Engineering Tomorrows

May 1, 2023 | News, UToday, Alumni, Engineering
By Daniel Miller



Bradley Eberhardt shows his team’s lawnmower cleaner to Hussein Abounaaj, a part-time professor evaluating projects, as teammates Logan Bradford and Tom Franczyk watch. The UToledo seniors presented their final prototype alongside more than 45 other team projects during the College of Engineering’s Senior Design Expo Friday in Nitschke Hall.

Bradley Eberhardt shows his team’s lawnmower cleaner to Hussein Abounaaj, a part-time professor evaluating projects, as teammates Logan Bradford and Tom Franczyk watch during the 2023 Senior Design Expo.

The Senior Design Expo featured more than 160 College of Engineering students working with local businesses, industries and federal agencies to help solve technical and business challenges, with projects ranging from a voice-controlled robotic arm and a tabletop wind tunnel to a static stress analysis of an airplane wing.

From left, Rituraj Yeole, Audie Sutkaytis and Neil Narwekar explain how their continuously variable transmission for a bicycle works to UToledo alumna Emma Sampson.