Manufacturing Engineering (1st)
These projects are at the midpoint of a two-semester sequence. They are not complete.
M1.01 Punch Cap Vibratory Feeding System
Sponsor: Center for High Performance Systems (CHiPS) Lab
Student Team: Taylor Novosad, Hayden Burge, Paola Flores
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Shahin
The West Texas Lighthouse for the Blind gives a creative opportunity to those with vision disabilities. The Cap Punch machine lets the employees punch a hole into a small cap for a pen. We are coming up with a vibratory feeding system for the workers to grab the caps more efficiently.
M1.02 Hot Stake Redesign
Sponsor: Continental
Student Team: Brennan Murray, Ado Kurugu, and PJ Nielson
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Shahin
The hot stake redesign project consists of troubleshooting and resolving the issues causing premature failure of hot stakes. Hot staking is utilized at key steps in the production cycle of Continental products and cost both money and time replacing. Students will identify root causes, implement solutions and analyze results to increase the useful life of the hot stakes.
M1.03 Automotive Training & Development Project
Sponsor: Continental
Student Team: Ashtin L. Gallegos, Alyssa J. Campbell, Matt Lamkin, Isaiah A. Montoya
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Shahin
The purpose of the Automotive Training and Development Project is to help the Continental plant in New Braunfels provide improved training documents to their employees. The primary focus for these documents will be on the preventative maintenance of the machines in Continental’s third generation radar production line. To complete this task the senior design team will review current documents, observe weekly and monthly preventative maintenance procedures, and produce improved documents that current, and future, employees will be able to utilize with ease.
M1.04 Car Braking System Design & Optimization
Sponsor: Abhimanyu Sharotry, Bobcat Racing
Student Team: Erwin Neira, Joe Lyons, Sebastian Armas
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Shahin
The design and optimization of the brake system that will be implemented on the Bobcat Racing FSAE 2024 race car. This senior design team will be tasked with researching, designing, manufacturing, and presenting there braking system that is revolving around the automotive industry. Lead by Erwin Neira, this team will have a to work side by side with the Bobcat Racing Team here at Texas State University.
M1.05 Synchronous Drive
Sponsor: Argent Automation
Student Team: Aidan Hardy, Josiah David, Udaya K C
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Shahin
Our project is to manufacture the first ever prototype of the Synchronous Drive from Argent Automation. We will be generating the G-Code for many pieces of the Synchronous Drive. If necessary we will also be making material changes to reduce cost or increase efficiency, and extremely minor design changes to make machining easier or more intuitive.
M1.06 Calendaring Rolling Mill
Sponsor: Ingram School of Engineering
Student Team: Isaiah Garcia, Preston Putman, Nathan Diaz
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Shahin
The goal of the project is to provide Texas State’s Makerspace an easy to use, versatile, laboratory sized calendaring machine specifically for the manufacturing of pre-preg composite materials. This is a continuation of past Senior Design projects, where now we need to not only test, but improve the Calendaring Roll Mill that was designed and built by the previous team. The plan is to use the Mill to manufacture various composite materials, perform physical and mechanical tests on the manufactured parts, and evaluate the finished parts.