On the evening of Dec. 5, six College of Engineering students took first and third place in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Wichita Section Holiday Banquet Undergraduate Poster Display in Woolsey Hall. Applied engineering students Lauren Bulcroft, Shyanna Edwards, Clayton Short and Oliver Harrison placed first. Pedro Cordeiro Povoa Cupertino (aerospace engineering) and Vicknesh Prasad (industrial systems and manufacturing engineering) placed third.
The first-place poster by Bulcroft, Edwards, Short and Harrison was titled “Finite Element Analysis of Stress and Strain in High Precision CNC Machine Tooling.” The group of students was advised by Dr. Adam Lynch, associate teaching professor in the Department of Applied Engineering, and Ridge Towner, a reliability engineer at Spirit AeroSystems. The third-place poster by Cupertino and Prasad was titled “Preliminary Systems Engineering Analysis of Energy Harvesting Methods for Forklifts.” The two students were also advised by Dr. Lynch.
“The WSU Applied Engineering department has a focus on hands-on learning and strives to integrate current industry problems into our courses,” said Dr. Gary Brooking, the chair of the applied engineering department. “This is an excellent example of the value of these types of collaborations which provided benefit to industry and significant learning opportunities for the students.”