects and 

find out more about the personal stories behind the 

technical solutions being displayed. You will be amazed 

by them! 

On behalf of the family of the WSU College of 

Engineering, I would like to thank you for sharing part of 

your day with us. Please contact the dean"s office at (316) 978-3400 if we can be of any 

further help or provide you with additional information on our academic programs or College. I 

hope you enjoy your day with us, and I look forward to meeting you in the near future. 

Sincerely, 

Zulma Toro-Ramos 

Dean, College of Engineering 

EOH Planning Team 

Jordan Martin, Open House Chair, Tours 

Amanda Smith, Awards 

Shahla Pourkaram, Awards Banquet 

Mike Staab, Projects 

Alex Foster, Lunch 

Mary Beth Kellerman, Marketing 

Cameron Porter, Website 

Samantha Corcoran, Adviser 

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Engineering Complex at WSU 

Jabara Hall 

Jabara Hall 

Jabara Hall began life in 1992 

known simply as the Science 

Building. The Science Building was 

renamed in 1996 to Jabara Hall to 

honor Fran and Geri Jabara. The 

four-story Jabara Hall is the secondlargest 

building on the campus and 

houses the departments of 

mathematics and statistics, physics, 

computer science, and psychology 

as well as the university's computing 

and telecommunications services. 

Wallace 

Hall 

Engineering Building 

Wallace Hall 

Wallace Hall began life as the Engineering Laboratory 

buildings in Fall of 1976. The $3.75 million building was 

dedicated on April 27, 1977, as Wallace Hall in honor of 

Dwane L. Wallace and his wife Velma Lunt Wallace. 

Dwane Wallace was one of the first aeronautical 

engineering graduates from the University of Wichita 

and became an aviation industry giant as president of 

Wichita-based Cessna Aircraft Co. from 1936 to 1975. 

The three-story building houses the College of 

Engineering's dean's office, the department of 

aerospace engineering, department of electrical 

engineering and computer science, classrooms, a 

machine shop and laboratories. 

Engineering 

Laboratory 

Engineering Building 

The Engineering Building was designed by Wichita architect W.I. Fisher. It was 

occupied as headquarters for the College of Engineering in 1953 and is an 

example of the International or Modern style of architecture that dominated 

American public buildings following World War I. It now houses the 

mechanical and the industrial and manufacturing engineering programs.

The National Institute for 

Aviation Research (NIAR) 

NIAR supports the aviation industry through research 

and development, testing, certification, and 

technology transfer. The facility, that includes 15 

research and testing laboratories, provides state-ofthe-art 

equipment, investigators, and administrative 

support to clients in private industry, and state and 

federal government agencies. 

Research 

Building (ERLB) 

Engineering Research 

Laboratory Building 

The Engineering Research Laboratory Building, 

constructed in 2007, houses laboratories for 

Wichita State's engineering programs. The 

building was designed by the Wichita-based firm 

McCluggage Van Sickle & Perry to be open and 

flexible, allowing for changes in the kind of 

research that can be conducted as the needs of 

potential clients change. 

Beech Wind Tunnel 

National Institute 

for Aviation Research 

(NIAR) 

Walter H. Beech Memorial 

Wind Tunnel 

The idea to build the tunnel was proposed in 1946 

by Walter H. Beech, former president of Beech 

Aircraft Co., and Dwane L. Wallace, former 

president of Cessna Aircraft Co., who needed a 

place to do aeronautical research in Wichita. The 

7x10-ft wind tunnel is capable of testing at speeds 

up to 245 mph. Although aviation has long been 

the primary beneficiary of the wind tunnel, the 

tunnel has been used for a variety of tests and 

purposes including a Junior Olympic skier, 

Olympic cyclist, model of Kemper Arena roof, 

curbside dumpsters, snowmobiles, motorcycles 

and hurricane emergency response vehicle 

models. 

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Engineering Programs at WSU 

AEROSPACE 

Aerospace engineers are involved in research, 

development, design and manufacture of such 

products as airplanes, helicopters, missiles, 

satellites and spacecraft. The aerospace 

engineering curriculum at WSU offers students 

the opportunity to acquire competence in such 

professional fields as aerodynamics, flight 

mechanics, propulsion, control systems, 

structures and simulation techniques. 

BIOENGINEERING 

Bioengineering is where engineering interfaces 

with the physical and biological sciences. It 

integrates physical, chemical, mathematical 

sciences and engineering principles for the study 

of biology, medicine, behavior, or health. 

Bioengineering develops materials, processes, 

implants, devices, and informatics approaches for 

the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of 

disease, for patient rehabilitation, and for 

improving health. 

ELECTRICAL 

Electrical engineers are prepared to work in a 

wide spectrum of activities, including avionics, 

process control systems, information processing, 

instrumentation and measurement systems, 

digital systems and power systems. Our 

graduates can concentrate on electives in 

communications and signal processing, control 

systems, digital systems, electric power systems 

and electronics. 

COMPUTER 

Computer engineers are focused on computer 

architecture and computer networks and the 

design of digital hardware to implement 

computers and networks. Our graduates are 

required to take computer programming and are 

proficient as computer programmers. The 

curriculum is oriented to the operating systems 

and algorithmic processes. 

COMPUTER SCIENCE 

Computer science is “the systematic study of 

algorithmic processes that describe and 

transform information – their theory, analysis, 

design, efficiency implementation, and 

application.” Underlying all computing are the 

fundamental questions: “What can be 

automated?” and “How can the automation best 

be accomplished?” 

INDUSTRIAL 

Industrial engineers solve problems in 

manufacturing and service organizations (such 

as banks, hospitals, social services and 

government agencies), focusing on productivity 

improvement through better use of human 

resources, financial resources, natural resources 

and man-made structures and equipment. 

MANUFACTURING 

Manufacturing engineers engineer products as 

well as their production, in an integrated manner. 

The goal of design and manufacturing activities is 

the cost effective conversion of raw materials and 

intermediate products into higher value products 

through the use of various design, processing, 

assembly, automation, and mass-production 

techniques. 

MECHANICAL 

Mechanical engineers are vital team members in 

virtually any industrial activity ranging from 

concept to design, and analysis to manufacturing 

from aircraft and automotive to consumer 

products and building equipment. In these jobs, 

mechanical engineers design products, 

machines, and develop processes for 

manufacturing. 

ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY 

The engineering technology program is a handson 

program focused on current engineering 

technology issues and applications used in 

product design, testing, installation and 

maintenance to prepare students for careers in 

manufacturing, construction, healthcare, 

education and technical services or sales.#There 

are four concentrations: Aircraft Maintenance 

Technology, Engineering Technology 

Management, Mechatronics Technology, and 

Renewable Energy Technology.

Index of Projects by Title 

A Hybrid Inference Approach for Multi-Sensor Health 

Diagnostics with Unknown Faulty State! ..................... 12 

A Microburst Response and Recovery Scheme Using 

Advanced Flight Envelope Protection! ........................... 9 

A Physics of Failure-Based Approach for Dye-sensitized 

Solar Cells Degradation Prognostics! .......................... 13 

A Simulation Framework for PV System Power 

Management! ............................................................... 13 

AE 628 - Prop Shox! ............................................................. 8 

AE 628 - Shuffle Alliance DVC Team! ................................... 8 

AE 628 - Team AA! ............................................................... 8 

AE 628 - The B-10 Shockin Stingray (DVC)! ........................ 8 

AE 628 DBF Team Gold! ....................................................... 8 

AE 628-Rain Destruction! ..................................................... 8 

AE 628: Operation Prang! ..................................................... 8 

AE 628/Team Bomba O'Riley! .............................................. 8 

AE-628, Team Atomic Shocker! ............................................. 8 

Aerodynamic Characteristics of Box Wing Configurations! .. 8 

Aircraft Control Through Brain-Computer Interface! ............. 9 

Appointment Scheduling Analysis 

in an Academic Pediatric Clinic! ................................... 13 

Augmented Storytelling! ...................................................... 10 

Bicycle-Powered Generator! ............................................... 10 

Bluetooth Tap Shoes! .......................................................... 10 

Bombardier Learjet Engineering Drawing Release 

Improvement! ............................................................... 11 

Cash-Flow Optimization in a Multi-Project Environment! ... 13 

Cessna CJ4 FDR Control Wheel Position Sensor! ............. 14 

Cessna Non-Destructive Inspection Scheduling and 

Performance Measurement Tool Design! ..................... 12 

CIC Window Frame Team! .................................................. 12 

Combined Renewable Energy Technology! ........................ 15 

Cost Benefit Modeling and Analysis of 

Condition Monitoring System for 

Optimal Maintenance Decision Making! ...................... 13 

Cyclometrics! ...................................................................... 10 

Delaying Boundary Layer Transition by 

Blowing Effect of Free Stream Air! ................................. 9 

DoorTextChecker! ............................................................... 10 

Electric Chair Safety Lighting System! ............................... 10 

End Effector Racking System! ............................................ 15 

Energy Consumption in the Delivery of Magnetic 

Resonance Imaging (MRI)! .......................................... 13 

Exploration of Low Cost Autopilot Systems in Academia! ..... 9 

Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) Simulation a Mechanical 

Heart Valve! ................................................................... 9 

High Voltage Audio Modulation! .......................................... 10 

Improving Prosthetic Device Supply at the 

Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center! ............................... 11 

LaundryMate! ...................................................................... 10 

Life Cycle for Engineering the Healthcare 

Service Delivery of Imaging! ........................................ 13 

MEDS (Medicine Expiration/Refill Date System)! ............... 10 

Metal Bond Process Improvement Analysis! ...................... 12 

Money Savings Through Energy Efficiency 

in Industrial Sector! ...................................................... 13 

Motion Control RC! ............................................................. 10 

Multiple Asset Parallel Replacement! ................................. 12 

My Home Audio! ................................................................. 10 

NuvaRing Class Action Lawsuit Study! ................................. 9 

Operation: Tight Ship ! ......................................................... 12 

Problem Definition as Complex Adaptive System! ............. 13 

Process improvement in Healthcare using 

FMEA Analysis Approach! ........................................... 14 

RC Mind Control! ................................................................ 10 

Real-time Rolling Element Bearing Diagnostics through 

Vibration-Based Health Monitoring and Analysis! ........ 14 

Reliability-Based Design for System Time-Dependent 

Performance Deterioration! ......................................... 14 

Reliability-Based Robustness Design for 

the Biodegradable Medical Devices! ........................... 14 

RF Signal Enhancer! ........................................................... 10 

Rolled Lead Strip Cutting Device! ....................................... 15 

Rowing T-Stand and Racking System! ............................... 15 

Shock & Awe! ........................................................................ 9 

Shocker High Altitude Rocketry Project 2! ............................ 9 

Shocker Racing - Formula SAE! ......................................... 15 

Shocker Racing - Mini-Baja! ............................................... 15 

Shoulder Pain Pump Redesign! ............................................ 9 

Smart Mailbox! .................................................................... 11 

Smart Shopping Cart! ......................................................... 11 

Social Learning System: A Reference Model! ..................... 14 

Statistical Analysis to Analyze the Relationship 

Between Radiation Consumption and 

Energy Usage on a Hospital X-Ray Room! ................. 12 

Steering Wheel Sensor! ....................................................... 11 

Sustainable Single-Machine Scheduling Problem 

with Reliability and Energy Consumption! ................... 14 

Team Decision Skills Development with MBTI! ................... 14 

The Retractable Table for Wheel Chair! ............................... 11 

The Smart Mailbox! ............................................................. 11 

Triumph Structures - Wichita Facility Layout! ..................... 12 

TweetDuino! ........................................................................ 11 

Variable Refrigerant HVAC Redesign for 

HCC's Lockman Hall! ................................................... 15 

Washing Machine Autobalancer! ......................................... 11 

Wheelchair Curb Sensor! ..................................................... 11 

Wheelchair Obstacle Avoidance System! ........................... 11 

Who Should Help me with this Code?! ................................ 11 

Wind Turbine Variable Pitch Control! .................................. 15 

Wireless GPS Tracker! ........................................................ 11 

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Senior Design & Graduate Research Projects 

AEROSPACE 

AE 628 - Prop Shox 

Wallace Hall 2nd Floor 

Grant Rudd, Kushal 

Koirala, Ngigalile Kyando, 

Kazuhiro Umetani, Jose 

Villavicencio 

This aircraft Udaan 

(Sanskrit for flight), was 

designed and constructed 

by a team of seniors for 

their capstone class (AE 

518/628). It then 

participated in the WSU 

DVC (Design, Validate, 

Compete) and Bronze 

Propeller competitions. 

AE 628 - Shuffle Alliance 

DVC Team 


Laboratory Building Lobby 

Bang Vo, Dan Le, Thanh 

Thuy Tran, Jonathan 

Mayagoitia, Meng-Ting 

Hsieh 

The purpose of this project 

is to compete in the 

2011-2012 Design, 

Validate, and Compete 

(DVC) competition. A 

lightweight remote 

controlled aircraft is 

designed and built to fly 

several laps and drop a 

payload of tennis balls 

onto a target. 

AE 628 - Team AA 



Jeff Fisher, Allison 

Ronning, Mahdi Bakri, 

Robert Varriano, Dominic 

Heincker 

The goal is to design, 

validate, and build an 

airplane to excel in the 

Bronze Propeller 

Competition. A t-tail, high 

wing configuration was 

chosen as the optimal 

design. 

AE 628 - The B-10 

Shockin Stingray (DVC) 



Tawny Blumenshine, 

Alfredo Gimenez, Wesley 

Lambert, Mitchell Nord, 

James Winkel 

This project is an 

Aerospace Engineering 

Senior Design project. A 

remote control flying wing 

designed and built for the 

Wichita State Bronze 

Propeller competition. 

AE 628 DBF Team Gold 



Jeff Breedlove, Adam 

Koenig, Gavin Smith, 

Stephen Turner, Nick 

Tygard 

Team Gold's aircraft is 

designed to win the 

2011-2012 AIAA/Cessna/ 

Raytheon Missile Systems 

Design/Build/Fly 

Competition. The aircraft 

completes three different 

missions at the lightest 

weight possible. 

AE 628-Rain Destruction 


Vu C. Hoang, Prabesh 

Karki, Lukas Long, 

Suranjith Perera, Roshan 

John Rasiah, Hasith 

Thewarawe 

Our team, Rain 

Destruction, competed in 

the Bronze Propeller 

competition. Our mission 

was to design and build an 

electric powered aircraft 

that would drop tennis 

balls onto a target during 

flight. 

AE 628: Operation Prang 


Amy Vest, David Knak, 

Peyton Singer, Adam New, 

Shekhar Dhakal 

Team Prang built a custom 

designed battery powered 

remote control aircraft to 

compete in the Bronze 

Propellor and Design, 

Validate, and Compete 

competitions. 

AE 628/Team Bomba 

O'Riley 



Dustin Blosser, Scott 

Ferentz, Adam 

Guetersloh, Jake Russell 

Team Bomba O'Riley 

presents: "Magic Bus." We 

boast to carry the most! 

AE-628, Team Atomic 

Shocker 



Dean Simkins, Boon 

Guang Lua, Prince 

Yengbe, Ugochukwu 

Njoku, Awah 

Sabwemkeze 

Elegantly plying the warm 

spring winds, dipping 

down to release a cluster 

of bright yellow bomblets, 

and at last gently touching 

terra firma, the Atomic 

Shocker Design Validate 

and Compete aircraft is 

not one to miss. We!ve 

created a one of a kind 

aircraft for the aerospace 

senior design course, so 

come listen to the trials, 

tribulations, and elations of 

designing a small-scale 

remote control bomber. 

Aerodynamic 

Characteristics of Box 

Wing Configurations 

Wallace Hall Hallway East 

(3x4 Wind Tunnel) 

L.T. Honse, T.J. Jayaratne, 

Chris Keeler, Amanda 

Premer, Brennen Sheldon 

This project tested the 

aerodynamic 

characteristics of two box 

wing configurations: a 

typical box wing and an 

elliptical box wing, with the


same airfoil, span, and 

chord lengths. They were 

tested through a range of 

angles of attack, sideslip 

angles, and different 

Reynolds Numbers in the 

Wichita State University 

3x4 Low Speed Wing 

Tunnel. 

Delaying Boundary 

Layer Transition by 

Blowing Effect of Free 

Stream Air 



Long Huynh, Viet Do, 

Micheal Mai, Felipe 

Grijalva, Muhammad Tahir 

The basic idea is to use 

the free stream air coming 

in at the leading edge of 

the airfoil to produce a 

blowing effect which 

delays transition from 

laminar to turbulent. 

Shock & Awe 



Austin Fawcett, Matt 

Wedel, Andy Yeager, 

Travis Moyer, Courtney 

Ford 

Team Shock & Awe built 

an aircraft to compete in 

the Design, Validate, 

Compete challenge as 

well as the Bronze 

Propeller Challenge. The 

Team designed a simple, 

light, and efficient aircraft 

capable of winning both 

competitions. 

Shocker High Altitude 

Rocketry Project 2 


Camille Moore, Paul Dees, 

Mary Maneth, Tyler 

Peden, Kevin Elledge, 

Alex Ferm, Caleb Gimar, 

Jacob Hart-Lane, Shahla 

Pourkaram, Fernanda 

Quezada, Chris Senn, 

Tyler Smalley, Amanda 

Smith, Christina Wilson 

The Wichita State Rocket 

Club designed, built and 

recovered a reusable, high 

powered rocket with a 

scientific payload. 

A Microburst Response 

and Recovery Scheme 

Using Advanced Flight 

Envelope Protection 



Balcony 

Melvin Rafi 

This research presents an 

advanced flight control 

system for general 

aviation aircraft, that is 

capable of responding to 

and recovering from 

adverse weather and flight 

conditions, such as 

microburst and wake 

vortex encounters. 

Aircraft Control Through 

Brain-Computer 

Interface 



Balcony 

Phillip Meikel 

The use of Brain- 

Computer Interface in an 

artificial neural network 

controller could allow for a 

pilot to learn to fly an 

aircraft with using only 

brainwaves. 

Exploration of Low Cost 

Autopilot Systems in 

Academia 



Bryan Kissack 

The purpose of this project 

is to develop a low cost 

autopilot system that is 

capable of completing fully 

autonomous flights. The 

end goal is to incorporate 

this autopilot system into 

the undergraduate 

aerospace academe, 

enabling aerospace 

students to graduate with 

hands on autopilot 

experience. 

Fluid Structure 

Interaction (FSI) 

Simulation of a 

Mechanical Heart Valve 



Omid Sirous 

In this project, the pulsatile 

blood flow interaction with 

the moving leaflets of a 

mechanical heart valve 

was numerically 

simulated. This 

computation is based on a 

strongly coupled implicit 

fluid-structure interaction 

(FSI) method which is 

newly organized based on 

the Arbitrary-Lagrangian- 

Eulerian (ALE) approach. 

BIOENGINEERING 

NuvaRing Class Action 

Lawsuit Study 



Teal Scott, Paige Feikert, 

Pie Pichetsurnthorn, 

Nguyet Le, Albert Wyss, 

Jasmine Mallonee 

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This project reviewed an 

open class action lawsuit 

of NuvaRing. We used 

techniques used in Design 

of BioMedical Devices to 

analyze the product and 

propose solutions to the 

problem. 

Shoulder Pain Pump 

Redesign 



Mary Kellerman, Ian 

Burford, Jordan Bontrager, 

Heather Hall, Michael 

Oum, Kenny Louis 

Shoulder pain pumps have 

faced many lawsuits due 

to several factors. This 

project is a redesign of the 

shoulder pain pump to 

prevent adverse side 

effects that have been 

experienced with the 

current design.

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ELECTRICAL, 

COMPUTER, 

COMPUTER 

SCIENCE 

Augmented Storytelling 

Wallace Hall 3rd Floor 

James Seymour 

A system designed to 

augment storytelling 

through the use of lighting 

and sound effects. The 

performer interacts with 

the system in real time 

through natural gestures. 

Bicycle-Powered 

Generator 



Eric Kampling, Alexander 

Trofimuk, Adrian Love, 

Stephen Wiemeyer 

Our project is a 

standalone bicyclepowered 

generator that is 

capable of charging small 

devices and portable 

appliances. It is designed 

to accommodate the 

residents at CPRF. 

Bluetooth Tap Shoes 

Wallace Hall 1st Floor 

Joe Vargas, Patrick 

Afrifah, Aaron Wirtz 

The Bluetooth Tap Shoe 

System sends pressure 

data from the toes and 

heels of the user's shoes. 

The pressure data then 

triggers sound samples 

and visual effects from a 

PC for a revolutionary new 

experience in dance and 

music performance. 

Cyclometrics 


Kevin Elledge, David 

Nguyen, Braden 

Schoenthaler, Farman 

Khan 

The function of our project 

is to provide riders 

valuable data to improve 

their cycling performance. 

Users are able to view 

power output, speed, 

distance, and much more 

on our external display. 

DoorTextChecker 


Jordan Castillo, Matt 

Price, Todd Thimmesch 

A do-it-yourself security 

system that is operated by 

a mobile device. Can be 

accessed and installed 

anywhere there is internet 

access. 

Electric Chair Safety 

Lighting System 



Nate Farney, Hengky Tjie, 

Darko Komadina, 

Emmanuel Massawe 

This is a weatherproof 

LED safety light system for 

electric wheelchairs that 

will be powered and 

controlled through the 

existing wheelchair control 

system. 

High Voltage Audio 

Modulation 


Chris Eldridge 

This project uses high 

voltage to ionize air. The 

vibrations of the arc then 

play the sound of the input 

signal. 

LaundryMate 


Jason Hennessy, Shawn 

Westervelt, Jo Palmer, 

Lucas Burson 

Retrofit laundry cycle 

monitoring device that 

notifies users via email or 

text message of when 

laundry cycle is complete. 

MEDS (Medicine 

Expiration/Refill Date 

System) 



Julio C. Jimenez-Arguello, 

Ryan Shumaker, Gahssan 

Ahmed, Ahmed Jookhap 

MEDS will assist patients 

by notifying them when a 

medicine in their personal 

cabinet is about to expire 

or needs refill. 

Motion Control RC 


Giang Tran, Haymar 

Hlaing, Phuong Nguyen, 

Hyder Malhi 

Our project will redefine 

how people will control RC 

cars. With just a wave of 

your hand, you can put the 

car in motion. 

My Home Audio 


Cameron Porter, Ahmed 

Abdelaziz, Ryan Brown, 

Andrew Juby 

Have complete control 

over all of the audio in 

your home with the touch 

of your phone. Let music 

follow you, and regain 

access to your personal 

music library. 

RC Mind Control 


Kaylen Kovac, Eric 

Berman, Ifeanyi Bruno 

Umeadi 

Use an EEG headset to 

control an RC vehicle. 

RF Signal Enhancer 


Bart Voegeli, Eric Nyaga, 

Shaun Golden, Guner 

Yilmaz 

The goal of this project is 

to provide the user with 

information regarding the 

working conditions of the 

bulb and ballast of a light 

assembly. Using a noninvasive 

technique, the 

user is able to more 

accurately correct (in 

regards to these 

components) light fixtures 

when they go out.


Smart Mailbox 


Murtada AlAdaab, Dhreen 

K. Tulsiani, Tetteh Hyde, 

Murtada AlAdaab, Glen 

Patterson 

Our smart mailbox is 

cheap and affordable 

solution that notifies 

mailbox owners whenever 

they have mail to be 

picked up. It targets a wide 

range of consumers from 

people living in remote 

areas to people with 

disability. 

Smart Shopping Cart 


Taylore Eisenhauer, 

Stephen Janzen, Mimosa 

Nguyen, Veena Shyam 

Krishna 

A cart that uses the Xbox 

Kinect to follow a person 

around. 

Steering Wheel Sensor 


Mitchel Davon, 

Christopher Cenatiempo, 

David Djobo 

The steering wheel sensor 

should be able to engage 

itself when the car is put 

into drive, sense that the 

drivers hands are on the 

wheel and when hands 

are removed from the 

wheel, be able to alert the 

driver when hands are 

removed from the wheel. 

The Retractable Table 

for Wheel Chair 



Sushila Tamang, Richard 

Bazuaye, Rami Alwazani, 

Peng Wang 

This project includes fully 

automated, retractable 

table attached to the 

wheelchair for the people 

with disabilities. 

The Smart Mailbox 


Said Alyami, Festus 

Okoth, Thao Ta 

A mailbox that notifies the 

owner about new mail 

though e-mail and with a 

picture from inside. 

TweetDuino 


Polina Osipova 

A toy that checks your 

mood and updates twitter 

based on the obtained 

results. 

Washing Machine 

Autobalancer 


James Davis, Polina 

Osipova, Ravi Wijeseker 

This device balances 

washing machines. 

Specifically while in spin 

cycle. 

Wheelchair Curb Sensor 



Samuel Ky, Nhat Nguyen, 

Bana Muhamane 

The purpose of this 

project is to detect a curb 

and automatically stop the 

wheelchair. 

Wheelchair Obstacle 

Avoidance System 



Pravin Maharjan, 

Dipendra Khatiwada, 

Suman Gautam, Santosh 

Shrestha 

Our project is about 

obstacle avoidance 

system for powered 

wheelchair. This project 

will help increase mobility 

and feelings of 

independence by ensuring 

safety to those who are 

worried about accidents 

caused by obstacles. 

Wireless GPS Tracker 



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Abdullah Alrowaili, Mihingu 

Wahappulige, Rebecca 

Hettikankanange 

"Wireless GPS tracker" is 

designed for a user to 

send a message with his 

current location's GPS 

coordinates in case of an 

emergency, just by 

pressing a button. 

Who Should Help me 

with this Code? 


Md. Kamal Hossen, 

Hoang Dang 

INDUSTRIAL & 

MANUFACTURING 


Engineering Drawing 

Release Improvement 

Engineering Building 2nd 

Floor 

Aaron Robbins, Jose 

Hernandez, Shiran Liu, 

Tuan Truong 

Engineering drawings are 

released through an 

electronic online database. 

In order to meet 

scheduling demand, the 

cycle time to review and 

approve drawings needs 

to be reduced.

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Cessna Non-Destructive 

Inspection Scheduling 

and Performance 

Measurement Tool 

Design 


Floor 

Dan Clifford, Ayoub 

Chitachni, Abhishet Pratap 

Singh 

The objective of this 

project is to develop and 

implement a robust and 

automated resource 

allocation tool that will 

implement a sorting and 

scheduling metric for 

incoming parts, measure 

and report progress and 

productivity metrics and 

allow for continuous 

improvement. 

CIC Window Frame 

Team 


Floor 

Huan Nguyen, Kimberly 

Bowman, DeAnn Larson 

We are working with 

Center Industries 

Corporation to reduce 

cycle time of the Boeing 

737's Passenger Window 

Frame to meet the future 

demand increasing by 

30% 

Improving Prosthetic 

Device Supply at the 

Robert J. Dole VA 

Medical Center 


Floor 

Emily Longhofer, Ahmad 

Hamada and Harto 

Suseno 

Currently, the Prosthetic 

Department at the Robert 

J. Dole VA Medical Center 

takes a long and an 

unpredictable amount of 

time to process consults. 

The objective of this study 

is to provide the hospital 

with recommendations 

that will improve the 

processing time of the 

consults. 

Metal Bond Process 

Improvement Analysis 


Floor 

Chris Cox, Ri Sheng Tham 

This paper presents the 

results of a project to help 

Cessna analyze and 

develop process 

improvements for the 

Metal Bond Areas: 

Phosphoric Acid Anodize 

line and bond primer 

routing process. The team 

established a bottleneck 

process, reduced cycle 

times and increased 

capacity of the line, and 

developed a reliable labor 

flexing computer program 

to efficiently allocate labor 

resources in real time. 

Multiple Asset Parallel 

Replacement 


Floor 

Tate Lampe, Abhishek 

Singh 

This project aims to give a 

formula for determining 

efficient replacement 

scheduling for multiple 

assets and asset types. It 

takes into account 

technological change and 

deterioration and allows 

for a value of unmet 

demand that is then 

penalized. 

Operation: Tight Ship 


Floor 

Emily Longhofer, Skyler 

Martinez, Bernie Kohman, 

Dale Le Bar 

Through the use of 

Industrial Engineering 

tools, Operation: Tight 

Ship is able to increase 

throughput and capacity 

in the stretch press cell at 

Spirit AeroSystems. Tools 

utilized include facilities 

planning, lean 

manufacturing, theory of 

constraints, and material 

handling optimization. 

Statistical Analysis to 

Analyze the Relationship 

Between Radiation 

Consumption and 

Energy Usage on a 

Hospital X-ray Room 


Floor 

Fernando Valenzuela 

This is a simulation of an 

X-ray exam, going from 

the X-ray generation, Xray 

attenuation from 

source to target, and X-ray 

interaction with the patient. 

The goal is to obtain 

relationship of energy and 

radiation production. 

Triumph Structures - 

Wichita Facility Layout 


Floor 

Valeriano Alvarez Ozuna, 

Jacob Berning, Chris Cox 

This project is aimed to 

design an effective and 

useful facility layout for a 

new product line of 

Triumph Structures - 

Wichita. Along with the 

Layout, cost-effective 

material handling methods 

for material transportation 

throughout the facility is 

considered. 

A Hybrid Inference 

Approach for Multi- 

Sensor Health 

Diagnostics with 

Unknown Faulty State 


Floor 

Prasanna Tamilselvan, 

Ramkumar Jayaraman 

Real time health 

diagnostics requires 

automatic detection of 

unknown faulty states 

through the sensory 

signals to avoid sudden 

catastrophic system 

failures. The proposed 

hybrid inference approach 

is able to identify and 

isolate the unknown faulty 

states through interactively 

detecting the deviation of 

sensory data from the 

known health states and 

forming new health states 

autonomously.


A Physics of Failure- 

Based Approach for 

Dye-sensitized Solar 

Cells Degradation 

Prognostics 


Floor 

Nita Yodo, Tianglong Xu 

A dye-sensitized solar cell 

(DSSC) simulation model 

is developed in COMOSL 

multiphysics software to 

study the solar cells! lifecycle 

degradation 

phenomena. 

A Simulation Framework 

for PV System Power 

Management 


Floor 

Tianlong Xu, Nita Yodo, 

Nnennaya Udochu 

The trend of changing 

photovoltaic (PV) systems 

from isolated individuals to 

scalable grid-connected 

power plants has led to a 

growing concern of the 

long-term power losses 

due to system degradation 

in the solar energy 

industry. The development 

of a solar energy system 

reliability model could 

provide important 

information to the 

understanding of such 

power losses and facilitate 

system wide decision 

making. 

Appointment Scheduling 

Analysis in an Academic 

Pediatric Clinic 


Floor 

Farnaz Ghazi Nezami 

Appropriate prediction of 

visit lengths in order to 

propose a better 

scheduling system to use 

various resources such as 

rooms, physicians and 

nurses more efficiently is 

of great importance. As a 

result of this project, the 

visit length can be 

estimated more accurately 

which can reduce patient 

waiting time and provider!s 

idle time, and increase 

patient satisfaction and 

system capacity. 

Cash-Flow Optimization 

in a Multi-Project 

Environment 


Floor 

Hessamedin Vali 

This research helps Client 

Companies who manage 

multi projects in a same 

time to improve the 

accuracy of total cash 

flows. This is applicable 

for all industries. 

Uncertainty in the projects 

activities and environment 

has been considered the 

heuristic proposed model. 

Finally A dynamic linear 

model has been 

developed to maximize the 

designed cash flows 

effectiveness. 

Cost Benefit Modeling 

and Analysis of 

Condition Monitoring 

System for Optimal 

Maintenance Decision 

Making 


Floor 

Yibin Wang 

The advantages of 

condition monitoring 

system (CMS) have not 

been fully recognized for 

the optimal maintenance 

decision making. A Non- 

Homogeneous Poisson 

Process (NHPP) model 

will be developed for the 

modeling of occurrence of 

the system-wide failure 

events and study the 

potential benefits provided 

by the CMS in preventing 

system component failure 

events. 

Energy Consumption in 

the Delivery of Magnetic 

Resonance Imaging 

(MRI) 


Floor 

Seyed Alavi Soltani, 

Mohammad Amin 

Esmaeili, Sumaiya Islam 

The work presented here 

quantifies indirect energy 

(energy embodied in 

materials) and direct 

energy consumed by the 

MRI machines and 

ancillary equipment. 

Life Cycle for 

Engineering the 

Healthcare Service 

Delivery of Imaging 


Floor 

Amin Esmaeili, Seyed 

Soltani, Fernando 

Valenzuela, and Sumaiya 

Islam 

This work represents the 

first environmental life 

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cycle information reported 

in healthcare for the 

service delivery of 

imaging. 

Money Savings Through 

Energy Efficiency in 

industrial Sector 


Floor 

Ashraf Hammouri, Farnaz 

Ghazi Nezami 

Reducing energy 

consumption for 

environmental and 

economic purposes has 

turned to gain more 

attention for companies. 

This project provides two 

case studies in two 

manufacturing companies 

which illustrate how the 

companies can save 

money in their utility bills 

and decrease the 

environmental impacts by 

implementing energy 

assessment tools. 

Problem Definition as 

Complex Adaptive 

System 


Floor 

Olga Devkota 

Defining a complex illdefined 

problem is a 

challenging, tedious, and 

somewhat neglected 

aspect in practice, and yet 

a good problem definition 

may be a key difference 

between successfully 

resolved problem and a 

never ending mess.

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Process Improvement in 

Healthcare using FMEA 

Analysis Approach 


Floor 

Farnaz Ghazi Nezami, 

Hessam Vali, Ahmet 

Akgun, Halil Cobuloglu 

One of the major problems 

in healthcare systems is 

large waiting times which 

can impact overall system 

cost and capacity and 

quality of care. In order to 

assure delivering the 

appropriate service at the 

right time to the patients, 

Failure Mode Effect 

Analysis method is utilized 

to determine major system 

failures and a simulation 

model is performed to 

investigate the impact of 

proposed corrective 

actions on the system. 

Real-time Rolling 

Element Bearing 

Diagnostics through 

Vibration- based Health 

Monitoring and Analysis 


Floor 

Ramkumar Jayaraman, 

Wade C. Hansen 

A rolling element bearing 

health diagnostics tool 

based on the nonlinear 

independent component 

analysis (ICA) and support 

vector classifier is 

developed for real-time 

bearing fault detection and 

failure severity 

assessment. 

Reliability-Based Design 

for System Time- 

Dependent Performance 

Deterioration 


Floor 

Zequn Wang 

A primary concern in 

practical engineering 

design is ensuring high 

system reliability 

throughout a product lifecycle 

subject to timevariant 

operating 

conditions and component 

deteriorations. This project 

is to design reliable 

product under uncertainty 

considering degradation. 

Reliability-Based 

Robustness Design for 

the Biodegradable 

Medical Devices 


Floor 

Abdulaziz T. Almaktoom, 

Liang Xu 

Biodegradable medical 

devices such as stents 

contribute a wide variety of 

tools that are not only 

valuable for human health 

and welfare but also 

significant in achieving 

minimum invasive surgery 

and lowering health care 

costs while speeding up 

the time period required 

for recovery. In this study, 

a reliability-based robust 

design (RBRD) approach 

is developed for the 

design of biodegradable 

medical device under 

uncertainty. 

Social Learning System: 

A Reference Model 


Floor 

Pin Pin Schunk 

Today the real 

differentiator among 

players in a given market 

is the organizations! ability 

to manage change and 

produce knowledge for 

reuse and renewal. This 

project presents a socially 

defined learning system 

that is capable of using 

and creating knowledge. 

Sustainable Single- 

Machine Scheduling 

Problem with Reliability 

and Energy 

Consumption 


Floor 

Farnaz Ghazi Nezami 

In this project, a multiobjective 

model is 

proposed to minimize 

energy consumption, total 

completion time, and 

maximize reliability 

simultaneously on a single 

machine manufacturing 

environment. As a result of 

this model, one can decide 

if turning off/on the 

machine or keeping it 

running idle during interarrival 

time between jobs 

will be more beneficial in 

terms of total energy 

consumption and machine 

reliability, since idling and 

turning off/on operations 

affect the machine!s 

reliability differently. 

Team Decision Skills 

Development with MBTI 


Floor 

Parisa Nazaran 

This Assessment provides 

an explanation of the 

transition between stages 

among team members by 

using MBTI © Step II. Also 

how every individual's 

contribution affects others' 

progress is discussed. 

MECHANICAL 

Cessna CJ4 FDR Control 

Wheel Position Sensor 


Floor 

Christopher Downing, 

Giup Nguyen, Evan 

Johnson, Keoki Waipa, 

Christopher Downing, 

Edward Harrison, Temmuz 

Coskun 


wants to improve the 

accuracy of the flight data 

recorder control wheel 

position sensor. The 

purpose of this sensor is 

to provide the angular


displacement 

measurement of the 

control wheel which is 

used by the flight data 

recorder system. 

Combined Renewable 

Energy Technology 


Floor 

Miles Atughonu, Aaish 

Jaiswal, Sagun 

Shrestha,Toan Dinh, Mohit 

Talreja, Anuruddha 

Ransilu Pattiyage Peiris 

This project aim is to 

generate enough power to 

drive a car with its main 

source of energy will be 

sunlight and hydrogen. 

End Effector Racking 

System 


Floor 

Joseph Burdette, 

Biyanwilage Perera, 

Chiran Kulasena, Cody 

Nguyen, Matthew 

Hoppock 

This design project is an 

end effector racking 

system to be used in the 

NCAT advanced joining 

lab. The racking system is 

required to hold and 

transport the robotic end 

effects used in friction stir 

welding. 

Rolled Lead Strip 

Cutting Device 


Floor 

Debay Woldeyesus, An 

Truong Nguyen, Bing 

Tzuan Goh, Hien Ngoc Vo, 

Song Tuong, Xuan Mai 

Nguyen Dao 

Improving safety, 

increasing efficiency and 

avoiding product 

contamination are the 

compelling issues that 

characterize this design 

project for Exide 

Technologies, Salina. This 

design attaches to existing 

equipment on a Lead-acid 

battery production line and 

is tasked with discarding 

defective Lead strip by 

means of diversion, 

cutting, chipping and 

dispersion. 

Rowing T-Stand and 

Racking System 


Floor 

Kevin Mar, Anthony 

Bronke, Adam Freking, 

Jeremy Lindgren, Ven Vo 

The T-Stand will be used 

during Regatta meets to 

hold the boats while they 

are not being used. 

Racking system is 

designed for permanent 

storage inside a building. 

Shocker Racing - 

Formula SAE 



Sidewalk 

Abhishek Singh, Amit Roy, 

Dakota Pellegrino, Dustin 

Jacbonson, Eric Zuelke, 

Evan Pistora, Jared Yunk, 

Jessica Crumrine, 

Jonathan Conklin, Joran 

Matson, Justin Miller, Keith 

Schmutz, Kingsley Umoh, 

Kristopher Stewart, Louis 

Reichenberger, Neil Maki, 

Nic Wentling, Nick 

Deneault, Nick 

Reichenberger, Rana 

Zayed, Scott Banman, 

Scott Lorg, Abhi 

Sryarathne, Tatiana 

Arends, Zach Banick, 

Jordan Miller, Robert 

Gooswilligen, Vladyslav 

Holovan 

Formula SAE, a division 

of Shocker Racing, is a 

student organization 

dedicated to designing, 

manufacturing, testing, 

tuning, and racing of a 

single seat formula style 

race car in an international 

engineering design 

competition sponsored by 

the Society of Automotive 

Engineers. 

Shocker Racing - 

Mini-Baja 



Sidewalk 

Tanner Lampe, Colin 

Smith, Tate Lampe, Will 

Briggs, Samantha Russel, 

Josh Ruhl, Ivy Fattig, John 

Wright, L. Tyler Peden, 

Adam Knolla 

Baja SAE consists of three 

competitions that simulate 

real-world engineering 

design projects and their 

related challenges. 

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Engineering students are 

tasked to design and build 

an prototype off-road 

vehicle that will survive the 

severe punishment of 

rough terrain and water. 

Variable Refrigerant 

HVAC redesign for 

HCC's Lockman Hall 


Floor 

Clinton Crager, Andrew 

Sandlin, Jesse Nininger, 

Justin Ghere, George 

Osborn, Galen Werth 

An historic building on the 

campus of HCC is to be 

refitted with a new, 

variable refrigerant 

technology HVAC system. 

The system eliminates the 

necessity of vast amounts 

of ductwork, and allows 

individual room 

temperature control in 

addition to efficiency 

gains. 

Wind Turbine Variable 

Pitch Control 


Floor 

Dara Kek Walker, Huyen 

Vo, Tuan Tran, 

Vasanthathiban 

Periasamy, Wei Hong 

Chin, Yi Yang Tay 

Design and Development 

of Wind Turbine Braking 

System for High Wind 

Condition

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Awards Banquet Program 

Introduction! ........................................................................................ Jordan Martin 

Engineering Council President 

Welcome & Introduction of Special Guests! ............................... Zulma Toro-Ramos 

Dean, College of Engineering 

Recognition of Sponsors! .................................................................... Megan Smith 

Director of Development for Engineering, WSU Foundation 

Dinner 

Chicken Piccata or Vegetarian 

Three-Cheese Mashed Potatoes -- Chef"s Choice of Vegetable 

Chocolate Spoon Cake 

Keynote Speaker! .................................................................. Captain Mike Carriker 

Chief Pilot, Boeing 787 Program 

WSU Alumni, BSAE !78 

Introduced by Jennifer Gessler, BSAE !04 

Awards 

Polished Professor Award 

Shocker MINDSTORMS Awards 

Professional Society Awards 

Student Organization Awards 

Departmental Awards 

Sponsor Awards 

Clark Beck Excellence in Communication Award 

Engineering Council Recognition! ...................................................... Jordan Martin 

Engineering Council President 

Closing Remarks! ....................................................................... Zulma Toro-Ramos 

Dean, College of Engineering

Awards 

Polished Professor Award 

Shocker MINDSTORMS Award 

Student"s Choice Awards, 1st & 2nd 

1st Place Course for Quality and Build 

Professional Society Awards 

Ad Astra Kansas Initiative Foundation 

AIAA Wichita Section 

American Society for Quality Wichita Section 

APICS Wichita Professional Chapter 

IEEE Wichita Section 

SAE International Wichita Section 

Society of Manufacturing Engineers Chapter 52 

Society of Women Engineers Wichita Section 

WSU High Performance Computing Center 

Student Organization Awards 

APICS Student Chapter 

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers WSU Section 

Society of Women Engineers WSU Section 

Departmental Awards 

Aerospace 

Bioengineering 

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 

Industrial & Manufacturing 

Mechanical 

Sponsor Awards 

Garmin 

Airbus 

MKEC Engineering Consultants, Inc. 

Professional Engineering Consultants, P.A. 

Koch Industries 



Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. 

The Boeing Company 

Clark Beck Excellence in Communication Award 

Mr. Clark Beck, BSAE '54, awards a $500 Excellence in Communication prize for the project 

with the best combination of written abstract, visual displays and oral presentation. 

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