Through honors contracts, undergraduate research, and iterative design, these students have translated their academic experiences into engineering portfolios that showcase their engineering expertise and ability to document complex systems.
Career Development & Professional Identity:
A key component of my mentorship is the creation of a professional engineering portfolio. These examples highlight exceptional student projects I have supervised, showcasing the high standard of technical innovation and documentation I foster in my classroom and lab. Students pursuing honors contracts are challenged to go beyond standard course requirements. Each project featured here represents a commitment to innovation, requiring students to propose, design, and implement original enhancements or original projects. They are then required to document their work on their engineering portfolios and present in class.
- E. Magnante [Full Portfolio] – Featured: Circuit Simulator written in Python (Honors Project)
- H. Ferebauer [Full Portfolio] – Featured: Temperature Responsive Fan (Honors Project)
- P. Yarbrough Black [Full Portfolio] – Featured: The “Useless” Box (Honors project) innovation of integrating IR sensor to modify behavior (video)
- N. Gonzalez – [Full Portfolio] – Featured: Characterizing CNC machine and workflow design for PCB milling (Honors Project)
- J. Clay [Full Portfolio] – Featured: Wireless gesture-controlled wheelchair (Honors Project)
- J. Nichols – Featured: Capacitive touch piano (Honors Project)
- S. Allen – Featured: Pulse Rate Monitor (Honors Project)
- H. Glenn – Featured: Android App controlling a custom Nerf Turret (Honors Project)
- E. Moose – [Full Portfolio] – Featured: Accelerometer-controlled Maze Game
- S. Saunin [Full Portfolio] – Featured: 1D maze solving game using PIC microprocessor
- D. Ibarra- [Full Portfolio] – Featured: LabVIEW color-sorting conveyer belt
- A. McCoy – [Full Portfolio] – Featured: Accelerometer-controlled ball maze
Videos and Playlists Undergraduate Research and Exceptional Projects:
- (Microcontrollers) Complex video game on a single row of LEDs
- (Advanced Microcontrollers) Web-agotchi, a web-enabled multi-chip embedded system digital pet
- (Advanced Microcontrollers) A game that plays in your web browser from a multi-chip embedded system
- (Instrumentation) Color Sorting machine in LabVIEW
- (LSAMP Project) Autonomous Color pointing robot (IEEE 2023 Competition)
- Collection of Honors and Individual Projects
- Collection games students created to play on a single line of LEDs using PIC24 chips
- Collection of Fire-Fighting Robots over the years
- Collection of LabVIEW-based projects
ENGR 199 Intro to Engineering Fire-Fighting Robot :
When I teach ENGR-199 Engineering Principles and Practices 1 (Intro to Engineering), I integrate CAD, 3D printing, and Arduino programming into a nearly semester-long design challenge. Students applied these concepts by engineering an autonomous, maze-solving, fire-fighting robot. This is in addition to topics typically covered in the class. For my honors sections, I facilitated additional advanced projects to further their technical depth. Below are exemplary portfolios documenting the full engineering design cycle.
- C. Davis – Detailed final project page and video describing entire design and innovative 3D printed a modular robot chassis
- S. Lysight – Detailed final page and video demonstration
- A. Judson – Detailed Flame sensor post
- B. Clingerman – Fire-fighting robot progression, tutorial for motor mount design
- H. Bene – Great graphics and description of progress on the motor mount and the hub and wheel assignments.
- N. Pagan – Great example of iterative design for hubs and wheels assignment
- A. Schiebel – Fire-fighting robot and motor mount design
**All links posted with approval of students.