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Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Capstone
Silly Options
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Koi Pond
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Bridge Over Puddle
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Gondola Along Entire Path
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Lateral Rock Climbing Wall
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Zipline Across
Course Overview
Senior Design is meant for graduating seniors in their undergrad degree program to apply the skills and technical information we have learned during our time in the program. Each group is given a real life sponsor and engineering problem which then teams work together to make creative solutions. For my contributions to this project - I developed the AutoCAD 2D and Revit 3D models as well as the creation and formatting of the final presentation at the end of this page. The end of semester presentation went very smoothly, and the group proved successful in adapting to the circumstances faced this semester.
Problem at Hand
My group chose and was assigned to work with Indiana's White River State Park to solve the drainage issue on the Promenade. A very large puddle towards the end of the path takes several days to evaporate after normal rainfalls. The path is heavily traveled by pedestrian and mobile traffic alike. The Promenade path is sandwiched between the levee along White River, and large limestone rocks along the Indianapolis Zoo. Our deliverable was to create design-level drawings that could eventually be put to bid for construction. Since the park is public, the bid for this potential project is open to everyone.
Semester Project Progress
The barrier restrictions were not only physical, as we were asked to neither drill through the limestone or the levee, we also had varying bureaucracy hoops to jump through as we tried to figure out who could okay our designs - in terms of government ownership. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, our group's progress came to a halt as government offices were expending resources on this crisis, and we no longer had the ability to perform one last percolation test to see if our leading design was even a possibility.
Through our original design concept generation, the group came up with some pretty solid designs, and lots of silly ones.
Ultimately, with the aforementioned setbacks and time restraints - our efforts were dedicating to fleshing out the dry well design and recommending a possible future group or firm look into the percolation test of the area. Prior to the inability to go on site, the team was able to get an accurate survey of the area for elevations. We used this data to calculate spacing between channel drains, the size of channel drain and dry well, number of dry wells, and for reference when modeling our design.
Models
Elevation Data Mapped From On-Site Survey
Early AutoCAD Design
Final Deliverable
Poster Overview
Final Presentation
Solid Options
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Dry-Wells
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Collection/Storage Tank for Irrigation
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Tie into Zoo Storm Drain
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Raise path and Crown outwards
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Sump Pump over Levee
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