Capstone Design Projects

Class of 2025 Environmental Engineering seniors working on their capstone project.

During their last year, seniors conduct two-semester capstone design projects within ENGR 381/382/383 and ENGR 391/392/393.  Each project is industry-sponsored.  Through the Combined Capstone Lab, student teams have dedicated space for their projects and videoconferencing capability.  Each week, the student teams videoconference with their industry Sponsor.

Our 2025-2026 sponsors are:

• AbbVie (2 projects)
• Baxter Healthcare Corporation
• Brookfield Zoo Chicago
• Fox River Water Reclamation District
• School of Environmental Sustainability, LUC
• SpaceBot
• University of Illinois Chicago - Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine

Our 2024-2025 sponsors were:

• AbbVie
  • Smart Subcutaneous Infusion Set
• Baxter Healthcare Corporation
  • TraceLink Administration Sets
• Brookfield Zoo Chicago
  • Automated Groundwater Polishing & Reuse System
• Coapt
  • Audio-Based Prompt Recognition for Prosthetic Systems Control & Integration
• School of Environmental Sustainability, LUC
  • HydroSERV: The Sensor Equipped Remote-Control Vehicle
• School of Environmental Sustainability, LUC
  • Solar Oasis
• SpaceBot
  • Artificially Intelligent Smart Nose Using the Bosch BME 688 Sensor

Our 2023-2024 sponsors and projects were:

• Baxter Healthcare Corporation
  • Infusion Pump Mobile Application
• SmartBot/Bosch
  • The Creation of A Smart Nose Using the Bosch BME688 Sensor
• Brookfield Zoo Chicago
  • Conservation Leadership Center Rainwater Capture and Reuse
• Morton Arboretum
  • Forest Phenology Monitoring: A Robust, Cost-effective and Sustainable PhenoCam Solution

Our 2022-2023 sponsors and projects were:

• AbbVie
  • Viscous Liquid Pump Mechanism (Biomedical Engineering)
• Baxter Healthcare Corporation
  • Peritoneal Dialysis Transfer Set-Redesign (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Remote Monitoring of a Medical Device (Biomedical Engineering)
• Bosch/SmartBot
  • Smart Glass Demonstration (Computer Engineering)
• Chicago Zoological Society (which operates the Brookfield Zoo)
  • Great Bear Wilderness - Nutrient Removal (Environmental Engineering)
• Coapt
  •  Self-Sufficient Dynamic Prosthesis Tracker Development (Computer Engineering)
• HNTB
  • Residential Drainage Improvement Project (Environmental Engineering)
• Morton Arboretum
  • Monitoring Emerald Ash Borers (Computer/Environmental Engineering)

Our 2021-2022 sponsors and projects were:

• AbbVie
  • Software Verification Tool for Infusion Pumps (Biomedical Engineering)
• Baxter Healthcare Corporation
  • Wireless Remote Display for Safety Critical Therapy (Biomedical Engineering)
• Chicago Zoological Society (which operates the Brookfield Zoo)
  • Roosevelt Fountain Wind-Driven VFD Pump Control (Computer/Environmental Engineering)
  • Our 2020-2021 sponsors and projects were:
• Baxter Healthcare Corporation
  • BaxHUD Hood Workflow System (Biomedical Engineering)
• Chicago Zoological Society
  • Swan Lake Remediation and Resource Recovery (Environmental Engineering)
• The Morton Arboretum
  • The Umbrella Sense Environmental Sensor Package: Tree Canopy Air Quality (Environmental Engineering)
• Plant Chicago
  • Implementation of a Small-Scale Anaerobic Digester (Environmental Engineering)
• SonoVol, Inc
  • Automated Kidney Segmentation of Murine-Based Volumetric Ultrasound with a U-Net Base Neural Network (Computer Engineering)
• Uronext, LLC
  • Magnetic Induction Wand for Novel Penile Prosthesis (Biomedical Engineering)

Our 2019-2020 sponsors and projects were:

• AbbVie
  • Pump Automator System (Biomedical Engineering)
• Baxter Healthcare Corporation
  • Device Awareness and Identification System (Biomedical Engineering)
• Chicago Zoological Society (which operates the Brookfield Zoo)
  • Pangolin Habitat Environment Remote Monitoring System (Computer Engineering)
  • Denitrifying Attached Growth Bioreactor (Environmental Engineering)
• One Energy
  • Modeling Wind Flow Around Single Obstructions to Aid in Wind Turbine Placement (Environmental Engineering)
• Uncommon Ground
  • Green Residence Design (Environmental Engineering)

Our 2018-2019 sponsors and projects were:

• Chicago Zoological Society
  • Seven Seas Dolphin Water Treatment Plant (Environmental Engineering)
• TCGRx
  • Pill Sorter (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Image Processing Algorithms for Automating Pharmacy Procedures (Computer Engineering)