Projects

Time and motion improvement of current food preparation processes for grab-and-go items at University of Dayton Emporium.

Team size: 5

Brief Description:

Used the tools of LSS to perform an analysis of time and motion with the goal of improving the preparation process for To-go items at the emporium.
Developed an average amount of time each item type’s preparation should take and observed each process’ steps.
These actions were necessary to provide a deep understanding of the processes from start to finish, identify areas where delays can be eliminated, and generate improvement ideas for the production space, quality assurance, and food production procedures.

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Team size: 4

Brief Description:

Our team successfully designed the sub-system of mechanical and design for the Forklift system using Systems Engineering methods, tools, and principles to improve the company's position in the marketplace.
Our achieved operation concepts included features like portability and modularity, low maintenance, self-rising lift truck, 360° Movement, better efficiency, and operational improvements.
Our team is also focused on different aspects of safety design to give long life to the trucks. Automation was one of the areas we proposed to improve and achieve the goals of driverless lift trucks and anti-collision sensors to avoid casualties.

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Team size: 3

Description:

Through this simple undertaking of a hypothetical project – “Building a Sustainable House”, the team has tried to demonstrate its ability to understand and apply these various concepts and tools learned over the duration of this course.
The structure and flow of this report represent the order of occurrences of events in a real-world project and is supplied by detailed documentation and tools showcase as would be done in the real world.
Any references made to any attached documents are meant to refer to actual supplied documents.
The scope of this project is not to develop or present these documents in any detail rather it is to understand the place and use of the same.

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Team size: 2

Description:

The idea of the project was to highlight the problems of congestion with traffic lights in many cities especially for emergency vehicles like ambulances.
Lack of efficient traffic control leads to loss of lives because of ambulance delays. In the research conducted and the paper published, the idea proposed was a smart traffic control system that consists of a combination of 2 independent systems to overcome this problem.
The first system is using RFID, smart semaphores whereas the second system is having the application of stroboscopic effect along with stroboscope lights and sensors.
The combination of these two systems would easily control the traffic and will help emergency vehicles to reach their destinations on time.

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paper no. 7, page no 95. (PDF page no. 105)

Team size: 3

Brief Description:

Optimized the existing pickup routes of food trucks using VRP(vehicle routing problem) solver.
Drafted a research article to present my immersion project and experience at The Foodbank to highlight the successful implementation of operation research along with to illustrate an impactful application of engineering skills in a non-profit setting.

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Team size: 3

Brief Description:

Designed and developed a “chair” which is worn like an exoskeleton on the lower body.
The project’s main idea was to overcome the problem of workers who could not find an appropriate place to sit and rest.
The proposed project allows users to walk with the designed device while they work; giving a feeling as if the chair is not there but appears by following a series of easy-to-do steps, whenever needed.

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