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Best in Senior Design

Spring 2025

Here is our list of finalists and winners for the Spring 2025 Senior Design Showcase:

Best in Show

SPD: Solder Paste Dispenser

ECE Department Finalists:
CS Department Finalists:
IEMS Department Finalists:
MAE Department Finalists:
MSE Finalists:
Interdisciplinary Finalists:

Fall 2024

Here is our list of finalists and winners for the Fall 2024 Senior Design Showcase:

Best in Show

Smart Home Integrated Environment for Learning and Defense

ECE Department Finalists:
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IEMS Department Finalists:
MAE Department Finalists:
Interdisciplinary Finalists:

Spring 2024

Here is our list of finalists and winners for the Spring 2024 Senior Design Showcase:

Best in Show

Small-Scale Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine

ECE Department Finalists:
CS Department Finalists:
IEMS Department Finalists:
MAE Department Finalists:
MSE Department Finalists:
Interdisciplinary Finalists:

Fall 2023

Here is our list of finalists and winners for the Fall 2023 Senior Design Showcase:

Best in Show

UCF Polaris: Mobile Campus Exploration

ECE Department Finalists:
  • PCB Short Circuit Locator
  • Toasty: Image Processing Smart Toaster
  • SMART Chessboard
  • Machine Learning Applications in Power System Fault Location with ADMS and AMI
  • Autonomous Trash Sorter – WINNER (BEST IN ECE)
CS Department Finalists:
  • UCF Polaris: Mobile Campus Exploration – WINNER (BEST IN SHOW)
  • Sports Video Understanding
  • IdeaBunker
  • SenseRator: Machine Learning for Disaster Response
  • Virtual Learning Environments
  • UCF Lost And Found Item Management System
  • Project Merit: Performance Micro-Reviews
  • One Schedule To Rule Them All
  • RE-Rassor: Technology Upgrades – WINNER (BEST IN CS)
IEMS Department Finalists:
  • Throughput Improvements for the Contec Product Line – WINNER (BEST IN IEMS)
  • Give Kids the World
  • Project Vanguard: Rocket Cargo Optimization
MAE Department Finalists:
  • GlideX – Underwater Glider – WINNER (BEST IN MAE)
  • Sampson Aerospace: High-Speed Racing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle – Black Team
  • High Speed UAV – Gold Team
  • Low Excursion Wheelchair Braking System
  • Destructive Noodlez: UCF Student Rocket Launch Initiative – Blue Team
  • Underwater Glider – Gold Team
  • Distributed Electric Propulsion – Gold Team
  • Lifting System for Persons with Disabilities
  • Pressure Sensing Gait System
  • Augmented Wheelchair System
Interdisciplinary Finalists:
  • HIVE: The Grounded Swarm
  • A Machine Learning Solution to Spinal Surgery Candidate Assessment – WINNER (BEST IN INTERDISCIPLINARY)
  • Nautique: Production Tracking Dashboard

 

Spring 2023

Here is our list of finalists and winners for the Spring 2023 Senior Design Showcase:

Best in Show

Growth+: Math for Africa

ECE Department Finalists:
  • Musical Utility for Self-Education
  • Monophonic Hybrid Analog/Digital Synthesizer
  • DOLL-E: Automatic Following Platform Dolly – WINNER (BEST IN ECE)
  • LiDAR Navigation Robot
  • Intelligent IO Module for Alcorn McBride Inc
  • Galahad: Smart Tag
  • HyGrower: Indoor plant hydroponic system
CS Department Finalists:
  • Growth+: Math for Africa – WINNER (BEST IN SHOW)
  • AnimELLE Crossing
  • SWIM: Simple Web Interface for MIPS64 – WINNER (BEST IN CS)
  • bePlayFuel: Smartwatch Sensor Logging Feature for Application
  • Cardiac VR
  • Social Rock Climbing
  • Illuminate: Image Relighting
  • SafeMed: Mitigating Medication Errors via AI-Empowered Augmented Reality
IEMS Department Finalists:
  • Warehouse Consultants: FritoLay Warehouse – WINNER (BEST IN IEMS)
  • LabelWise: Streamlining Materials Labelling System
  • United States Space Force Rocket Cargo Depot Simulation
  • United States Space Force (USSF) Rocket Cargo Ground Processing Operations
MAE Department Finalists:
  • Interactive Shoulder Animated Figure
  • Team Legasus: Biomimic Prosthesis
  • Range-Extending Solar Glider
  • Large Format 3D Printer
  • SAE Micro Class UAV Design Competition- Blue Team
  • United States Space Force – Balloon Drop- Green Team
  • Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition Senior Design – WINNER (BEST IN MAE)
  • NASA-Indoor Farming
  • Smart Wheelchair with Virtual Tether -BIOMED PROJECT
  • AIAA DBF
Interdisciplinary Finalists:
  • D-MILE: Distance-Monitored Inkless Laser Engraver
  • BEARMAX: A Robot for Social Emotional Learning Facilitation for Children with Autism
  • UCF Student Rocket Launch Initiative: Return to Launch Site (Green Team)
  • Self-sustaining Hydroponic Greenhouse – WINNER (BEST IN INTERDISCIPLINARY)

Fall 2022

Here is our list of finalists and winners for the Fall 2022 Senior Design Showcase:

Best in Show

Patient Progression Physical Therapy

ECE Department Finalists:
  • Smart Parking System
  • Smart Interior Monitoring Plug (SIMP)
  • Smart Herb Garden – WINNER (BEST IN ECE)
  • HoloMon
  • Haptic Feedback Glove
  • Live Bolt: Smart Door Lock
CS Department Finalists:
  • UCF Programming Team Catalog System
  • Algorithm Vision Knights v3 – WINNER (BEST IN CS)
  • Exhibit Marker Uniform Resource Router
  • Patient Progression Physical Therapy– IEMS – WINNER ( BEST IN SHOW)
  • Rostro- Facial Recognition App for the Healthcare Industry
  • Nashville Insider Web Application
  • SafeLINC v2: Mobile Safety for Suicide Prevention
IEMS Department Finalists:
  • Distributed Cargo Logistics and Supply Chain Analysis for the Vanguard Program
  • Exolith Lab: Operations Improvement
  • Infinite Engineering Solutions Project Slipstream for Siemens Energy
  • Plane Planners: Optimization of Aircraft Maintenance Schedule – WINNER (BEST IN IEMS)
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to enhance Engineered Products
MAE Department Finalists:
  • 3D Concrete Printer
  • KnightRay Autonomous Underwater Glider, Black Team – WINNER (BEST IN MAE)
  • ARMageddon: A Swing Arm Cost Savings Initiative at Steelcase
  • Special Needs Mobility Assist Device
  • The Interstellar Fortune Teller
  • Hybrid Solid Rocket- Gold Team
  • Morphing Wing
  • Golf Ball Search & Rescue
  • Projectile Launching System- Team Black
Interdisciplinary Finalists:
  • Pole Climbing Exoskeleton
  • Infrared Optical Inspector – WINNER ( BEST IN INTERDISCIPLINARY)
  • Semi-Automated Diffraction Grating Efficiency Measurement Station

Fall 2021

Here is our list of finalists and winners for the Fall 2021 Senior Design Showcase:

Best in Show

Total Refrigeration Gaskets: Automatic Gasket Splicing Machine Improvement Gold Team

ECE Department Finalists:
  • Automated Vent Controller (AVC)
  • “Slate” Multi-Input Wireless Macro Keypad
  • The Smart Bird Feeder – WINNER (BEST IN ECE)
  • 12 Gigabit per second Small Form Factor Pluggable Transceiver Evaluation Card for Space Coast Photonics.
CS Department Finalists:
  • Software for the EZ-RASSOR Robotic Arm for Florida Space Institute
  • Democracy Token – Blockchain Polling Application – Gold Team – WINNER (BEST IN CS)
  • emPower: A Leadership Game & Platform
IEMS Department Finalists:
  • Total Refrigeration Gaskets: Automatic Gasket Splicing Machine Improvement Gold Team – IEMS – WINNER ( BEST IN SHOW)
  • Guia-Misir-Saravia (GMS) Technologies: Facility Layout Efficiency Analysis for Coliseum of Comics
  • Infinite Engineering Solutions Project Slipstream for Siemens Energy
  • Facility Layout and Process Flow Optimization for LightPath Technologies – WINNER (BEST IN IEMS)
MAE Department Finalists:
  • Distributed Electric Propulsion- Black Team
  • “Pegasus” Payload Racing Drone – Gold Team – WINNER (BEST IN MAE)
  • Bringing Knightro to Life
  • Friends of Amateur Rocketry 1030 High-Powered Rocket Scoping Team
Interdisciplinary Finalists:
  • Autonomous Golf Ball Search and Rescue – Gold Team
  • Recorder Accessibility Project: Automated Tone hole Interface (RAP: ATI)
  • Golf Ball Search and Rescue – Blue Team
  • Steelcase Logistics Optimization – WINNER ( BEST IN INTERDISCIPLINARY)

Spring 2021

Here is our list of finalists and winners for the Spring 2021 Senior Design Showcase:

Best in Show

Safeplan – A Youth Suicide Prevention App

ECE Department Finalists:
  • Automated Solar Panel Cleaning System
  • Powering Roller coaster Sensors via Piezoelectric Transducers
  • S.A.E.M.S (Smart Alert Environment Management System) – ECE WINNER
CS Department Finalists:
  • Automated Electronic Dance Music Compostion
  • Safeplan- A Youth Suicide Prevention App – BEST IN SHOW
  • Training Reinforcement Learning Agents for Lockheed Martin’s “Everglades” Environment- Black Team – CS WINNER
IEMS Department Finalists:
  • Advanced Wood Fabrication Cell Layout & Process Development – IEMS WINNER
  • Improving Operational Efficiency & Increasing Profitability for Night-Lite Pediatric Urgent Care
  • Warehouse Layout and Process Development for Load King
MAE Department Finalists:
  • Adjustable Prosthetic Socket
  • Solar Desalination (Blue Team)
  • Surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for AIAA Design Build Fly Competition – MAE WINNER
Interdisciplinary Projects Finalists:
  • Autonomous Pet Entertainment System–CREOL/ECE
  • Closed Marine Life Support System- CREOL/ECE
  • Themed Entertainment Mechatronics – CS & MAE – Interdisciplinary WINNER

Fall 2020

Here is our list of finalists and winners for the Fall 2020 Senior Design Showcase:

Best in Show

“LegacyNet” Cemetery Drone Image Analysis

ECE Department Finalists:
  • Polyphonic Analog-to-MIDI Converter for Musical Applications
  • Heat Emitting Automatic Temperature Square
  • Farming Assistant & Solar Tracker (F.A.S.T.) – WINNER OF BEST IN ECE DEPARTMENT
CS Department Finalists:
  • PegasOS: A 64-bit Raspberry Pi 4 OS
  • “LegacyNet” Cemetery Drone Image Analysis – WINNER OF BEST IN SHOW!
  • Autonomous Drone Laser Tracking System – WINNER OF BEST IN CS DEPARTMENT
IEMS Department Finalists:
  • Turtle Tracking Database Phase 2
  • Torito Brands Facility-Designing Knights
  • Production Schedule of the first Executive Supersonic Jet – WINNER OF BEST IN IEMS DEPARTMENT
MAE Department Finalists:
  • Aerodynamic Drag Reduction System for UCF Knights Racing FSAE Team
  • Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Router-Green Team — WINNER OF BEST IN MAE DEPARTMENT
  • Steelcase Sustainable Packaging
Interdisciplinary Projects Finalists:
  • 3D Interactive Planogram Design App for Closet Maid
  • Stormwater Drain Robots for UCF Utility and Energy Services-Black Team
  • Stormwater Drain Robots for UCF Utility and Energy Services- Gold Team — WINNER OF BEST INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT