UTSA's Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design Spring 2022 Tech Symposium took place on Friday, November 18th from 8:30 am-1:30 pm at the HEB Ballrooms on Main Campus. See our overview of the event here.
Congratulations to our top three winning teams in Senior Design I:
Smart Canes
Print and Click LLC
JRCS Orthopedics
Congratulations to our top three winning teams in Senior Design II:
1st Place: AMAS Engineering
2nd Place: Trust Issues
3rd Place: MEC Engineering
Aqueous Ozone Dental Appliance | Oral sanitization before surgery reduces the possibility of open wound and bacterial infections. There is currently no chemical mouthwash commercially available that is safe and natural enough for patient-use as they can cause further problems including dehydration and gum inflammation. Prior to performing dental work, ozone water can be used as a pre-rinse to clean the surgical area without harsh chemicals. Aqueous ozone is a natural, practical and affordable treatment that can promote wound healing and guard against oral disease. Presented in this project is a design that incorporates aqueous ozone into a dental appliance.
Distillation of brandy from white wine | Brandy is a liquor, typically produced from white wine by continuous plate column separator. Since alcohol has a lower boiling point of 78°C compared to water which boils at 100°C at atmospheric pressure, alcohol can be separated from water by distillation. The low-boiling point liquids that can be distilled from wine include alcohol, small amounts of water, and many of the wine's aromatic chemicals. In continuous distillation of wine, alcohol rises up the trays in the column as vapor and is then condensed into brandy containing 50-54 vol% alcohol. This distillation process is why Brandy was given its name which means “burnt wine”.
Design Service for Terracon Office Building with Increased Lab, Office, and Storage Capacity | A new office building for Terracon Consultants, Inc. will be designed and built in the City of San Antonio. The intent of the owner is to have an engineering firm design and coordinate the building of a 60,000 square foot, two story office building to meet their growing needs. The approximate occupancy level for the building will be a maximum of five hundred people. Frontier engineering has been contracted to complete the geotechnical, land development, transportation, and structural design phases for the project.
Alternative Drone Transportation Modalities| Creating any sort of unmanned system comes with many unavoidable choices when it comes to determining the most optimal design for a customer's specific goals. Different design choices will lead to vastly different outcomes for the unmanned system, especially when it comes to transportation modes. The nature of current unmanned system design trends means that if a user wants to have access to several different transportation options, they will have to purchase or build several different unmanned systems. This project aims to address that issue by giving users the ability to access several different transportation modes in a singular system.
GPS corrected mobile anemometer| Current wind measurement techniques in the environmental science research field utilize stationary anemometers to measure wind speeds. AneMotion is designing a device that will enable use of an anemometer in motion, attachable to a UAV or other mobile measurement device. The device will consist of an Arduino mega controller, a GPS, Accelerometer and SD card reader module along with a live LCD display for measuring, correcting, and storing wind data while the device is in motion. This corrected wind velocity will be stored in NWU coordinates to be later used in wind and atmospheric modeling software.
CNC 3-Axis CNC Router| The UTSA makerspace currently does not have a 3-Axis CNC Router and the manufacturing needs of students are rapidly growing. The purpose of this senior design project is to complete the design and assembly of a 3-Axis CNC Router that will be implemented into the UTSA Makerspace in the Summer of 2023. The machine will feature a work area of twenty-four by forty-eight inches, a minimum resolution of 1/32 of an inch, a 2.2 kilowatt spindle, and a touch screen interface. This 3-Axis CNC Router will serve as a user-friendly machine to support future generations of UTSA students.
Athrombic Pants| AMAS Engineering’s sponsor, Dr. Robert Hood, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Medical Device Design Development at UTSA (University of Texas at San Antonio). Dr. Hood has partnered with Dr. Ebin to develop athrombic clothing to help people who are susceptible to blood clotting. Dr. Ebin would like the group to design and fabricate athrombic clothing that will have built-in inflatable pumps that will be capable of providing compressions to a person’s arms and/or legs effectively while also being aesthetically pleasing and more mobile than current methods of treatment.