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CECS Senior Design

Learn more about the Senior Design projects for the Spring 2026 semester by clicking through the accordians below. 

Computer Science

An audio plugin that allows users to add reverb, delay and other effects in a custom order.

An AI chatbot that uses the HOPE Curriculum to provide a safe place for youths. This differs from existing
chatbots by providing tailored assistance for youths aged 12 to 18.

Project Mercury replaces the slow, paper-based administrative process used by Army Reserve units. Soldiers
submit pay, absence, and medical forms digitally — leaders review and approve instantly from any device.

A self-driving electric golf cart designed to provide safe, on-demand transportation across large campuses. By offering accessible rides along pedestrian pathways, the system reduces long walks, improves mobility for individuals with disabilities and demonstrates how affordable autonomous vehicles can enhancetransportation in pedestrian-focused environments.

Uses collaborative AI assistants to help design, test and debug digital hardware automatically.

A web platform where dental professionals evaluate AI-generated radiographs for realism, anatomical accuracy and clinical acceptability.

Converts complex Medicare claims data into clear patient summaries using AI.

Black Team, Gold Team
Aims to address the problem of nonverbal people who want to communicate with their therapists by providing a user-friendly mobile app.

Black Team, Gold Team
Helps water-skiers and wake sport athletes train smarter by turning every session into measurable performance data.

A web application built around the Clinical Reasoning Mapping Exercise with the aim of helping medical students practice diagnosing patients in an educational setting.

A guided platform that lets educators run cybersecurity competitions without technical expertise. Gives competing teams a live status page showing exactly which of their services are up or down in real time, making hands-on security training accessible to more schools.

A platform that allows people to explore and share space mission simulations in an interactive virtual environment.

Transforms immersive virtual reality language games into accessible browser-based experiences, removing the need for expensive hardware.

A mobile health application designed to extend care into the home, supporting older adults with sedentary lifestyles, reduced mobility or high fall risk.

A mobile app that helps users learn and practice safe-fall techniques through guided demonstrations and interactive exercises with personalized feedback. By turning prevention into an engaging learning experience, the app helps people build skills that can reduce injuries from everyday falls

Can separate outages with comments that align with codes and can validate meter time.

A simulation of a rover that is capable of building roads, exploring indicated areas and harvesting raw materials from lunar rocks.

A drone that can understand everyday human language and visual context. Users can simply say “sweep search this area” or “model that object,” and the drone will carry out the objective.

Implementing intelligent systems should be cost effective and should be mass produced for larger revolutionary goals in space exploration. We seek to prove that autonomy can be accomplished with budget constraints.

Aims to make coding more accessible to middle school students by providing a framework to help educators develop their own coding courses.

As artificial intelligence becomes common in industry, little research explores advanced cyberattacks beyond simple prompt tricks. This project tests sophisticated attacks and defenses against a custom-built medical chatbot that can take actions, wield tools and make decisions on its own, evaluating how secure these intelligent systems truly are.

A mobile application acting as a pocket plant doctor for novice gardeners. Using a custom computer vision pipeline, it provides rapid, high-confidence diagnoses of plant diseases from a single photograph.

An AI-powered system consisting of a user-friendly interface and multiple AI agents working together to learn and adapt to all possible user requests, making the automation of any task possible.

Turns your smartphone into a physical therapy coach, helping people stay consistent with rehabilitation at home.

An educational platform that aims to make learning computer science fun and accessible, taking cues from existing gamified learning apps. Users can take quizzes, connect and compete with their peers, build solid study habits, and even practice real programming within the website.

A prototype system that instantly detects roadway accidents and alerts responders. By giving communities faster awareness of dangerous events, it aims to make streets safer and reduce the harm caused by delayed emergency response.

A prototype social media website designed to help scientists and researchers collaborate.

Delivers a low-cost energy monitoring solution for small to medium-sized facilities that cannot justify the cost of enterprise-grade energy management systems.

Showcases the usefulness of four-legged rovers in unknown terrain and how they could transform lunar missions. The robot offers greater mobility and adaptability compared to the heavy, slow, wheeled rovers traditionally used in space exploration.

Black Team, Gold Team, Silver Team
A real-world simulator that aims to improve the maritime surveillance sector. Users can simulate real-world vessel scenarios to test their maritime surveillance systems.

Small businesses often struggle to track their products accurately, leading to stockouts and lost revenue. This system gives Mirai Arcade real-time visibility into their inventory, automatically predicts when products need restocking, and instantly alerts staff, replacing guesswork with reliable, data-driven decision making.

A mobile app that helps young adults understand their financial habits through an interactive assessment and an AI financial coach.

An e-commerce website that allows users to fully customize their picture frames from a wide variety of options and accessories.

A community-focused platform to connect local residents with certified, reliable service providers all within a given radius.

A two-part project that delivers a website that displays the pages of the 1806 and 1828 Noah Webster Dictionaries. These pages are also processed via computer vision to deliver cropped images for each term in the dictionaries to be used for word search query.

Every extra minute a patient spends under anesthesia during knee replacement surgery increases their health risk. Our project uses computer vision to objectively measure and compare surgeon techniques, identifying the fastest, safest approaches to bone removal and giving surgical teams data-driven guidance to improve patient outcomes.

An operating system simulator video game where players can customize their computer, explore a handcrafted fictional internet, and join an online community, allowing them to live through the early 2000s era of computers through our very own custom OS.

Black Team, Gold Team
Uses computer vision technology and complex technical systems to provide a web-based platform that urban designers can utilize, creating a pipeline to better placemaking.

Our project enables smartphones to determine a user’s location inside buildings where GPS does not work. By using building blueprints and augmented reality scanning, the system helps people navigate complex indoor spaces such as hospitals, campuses, airports, and large office buildings.

Enables indoor navigation using only smartphone sensors, eliminating the need for GPS, Wi-Fi or beacons.

Our aim is to create a better research experience for the PRINT research portal, allowing researchers to add and manipulate data into the database and providing intuitive, basic controls and features without requiring prior technical knowhow.

An interactive platform that transforms large collections of historical letters into maps and relationship diagrams. Researchers can explore how people, ideas and communities connected across regions and time, revealing patterns in communication and migration that are difficult to discover using traditional archives or static databases.

A cross-platform development environment for writing and testing graphical shader programs efficiently.

An AI-powered website that helps Spanish learners improve their pronunciation through real-time speech feedback and progress tracking.

Black Team, Gold Team
A web-based application designed to eliminate the manual work required to create schedules for residents of a hospital.

Allows the user to rapidly develop cartoon animation. The pipeline extracts the pose from actors present in the choreography input and generates a new video by reanimating frame by frame.

The RE-RASSOR Arm Automation Project focuses to integrate semi-autonomous integration into RE-RASSOR’s rover arm. By implementing camera vision and ArUco markers, the rover arm can autonomously identify and pick up pavers, which can be further developed into building structures.

Endless Learner, the language learning platform at UCF, is facing low user engagement and retention. RoyELLE will address this by improving existing language learning games on the platform to make them more engaging and enjoyable. These improvements will encourage students to return to the platform and hone their skills more.

A continuation of previous year’s work on the server infrastructure required for the NASA Simulation Exploration Experience.

A mobile and web app that helps households reduce food waste by tracking groceries and generating recipes from what users already have.

SoundHaus eliminates the chaos of music collaboration. It tracks every change in an Ableton project, allowing you to sync, share and see exactly what someone edited with a click.

An aerial imaging and analysis system that integrates drones, embedded systems and artificial intelligence to perform real-time damage assessment in disaster zones.

An alternative fitness technology that uses a phone camera to record workouts and give real-time feedback.

Turns overwhelming course pages into a calmer, guided study experience. It combines distraction reduction with AI-powered summaries, study guides and quizzes so students can focus faster, understand material sooner, and stay on track.

An AI-powered platform that integrates with Canvas to transform static grades into dynamic skills. Using AI, it automatically maps every quiz question and assignment to specific course skills.

A virtual reality simulation of Fort Matanzas and Fort Marion and the surrounding environment. This unique experience lets the user explore and interact with the forts in a realistic first-person simulation.

Falls are the leading cause of injury and injury-related deaths in older adults in the United States. Digital STEADI is an intuitive mobile application that digitizes the CDC’s fall risk prevention framework. This app enhances research and allows older adults to monitor their fall-risk information from home.

Decreases miscommunication when silence is necessary. Uses spatial sensors to instantly translate tactical hand signals into text. Messages sync across the network, delivering real-time, heads-up intelligence without a single word spoken.

A realistic simulation platform that trains and tests AI to identify unpredictable threats in real time. Provides a safer, more reliable way to protect public spaces and critical infrastructure from aerial intrusions through virtual urban environment testing.

An AI-powered, self-service assistant that answers IT support inquiries for the U.S. Space Force. It leverages a dynamic knowledge base to quickly provide accurate, up-to-date guidance on issues, helping personnel stay focused on mission critical tasks.

Assesses whether OpenEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent, can help researchers improve these programs more efficiently and enable a more dynamic approach to uncorrelated track processing.

This system automates vehicle identification, cargo recognition and weight logging, improving efficiency, accuracy and safety for landfills and material processing facilities.

Helps instructors grade programming assignments quickly and fairly while giving students immediate feedback they can use to improve.

An affordable, accessible and user-friendly cybersecurity tool that helps small organizations detect vulnerabilities, manage user access, track system activity and prevent unauthorized system modifications.

Offers a new approach to vulnerability scanning that detects security issues traditional tools often miss. Developers can upload their code to receive automated analysis powered by AI and a large vulnerability database, helping identify risks earlier and making software safer for companies, users and digital infrastructure.

A web application that allows instructors and students to instantly launch vulnerable applications for cybersecurity exercises.

A one-stop shop for nutritional advice, instant photo-based meal logging, automated meal prep and more.

A secure, AI powered training assistant that helps organizations teach complex material more efficiently.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

A handheld system designed to help responders detect human presence in low-visibility environments such as smoke, smog, fog or darkness.

An 8×8 grid of LEDs designed to extend vertically so it is three-dimensional. Used to show data in three dimensions without needing to physically move blocks. Will be able to customize color and height of each LED for data purposes.

A fully-integrated 2.1 sound system that automatically adjusts the equalizer based on the acoustics of the room it is placed in, that can also be controlled via a mobile app.

A firefighter robot that aims to patrol a household, detect fires early on and suppress them with water.

Makes programming tactile through magnetic, snap-together blocks that teach complex logic through physical play. By bridging the gap between digital code and hands-on learning, this provides an accessible entry into STEM, empowering children to become the confident, creative problem solvers of tomorrow.

A lightweight drone that can hover while spinning in place. This unique design explores new ways drones can move and collect data, expanding possibilities for robotics research and indoor aerial technology.

Allows operators to remotely interact with an environment as if they are there. Users will be able to control a robotic hand with their own by using a glove that tracks their hand’s movement.

This system allows for an efficient method of measuring X-ray radiation levels in real time. Using a radiation sensitive sensor, the device converts radiation exposure into a readable display, providing researchers with a simple, affordable way to monitor radiation safely and accurately.

A portable, wearable computer that is meant to blend the most useful features from a traditional desktop computer and a mobile device. This personal use device is highly versatile and allows a uniquely dynamic user experience.

Turns off a mobile device charger automatically, preserving battery health and increasing the service life of infrequently used devices.

A high voltage capacitor discharge tool that is designed to remove potentially dangerous residual energy in utility scale capacitor banks for safe testing operations. Discharge operation can be configured by the user for optimized performance.

A modular vitals monitoring system that may be scaled down in future iterations to provide an inexpensive yet accurate solution that communicates the collected data on-screen and via wireless communication.

Combines a physical chessboard with intelligent guidance to help players learn and play more confidently. The board detects piece movements and highlights legal moves, preventing mistakes while keeping the traditional face-to-face experience of chess.

A proof-of-concept device that targets and simulates intercepting targets in the soldier’s flank before the soldier is injured.

A plug-and-play network security device that automatically scans a network, identifies vulnerabilities, and delivers a plain-language report suggesting fixes. The technical expertise required is minimal to operate, but can be leveraged by power users and security service providers.

A residential breaker designed to monitor, protect and control a branch circuit. With real-time monitoring and remote access, it gives homeowners greater visibility, safety and control over their electrical systems.

Demonstrates the complete process of designing a secure computer chip, by implementing protective features and carrying them through the full design flow.

A smart dog feeder that automatically dispenses food only when the dog has successfully approached and sat in front of it. The system encourages positive training habits by combining automatic feeding and behavior detection, while providing owners with a reliable way to monitor and feed their dogs.

An affordable, autonomous turret that uses cameras and AI to detect, identify and track a target. Built to mimic real battlefield coordination between sensors and weapons systems, it demonstrates how smart, low cost technology can make automated defense and surveillance accessible to anyone.

A simple digital stop-motion system that would allow animators to quickly and easily create animations. The design centers around moving a small physical figurine and having its pose replicated in the animation software Blender.

Seeks to make the initial learning of martial arts safer and more accessible by addressing improper technique.

A low-cost autonomous lawn mower that can cut grass on its own within a set area, helping save time and reduce physical effort.

Allows the user to play a common five-letter word guessing/deduction game without the distraction, and includes innovative LED feedback.

Industrial Engineering

An AI-powered virtual patient system that allows students to practice realistic conversations and receive immediate feedback, helping improve training quality, consistency and accessibility for future healthcare professionals.

Green Team, Blue Team
This first-of-its-kind international project unites senior design teams from UCF and the Polytechnical University of Durango, Mexico to create an AI-driven digital twin of NASA’s RASSOR rover. By tackling lunar communication delays, the teams are building a practical testbed for smarter remote operations and future intelligent lunar surface missions.

Redesigns how products are arranged on shelves at the Publix Pharmacy Distribution Center to make order picking faster and easier. By reorganizing items based on demand and space limitations, the plan reduces daily picking time and improves overall efficiency

A centralized alumni portal for UCF that makes it easier for graduates to stay connected with the university. The platform brings together events, networking, career opportunities and mentorship in one place, helping strengthen the alumni community while supporting professional growth, collaboration and long-term engagement with the university.

To mitigate constant strenuous efforts, this project proposes a database and collection method, alongside maintenance tactics, for proper application cataloging across UCF.

Helps UCF bring campus resource information into one centralized system that supports future campus maps. This improves how students, visitors and staff find services across campus while helping departments maintain accurate information and increase visibility of important resources.

Identifies the best locations for future spaceports through predictions of operational efficiency.

Uses large-scale simulation to test thousands of possible launch conditions and uncover the factors that most strongly shape launch capability.

This project evaluates how open-source geographic information systems and spatial intelligence tools can support engineering-grade spaceport suitability analysis.

A case study simulation based upon successful space launch complex and logistics layout methodology. The analysis will define the site suitability for future logistics spaceport development.

An open, engineering-focused simulation framework that connects post-landing booster recovery with manifest and launch logistics in a unified operational model.

Interdisciplinary

Industrial Engineering, Data Science
Leverages artificial intelligence automation to ensure operating rooms are perfectly staged to healthcare “gold standards” before patients enter the operating room.

Electrical Engineering, Photonic Science and Engineering
Explores other avenues of semiconductor chip production.

Photonic Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering
Aims to provide a one-click solution, creating a datasheet automatically from a given lens.

Photonic Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering
A compact optical device that detects and identifies microplastics using light.

Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Photonic Science and Engineering
Seeks to eliminate the need for ink cartridges in traditional printers and provide an improved printing experience compared to the previous design.

Photonic Science and Engineering, Computer Engineering
Detects and cuts lines drawn by the user directly on the fabric. This allows hobbyists and small manufacturers to quickly cut fabric effectively and intuitively.

Black Team, Gold Team
Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering
A portable, high-powered light projector built for UCF Athletics to display the various UCF logos during games and events. Built to be “Florida-proof,” the unit is weather-resistant and easy for event staff to set up.

Electrical Engineering, Photonic Science and Engineering, Computer Engineering
Aims to build an automated laser measurement system that will improve the process of designing and building any laser system. This system will allow the user to have accurate knowledge of many of a laser’s characteristics, vastly simplifying the process of design and model testing.

Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering
Aims to reduce the life-threatening risk involved in search and rescue operations. Designed with human safety in mind, the drone swarm replaces the need for search teams by rapidly scanning search areas to locate survivors in a faster, safer and more efficient way

Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering
A lunar excavation robot.

Electrical Engineering, Photonic Science and Engineering
OpenSense v3 is a low-cost, customizable sensor platform that makes data collection easier for students, educators and researchers.

Electrical Engineering, Photonic Science and Engineering, Computer Engineering
A portable heads-up display for personal aircraft that presents essential flight data within the pilot’s field of view.

Photonic Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Integrates with current inspection systems to improve particle detection during semiconductor fabrication.

Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Project AURA is a reconfigurable drone platform designed to perform multiple missions with a single system. Its modular design allows rapid adaptation for diverse tasks, enabling one platform to perform multiple roles efficiently while reducing cost, waste and operational complexity.

Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science
An innovative, eye-catching motorcycle built around a hub-less wheel concept.

Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering
A custom-built, 12-foot blimp soaring above, inspiring pride while giving sponsors a high-visibility platform to reach students, faculty, alumni and visitors alike.

Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering
A high-power rocket that deploys three payloads within a single flight. The system tests and validates multiple payload deployment mechanisms using simulated payloads including a nosecone cargo package, CubeSat-style payload and ground rover, while onboard sensors transmit real-time telemetry to a ground station.

Industrial Engineering, Data Science
A framework for automatically processing and extracting value from data collected by Sandia’s newest solar thermal energy pilot plant. Enables data-driven validation of innovative concentrated solar power technologies and supports the advancement of sustainable and commercially viable solar thermal energy systems.

Electrical Engineering, Photonic Science and Engineering
Provides a safer training environment for novice hunters while improving accuracy and reaction time. Instead of traditional ammunition, the system uses a pulsed laser diode and photodiode targets to detect hits. A target board records successful shots and displays the user’s accumulated points.

Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Photonic Science and Engineering
An automated spotlight system that uses a camera to track performers and keep them illuminated without a human operator. By replacing expensive lighting consoles and manual control with an affordable smart device, S.T.A.R. makes professional-quality stage lighting more accessible for smaller productions.

Computer Engineering, Computer Science
Ten percent of residential septic systems fail each year, costing thousands of dollars in repair and replacement, more often than not without warning. TankSense is an external and retrofittable monitoring system using capacitive sensing with state preapproval to detect failures before they happen, preventing health, environmental and fiscal disasters.

Electrical Engineering, Photonic Science and Engineering
A desktop instrument designed to go beyond the traditional red-green-blue color pictures seen by traditional cameras and our eyes. This instrument can resolve full-color spectra on each pixel, enabling us to see features beyond standard vision, such as chlorophyll concentration across a leaf.

Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
An autonomous drone swarm system designed to revolutionize search and rescue. By using advanced AI to “see” and “reason” like a human, it identifies survivors in hazardous terrain faster than manual searches.

Materials Science and Engineering

This high-temperature electrochemistry furnace is a new piece of technology that performs solid state electrochemistry under vacuum and at high temperatures to manufacture optically transparent ceramics. It shows significant applicability for lasers and sensors.

This project aims to detect early signs of failure in electronic components. By enabling preventative maintenance instead of replacing electronics once they fail, it improves reliability, reduces costly repairs and helps industries save money while keeping critical technologies running efficiently.

A bone screw that enhances recovery and dissolves in the body, rendering secondary removal surgeries obsolete. This is advantageous for pediatric and osteoporotic surgical procedures as limitations in traditional implants restrict and delay recovery.

A 3D-printed metal lattice structures that maximizes volume-specific surface area while retaining high compressive load-bearing capacities. Allows for the efficient neutralization of neutron radiation in a nuclear reactor while exhibiting high-load bearing capacities that ensure structural stability of the radiation shield.

Lithium powers many of today’s clean energy technologies, yet current production methods are costly and environmentally intensive. This project proposes a more efficient and sustainable lithium extraction process designed to meet growing demand while reducing environmental impact and improving production scalability.

This project combines commonly separate test systems for solar cells into one low-cost and open source device that is capable of taking key metrics associated with solar cell performance to instantly provide feedback about the cell to the end user.

Rare earth metals are important in electronics, but mining and refining them is bad for the environment. Provides a a column system with special materials that can selectively absorb them from a solution, in particular neodymium and dysprosium, to facilitate cost-effective, large-scale recycling.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

A fully functional, dual-motor cargo aircraft that can be manufactured at home. By passing expensive supply chains, this project empowers anyone to print rapid-response aerial logistics for disaster relief, search and rescue, or education.

Revolutionizes culinary design by introducing an affordable 3D chocolate printer. This accessible tool empowers creators to quickly and safely produce intricate, edible artwork, dramatically lowering production costs, lead times and food waste.

A multiuse aircraft with a combination of a payload capacity mission and a banner towing mission.

Black Team, Gold Team
Aviation contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions, creating a strong need for cleaner fuel alternatives. This project explores ammonia as a potential aviation fuel because of its abundance and the established infrastructure that already exists for production and distribution.

A design for an HVAC system and ductwork for a two-story university building in Denver that strives for net zero energy. A full life cycle and cost analysis has also been conducted.

An electric human-powered vehicle built for the 2026 ASME eHPV Challenge. Unlike typical e-bikes, it prioritizes rider safety and speed through aerodynamic fairings and a rollover protection system while maintaining efficiency, affordability and sustainable performance.

We designed a benchtop solar experiment that lets students actively explore how environmental conditions affect solar panel performance.

Provides the Energy Systems Laboratory with a way to give hands-on experience using heat exchangers.

A compact, programmable system that simulates real paddling forces to measure paddle durability. Designed for small manufacturers and research labs, it provides affordable, repeatable fatigue testing for composite paddles, enabling data-driven design, improved safety, and longer-lasting outdoor performance equipment.

Black Team, Gold Team, Blue Team
A rocket that can carry four Eggstronauts and water to 1,000 feet and safely return them to Earth. The mission is to protect fragile passengers from a hard landing through creative design.

A high-speed reconnaissance drone designed to fit inside a soldier’s backpack. It can be assembled and launched in minutes to scout terrain, identify threats and provide live aerial video. The system gives small military teams rapid situational awareness without bulky equipment or complex infrastructure

A desktop injection molding system for use by students. Allows students to create multiple copies of strong, homogenous plastic parts for relatively low costs. This machine will be safe, easy to use and affordable.

A small aircraft that uses multiple electric motors distributed along its wing to improve efficiency, reliability and low-speed performance. Inspired by NASA’s X-57 research aircraft, this project explores how distributed electric propulsion could influence future unmanned aircraft and help advance safer, more efficient electric aviation technologies.

By applying a fundamental understanding of high-speed internal gas flow, this project seeks to develop an ideal throttle valve while fully documenting the performance gains the design promises

Gold Team, Black Team, Platinum Team
Demonstrates a drone delivery system designed to transport and release small packages without needing to land.

An aerodynamic vehicle designed to vertically take off and transition to forward thrust to achieve flight. The appeal of the project is to combine the ease of use of a vertical takeoff vehicle with the speed and efficiency of a plane.

Black Team, Gold Team
A cost-effective, modular upgrade kit that transforms standard PC coolers into high-performance systems.

A portable, solar-powered system designed to produce clean drinking water from salty or brackish sources. By combining renewable energy with compact desalination technology, the system can operate in remote or disaster-affected environments, helping provide reliable access to safe drinking water where traditional infrastructure is unavailable.

This project delivers a versatile and safe engine testbed to identify issues and tune engines prior to vehicle installation.

Black Team, Gold Team
The ship will detect, track and launch a racquetball to try and sink the freshman ships. This project could potentially lead to new findings in naval combat.

Black Team, Gold Team
The compact heat exchanger is used to capture waste heat from an aircraft jet engine’s exhaust and convert it to useful electrical power. Recovering this lost energy ultimately serves to improve aircraft efficiency, reduce fuel consumption and lower carbon emissions, supporting the future of cleaner and more sustainable aviation.

Black Team, Gold Team, Silver Team
A high-speed drone capable of taking off and landing in short or unprepared runways.

A realistic lung model designed to improve radiation therapy planning and delivery. The model replicates human lung properties and simulates breathing motion, allowing more accurate treatment testing and training. It helps doctors, students and patients better understand lung care and supports more precise, effective radiation therapy.

Black Team, Gold Team
A remote-controlled drone that can transition between air and water while streaming video footage.

A drone designed to fight the growing number of wildfires in public areas. It detects flames and heat, shows this information to the pilot, and accurately drops fire retardant to slow or stop fires. The system helps protect forests and reach areas traditional firefighting methods cannot.

Black Team, Gold Team
Develops a new way to deploy inflatable heat shields that help spacecraft safely slow down during atmospheric entry. By reducing weight and simplifying the system, this technology could allow future missions to deliver larger spacecraft, equipment, and eventually humans to destinations such as Mars.

A single rotor, spherical drone for reconnaissance and search-and-rescue applications. The drone possesses GPS navigation and is able to transmit live high-definition video, allowing the user to control the drone and monitor the environment.

Black Team, Gold Team, Blue Team
A lightweight aircraft that can carry as much weight as possible while remaining efficient and reliable. The project demonstrates creative problem solving, teamwork and hands-on engineering through real flight testing.

Makes loading kayaks and surfboards onto your car simple and stress-free. It slides and hinges downward so you don’t have to lift overhead, making it easier for people of all heights and strengths to enjoy their outdoor adventures.

A plane capable of carrying Gatorade in a bottle. The biggest challenges of this project are building a plane that can handle the fluid payload as it sloshes inside the plane, and the inclusion of a “pusher” propeller.

A morphing-wing UAV that demonstrates how an adaptive wing surface can reduce drag and improve efficiency compared with traditional flaps.

A deployable solar power system designed to support future missions on the moon. By elevating and automatically tracking solar panels, the system maximizes energy generation while adapting to uneven terrain. The design offers a scalable, lightweight power solution to support long-term lunar exploration.

A system that turns simulated lunar regolith into construction bricks using various binders. This technology could help enable sustainable lunar habitats and support long-term human presence on the moon.

Black Team, Gold Team
Maximizes lunar sample collection efficiency through the utilization of modular techniques. For astronauts already settled on the moon, this system provides quick removal and attachment of mission specific sample collection and containment modules.

A pancake machine that produces pancakes without human assistance.

The goal of Pegasus Path is to create a lunar rover prototype to build roads on the moon. The rover will remotely clear debris and flatten the surface of the moon before placing a stable roadway for use by both astronauts and robots, supporting future lunar and Mars exploration.

A 3D printer that builds structures using lunar regolith simulant. By transforming lunar soil into tools and parts, we eliminate the need to transport heavy supplies from Earth.

Blue Team, Gold Team, Black Team, Silver Team, Platinum Team
Aims to create an animatronic dinosaur that is easy to control and cost effective.

Gold Team, Black Team
Retrofits a standard push mower with remote operation and self-driving capability. By allowing users to mow from indoors or at a distance, it reduces physical strain and exposure to Florida heat, making routine lawn care safer and more accessible.

Black Team, Gold Team
Aims to validate that an air-breathing rotating detonation engine can operate within a supersonic flight regime. It is highly relevant to aviation, defense and research applications, and it lays the groundwork for advances in compact supersonic propulsion systems.

A shock testing device for the UCF baja racing team that measures how suspension components perform under real conditions.

Black Team, Gold Team
A seaglider with a four-foot wingspan that utilizes ground effect during flight. A prototype for companies that aim to develop a glider for commercial travel, search and rescue, or various military applications.

Designs for a net-zero, affordable home designed for first-time buyers in Florida’s demanding climate.

A trailer attachment to an electric scooter that contains an extra battery to increase the scooters range.

Black Team, Gold Team
An autonomous underwater glider that collects water quality data while using very little energy. By moving through the water using buoyancy instead of propellers, the system can travel long distances and monitor environmental conditions, helping scientists better understand and protect lakes and rivers.