Senior Design Projects

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, achievements, and completion of the engineering program.

Senior Design Faculty for 2011-12

Prof. Steve VanderLeest*, Electrical/Computer Concentration and Lead Instructor
Prof. Wayne Wentzheimer, Chemical Concentration
Prof. David Wunder, Civil/Envrionmental Concentration
Prof. Ned Nielsen, Mechanical Concentration

* If you have a project you would like a Sr. Design team to consider for the 2012-13 academic year, please go to this Sr Design. Project Proposal page.

FORMS for current seniors

Video's of two Sr. Design Teams from 2012

2012 Senior Engineering Design Projects from Calvin College on Vimeo.

The 29th Annual Senior Design Banquet and Projects Night --
Saturday, May 4, 2013

Senior Design Projects Night will be held on Saturday, May 4. Friends, family, and the public were invited to come and see what Calvin's engineering students have been working on all year! During the Open House, guests are able to view the displays and prototypes developed by the design teams and ask them questions. Later the teams divided into small groups and gave a formal presentation of their team project.

4:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. -- Open House viewing of Prototypes in the Vermeer Engineering Projects Center and Prince Engineering Design Center
6:00 - Dinner in Commons Dining Hall
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. -- Formal Presentation of Projects

Senior Design Teams

2012-2013	2011-2012	2010-2011
Team 1 - Domination Station Team 2 - GBG Team 3 - iBrew Team 4 - Dessicated Team 5 - PVC Team 6 - Civilized Team 7 - Unquenchable Team 8 - Plaster Blaster Team 9 - Find a Whey Team 10 - Ubercast Team 11 - Independent Team 12 - SWIM-R Team 13 - Breaking Bad Team 14 - Pedal to the Medal Team 15 - Swayspension Team 16 - Road Trippin' Team 17 - Treadstone	Team 1 - return Team 2 - The Librarian Team 3 - SimEscape Team 4 -The Untouchables Team 5 - Water from Air Team 6 - Supermileage Team 7- AFSV Team 8 - Rescue Team 9 - Stadium Academia Team 10 -Whiskey Creek Team 11 - Water 2 Ecuador Team 12 - Wyoming Clean Water Plant Team 13 - Homes for Haiti Team 14,15,16 - Clean Coal	Team 1 - PICA Team 2 - HydroTower Team 3 - Achieving Mobility Team 4 - Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicle Team 5 - Supermileage Team 6 - Build Until Victory Team 7 - Rear-View Team 8 - Pure Pastaza Team 9 - Sifuni Mungu Team 10 - Tyler Creek Restoration Team 11 - Khmer Genesis Team 12 -Green Gold Team 13 - Moonrakers Team 14 - Burden of Thirst

or... Browse the Sr. Design Projects by Category and Concentration
Click here to see more Senior Design project reports from previous years.

Senior Design Team featured in Grand Rapids Press

Motorized Stroller team from 2011

"It was really nice for us to have a real customer. There was a lot of motivation for the whole team to make a 100 percent working product." Read the full story in GR Press.

HydroTower Team is Cover Story of the Calvin Spark!

The Next Idea
A year in the making, Senior Design Projects push students beyond their engineering disciplines

Photo Galleries

The Senior Design Projects night is always held two weeks before commencement. Nearly 700 people attended the Open House in 2010 and around 350 attended the banquet. It is a great evening to celebrate the hard work of the senior design teams.

Previous Senior Design Stories

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.