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Senior engineering students tackle a major design problem in their capstone course: Senior Design Project. An annual Open House and Senior Banquet celebrate their successes and achievements.

The 26th Annual Senior Design Banquet and Projects Night will be Saturday, May 8, 2010.

Reserve the date now. More details will be available in February.

25th Annual Senior Design Banquet & Projects Night

Senior Design Projects Night is the perfect time for friends, family, and the public to come together to see what Calvin's engineering students have been working on all year!

The 2009 Engineering Banquet was held on Saturday, May 9, 2009. The evening's activities began at 4:00 p.m. in the Vermeer Engineering Projects Center and Prince Engineering Design Center. During the open-house guests were able to view the displays and prototypes developed by the design teams. Following a wonderful dinner at the Commons the formal presentations of all the Senior Engineering Design Projects were given in the Science Building, North Hall, and the Commons Lecture Hall.

To learn more, read how the 2008-09 teams did at Showing Their Stuff !

View or Print your own copy of the program from the 2009 banquet.

Previous Year's Stories

Innovation, hard work on display at 24th Annual Senior Design Night

Senior Design Teams

2009-2010 2008-2009 2007-2008

Team 1 - Bio Volt
Team 2 - Agua Para Vivir
Team 3 - Geothermal House
Team 4 - Amaranth Popper
Team 5 - Waste Watchers
Team 6 - C.A.S.E. for Cambodia
Team 7 - Team Bridge
Team 8 - Grand River Rapids
Team 9 - Ship to Shanty
Team 10 - Mountain Finder
Team 11 - Auto Pool Care
Team 12 - Go Go Gadget Green
Team 13 - Geothermal Building
Team 14 - Stroke of Genius
Team 15 - Amphibious Vehicle
Team 16 - Snowbike
Team 17- Hydro Dam Lock

Team 1 - Empower
Team 2 - Plane!
Team 3 - TRIumph
Team 4 - rice w|o borders
Team 5 - STORBOT
Team 6 - S.E.A. 2 see
Team 7 - CellSync
Team 8 - Atlas Lift
Team 9 - Oil from [the] Soil
Team 10 - Re-Fueled
Team 11 - S3
Team 12 - The Hy-drollers
Team 13 - H2O
Team 14 - Going Green
Team 15 - The Marah Project

Team 1 - On Wings Like a Penguin
Team 2 - Recumbent Hydraulic Bicycle
Team 3 - Thy Mill be Done
Team 4 - Cooling Calvin Cleanly
Team 5 - Com 1 Com ALL
Team 6 - Rhythm Reloaded
Team 7 - Volturna
Team 8 - StoDAR
Team 9 - Moonshiners
Team 10 - Ecowatt
Team 11 - Rinnova
Team 12 - VerTercus
Team 13 - The Oakdale Project
Team 14 - Equatic Ecuador
Team 15 - Augusta Village
Team 16 - Cambodianfinity


Click here to see more Senior Design project reports from previous years.

Photo Galleries

The Senior Design Projects night is always held two weeks before commencement. Nearly 700 people attended the Open House and around 350 attend the banquet. It is a great evening to celebrate the hard work of the senior design teams.

ENGR 339*

Senior Design Project (2)
Integrative Studies with ENGR 340

This is the first course in the senior design project sequence. Emphasis is placed on design team formation, project identification, and production of a feasibility study. Students focus on the development of task specifications in light of the norms for design and preliminary validation of the design by means of basic analysis and appropriate prototyping. Lectures focus on integration of the design process with a reformed Christian worldview, team building, and state-of-the art technical aspects of design. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged.

Prerequisites:

  • Concurrent registration in the seventh semester of the model program for a particular concentration or permission of the instructors
  • Biblical Foundations I or Theological Foundations I
  • DCM
  • Philosophical Foundations

ENGR 340*

Senior Design Project (4)
Integrative Studies with ENGR 339

This is the second course in the senior design project sequence. Emphasis is placed on the completion of a major design project initiated in 339. This project should entail task specifications in light of the norms for design by means of engineering analysis and an appropriate prototype focused on primary functionality. A final presentation is given at the May senior design project banquet. Lectures continue to focus on integration of the design process with a reformed Christian worldview, team activity, and state-of-the art technical aspects of design.

Prerequisites:

  • ENGR 339
  • Biblical Foundations I or Theological Foundations I
  • DCM
  • Philosophical Foundations

FORMS for current seniors

*Complete information is available at the Registrar's Office