Project Center sponsors offer students more than firsthand experience working on a professional project—they offer leadership, supervise progress, and financial contributions to support project costs.

College of Science and Engineering

Sample Projects

Title: Horizontal Shear Transfer in Composite Timber and Concrete Construction
Discipline: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sponsor: Coughlin Porter Lundeen

The retrofit of existing structures often requires that the load carrying capacity of the floor system be increased. Traditional solutions require the addition of floor joists or steel straps. Coughlin Porter Lundeen (CPL) is exploring a new solution using a timber-concrete composite floor system. The system consists of the existing floor, with shear connectors along the joists and a concrete topping slab. The team developed an experimental program to establish the basic parameters that affect the strength, stiffness and ductility of four different shear connector types. Based on the experimental test results the connectors were ranked according to ease of construction and cost.

Title: Bluetooth Diagnostic Adapter
Discipline: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sponsor: PACCAR ITD

PACCAR ITD is one of the world’s largest producers of heavy trucks. PACCAR requested a design for a Bluetooth wireless interface for heavy-duty truck diagnostics, due to the high cost and inconvenience of wired diagnostic connections. A solution was developed and designed around an 8-bit microcontroller that communicates with the truck diagnostic systems and relays information to a Bluetooth enabled PC. The design is capable of bidirectional communication over the J1708 and CAN networks by multiplexing messages on a serial transmission for both older and newer truck models.

2007-2008 engineering projects and sponsors:

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Albers School of Business and Economics

All projects are proprietary to the business owners.

Here is a sample of real projects on which Albers students worked:
Market Entry Analysis
Products Licensing
Supply Chain Analysis
Organizational Effectiveness Improvement