Illustrative overview of Team 1's machine learning model.

Given that cardiac disease ranks among the top causes of fatalities worldwide, our project aims to develop a machine learning model capable of identifying the presence of one or more cardiac abnormalities in a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) exam. The model's performance will be evaluated by computing various F1 scores, corresponding to the model's diagnostic accuracy for each of the specific cardiac abnormalities listed in the diagram provided.

Team Advisor: Dr. Joseph Picone

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Maryam Alibeik

Team Members: Anna Chau, Abraham Paroya, Luke Dewees

SOLIDWORKS rendering of the video payload design. The top platform contains all camera, solar sensing, and compute hardware. This platform can rotate to align the camera with the sun.

Experiencing a total solar eclipse can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Unfortunately, the rarity of these events and the narrowness of the path of totality makes it challenging for many to see an eclipse in person. The aim of this project is to design a high-altitude ballooning payload capable of capturing 2.7k, 60 FPS footage of the total solar eclipse occurring on April 8, 2024. To keep the sun and eclipse within the camera's FOV, the payload contains a photodiode-based solar sensor and a custom quad-cell tracking algorithm. These two methods work in tandem to adjust the camera's orientation via an internal gearing system. The payload housing is routed from ASTM-C578-compliant extruded polystyrene insulation and capped with a protective acrylic dome. By capturing and distributing video footage of the eclipse, the team hopes to promote scientific curiosity and engage future engineers and scientists across the globe.

Team Advisor: Dr. John Helferty

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Maryam Alibeik

Team Members: John Nori, Lloyd Yoo, Jonathan Isely, Brandon Vaalburg, Alexa Sano

CAD of the fully manufactured and assembled payload.

Rock Sat-C is a program for students to design, build, and fly a sounding rocket experiment on a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket (100 km apogee). Each experiment is contained in a canister that is about 10 inches in diameter by about 10 inches tall. The canister and Rock Sat-C experiment weigh 20 pounds. This year, the team is working to develop a system to gather data to study solar flares in more detail. Additionally, two single degree of freedom passive vibration dampers were designed. 

Team Advisor: Dr. John Helferty

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Maryam Alibeik

Team Members: Ishan Shah, Tae Kim, Evan Carulli, Samuel Meyer, Jack Hewitt, Jacob Shin, Andrew Schenck

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer affecting one in five Americans. Current skin cancer identification processes consist of invasive and costly biopsies. This project aims to develop non-invasive skin cancer identification. This is a Tactile Skin Cancer Detector (TS-CD) designed to capture texture based impression images of suspected cancerous skin tissue. These impression images are intended to be cross referenced against a database with known cancerous skin tissue. Through image processing and elasticity verification the device is designed to identify whether the suspected skin tissue is cancerous. A final prototype was developed with image capture capability. Artificial skin and skin tumor phantoms were manufactured for device testing. A rudimentary image-processing was developed as well. This device is a strong first step towards non-invasive skin cancer identification.

Team Advisor: Dr. Chang-Hee Won

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Maryam Alibeik

Team Members: Joshua Bonadio, Konstantin Markovic

Block diagram of our project’s goal and how it works.

Our primary objective is to lower CO2 emissions and energy use in commercial buildings. We do this by running a device that is portable, does not plug in, and can run for 14 days gathering data from buildings to inform energy and CO2 reductions from building control changes. Our current goal for this semester is to improve the current device by making it low energy usage so that we can have our device to be portable with a battery powered connection.  A multimeter is used to measure the power consumption of our testing device. The two options are: a Raspberry Pi Zero and an ESP8266 microcontroller. Our Raspberry Pi Zero consumes more energy than the ESP8266 microcontroller but the ESP8266 will require a Wi-Fi connection. Between these devices we will need to pick which one works the best for us and decide which device gives us our best results.

Team Advisor: Dr. Cory Budischak

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Maryam Alibeik

Team Members: Aidan Sanders, Jalen Guan

A photo of the Temple Tiny House.

We were tasked with fixing the solar power system of the Temple Tiny House located at the intersection of Broad street and Diamond street. The system was broken, and would not turn on. It was outputting no energy or 0 kWh (kilowatt-hours) per day. We needed to get the system to a point where it worked and could satisfy a load of 1.6kWh or more per day. At this amount, the system would be able to power everything it needed to while allowing for the addition of extra energy consuming devices. After simulating load and efficiency losses we were able to estimate a sufficient battery energy storage system size. We now have a system that is able to meet the needs of the Tiny House for years to come.

Team Advisor: Dr. Maryam Alibeik

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Maryam Alibeik

Team Members: Austin Predmore, Emmet Cowen, Kevin Hawthorne

The objective of this project is to develop a vibration absorber for Morgan Hall North to reduce the structural vibrations the building experiences during wind-induced loading. To address this problem, we developed two tuned liquid column dampers to increase the overall damping the building experiences under its first mode of vibration. By increasing the damping of the structure, a reduction in perceivable vibrations occurs, improving both occupant safety and comfort levels in the building. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the tuned liquid column dampers, a 1/50 scaled model was built to represent Morgan Hall North, with tuned liquid column dampers 3D printed and installed on the roof of the structure. Using accelerometers, peak acceleration reduction was recorded to demonstrate the effectiveness of the tuned liquid column dampers.

Team Advisor: Dr. Sanghun Kim, Haijun Liu

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Hamid Heravi

Team Members: Scott Blender, Mitchell Carl, Ryan Testa, Majahad Abdallah Al-Khayari, Alexa Shaw

Machined MR fluid damper prototype

The Light Aircraft Dynamic Flight Simulator (LADFCS) project aims to build upon an enhanced approach to force feedback systems by incorporating magnetorheological (MR) fluid technology instead of conventional electromechanical methods such as servo-motors. By concentrating on the development of MR fluid dampers and their integration with flight simulator hardware, the team aims to create an accessible and affordable force feedback system suitable for pilot training and STEM education. In this way, flight simulation performance can be improved while fostering interest in the aviation industry.

Team Advisor: Dr. Sherwood Polter & Eric Degenfelder

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Hamid Heravi

Team Members: Eric Chen, Christian Gonzalez, Ismail Sahraoui, Paige Stevenson, Dobry Tomkiewicz

Project Prototype Design File

This project is aimed at designing a suspension system that will harness energy from the travel of the suspension. The energy generated from the suspension system will power the battery in an electric vehicle. To achieve this, a cantilever suspension style will be implemented around a pivoting shaft which will connect to a motor generator. Our goal for this project is to have the added power from the  system create enough energy to extend the range of an electric vehicle by a noticeable margin. With this electric vehicles will have an extended range which will reduce charging frequency and improve battery life.

Team Advisor: Dr. Hamid Heravi & Anthony Boehm

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Hamid Heravi

Team Members: Myles Denton, Joseph Currid, Kevin Toner, Marco Rossillo, Selinez Soto

The problem being addressed in this semester’s Robotic Lawnmower Project is to reduce vibrations occurring within the electrical box. In previous semesters, the processor as well as other electrical components have been damaged due to excessive mower-induced vibrations. To minimize these damages, this semester’s team has integrated a rubber damping system between the box and the mower. With the help of Dr. Darvesh, we were able to gather data regarding the vibrational amplitude of various fundamental frequencies using the Fatigue Machine (located in the Vibrations Lab) in conjunction with LabView. Doing so, we found that the most effective damper was composed of Black Silicone Rubber and had a hardness rating of Durometer 30A. This damper gave us an average amplitude ratio of approximately 1.19 at a frequency range of 12 to 13 Hz. This frequency range was the most applicable to a live running-mower scenario.

Team Advisor: Sherwood Polter

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Hamid Heravi

Team Members: Zak Lahjouji, Alex Cronin, Michael Tarquinio, Franz Yang

Picture of the Original Mercury Capsule Control Board

The Space Capsule SImulation project aims to recreate the original control panel from the 1962 Mercury Space Capsule, captained by Astronaut John Glenn, with modern day technology. This group is focusing on redsigning the handle and telelight mechanisms on the manual control panel. The goal is to create a mechanism that will allow the handles to be pulled and pushed a set distance and lock into place, while withstanding repeated use. The telelights are also being redesigned to be able to snap into place, preventing any movement of the casing. In the future, this project aims to collaborate with other majors to create a fully functioning board to act as a simulation of how the original board operated. We strive to have the completed board featured in a local museum for educational and entertainment purposes.

Team Advisor: Dr. Mark Callhoun

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Hamid Heravi

Team Members: Lynn Doepping, Ian Patterson, Nick Barazna

Image of the solidworks model of the automated serial dilution system with the reusable stainless steel needle.

To address the environmental and efficiency challenges associated with wet lab research practices, a prototype for an automated serial dilution system has been developed. The complexity of experimental procedures, especially those involving multiple dilutions, contributes to excessive pipette usage and impose labor-intensive and time-consuming tasks on researchers. By developing a system that can conduct several serial dilutions with consistent precision, sterility, and accuracy, researchers can focus more time on improving experimental procedures and processing their data. This system out competes others on the market due to its affordability, versatile applications, and eco-conscious design enabled by its capability to generate dilutions ranging from 1 μL to 15 mL with a reusable needle. Furthermore, by ensuring contamination levels of samples remain below 103 CFU/mL and achieving a concentration variance with 0.99 R2 from manual dilutions, this system promises reliable serial dilutions, thereby enhancing the efficiency of wet lab research.

Team Advisor: Dr. Philip Dames

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Laura Riggio

Team Members: Diana Tiburcio, Veronica Gryszko, Sarah Nguyen, Miles Zietek

The Last Mile Delivery Optimization project creates a way for logistic companies, like Amazon, to reduce the number of door-step packages stolen. The project is based off the use of mobile package lockers, which go to populated clusters at a certain time window where customers will pick up their packages. The problem is solved using operation research methods that will give efficient solutions for clustering the customers and creating efficient routes for the mobile lockers. These solutions will potentially offer a way to implement a new method of last mile delivery, which is the use of mobile lockers. 

Team Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Al-Adaileh

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Laura Riggio

Team Members: Drew Lockard, Deepu Shaji, Matt Sivo

Temple University's Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) department lacks laboratory equipment for quality assurance courses.The overarching aim of the statistical process control (SPC) lab is to investigate the impact of pump speed adjustments on both output flow rates and concentration levels, elucidating the reciprocal relationship between changes in pump speed and their consequential effects on flow rates and concentration in a controlled and analytical manner.

Team Advisor: Dr. Julie Drzymalski

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Laura Riggio

Team Members: Andrea Larosa, Adriana Hernandez, Naomi Zamot

Non-destructive testing (NDT) methods have become essential for evaluating material properties without causing damage. Magnetic particle inspection (MPI) is a prominent NDT technique, particularly effective for detecting flaws in ferromagnetic materials. This process involves inducing a magnetic field and observing the material's response to detect internal defects such as dislocations. Barkhausen jumps, abrupt changes in magnetization, indicate the presence of these defects. By correlating Barkhausen jumps with applied strain on known samples, calibration curves are created. These curves enable the assessment of strain levels in materials with unknown values without causing harm. Thus, MPI facilitates non-destructive evaluation, crucial for ensuring the safety of structures like bridges and train axles. Continued technological advancements in NDT methods promise even more sophisticated and widespread applications, enhancing material testing capabilities across industries.

Team Advisor: Dr. Harsh Deep Chopra

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Laura Riggio

Team Members: Jose Ortiz Ayllon, Eric Rose, Garrett Carr, Mike Hesser

SolidWorks rendering of electro-pneumatic test bench design

Formula SAE (FSAE) is a collegiate student design competition, where universities must follow a strict rulebook when designing their car to compete in a series of competitions. Currently, Temple’s formula racing car utilizes a mechanical sequential shifting system, wherein the driver uses a lever in the cockpit to shift either up or down. In an FSAE endurance competition, a driver may need to shift up to 50  times per lap, with most shifts occurring directly before and during corners. For a driver to perform at an optimal level, they must always have both hands on the wheel. Some teams designed systems that allow their drivers to actuate the shifter with paddles or buttons located behind or on the steering wheel. An electro-pneumatic paddle shifting test bench will be designed to optimize a system that will eventually be implemented on Temple Formula Racing’s FSAE car. 

Team Advisor: Aaron Snyder

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Laura Riggio

Team Members: Kaci Walter, Margaret Allen, Jakob Werle, Justin Lischuk

There is a need to develop an objective test that would enable the precise measurement and characterization of peripheral neuropathy due to severe limitations in current testing methods. The designed solution is an apparatus made up of several components. Firstly, the base consists of Lego-like self-locking studs with bricks with a surface to mount vibration motors that vibrate at 128 Hz to mimic current testing tools. The vibration motors can be moved across the base to accommodate foot sizes up to 300 cm. The device operates by the physician choosing any combination of the placed motors to become active and increase vibration amplitude until detected by the patient. The patient indicates their perception on a button board with buttons corresponding to the three regions of motor placement. This approach enables tracking of the patient’s sensitivity to vibrations, facilitating a comparative analysis of peripheral neuropathy results without any clinician bias. 

Team Advisor: Dr. James Furmato

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Yah-el Har-el

Team Members: Isha Dev, Cameron Noval, Fatima Ahmed, Richa Rao

Team 19’s 3D model of the “bone-like” standard for a young, female mouse. Each standard has an ellipsoid cross-section that varies in diameter and material.

Team 19’s project focuses on designing and testing "bone-like" 3D printed standards. These standards will be used to calibrate the mechanical testing device that is used to conduct 3-point bending flexural tests in Dr. Pleshko’s lab. This testing helps assess rodent bone strength and other mechanical and material properties. A successful project will allow Dr. Pleshko’s lab to ensure the instrumentation is working properly before losing valuable bone samples due to miscalibration. Standards are designed by selecting an appropriate resin material that shares similar material properties (Young’s modulus) as real bone. Then, a 3D model of the bone is created using geometric data from micro-CT scans (minimum moment of inertia) from actual rodent bone samples. Once the standards are printed and tested, the results can be used to calculate the stiffness of the standard, for comparison to the properties of the real bone samples.

Team Advisor: Dr. Nancy Pleshko

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Yah-el Har-el

Team Members: Rania Bakhri, Mayra Brown, Sidney Chhin

Spence Lab at Temple University's College of Engineering needs a multi-camera setup that captures different angles of a rat or mouse during motion. Currently, the lab has two types of cameras of different voltages, a finicky microcontroller attachment, and a hard-to-use interface. Our senior design team planned to create a platform that allows the user to easily control the cameras, while also keeping the circuitry involved safe. This involved soldering a circuit board that connected all the cameras and trigger buttons, designing an enclosure for this board and its components, and formulating intuitive code that allows others in Spence Lab to easily perform rat/mouse studies. We have been successful with circuitry, building, and coding, and we are now focusing on making improvements to the features. Completion of this project will allow Spence Lab to easily gather video data needed for the studies they conduct going forward.

Team Advisor: Dr. Andrew Spence

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Yah-el Har-el

Team Members: Yireh Byas, Siya Damle, Rebecca Larimer

The frame was specifically designed to fit in the limited space accessible while also providing access to the subject while on the stereotaxic frame.

This project was designed to create a method for a feline's ankle muscle to be pulled to measure the muscle length and tension using a rotary motor unit, in order to study the neuronal and motor unit responses after spinal cord injury and subsequent treatment, in Dr Lemay's lab. The data collected from this method will provide a greater and more conclusive understanding of successfulness of treatments which are used for spinal cord injuries. The primary objective of this approach was to utilise the existing motor and ensure its optimal placement while effectively mitigating vibrations generated by its operation. To achieve this, linear x and y stages were incorporated, enabling precise adjustments, while the entire system can be vertically moved along the z-axis through the implementation of a pedestal lift serving as the foundation, and ground the vibrations.

Team Advisor: Dr. Michel Lemay

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Yah-el Har-el

Team Members: Jace Izellah Mary, Ryan Pysher, Rose Biddulph

Microscope Chamber for Live Cell Imaging - "The Cell Sauna"

Live-cell imaging can be used to monitor cellular functions, including cell signaling and migration. The current process of imaging cells can compromise cell health or requires fixation of cells, preventing visualization of the cell’s dynamic processes. The duration of survival for cells outside of cell culture conditions can vary, but most are unable to survive at room temperature for more than 2 hours without damage, thus limiting the duration of imaging for experiments. Our goal is to design an inexpensive microscope chamber for the i-CTERM laboratory to conduct live cell imaging for long periods of time. This chamber will have 95% humidity and a temperature range of 36-38C that can maintain cell viability for up to 5 hours and allow for high quality imaging. We will create a functional prototype of the chamber with sample images taken of cells in the chamber.

Team Advisor: Dr. Peter Lelkes

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Yah-el Har-el

Team Members: Carmel Alexander, Arielle Benderly, Ethan Flack, Brandon Singh

The photo displays the material testing device as it was being developed to the final stages.

At Temple University, the College of Engineering faces a shortage of mechanical testers, particularly for the crucial material testing necessary for educational development in bioengineering. With only one bioengineering lab equipped with a single mechanical tester, it becomes challenging to accommodate the average class size of 20 to 30 people students during lab periods. To tackle this issue, we have developed a smaller-scale mechanical tester that offers standard precision at a fraction of the cost of traditional testers. By making mechanical testing more affordable at just under $400, this solution aims to increase the accessibility and availability of testing resources within the department.

Team Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Arye Gerstenhaber

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Yah-el Har-el

Team Members: Omar Elfishi, Favour Olugbenga, Rahul Tanmoy, Odai Alrajabi

Preliminary Steel Bridge Design (Team 1)

The 2024 AISC Student Steel Bridge Competition requires that eligible universities design and build a 21’-0” x1'-11” model steel bridge that will allow for safe passage over a man-made water hazard located at a disc golf course in Louisiana Tech University. The product of each team is judged and ranked based on six categories: aesthetics, construction speed, lightness, stiffness, construction economy, structural efficiency, and cost estimation. To determine the optimum solution, three teams from Temple University designed a bridge in the RAM Elements software, considering ___ load cases (2500lb vertically and 50 lb. horizontally). The chosen solution was determined based on constructability, deflection resistance, and lightness, whereafter the teams combined to complete the budgeting, shop drawings, and fabrication of the steel bridge. After fabrication, various construction methods were tested and revised, and the Temple University team then competed in the ASIC Student steel bridge competition on April 6th, 2024.

Team Advisor: Dr. Sanghun Kim

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Sanghun Kim

Team Members: Matthew Philbin, Joseph Welch, Stephen Genung, Stephen George, Haseeb Sial, Darren Zheng

Computer model

Lincoln Parish Park in Ruston, Louisiana wants to add a pedestrian bridge made of steel to their new disc gold course that is 20ft long and able to carry 2500lb. The project aims to design and construct a bridge that efficiently balances structural integrity, material use, aesthetic value, and reliable access over the river.  By the end of the Senior Design project, we will present detailed design plans, a computer model, and potentially a scaled prototype of the bridge. This will demonstrate our bridge’s compliance with the competition's specifications and our innovative approaches to addressing the design challenges. 

Team Advisor: Dr. Sanghun Kim

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Sanghun Kim

Team Members: Shaun Varghese, Zachary Marmol, Garrett Snyder, Emilio Alvarado, Calie Ferris, Katia Amrouz

Abington club culvert design elevation view and section view

The Abington Club requires the replacement of a failing culvert on their golf course. The existing 20-foot long, 46-inch diameter galvanized steel culvert is used as a crossing over Shoemaker run. The existing culvert is corroded, undermined, and the inlet is 42.2 inches lower than the culvert outlet. The project drainage area is 93 acres and consists largely of impervious surfaces or soils with low infiltration rates. The Culvert Team proposes complete replacement with a new HDPE 48-inch diameter culvert and reinforced concrete headwalls and aprons. Using State Department of Transportation standards, the Culvert Team developed design plans for a new culvert. Hydrological modeling shows that the new culvert can convey 251 cfs of stormwater, which is the flow resulting from a 25-year storm. Complete flooding of the culvert is likely during a 100-year storm. However, the new culvert is designed to remain in place during flooded conditions.

Team Advisor: Dr. Robert Ryan

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Sanghun Kim

Team Members: Jag Gummadi, Jacob Fagan, Tim Moyer, Adam Sinagra

Pictured above is an existing rain garden on the Cranaleith Spiritual Center property next to a pond which once served as a watering hole for Lenape horses.

The Cranaleith Spiritual Center is a beautiful 10-acre property located on a headwater tributary of the Poquessing Creek and has several stormwater controls that need to be rehabbed/redesigned to address poor performance. Due to heavy development in the surrounding area and an increase in global precipitation, Cranaleith is experiencing flooding that is damaging infrastructure and causing erosion. After careful analysis of both the fundamental requirements and design criteria, a rain garden was deemed the best solution when addressing the stormwater controls at the top of the site, noting that water flows downhill. The rain garden will address all the problems that led to poor performance, such as volume reduction, peak flow, inflitration rate and water quality. Programs like PcSWMM, ArcGIS, WinTR55, and Civil 3D were used to assist in calculating and modeling the pre- and post-development runoff.

Team Advisor: Dr. Robert Ryan

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Sanghun Kim

Team Members: Deonna Shoemaker, Rachel Egner, Latisha Hogue, Parsa Kiani

Topographic Map of Cranaleith Spiritual Center Detailing BIO 3 and Central Parking Area.

On site exploration was complete to evaluate current stormwater conditions and identify potential issues. Flooding, scouring, and overall deterioration nearest the parking area, signified that 'Bioswale 3', BIO3 in Figure 1, is not sustainably retaining runoff for typical storm events. The basis of this exploration is to determine the most efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective method to limit flooding and deterioration. The proposed solution encompasses redesigning the current retention basin as a larger, infiltration basin. Most Efficient Systems followed client requirements to sufficiently retain stormwater in accordance with Pennsylvania Stormwater Best Practices Manuel. The proposed solution was designed using AutoCAD Civil 3D and supported with hydrographs demonstrating retainage and runoff effects of various storm conditions typical to Pennsylvania. Preventing excess stormwater runoff decreases erosion and flooding and therefore increases sustainability of existing structures and safety of community.

Team Advisor: Dr. Robert Ryan

Sr Design Instructor: Dr. Sanghun Kim

Team Members: Marc Utti-Hodge, Samuel Baskin, Ethan Zeiner