Engineering seniors and graduate students presented their capstone projects to industry representatives and the Loyola Marymount University community at the Engineering Capstone Design Showcase held on Thursday, April 27. These group projects ranged from developing wireless networks for drone communication; to designing an aircraft with unique aerodynamic dimensions. Seniors and graduates channeled the lessons they learned over the course of their education into the projects they developed from concept through to manufacturing.
“Desk Seat Modification” by Ahmed Alarfaj, Carlos Mora, Geena Akahoshi, Sara Gibson, and Vaughn Hartling 
“Design and Analysis of a Custom 3D Printed Hearing Aid” by Abdullah Alrashdan and Stephen Board 
“Biosensor” by Christopher Bouey, Justine Dominguez, Gary Hubl, and Pia Sumineg 
“Wireless Networks for Drone to Drone Communication” by Dhruvil Darji 
“The Effect of Tempering Treatment on the Fatigue Life of Aluminum Lithium Wheels” by Keren Shen, F. Alzubi, M. Navarro and Mark Timko 
“Smart Home Speaker System” by Jacob Baba and Oscar Valenzuela 
“San Dieguito Creek Bridge” by Ben Cane, Ryan Russell, and Carlo Vasquez 
“Water Management Adaptation Strategies to Prevent Loss of California Fisheries Under Climate Change” by Alexandra Yaney-Keller 
“Streamlining Workflow Processes From In-Patient Hospital Admission to Discharge at Kaiser Permanente Anaheim Medical Center” by Kevin Wyllie 
“Huntington Beach Sea Water Desalination” by Jacob Hallum, Cleve Gurney, and Gabriella Selarnat 
“Autonomous Metal Detecting Rover” by Sean Fukunaga and Steve Ceniceros 
“Palmdale’s United States Air Force Fire Station” by Nouf Abdulghni, Bader Algunaim, and Zander Stilger 
“Establishing Long-Term Trends For Fecal Indicator Bacteria Along the Shoreline of Santa Monica Bay, California” by Chris Ergart 
“Array-Based Acoustic Energy Harvesting” by Ray Colquhoun, Adrian Rodriguez, Joshua Bernardin, and Melissa Dougherty 
“Kaiser Permanente Anaheim ED Improving Patient Flow Using System Engineering and Lean Thinking” by Lauren Sarni 
“3-Story Professional Office Building” by Anastasia Koveshnikova, Valerie Lawrencia, and Keila Lopez 
“NASA Student Launch Initiative” by Gustavo Castillo, Evan Ng, Randolph Abaya, Ciara Campbell, Joseph Careon, Brandon Dishno, Jad Ghawi, Jack Kramer, Kenneth Ravelo, and Nicholas Odegard 
“Low Cost, DIY, Autonomous Plant Growth System ‘BioBox'” by Noah Verke and Brandon Blau 
“USAF Plant 42 Fire Station Civil Engineering Design” by Cody Warrington, Josh Azar, and Itzel Estrada 
“Redesigning an Assistive Stander: The MOBI-S 2.0” by Taylor Cu, Caitlin Dorff, Max Merriman, and Andrew Shinol 
“SAE Aero Design West” by Jacob Buckhalter, Michael Buonarati, Paul Gagorik, Adrian Rodriguez, and Olivia Schimmels 
“Jackson Meadows Reservoir Site Upgrade Project” by Nathan Droivold, Chengyu Gao, and Cassie Nickles 
“Implementing A Webcam for Eye Tracking and Computer Cursor Control” by Andres Lazo and Sylvana Santos 
“Effect of Large Versus Small Grain Size on Fatigue Life of Aluminum 2016 Alloy” by Fahad Alzubi, L. Guevara, S. Kamal, W. Hohorst, and Mark Timko 
“Maglev Train” by Chris Bugarin and Scott McDonald 
“Design of Anza Community Water Supply” by Omar Catchings, Zach Fisher, and Fernando Mendez 
“Climate Change Adaptation and Resiliency of the Los Angeles County Flood Control System” by Yuxiang He, Brianna R. Pagan and Lee Alexanderson. 
“Autonomous and Accurate Road Crack Detection and Classification” by Vignesh Mohanraj 
“Assessing the Distribution of Civic Environmental Stewardship and Its Relationship to the Demographics in Los Angeles County” by Krystle Golly and Brianne Gilbert 
“Moog Gearbox and Torque Test Rig Modification” by Trenton Mathison, Alessandro Perroti, Luis Mendez, Daniel Ordonia, and Michael Brady 
“Large Three Story Office Building” by Aida Lopez, JasMin Khoe, and Manfred Kissling 
“Model Inputs for a Numerical Diffusion Model to Determine Fractional Equilibrium in Polyethylene Passive Samplers” by Nicole E. Aver, Abigail S. Joyce, Leslie E. Griffin, Oliver R. Slosser, Nadya Charista and Steve Margulis 
“The Effect of Component Orientation on Fracture Toughness of Ti-6Al-4V” by A. Gutierrez, Michael Hahn, Jacob Buckhalter, William H. Hohorst, Michael Allen, Zachary Bates, and Harrison Leece 
“Evaluation of 4330M Steel for Fastener Applications” by A. Al Sumait, X. Sun, F. Aldhabib, F. Alzubi, E. Ashe, K. Shen, D. Lu, A. Cheng, K. Tovalin, R. M. Del Campo, B. Ramsey and L. Zeng 
“Design of Two Story Fire Station Located at Edwards AFB” by Hunter Karr, Gabriel Shimizu, and Will Evans 
“Northrop Grumman Collapsible Mini UAV” by Emily Cuzner, Danielle Leong, Erik Owenson, Donner Schoeffler, and Barboros Turkay 
“Drone Autonomous Basketball” by Ethan Fujioka and Huayang Zhang
