Browsing by Subject "Capstone"

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    Batch Mixing Skid Senior Design Capstone 2024
    (2024-05-01) Gibbs, Hayden; Wheeler , Zachary; Isaacs, Laiten; Freije , Elizabeth; Pash , Phillip; Weissbach , Robert
    This report will look at the Batch Mixing Skid located in ET222 of the Engineering Technology building. The purpose of the Batch Mixing Skid is to provide a comprehensive solution to demonstrate how various instrumentation can be integrated and utilized to monitor and automate a system. This system uses a PLC and HMI to control solenoid valves and pumps to move water to different tanks, as well as heating and mixing the liquids. This process is designed to replicate what could be seen in an industrial setting, but at a smaller scale. The current Batch Mixing Skid is loud, inefficient, and a burden to use making it difficult for faculty and students within the ECET 35100 to learn about the instrumentation on the Batch Mixing Skid. While this project has been worked on by multiple groups in the past, our goal is to make this system more user-friendly, more efficient, and made to last as well as to create a great platform for students to learn from. We will do this by replacing the systems' plumbing, installing a new PLC and HMI system, rewriting the code from the ground up, as well as other improvements. The goal, outcome, and why this project is significant is that this is a system that will be used by the department for many years to come. This aims to teach students in ECET 35100 more about instrumentation, PLCs, and ladder logic
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    Indianapolis Motor Speedway Display Project
    (2019-12-11) Shi, Charleston; Ibanez, Cristobal; Freije, Eliabeth; Kitchen, Jeff
    The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum and Xtrac want an interactive display of a racecar transmission and allows people of all ages to witness learn. Xtrac has commissioned IUPUI engineers to create a control box that correlates to other functions of a racecar and then correspond said box to a steering wheel, with additional features specified by the sponsor. Since a transmission has mostly a mechanical aspect, Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) students are paired with a team of EET/CPET students. Any mounting and specification requirements are a part of the MET students’ project requirements. Details regarding electrical power, circuit design, and electromechanical integration will be generated by the EET students.
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    INVERTED PENDULUM ON A CART SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT REPORT
    (2023-05-03) Vergara, Sergio; Aljishi, Hawra; Logan, Dylan; Freije, Elizabeth; Weissbach, Robert; Pash, Phil; Lin, William; Stephens, Craig
    The purpose of this project is to design and build an inverted pendulum system from an existing nonworking inverted pendulum system for the Engineering and Technology Department. Once completed, this system will be used for educational purposes for future students to observe code, understand the design, and study the physics of the system. We have tested our system numerous times with a variety of different device configurations so as to perfect the system. We have clearly labeled and documented everything, which will help when students are working on the system in the future. This document contains but is not limited to the information for our scope, design decisions, schematics, design blocks, bill of materials, and code. This was designed to show the finalized overview of our systems and what we presented at the end of the semester.
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    Magnetic Levitation System: Senior Project Report
    (2021-05-05) Martin, Cody A.; Snyder, Zachary S.; Weissbach, Robert S.
    This magnetic levitation system is designed to levitate a steel ball using an electromagnet suspended above it. The project was sponsored by Dr. Robert Weissbach, Chair of the Department of Engineering Technology at the Purdue School of Engineering Technology at IUPUI. This project was undertaken by undergraduate students Cody Martin and Zachary Snyder. This magnetic levitation system uses closed loop control with a digital controller to accomplish levitation.
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    Robot Safety Interlocks For ABB
    (2022-05-04) Mitchell, Jacob; Grissom, Joe; Robinson, Timothy; Cooney, Elaine
    The Robot Interlocks Capstone project serves its purpose of protecting those in the room of the ABB robot. The entire system was designed by the Robot Interlocks Team of 2021-2022 and built by Campus Facility Services. The students in charge of the project are Joe Grissom, Jacob Mitchell, and Timothy Robinson. The Academic Advisor and supervisor of the project is Professor Elaine Cooney. The project function is to halt robot operation once the door interlock loses contact with its actuator, the enclosure gate is opened, or once the area scanners detect obstruction of any kind within the robot enclosure. All documentation used by the team has been referenced within this document. Since this project will continue to be an ongoing project in the future, it is highly recommended to read through this document before going forward with robot operations.
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    A Telehealth Initiative at Hopebridge, LLC: A Doctoral Capstone Project
    (2021-04) Fulton, Grace; Chase, Anthony; Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Human Sciences; Hatfield, Haley
    The spread in telehealth utilization has been astonishing, with the United States Center for Disease Control (2020) reporting 154% growth in just one years’ time. Though telehealth practice itself has grown, available resources have not emerged at a suitable rate to meet the training needs that exist (Camden & Silva, 2021). With the sudden onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, telehealth was implemented by therapists in many healthcare settings, most of whom are accustomed to offering in-person services only. Likewise, Hopebridge, LLC implemented telehealth to allow continued provision of medically necessary therapy services for children with autism spectrum disorder. Current trends indicate that not only has telehealth been useful during the crisis of Covid-19, but it may, in fact be here to stay (Licurse et al., 2020). Hopebridge leaders partnered with an occupational therapy doctoral capstone student to contribute to an organizational telehealth initiative. The ultimate purpose of the project was to assist in efforts to create long-term telehealth sustainability and acceptability. Following in-depth processes to determine site needs, a gap in therapist preparation for telehealth was identified. The capstone project was designed to increase therapist competence and self-efficacy when approaching telehealth using a targeted virtual webinar series. The following describes the full capstone process and efforts made to enhance telehealth services provided at Hopebridge.