Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Senior Design Projects
The two-semester Engineering Management and Systems Engineering capstone provides graduating students with experience working with clients and completing a real-world project with industry partners. Students work in teams to analyze their problem and apply systems engineering methods and models across diverse domains, including energy, healthcare, and telecommunications. Past students have tackled everything from traffic reduction during weather emergencies to increasing vaccine availability with data-driven railway maps.
Green Tech Revolution
This project aims to optimize Dell’s material selection process by balancing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, cost, weight, and recyclability to support their 50% recycled content goal. It integrates GHG emissions modeling, cost analysis, and weight assessments into a System Modeling (SysML) framework to evaluate trade-offs.
DC Health
The rising incidence of heat-related illness (HRI) in urban environments like Washington, D.C. underscores the need for effective public health strategies to mitigate these risks. DC Health tracks the number of HRI-related Emergency Medical Services (EMS) incidents to determine the ongoing need for such mitigation strategies, but identifying and classifying incidents can be complicated by human bias and other constraints. This project evaluates the performance of existing case definition methods, develops a new case definition leveraging large language models, and highlights any contrasting implications for resource allocation.