Engineering Design Projects

College of Engineering
Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro, NJ 0808-1701
Course Coordinator: Anthony Marchese

During the semester each student will complete a semester-long design project jointly sponsored by two or more of the engineering departments at Rowan. Students will have the opportunity to choose from among the following three projects, which will be described briefly in the following section:

• Human powered stair climber for the disabled
• NASA In Situ Resource Utilization (Asteroid Mining)
• Y2K

Engineering Design Projects

1. NASA In Situ Resource Utilization

This project will ask the students to apply engineering design and economics principles to the problem of mining resources from asteroids and/or the moon. Student teams would need to assess equipment and crew requirements, the fuel cost associated with delivering this payload to outer space, and the anticipated return on the investment. Among the questions that must be answered: What aspects of the project will be automated, and how many crew members are required? Which is preferable, a single mission, or a sustained long-term effort involving the creation of a mining colony? How should the materials be returned to earth?
 
 

NASA Team

Thursday  Lab

Stephen Cauaretta
Brian Cleary
Jesse Condon
Japhet Delicana
Chris Foster
Benjamin Fratto
Jason Friedberg
Ronald Galarza
Stephen Gomba
Phillip Kulick
Michael Lewitt
Michael McCarthy
William McCorkle
Brian Moore
Jessica Pointin
Shaun Rendall
Laura Sorrentino
Jeremy Stevenson
Paul Stokes
Dennis Swiedo
Brian Tobin
Jeremy Tyers
Kenneth Whelan
Jason Wollenberg

 Monday Lab

Frank Brown
Aditya Chaubal
Joe Cugino
Michael DeGraff
Michael Firth
Jack Gamble
Mark Ghose
Jason Hearre
Margaret Jacques
David Kozdron
Tom Kurzeja
Lisa Lapinski
Jeyvr Patel
Nick Pekula
Leonard Rodriguez
Eric Rolf
John Rotter
Matt Smith
Michael Sterner
Surafel Teferra
Paul Terruso
Jeff Tieman
Dheuvkumar Vyas
Brianne Wissel

2. Human Powered Stair Climber for the Disabled

The objective of this design project is to produce a preliminary design of a human powered stair climber that will enable a disabled person to climb a stairway under his/her own power.
 

Stair Climber Team

Monday Lab

Jennifer Akers
Lisa Callahan
Nathaniel Clark
Lew Clayton
Joe Compton
Jill Ferraris
Joel Foster
Magdalena Kirlakovsky
Greg McGrath
Rahn McKeown
Steven Miller
Chris Molnar
Bill Morris
Claire Odud
Dan Peterson
Brian Pistone
Joseph Plitz
Thomas Rodriguez
Amip Shah
Tara Spencer
Tim Staszewski
Eric Villari
Aaron White
Chasity Williams
Dan Zelechoski

Thursday Lab

Glenn Arr
David Browning
Kim Davies
Michael Duffy
Richard Eckert
Matt Grosse
Edward Guest
John Hayes
Pat Kane
Anthony Marino
Steven McDermott
Tony McWilliams
Jeff Miles
Matt Morrison
Shira Perlis
Tim Poandl
Michael Resciniti
Jonathan Robb
Vishal Shah
Scott Thibaudeau
Lydia Tomlin
Karen Tuma
Scott Watson
Kyle Welch