School of Engineering Senior Design Program

Each year, more than 100 leading manufacturing companies, pharmaceutical and medical firms, consulting practices, utilities as well as local, state and federal government agencies partner with the UConn School of Engineering through Senior Design Projects. These are cost-effective ways to work with Engineering seniors on a company project – a technical or design challenge or a novel idea – without a large investment.

Every Senior Design Project is a two-semester course required for all School of Engineering seniors to graduate. Having successful completed most of the Engineering curriculum, they must solve technical problems for sponsors in a real-world company. Each team of 2-4 seniors is mentored through the project by an Engineering professor working within the sponsor organization.

Result: Our sponsors gain first-hand experience of working with potential employees with no commitment other than to help the project succeed. Our students learn how to work collaboratively in a corporate setting, while producing professional periodic reports on their strategy, techniques and progress.
We are currently recruiting for projects. Please contact us to learn more.

Learn More About: Senior Design and Senior Design Day.

Save the Date: Demonstration Day is @ Gampel Pavilion, UConn Storrs Campus Friday, April 27, 2018 from 1pm to 4pm .

Providing Innovative Solutions to Technical Challenges
Two hundred and twenty-eight groups, consisting of nearly 800 seniors, stood proudly by projects ranging from as small as a cyborg insect, to as large as an all-electric car inside of Gampel Pavilion. The capstone projects, which were the culmination of a year’s-worth of work, are known as Senior Design, and are presented annually at Senior Design Demonstration Day.
Posted on May 3, 2018

Beyond Senior Design: Bringing Hospital Communications into the Future
By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering Hospitals are one of the busiest places that an individual can be in. Doctors and nurses are running around, often supervising many patients, and during hectic times caregivers are confronted with the task of prioritizing patient’s needs, which is a very complex process. But two […]
Posted on June 21, 2018

WFSB Channel 3 Feature on Senior Design Demonstration Day
UConn engineering students displayed projects that they’ve been working on all year on Friday. There’s about 230 projects, 800 seniors, in groups of 3 to 4, and they’ve been working on these projects all year long. “Our project is to control an electric motor for that car over there. It’s very efficient for its size and weight and provides a lot of power output 80 kilowatts 107 horsepower,” said Daryl Biron, a UConn senior.
Posted on April 28, 2018

Vibrational Therapy to Change the  Outlook for Cerebral Palsy Patients
Entering the final stretch of their Senior Design journey, the biomedical engineering team of Brianna Perry, Morgan DaSilva, Brittany Morgan, and Katie Bradley are realizing the crushing realities of real-world results versus perfect-world expectations.
Posted on April 23, 2018