2019-2020 Capstone Gallery
The 53 capstone design projects of the 2019-2020 academic cycle are listed in the order in which they were presented during the April 27 - May 1, 2020 week of Final Prototype Project Presentations. Each team submitted a project poster the week before the presentations. The posters are accessible through appropriate links within each project "tile" below. This was an unusual year for The Capstone Design Program because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Project physical realization was halted on March 16, 2020 when the University shut down the Campus and moved operations and classes online. The outcomes found in the gallery reflect the status of the project physical realization on that date. All final presentations of the projects were conducted synchronously online.
Inquiries: Dr. Dimitris E. Nikitopoulos
Team 50 - Additive Manufacturing Medical Applications
Team Members: Bardwell, Melody (IE), Paulsen, Michael (ME), Saemundsson, Sven (ChE),
Wray, Kari (ME)
Sponsor(s): Andrew R Mallow - National Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Team 24 - "Chandler's" NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge
Team Members: Donner, Matthew (ME), Gremillion, Garrett (ME), Guo, Lucy (ME), Hebert,
Dakota (ME), Pham, Peter (ME), Prejean, Evan (ME), Smith, Michael (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig, Brian Blades - ExxonMobil
Team 56 - Aerospace Lean Line Robotic System
Team Members: Ensminger, James (EEC), Hamilton, Caleb (ME), Richard, Alton (IE), Warner,
Brendan (EE)
Sponsor(s): Andrew R Mallow - National Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Team 54 - Ceramic Parametrically Modeled Parts
Team Members: Levy, Michael (ME), Nguyen, Sunny (ME), Roblez, Jake (ME)
Sponsor(s): Andrew R Mallow - National Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Entrescan
Team 25 - SAE Aero Design (Regular Class)
Team Members: Davadi, Jonathan (ME), Dean, Colby (ME), Lorio, Glenn (ME), Nguyen,
Truc (EE), Stevens, Victoria (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig, Brian Blades - ExxonMobil
Team 21 - SAE Aero Design (Micro Class)
Team Members: Ellender, Dillon (ME), Johnson, Brian (EE), Lauto, Matthew (ME), Nguyen,
Harley (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig
Team 58 - Aerospace Lean Line Development
Team Members: Domangue, Shane (IE), Rosenstrauch, Nicole (IE), Welty, Gabrielle (ME)
Sponsor(s): Andrew R Mallow - National Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Team 38 - Aircraft Refrigerant Compressor
Team Members: Bankston, Nathaniel (ME), LeCoq, Lucas (ME), Marciante, Kyle (EE), Pate,
Nicholas (EE), Stokes, Aimee (ME), Turek, Shaun (ME)
Sponsor(s): Graham Lewis - Bascom Hunter
Team 32 - Areal Drone "Hawk"
Team Members: Li, Zilin (ME), Permana, I Gede Raditya (ME), Qasim, Salmawn (EE), Sims,
Benjamin (ME), Sukharev, Denis (EE)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig
Team 46 - NASA Thermal Protection System Tester
Team Members: Black, Nicholas (EE), Frazee, Robert (ME), Garbie, Abdelrahman (ME),
Kerrigan, Colin (EEC), White, Jerry (EE)
Sponsor(s): Shengmin Guo, NASA
Team 44 - LSU Vehicle for Shell Eco-marathon Americas 2020 - UrbanConcept
Team Members: Bartow, Mallory (ME), Breath, Christopher (ME), Courtney, Coury (EE),
deGruy, Dylan (ME), Hebert, Dante' (ME), McCarrol, Garrett (EE), Pham, Huyen (ME),
Sciortino, Samuel (ME)
Sponsor(s): Shell, Jack Rettig
Team 11 - Drillbotics #2
Team Members: Cannon, Nathaniel (ME), Ferrara, Bryce (EE), Moore, Shavonnah (PetE),
Rismalia, Mia (ME), Schaub, Charles (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig, Marcio de Queiroz, Mauricio Almeida, Legacy Directional
Team 17 - 30lb Combat Robot #3
Team Members: Beshenich, Charles (EE), Gibbens, Anna (EE), Nguyen, Dillon (ME), Scafidel,
Krista (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig
Team 22 - 30lb Combat Robot #2
Team Members: Flowers, James (ME), Hernandez Cruz, Francisco (EE), Hunt, Philip (EE),
Scully, Logan (ME), Smith, Shannelle (ME)
Sponsor(s): David Bourg - Valero
Team 23 - 30lb Combat Robot #1
Team Members: Baird, Matt (ME), Brooks, Trevon (EE), Krupp, Cody (EE), McPherson,
Robert (ME), Nguyen, Daniel (ME)
Sponsor(s): David Bourg - Valero
Team 43 - Cricket Feeding Auger and Point of Access Machinery for Cost Effective Insect Farming
Team Members: Cooley, Brennen (ME), Field, David (ME), Laramore, Landon (EE), Ram,
Jacob (ME)
Sponsor(s): David Fluker - Fluker Farms
Team 1 - Surface Preparation for Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings on Tubular Products
Team Members: Armansyah, Muhammad (ME), Hebert, Grace (ME), Held, Jacob (ME), Hidajat,
Samuel Christian (ME), Priyambodo, Aldy Rizky (ME), Thomas, Tessa (ME)
Sponsor(s): Preston Cothren - Benoit
Team 15 - 3D-Printed Pressure Vessel Design and Build with Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM)
Team Members: Baudier, Justin (ME), Broussard, Clayton (ME), Mahler, Ladd (ME), Wesley,
Chance (ME)
Sponsor(s): Scott Dailey - Laitram/Intralox
Team 27 - SAE Mini-Baja
Team Members: Frady, Austin (ME), Gaudet, Bradley (ME), Landry, Robert (ME), Newton,
Taylor (ME), Parfait, Joshua (ME), Pham, Calvin (ME), Serio, Barrett (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig (Title Sponsor), Brian Blades - ExxonMobil, Fluor, Polaris
and others.
Team 5 - Modular, Rapidly Deployable Flood Barrier (MRDFB)- Version 2
Team Members: Ball, Mason (ME), Bernard, Joseph (ME), Himel, Dustan (ME), Oubre, Austyn
(ME), Polk, Bryson (ME), Rathle, Nicolas (ME)
Sponsor(s): Warren N Waggenspack Jr.
Team 66.2 - Hydraulic Bicycle Design
Team Members: Buquoi, Micah (ME), Hernandez, Brayden (ME), Hernandez, Kip (ME), Jordan,
Josh (ME), Sebold, Jonathan (ME), Toomey, Shane (ME), Wessel, Nicholas (ME)
Sponsor(s): Ryan Troendle, Jennifer Farque - Phillips 66
Team 66.1 - Hydraulic Bicycle Design
Team Members: Hebert, Matthew (ME), Hopkinson, Andrew (ME), Hubicz, James (ME), Lindsey,
Nicholas (ME), Mohammad, Nedal (ME), Riddick, Michael (ME), Thomas, Sean (ME)
Sponsor(s): Ryan Troendle, Jennifer Farque - Phillips 66
Team 42 - Portable Batting Cage System
Team Members: Bartlett, Tyler (ME), Brignac, Hoyt (ME), Deslattes, Emalee (ME), Dupree,
Brett (ME), Harp, Kortni (ME), Wallace, John (ME)
Sponsor(s): Stephen Maher, Collier Thornton - Ritter Maher Architects
Team 52 - An Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing System
Team Members: Cash, Martha (EE), Deshotels, Ryan (ME), Eisenhardt, Ethan (ME), Naka,
Thomas (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig, Andrew Mallow - National Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Team 8 - A Mobile Device for the Autonomous Diagnosis of Pediatric Skin Lesions Using a Convolutional Neural Network
Team Members: Bowers, Jackie (EEC), Encarnacion, Edwardo (EE), Poincot, Lloyd (EE)
Sponsor(s): Michael Dunham - LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Team 81 - IEEE Region 5
Team Members: Babwani, Ali (EE), Martinez, Jared (EE), Nguyen, Kieu (EEC), Noguera,
Andres (EE), Stewart, Brandon (EEC)
Sponsor(s): Gabriel A. de Souza - LSU ECE Division
Team 82 - Phonic Faces Alphabet for Children with Reading Disabilities
Team Members: Adoun, Toluwani (EE), Bell, Nykala (EEC), Heilemann, Sebastian (EEC)
Sponsor(s): Janet Norris - LSU
Team 85 - Community Solar Farm on LSU Campus
Team Members: Algalban, Abdulrahman (EE), Delpit, Kayla (EE), Hayden, Jacob (EE),
Johnson, Eric (EE), Johnson, Victoria (EE), Montgomery, Stephen (EE), Othman, Naif
(EE), Reiner, Elizabeth (EE), Vincent, Michael (EE)
Sponsor(s): Amin Kargarian - LSU ECE Division
Team 87 - Peer to Peer Machine Learning Powered by Blockchain Technology
Team Members: Johnson, Caleb (EEC), McDonald, Devon (EEC), Pritchett, Samuel (EEC),
Rivera, Pedro (EEC)
Sponsor(s): Dr. Lu Peng - LSU ECE Division
Team 19 - Vertical Jump Digital Measuring Device
Team Members: Chalpin, Bret (EEC), Smith, Michael (EE), Verret, Ty (EE)
Sponsor(s): James Foto, Brad Schaeffer
Team 59 - Automated Photoresist Spray Apparatus for LSU PCB Lab
Team Members: Arnold, James (EE), Kelleher, Chandler (EEC), Krell, Jacob (EE), Nkosi,
Priscilla (EE)
Sponsor(s): Chris O'Loughlin - LSU ECE Division
Team 60 - PCB Laser Plotter Enhancement Project
Team Members: Bieber, Dylan (EE), Dickerson, Kenneth (EE), Garcia Pardo, Michel (EE),
Solorzano, Javier (EEC), Vaughn, John (EE)
Sponsor(s): Chris O'Loughlin - LSU ECE Devision
Team 18 - Areal Drone "Eagle" aka "Fying Squirrel"
Team Members: Costello, Evan (ME), Franze, Cailen (EEC), Miceli, Matthew (ME), Rowel
Jr, Cornel (EE), StMartin, Thomas (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig
Team 41 - Areal Drone "Sparrow" aka "Hippogriff"
Team Members: Beary, Andrew (ME), Huynh, Phillip (EE), Johnson, Corey (EE), Ponce,
Andres (EEC), Soignet, Andrew (ME), Stephens, Richard (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig
Team 34 - Drone Payload System
Team Members: Cadena, Nicolas (ME), Diez, Adam (ME), Hajjar, John (ME), Krass IV,
Edward (EE), Melancon, Mason (ME), Yanes, Alejandro (EE)
Sponsor(s): Tony Brouillette - The DOW Chemical Co.
Team 36 - InstaCooler
Team Members: Cataldie, Nicholas (ME), DePierri, Olivia (ME), Duracher, Lindsey (ME),
LeBlanc, Blake (EE), Newby, Nicholas (ME), Philibert, Brittany (EE), Wieseneck, Kelley
(ME)
Sponsor(s): James Champagne, Jennifer Farque - Phillips 66
Team 7 - Emerson wants to play baseball
Team Members: Ige, Afolabi (EE), Recatto, Andrew (ME), Rivera, Eliseo (ME), Schempf,
Logan (EE), Stone, Connor (ME)
Sponsor(s): Elissa McKenzie - St. Lillian Academy
Team 37 - Pool Ball Cleaner Optimazation
Team Members: Dalton, Aaron (ME), Geiger, Isabelle (ME), Lacombe, Anthony (ME)
Sponsor(s): Michael Black, Mary Kissner - nVent
Team 28 - FSAE Electric
Team Members: Bezerran, Rafael (ME), Buchert, Anne (EE), Cooper, Gary (EE), Cowan,
Ethan (EE), Dragovic, Slaven (EE), Girlinghouse, Ben (ME), Hollander, Spencer (EE),
Leonard, Branson (ME), Miller, Ryan (EE)
Sponsor(s): Ryan Miller - LSU TigerRacing, Jack Rettig, Jerry Trahan - LSU ECE Division
Team 33 - LSU Vehicle for Shell Eco-marathon Americas 2020 - Prototype
Team Members: Bradley, Brandon (EE), Davis, Austin (ME), Isham, Ryan (ME), Lin, Cheng
(ME), Young, Brennon (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig
Team 33 Project Poster
Team 29 - Sugar cane harvester: conveying, elevating and presenting crop to sec fan for cleaning
Team Members: Goodrum, Grant (ME), Hajovsky, Tyler (ME), Holland, Daniel (ME), Macpherson,
Catherine (ME), Smith, Connor (ME), Torres, Cameron (ME)
Sponsor(s): Bryan Dugas, Guy Burch - John Deere
Team 6 - Prosthesis for a Football Athlete
Team Members: Couturie, Gary (ME), Crocker, Brette (ME), McAlear, Cecilia (BAE), Stein,
Landon (ME), Thomas, Amelie (ME)
Sponsor(s): Warren Waggenspack, Hunter Gilbert
Team 48 - Composite Wheels for Formula SAE Application
Team Members: Ali, Ali Fouad (ME), Aponte, Juan (ME), Brasseaux, Tyler (ME), Fouaad,
Elhussain (ME), Gonzales, Matthew (ME), Huber, Kyle (ME)
Sponsor(s): Tyler Brasseaux, Juan Aponte - TigerRacing, Brian Blades - ExxonMobil,
Altair
Team 49 - FYB: Building Capacity in Shipping Containers
Team Members: Keller, William (ME), LeJeune, Alexander (ME), Williams, Luke (ME)
Sponsor(s): Dustin LaFont - Front Yard Bikes
Team 13 - 3D-Printed Micro-Reactor With Reaction Temperature Control
Team Members: Chuang, Christopher (ME), Fullilove, Nicholas (ME), Horton, Jacob (ME),
Vincent, Jacob (ME)
Sponsor(s): Jim Melancon - Chevron
Team 4 - Suppressor Project-Ver 3
Team Members: Dantin, Reese (ME), DiSalvo, Daniel (ME), Gardner, Caroline (ME), Hunter,
Keith (ME)
Sponsor(s): John "Brad" Gilpin, Cleve Fair - Hush Puppy Project
Team 51 - Metal Additive Manufacturing - Optimized Design Architecture
Team Members: Ashmead, Jessica (ME), Hayes, Elliott (ME), Odenwald, Grant (ME), Satterlee,
Stephen (ME)
Sponsor(s): Andrew R Mallow - National Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Team 2 - Fabrication of personalized wound dressings with Allevi3 3D bio-printer
Team Members: Binard, Tyler (ME), Edwards, Chace (ME), Jones, Sarah (ChE)
Sponsor(s): Korak Sarkar - Ochsner, Andrew Mallow - National Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Team 3 - Interactive Process with Augmented Reality
Team Members: Aucoin, Brandon (EE), Mason, Michael (EE), Owens, Martin (ME), Warne,
Rachel (ME)
Sponsor(s): Alex Carlile, Dimitris E. Nikitopoulos - LSU MIE Department
Team 9 - Smart Child Locks
Team Members: Caldera, Claudia (ME), Jourdan, Matthew (EE), Steepleton, Austin (EEC)
Sponsor(s): Matthew G Jourdan
Team 30 - Corrosion Detection Robot #1
Team Members: Breaux, Brierre (ME), Gates, Megan (ME), Nguyen, Peter (EE), Wertz,
Ashleigh (EE)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig
Team 16 - Proposal for Railroad Data Gathering and Analysis
Team Members: Miller, John (ME), Nguyen, Tri (EE), Schellhaas, Brad (EE)
Sponsor(s): Larry F. Lafleur
Team 40 - Corrosion Detection Robot #2
Team Members: Billah, Muhammad (ME), Colegrove, Tyler (EE), Nguyen, Joshua (ME), Sevilla-Vanegas,
Alejandro (EE)
Sponsor(s): Jack Rettig
Inquiries: Dr. Dimitris E. Nikitopoulos