The senior capstone project is the culmination of four semesters of in-depth design work, analysis, and prototyping. All seniors work together in teams to complete a single, large-scale design challenge that has been carefully selected to solve a real-world problem, meet the interests of participants and faculty, and meet the educational objectives of the course. Students are expected to have completed a functional prototype, have performed initial testing, and be prepared to discuss where this project might go in the future.
Submissions from 2026
SkyForge End Effector, Sarah Alexander and Coleman Bubar
SkyForge: Payload Isolation, Denzel Ezekiel and Brayden Gogis
Gravity Compensation, Carter Glover and Siyuan Zhou
SkyForge—Autonomous Robot for On-Orbit Assembly of Space Structures, Kate Keeler, Garrett Farnham, Logan Trier, and Ainsley West
Thermal Vacuum Technical Report, Taiye Ibukun Fatima Ougundare and Ryan Bade
Optical Force/Torque Sensor, Kyle Sweeney and Ian Unruh
Submissions from 2025
Red Forest, Lucas Shilts
Submissions from 2022
New Worlds Senior Engineering Project, Evan Anderson
New Worlds Project User Tracking Subsystem, Kaylee Bozarth
New Worlds Virtual Reality System, Teegan Heiniger
New Worlds Virtual Reality, Addison Johnson
New Worlds: Gateway to Virtual Reality, Noah Michel
New Worlds: Senior Engineering Project, John Pugsley
New Worlds: Senior Engineering Project | User Tracking Subsystem, Andrew Scherer
New Worlds | Computer System Integration, Colton Urbanski