College of Innovation and Solutions

For more information or to sponsor a Senior Project (follow the link to obtain a project proposal form), contact Dr. Joe Moening via email or at 906-635-2135.

Senior Projects…more than just theory

All engineering students are required to participate in a senior project sequence. Whether you choose to participate in a team on an industrial or research project, or as an individual at a cooperative work site, you will grow both professionally and personally as you work with professionals in the field.

During a typical senior project, you’ll develop your technical and communication skills, manage budgets, and work with practicing engineers. The senior project experience is designed to give you the tools you need to be prepared for “real life” and allow you to be successful in your career. Choose from one three senior year experiences: Industrial, Research or Cooperative Education.

• INDUSTRIAL: These projects can be external or internal in nature. Student teams have a faculty advisor and an industrial customer representative.They are faced with a host of engineering problem-solving, analysis, development, modeling, design review, programming, and fabrication issues. Additionally, participants deal with aspects of being a team of diverse individuals from varying areas of engineering including communication, purchasing and budgets, documentation, time management, and interpersonal skills. Upon completion of the year, the teams present their work to their industrial customers for final approval.
  RESEARCH: The research sequence is frequently chosen by those students who wish to pursue post-graduate degrees. Teams work sided-by-side with a professor on a guided research project. Some projects may come from an industrial background .
• Participants prepare research proposals and grants, as well as publishing the team’s findings in a format suited for professional conferences and presentations. Some industrial projects have a research component to determine feasibility. Once a study has been completed, the following year another team will take on the project and develop a functional prototype for the customer.
• COOPERATIVE: Participants in this style of senior experience are those who have previously spent at least a semester in a cooperative education environment. Typically, students work on-site during the spring or summer with a selected company on a personally-proposed and developed project. The following fall, co-op students join a first-semester industrial senior project team to gain team-related skills and experience.

Success… going to grad school or jumping into a career

We have had a 100% success rate of students entering the workforce or being accepted to graduate school . Various companies visit our campus specifically looking for LSSU graduates. You’ll find out alumni at companies including Kawasaki, ABB, Boeing, JR Automation, Essar Algoma Steel, Continental Automotive, Ford, Chrysler, Tenaris Tubes, Pacific Union, John Deere, and Applied Manufacturing Technologies.

LSSU graduates have received their post-graduate degrees from universities such as Purdue, Notre Dame, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University, Old Dominion, University of Texas at Arlington, and Florida Atlantic Universtiy.

Senior Project teams by Year

Students are placed into groups with diverse backgrounds to be able to problem solve and develop the final product or conclusion. See the accordian below for senior projects from this and previous years.

Sponsoring a Senior Project

There are many benefits of sponsoring a Senior Project at LSSU. These include:

• Working closely with potential future employees
• Supporting and helping guide engineering education at LSSU
• Obtaining different perspectives on projects from students and their faculty advisors
• Gaining increased visibility for your company

To sponsor a project, complete the 2022-23 Project Application Form and then email it to Dr. Joe Moening. There is also a Project Intent Form if you are unsure if you project is a good fit. You can submit the form and we can discuss it in more detail and provide feedback. If you have any questions about the form or Senior Projects in general, he can be contacted via email or via phone at 906-635-2135.

3D Printer — Team IPS 2021-22

KUKA Robotics 3D Vision Workcell — Team KOS 2021-22

Autonomous Mobile Robots — Team CAMRI 2021-22

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