Design Day Final
Presentations
Tuesday, March 22
The student groups selected as having the most outstanding
presentations at Western Engineering's Design Day Competition
presented their projects to a group of faculty, staff, students,
alumni, family and friends.
Fourth-year design projects
varied from a bridge design to accommodate increasing Wonderland
Road from two to four lanes over Snake Creek, near the London Museum
of Archaeology, to a roll paper alarm system.
Electrical Engineering
student, Gary Jan started his presentation by asking the group,
"Have you ever had one of those embarrassing moments in a public
washroom when you enter a stall only to find there is no toilet
paper?" Many of the audience members nodded with an
embarrassed smirk, so Gary explained his design prototype to
eliminate that from ever happening again. He calls his design,
The Roll Paper Alarm System.
The Roll Paper Alarm System
incorporates a sensor system, door locking mechanism and
communications interface to signal when the toilet paper dispenser
has run out. Here's how it works: a detector is added to the
toilet paper dispenser to notify the alarm system when the paper has
run out. A magnetic proximity switch is added to the top of
the stall door to detect if there is an occupant in the stall.
When the person who uses the last piece of toilet paper leaves, the
door automatically locks behind them. The door will not unlock
again until a custodian enters the bathroom and enters a password
into a keypad on the outside of the stall and refills the toilet
paper dispenser. Once the toilet paper dispenser recognizes
that paper has been added, the door locking mechanism opens for
future use. For extra precaution, Gary has included an
emergency button in case someone gets locked in my mistake.
Green Building design projects
were also on display and included presentations for environmentally sustainable projects such as active solar energy collection
and washroom designs.
"These projects feature
the abilities our students have been developing over the past
four years," says Dean Berruti. "They can take this
information and package it to promote themselves as they enter the
work world."
Congratulations to the
following student groups:
Fourth-Year Design Projects
Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
Two Stage
Gasification of Agricultural Waste to Produce Electrical Energy
Chris Coppens, Katherine Gunst, Patricia Munt, Kai Pisters
Civil
Engineering
Best Wonderland Road Crossing: International Connections Inc
Lakeisha Albury, Roger Anderson, Kirk Hendricks, Khaled
Inaim, Philip Roach
Computer
Engineering
The Segmentation of Prostate Zones in Ultrasound Images
Ali Abdelhadi
Electrical
Engineering
Roll Paper Alarm System
Gary Jan
Mechanical Engineering
Improved Automotive Parts Shipping Concept
Gary Chow, Scott Durnin, Kerry Kulak, Jessica Miller,
Eystathios Tzaras, Trevor Whittingham
Software Engineering
Integration of Office system with RIM and XDG
Justin
Duxbury, Laura Hammond, Besa Muslimi
Green Building Design Projects
Washroom
Design in the Green Engineering Building
Hélène Bisson, Tom Ewart, Stephen Libin, David Safer
Green Building Design Project Team 1
Greg Ablett,
Andrea Becker, Drew Davidge, Dennis Rijkhoff, Colin Ryan, Jonathan
Welke
Designs for Active Solar Energy Collection
Armando
Mastrangelo, David Sincla
Designs for Active Solar Energy Collection: Sensing, Control and
Actuation
Taslim Amlani, Jaclyn
Grimshaw, Ben Rankin
Photos
Fourth-Year Design Project Groups
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Ali Abdelhadi, Computer Engineering |
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Gary Jan, Electrical Engineering |
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Mechanical Engineering group |
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Software Engineering group |
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Green Building Design Project Groups
