[Interdisciplinary] [Civil Engineering] [Chemical Engineering] [Electrical Engineering] [Mechanical Engineering]
2024 CAPSTONE PROJECTS
[Interdisciplinary] [Civil Engineering] [Chemical Engineering] [Electrical Engineering] [Mechanical Engineering]
2023 CAPSTONE PROJECTS
[Interdisciplinary] [Civil Engineering] [Chemical Engineering] [Electrical Engineering] [Mechanical Engineering]
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE PROJECT ARCHIVES
[2022] [2021] [2020]
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
CREATE Accessible Filing Cabinet
Angelica Baburove (ME)
Isabella Flynn (ME)
Andrea Mejia (ME)
Arin Rothschild (ME)
Advised by Professor David Wootton
| At CP Unlimited Brooklyn, volunteers with cerebral palsy work with files that are both heavy and difficult to reach. The team, funded by the NYSID CREATE competition, modified a filing cabinet to minimize overall lifting and strain. The design uses a hand chain hoist, and a series of chains, shafts, and sprockets in the cabinet door, to bring drawers weighing up to 120 lb to a comfortable height, increasing accessibility of the files. |
CREATE Garden Shears
Saira Billah (ME)
Taaseen Jahan (ME)
Jade Lombardo (ME)
Sonam Okuda (ME)
Advised by Professor David Wootton
| Using garden tools can be difficult for people with disabilities and limited hand mobility. We redesigned garden shears for our partner, Smile Farms, a nonprofit that employs people with disabilities to harvest garden vegetables. Our modified shears improve ergonomics by altering the cutting motion to shift the load away from sensitive hand muscles. A novel linkage system increases mechanical advantage to improve the comfort of harvesting vegetables. |
| Garden Reliably, Inclusively, and Painlessly (GRIP) |
Abigail Berg (ME)
Justice Candelario (ME)
Francisco Guzman (ME)
Eun-Soe (Colette) Lee (ME)
| CP Unlimited supports people with cerebral palsy in the workplace. The team designed and built a more accessible secure cabinet for their paper shredding room with a scissor lift mechanism to automatically bring the paper to the desired height. The lift removes a need for the user to bend down and reach in to grab documents. The cabinet has a pull-out drawer for easy access to the papers, and support handles on the top provide stability for users. |
Team took 2nd place and shared $10,000 prize at annual CREATE competition