Members of the team that received the 2019 Outstanding Senior Design Team Award pose with their mentors. Pictured, from left to right, are Kalie Knecht, Molly Underwood, Professor Ivan Maldonado, Andrew Naylor, and Andrew Godfrey (ORNL).
Seniors in the Nuclear Engineering department recently completed their capstone Senior Design class (NE471/472), which involves tackling real-world scenarios and advanced problem-solving skills to solve a problem for a client. The ten teams participated in the Senior Design Showcase on April 25, which included 130 projects from all eight engineering departments at UT.
Following the showcase, the teams participated in a poster presentation to the NE Board of Advisors, and the following six teams received awards based on criteria including innovation, quality of the executive summary, quality of the poster, knowledge of the presenters, and professionalism of the presenters.
» 2019 Outstanding Senior Design Team Award
High-Fidelity Small Modular Reactor Core Design in VERA
Client: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Team: Madeleine Burrell, Logan Clowers, Michael Hines, Kalie Knecht, Andrew Naylor, Molly Underwood
Mentors: Ivan Maldonado (UT) and Andrew Godfrey (ORNL)
Professor Ivan Maldonado, Madeleine Burrell (front), Michael Hines (center), and Logan Clowers (right) pose with their Outstanding Senior Design Team Award.
» 2019 Best Innovation Senior Design Team Award
Tertiary Safety System for Nuclear Spent Fuel Pools
Client: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Team: Taylor Adams, Eissa Altalahlah, Amanda Bachmann, Jonathan Farmer, Trina Garrett, Jillian Newmyer, Drew Shayotovich
Mentor: Martin Grossbeck
» 2019 Best Summary Senior Design Team Award
Fast Neutron Source Shutdown System
Client: UT Department of Nuclear Engineering
Team: Matthew Herald, Robert Vradenburgh, Alex Solomon
Mentor: Richard Wood
» 2019 Best Professional Presentation Senior Design Team Award
Radiation Field Mapping
Client: Southern Company
Team: Bryn Davies, Jeffrey Walsh, Loraine Illia, Louise Langevin, Connor Myers, William Lynch
Mentor: Matthew Cook
» 2019 Best Poster Senior Design Team Award
Rapid Autonomous Pneumatic Transport System
Client: EPRI
Team (NE): Emily Hutchins, Xena McDonald, John Taylor
Team (MABE): Elijah Davis, Jacob Melton, Bobby Bohn
Mentors: Wes Hines (NE) and Larry Sharpe (MABE)
» 2019 Best Knowledge Senior Design Team Award
Axial Flux Mapping of a Sub-Critical Facility
Client: EPRI
Team (NE): John Terosky
Team (MABE): Garrett Montgomery
Mentors: Larry Miller (NE) and Larry Sharpe (MABE)