First-year students showcase problem-solving skills at design showcase
Two hundred first-year Buckeye engineering students presented their unique solutions to a variety of real-world problems at the First-Year Design Showcase on April 22, 2019.
The Advanced Energy Vehicle project challenged students to create an autonomous electric vehicle transportation system. These vehicles used advanced energy concepts and energy management to successfully address a real-world transportation scenario modeled after Smart Columbus, a $140 million program to transform central Ohio into the nation’s premier transportation innovation region.
Incorporating the entrepreneurial development process, the Integrated Transportation System (ITS) project tasked students with finding and solving an existing transportation problem in the Columbus community to create economic or societal value.
Similar to the ITS project, the Social Impact Design project challenged teams to find and solve an existing problem, not just a transportation-related issue, this time on a global scale.
Top teams from each section of the Fundamentals of Engineering course were selected to participate in one of three showcase competitions—best website, best poster presentation or best performance in a track competition.
For the poster competition, students gave three presentations of their vehicles and data to support their designs, which were judged by Honda representatives, faculty, graduate teaching assistants and Ohio State alumni.
“The work that our students put forward this semester is incredible. I was blown away by the creative solutions and innovative vehicle designs that I saw at this year’s showcase,” said showcase coordinator Alexia Leonard, a graduate administrative associate in the Department of Engineering Education.
The track competition was composed of two rounds that tested vehicles’ ability to travel precise distances and for precise amounts of time under various loads. In creating their custom vehicles, students could use standard parts provided in the course as well as custom-designed 3-D printed and laser-cut parts.
The top six project websites from all sections were selected to participate in the website competition. It was judged by Matt Adams, owner and creative director of Dot The I Creative, who was enthusiastic about the quality of the work shown. “Though none of these students are professional web designers, they are all brilliant!”
The 2019 First-Year Design Showcase was hosted by the Department of Engineering Education.
Integrated Transportation Systems poster competition winners:
First place: Daniel Bellini, Noah Hough, Renske Nijveldyt and Alison Ritenour
Second place (tie): Maxim Murphy, Ben Petrick, Adam Siebert and Shubham Sinha; as well as Casey Allemeier, Jackson Black, Kami Wiesner and Mingjian Wu
Advanced Energy Vehicle poster competition winners:
First place: Han Luu, Matt Miller, Joseph Tadesse and Darien Williams
Second place: Nick Cron, Keming He, Jonathan Kim and Zachary Milicia
Third place: Nick Besancon, Sarabeth Hewa, Emily Laudo and Bradley Moyer
Track competition winners:
First place: Jack Garner, Patrick Sage, Priya Perali and William Weber
Second place: Matt Bagley, Josh Nagel, Max Fojtik and Zack Schiavone
Third place: Thomas Adams, Joseph Bertrand, Kevin Cabrera and Kavya Narayanan
Website competition winners:
First place: Vincent Bello, Ryan Burrows, Alec Glenwright and Mitchell Mullholand
Second place: Stephanie Miller, Astrid Munthe, Amelie Vermoesen and Cyrus Young
Third place: Yash Bains, Max Brinton, Nate Male and Bala Senthilkumar
View more photos of the competition online.
