Posted on December 2, 2024 by Katrina Kehoe
A smiling member of the third-place team, DEM Boys Engineering Group, celebrates at the Fall 2024 Tech Symposium hosted by the Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design. The individual, wearing a black polo shirt with the team name 'DEM Boys Since 2024,' raises both arms in victory amid a crowd of other participants and attendees.
Tech Symposium Fall 2024: Winners
December 2, 2024 — Senior UTSA engineering majors showcased their solutions to many of humanity’s grand challenges at the Fall 2024 Tech Symposium. The trademark competition, hosted on Tuesday, November 23, by the Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design, featured impressive projects and ideas from innovative chicken seasoning techniques to tennis raquet re-stringing concepts to livestock herding technology.
Below is a re-cap of the winning teams:
First place - $4,000 prize
TEAM: Magic Mitts
Smart VR Gloves | The Smart VR Glove is an affordable innovation in virtual reality technology that offers users an immersive and realistic experience across standard VR systems. It utilizes a novel electromagnetic braking system and haptic actuators to provide precise tactile feedback, simulating the sensation of touch and grasp in the virtual world. Enhanced by our own self-developed hardware driver, the glove's flex-sensitive resistors offer superior finger-tracking accuracy. This wireless, rechargeable battery-powered glove is designed to provide VR users with a more natural VR experience, setting a new benchmark for affordability, compatibility, and interactivity in virtual environments.
Team members:
Rabiat Sadiq
John Navarro
Blake Novosad
Juan Casillas
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Second place - $3,000 prize
TEAM: Engineering Intelligent Robotics
A.L.L.I.E. - Automated Liquid Loading with Intelligent Execution | Automated Liquid Loading with Intelligent Execution, or "ALLIE" for short, was created with the goal of automating the process of filling oral syringes. ALLIE aims to fulfill the tasks of transporting, filling, capping, labeling, and batching the oral syringes, allowing pharmacy technicians to delegate time otherwise spent on preparing prefills to more important responsibilities. ALLIE strives to accommodate varying types of oral medicine as well as varying sizes of oral syringes in an efficient manner, delivering punctuality without sacrificing flexibility. For this capstone project, the scope was limited to the subsystems involved in the filling, capping and transporting processes for 3mL syringes.
Team members:
Robert Greer
Keanu Lane
Elias Rios
Austin Rizzo
Third place - $2,000 prize
TEAM: DEM Boys Engineering Group
Industrial 3D Materials Dry Cabinet | The Industrial 3D Materials Dry Cabinet aims at revolutionizing the way 3D materials are stored at a much larger scale than anything being offered out in the market. The storage cabinet can hold 120 1kg & 32 8kg spools of 3D printing filament. It will achieve levels of 1%-20% Relative Humidity. It will accomplish this via a desiccant air loop system powered by either a continuous cycle air compressor or a shop air line. The main cabinet is accompanied by a second smaller SLA cabinet designed to hold 14 different 3D printing resins.
Team members:
Aaron Garza
Abraham Almaraz
Domynick Jaure
Christopher Mendez
EXPLORE FURTHER
⇒ Learn more about all of the projects that were presented this year.
⇒ Discover more about Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design.
Three Design II teams also received awards of excellence at the symposium.
Civil Engineering: Engineers of the Watch
Ryan Hebert
Austin Barnes
Jared Jimenez
Violetta Guerrero
CJ Blakmon
Electrical and Computer Engineering: Skynet
Dalen Ricks
Katia Amori
Emanuel Contreras
Christopher Frank
Tyler Mangum
Mechanical Engineering: Group Pass
Marco Saldana
Carlos Alanis
Oscar Solo
Christian Pena
Three Design I teams were also recognized as overall winners for their first-semester projects and received a $1,000 prize:
Sternal Secure
Andrew King
Jacqueline Bates
Luke Collins
Tessa Hebert
ProTech
Gabriela Dos Ramos
Liliana Danford
Daniel Holguin
Natalia Romero
Roger Grande
Bit Busters
Emiliano Garcia
Hailey Martinez
Manuela Nwoko
Nikki Winter
— Katrina Kehoe
