Our Favorite Engineering Projects
Purdue has an amazing, top-ranked engineering program which can absolutely be linked to the hard-working professors, challenging but enriching curriculum and multitude of supportive resources available on campus. However, a Purdue engineer will be successful out of college not only because they were able to take advantage of those great learning opportunities, but also because they were able to apply all of their knowledge through hands-on projects. Both inside and outside the classroom, Purdue offers countless opportunities to work in team projects on real world applications to help an engineering student transform into a professional engineer ready to take on the world! So, we wanted to share a compilation of Women in Engineering describing our favorite engineering projects:
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| Working on my operational amplifier circuit for my circuit analysis class |
Emily Helmuth, FYE'25 (intending to go into CE): "My personal favorite project that I’ve worked on here at Purdue so far was during my first semester engineering class called “Transforming Ideas to Innovation I”. The project was called the “Citi Bike Project” and we were given a massive set of data from the company Citi Bike that runs a bike sharing system throughout a city. The data set contained information about the users who subscribed to the service, like their age and gender, as well as information about when and where they were checking out and checking in the bikes in the city. With this project, I enjoyed getting to analyze and study the data to see how we could potentially improve the current system. Overall, I really enjoyed how collaborative the class was and getting to learn how to work in a diverse group of people. I felt like I learned a lot as every member of my group brought different strengths and ideas to the table, which was extremely enriching for me.”
Athulya Nair, ABE'24: "My favorite engineering project I’ve been a part of so far is from my time in EPICS during my first year of college. I was a part of the PAWS team and we worked with the Almost Home Humane Society to create a storage cart for dog toys and cat vaccination boxes for the shelter animals. During my first semester of freshman year we used PVC pipes and various manufacturing tools in order to create a multi-level storage cart that could contain different bins to hold dog toys. In my second semester we created a final prototype of a vaccination box that was meant to help volunteer shelter workers easily vaccinate feral and uncooperative cats. Being able to use problem solving skills and create tangible products that directly impact my local community allowed me to get a glimpse of what it is like to work within the engineering industry, and it made me more excited to see what more I would be able to accomplish in the future. I also really enjoyed learning how to present ideas in front of a panel of engineers and receive appropriate feedback on how to improve our designs. Working in a team based setting allowed me to improve my collaboration skills and learn how to work with people with different opinions towards a common goal."
Tanya Singh, CompE'23: “When I was in my second semester of my sophomore year I took ECE 362: “Microprocessor Systems and Interfacing”. I was excited to take this class because it was one of the first times we delved into the intersection between hardware and software in computer engineering. A particularly challenging but interesting project we took on was the maze project. We worked in groups of 4 students to code and construct a physical maze that would light up with LED lights. A player could navigate through the maze using buttons on the circuit while the LEDs indicated the current position, bounds, walls and free spaces in the maze. When the player reached the goal for the maze, all of the LEDs on the maze would reset to create an entirely new maze. This project was one of my first experiences working with a microprocessor and really challenged me to build a project that was so dependent on the player’s interaction with the system.”
Aikya Chirra, BME'23: “Currently, in my Junior Design Seminar, I am working with a group of 3 other biomedical engineering students to come up with a project design proposal for a modern healthcare gap. My group decided to focus on Opioid Use Disorder, specifically for supporting patients suffering from OUD during their withdrawal and recovery periods. While we hope to eventually have our proposal approved and work on building and testing a feasible solution during senior design, our current focus is on identifying the needs for our potential solution and analyzing the market. I’ve really enjoyed this project because we have been encouraged to branch outside of our college environment and speak to real working professionals in the medical field. I have had great conversations with doctors and nurses who have worked in emergency rooms and addiction recovery centers about what they wish could be improved in the technology and policies around them. I look forward to talking to more people and submitting our final project design proposal!”
JT Sarisky, CE'22: “Over the past four years, I've had the opportunity to work on a plethora of amazing engineering projects, which makes it very difficult to choose a favorite. I worked on building an autonomous robot that traversed a maze in my first-year engineering GOSS Scholars class, researched and structurally analyzed two of Da Vinci’s equestrian monuments while studying abroad in Northern Italy, completed geotechnical TDR research, and even designed the entire structural system of a 6-story engineering building in Lincoln, Nebraska as a part of my senior design class for civil engineering.
Overall, my favorite has to be completing an entire 3D model of the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) on Purdue’s campus as a part of the capstone project for my Building Information Modeling (BIM) minor. This project consisted of creating 3D models of the architectural, structural, foundations, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and landscaping in Revit. After the models were generated, the “clashes” between those different models, where a HVAC element would run into a structural beam for example, were analyzed in Navisworks. Detailing all of these clashes before construction begins permits for much easier re-design and serious cost savings. All of the different Revit models and Navisworks models in BIM 360, which allows all team members to access the files and simultaneously edit them.”
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