Engine Flow Bench
Team Members
Andrew Hull, Virginia Janes, Adam Thomas, and Lukas Evans
Advisor
Scott Wagner, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology
Sponsor
Kohler
Project Overview
Our team is designing a custom engine flow bench that is tuned to the needs of the sponsor. Our flow bench will include sensors to accurately measure atmospheric conditions as well as pressure drop at the test piece and flow data. Our flow bench will also be capable of running in two separate configurations—it must be able to reach the target flow rate during both push and pull.
Forklift Instrumentation
Team Members
Brett Thode, Andrew Wyman, and Lennie Westenberg
Advisor
David Labyak, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology
Sponsors
Pettibone, Balluff
Project Overview
The goal of this project is to create a system to auto-level the forks on a telehandler. The current system uses hydraulics that are dependent on each other to auto-level the forks. This causes lag when the forks are first re-leveled and could be dangerous. Our system looks to use sensors to eliminate the need for dependent cylinders and to stop the lag.
Tube Roller
Team Members
Duncan Seidel, Jacob Grund, and Joe Staszek
Advisor
Nicholas Hendrickson, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology
Sponsors
Michigan Tech Machine Shop, Cleveland Cliffs
Project Overview
Our project is a tube roller for the machine shop here at Michigan Tech. The goal of the roller is to bend one-inch to three-inch OD tube for other students to use. The design of the tube roller will be driven by hand and mounted to a table. The tube roller would be able to get picked up and moved to another location if necessary, but would be required to be bolted down in the new location.
COVID-19 Mini Sanitization Chamber
Team Members
Austin Purdy, John Kubiszewski, and Daniel Woirol
Advisor
Scott Wagner, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology
Sponsor
MTU iCORP
Project Overview
Using an industrial-sized Master-Bilt refrigerator, our objective for this project is to create a scaled-down mobile sanitation chamber that will allow for safe and effective decontamination of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic and similar circumstances in the future. Our plan of action is to equip the current refrigerator with a combination of heat, water, and chemicals used to disinfect hospital rooms and equipment, all controlled using a Raspberry Pi as our operating system. The combination of these three systems allows for many possible run cycles to provide the most effective solution to the current sanitation of products.
Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge
Team Members
Andrew Ward, Jake Lehmann, John Kurburski, and Alexander Provoast
Advisor
David Wanless, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology
Project Overview
Competing with twenty-two schools from all over the country, the Michigan Tech team placed first in efficiency, second in endurance, and third in the sprint race. After race results, two design reviews, conference participation and a final presentation the Michigan Tech team was awarded Overall Champion of the Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge for 2021.