Competing against the best of the best in Senior Design is no easy feat, but for three MEM teams, all earned top honors in the college-wide competition on Wednesday, June 4th, held in the Mitchell Auditorium of the Bossone Research Center.

Dr. Brad Layton’s team presented their project, “The Human Electric Hybrid Vehicle,” were awarded third place overall for their innovative creation of a human-electric hybrid vehicle that aims to mitigate environment degradation and subvert the oil crisis that millions of people are facing today. More information on the Dragon Wagon at http://dragonwagon.wikidot.com/

Two of the MEM teams received honorable mention:
“Micropatterned Assay Plate for High-Throughput Screening of Three Dimensional Epithelial Cell Cultures,” a combination MEM/Biomedical Engineering project, Peter Clark, Brendan Davis, Edward Keough, Andrew Mastrosante- advisor, Dr. Moses Noh.

“Artery Stress Analysis Chamber,” Lindsay Fenton, Aliza Johns, Sarah Smith, Malarie Vanyo- advisor, Dr. Franco Capaldi.

Eight teams total represented the brightest of the College of Engineering, with projects ranging from improvements to biodiesel, an artery stress analysis chamber, a human electric hybrid vehicle and composite solar lighting (the Drexel Smarthouse research endeavor).