About: General Electric is a global digital industrial company. GE’s products and services range from aircraft engines, power generation, and oil and gas production equipment to medical imaging, financing and industrial products.
Website: ge.com
Project Design: In the context of Additive Manufacturing (AM), design, construct and demonstrate a mechanical device capable of detecting, measuring and recording the quality of flow of powder across a build plate of an AM system.
ASHRAE Syracuse Chapter
About: ASHRAE CNY Chapter is based out of Syracuse, NY and brings together the HVAC/R industry in the Central New York area.
Website: ashraecny.wildapricot.org
Project Design: Perform engineering calculations involved in HVAC design, including: ventilation requirements; heating and cooling loads; psychometrics; and fan static pressure calculation. Evaluate the energy, thermal comfort and IAQ performance of the design using simulation tools. Build reduced-scale model of a building and demonstrate the thermal and ventilation control function using an HVAC Trainer.
Millennium
About: Millennium is a multidisciplinary engineering services and solution provider that serves both the U.S. Government and commercial industries in markets such as space, defense, intelligence, cyber, aviation, and healthcare.
Website: meicompany.com
Project Design: Develop and construct a ground station with the ability to reel in a cable that is attached or detached from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone at a varying height. The reel will wind the detachable cable that tethers the UAV to the ground station for power. The ground station will house the retractable reel.
Berry Global
About: Berry Global, Inc. is a global manufacturer and marketer of plastic packaging products.
Website: berryglobal.com
Project Design: Reduce automation downtime associated with the transfer of Cool Whip bowls. Plastic bowls which are injection molded are transferred via vacuum suction type spring loaded probes. Fails occur when the probe is not able to properly transfer the bowl to the next station of the manufacturing process requiring up to 20 minutes of downtime of the machine.
Carrier
About: Carrier provides high-technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions. The company provides to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide.
Website: carrier.com
Project Design: Develop design concepts which have significant cost and size reductions compared to the currently used shell and tube heat exchangers.
Upstate Parts and Supplies Inc.
About: Upstate Parts and Supplies Inc. is locally owned and operated company dealing with wholesale distribution of warm air heating and air-conditioning equipment and supplies.
Website: upstatehvac.com
Project Design: Design a new Environmental Control (EC) system for a Sterile Storage Cabinet that meets requirements of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directive 1116(2) for storage of reusable medical instruments and equipment that have been sterilized.
Bartell Machinery
About: Bartell Machinery provides industrial manufacturing equipment for industries such as Tire & Rubber, Oil & Gas, and Wire & Cable.
Website: bartellmachinery.com
Project Design: Design, prototype, and test a low tension cradle meant for ultra-fine wire. The tension control system is required to operate at very low wire tensions; and maintain this tension constantly during machine fleeting, and draw down of the reel.
MobilityWorks
About: MobilityWorks serves the disabled community by providing wheelchair accessible minivans, full-size vans, and commercial fleet vehicles.
Website: mobilityworks.com
Project Design: Develop a system for wheelchair users with physical challenges to be safely restrained after the user positions and secures the wheelchair in an autonomous van or bus.
Carrier
About: Carrier provides high-technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions. The company provides to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide.
Website: carrier.com
Project Design: The objective of this project is to develop a well-controlled means for characterizing the fouling rates of various heat exchanger geometries due to particulate-laden airflows.
Syracuse University MAE
About: The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department of Syracuse University prepares students to become leaders in a range of engineering fields including mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, energy systems engineering, and engineering management.
Website: eng-cs.syr.edu/our-departments/mechanical-and-aerospace-engineering/
Project Design: Design, prototype and test a device that allows an unmanned aerial vehicle the ability to connect and disconnect from a tether. The tether functions as a lightweight conduit for data and power while attached to the UAV.
Filtertech
About: Filtertech is an international producer of liquid filtration and waste disposal equipment for industrial applications.
Website: filtertech.com
Project Design: Evaluate existing design of current Spent Media Rewinder and develop an improved or alternative design for better operation and easier use by the operator.
Carrier
About: Carrier provides high-technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions. The company provides to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide.
Website: carrier.com
Project Design: Create a Rear plastic fairing for trailers to be close to 90% effective as a Trailer Tail, yet much less expensive.
Bush Technical, LLC
About: Bush Technical provides research, design, development, and production of precision rotating electromechanical machinery and its manufacturing processes.
Project Design: Design of MicroChiller components and overall thermal analysis of cooling system for scaling components and outlining control algorithm. Demonstrate a working system, whether packaged or in a breadboard. Package all components into a portable, user-friendly module