Senior Projects - ME 410/411

The senior design activity at Bradley University is an intense engineering exercise that spans the fall and spring semesters of each mechanical engineering student's senior year. During this course sequence student teams are required to provide an engineering solution to a client's need. This student activity is intended to simulate the environment an engineer would experience in an industry setting which usually means a team is under-staffed, under-funded, and over-worked. We expect each student to deliver about 10-12 hours per week on the senior project. This represents approximately 1200 hours of engineering work per team and includes faculty guidance. The students are required to participate in a sequence of reporting activities, both written and oral with at least one of the oral presentations performed at the client's site. The client should also expect to receive all of the proposed deliverables. Default on the list of deliverables will result in a grade of incomplete for the course and that grade of incomplete will remain until all of the deliverables have been transferred.

As part of the project, each team must document their process in the form of a webpage. This documentation is presented here for your perusal:

For the 2009-2010 academic year:

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