Sponsoring a Senior Project

Senior students in the engineering program are required to complete the two-semester capstone senior project. Teams of students from multiple engineering disciplines are given real-world engineering design problems to solve by participating industry partners and other sponsoring organizations. The cost to the sponsor includes materials and a small project fee. Students are not paid for work on senior projects, but earn college credit and gain valuable work experience. Upon completion of the project, the participating sponsor takes ownership of the final working product. 

Are You Interested in Sponsoring a Senior Project?

We welcome your proposals and sponsorship of design projects of interest to your organization.

Sponsored Project Proposal Form

Contact:

Dr. Christopher Pung

Associate Professor and Senior Project Coordinator

Office Address: 226 Innovation Design Center
Phone: (616) 331-6262
Email: [email protected]

Chris Pung

Dr. Wendy Reffeor

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Office Address: 335 Kennedy Hall of Engineering
Phone: (616) 331-6010
Email: [email protected]

Wendy Reffeor

Senior Project Timeline

Month(s)

Actions Taken

August - December

Receive project proposals from industry; first review of projects for acceptance is October 15.  After that date projects are accepted if all slots are not yet filled.

October - December

Notification of project acceptance

December

Projects assigned to the EGR 485 students

January - March

Student teams form and prepare design proposals, including budgets and schedule

March - July

Students present design to sponsors, receive approval, complete design, purchase materials, build, debug, test, and qualify device


Recent Senior Project Sponsors

Altus

Array of Engineers

Attwood

Autocam Medical

Baker Engineering

BAMF Health

Bee Informed Partnership

Bosch

BuhlerPrince, Inc.

Cascade Engineering

City of Grand Haven

Clarios

Dematic

DeWys

Dornerworks

Dreem Design & Development LLC

E3 Compliance

Egan Food Technology

EPC Engineering & Technologies

ETS-Lindgren

Faurecia

Flex Fab

GE Aerospace

GE Aviation

Gentex

GHSP

Keyence Corporation of America

Grapids Irrigation

GVSU-Biology

GVSU-Chemistry

GVSU-NRM

GVSU-PCE

GVSU-Physics

Hayworth

HCI (Hart and Cooley Inc)

Herman Miller

Hutchinson

Inrad

Integrated Packaging Machinery

JND Snowplowing Inc.

Katayama American Company Inc

Kleineffeor

Koops

Laker Racing (GVSU)

Lockheed-Martin

Magna

MAT Table

Medisurge

Michigan Foam Products

Michigan Rocket Alliance

Mission Design and Automation

NN Inc

NN Mobile Solutions

NoxTech

ODL

R.A. Miller

Racing Tech

Raybend

Rivian

RoMann Manufacturing

Shape Corp

Stryker

Swoboda Technologies

T&T Tools (Mighty Probe)

Tarp Stop

Terryberry

Trans-Matic

Ventra

Walters Gardens Inc.

Weiss Technik

Weiss Technologies

Woodward

ZuiDesigns




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