- Title
Carton Forming and Loading Test Machine
- Description
- A portable, skid-mounted robotic carton cell that doubles as a product test machine and a trade show demo.
- Industry
- Packaging automation (internal)
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-613
- Year
- 2026
Manufacturing and Prototyping
JLS Automation
CHL Systems
- Title
Frozen Block Separator
- Description
- A hydraulic machine that replaced a jackhammer job nobody could keep staffed, and went on to become a standard CHL product.
- Industry
- Pet food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-505
- Year
- 2018
No photo
- Title
Mechanical Design Engineering at CHL Systems
- Description
- Twenty custom equipment projects across eight industries in three years, designed alongside the shop that built them.
- Industry
- Food, pharmaceutical, and agricultural processing
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-500
- Year
- 2018
- Title
Pharmaceutical Bottle Lifter
- Description
- A sanitary clamp and lift bar that let a machine lift heavy, awkward bottles of liquid so operators no longer had to.
- Industry
- Pharmaceutical
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-509
- Year
- 2018
No photo
- Title
Scale and Bagger Loader Platform
- Description
- An elevated, bolt-together platform for a multihead weigher, designed to fit through the building's doorway in pieces.
- Industry
- Snack food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-511
- Year
- 2019
Hart Mechanical
- Title
Arsenic Removal Filtration Skid
- Description
- A stainless skid and piping package that turned a customer's filter vessels, pumps, and valves into one transportable water treatment unit.
- Industry
- Water treatment
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-401
- Year
- 2017
- Title
Centrifuge Piping System
- Description
- A valve and instrument manifold on its own stand, piped into a customer's centrifuge.
- Industry
- Industrial processing
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-402
- Year
- 2017
- Title
Rooftop Refrigeration Skid Enclosure
- Description
- A rooftop equipment enclosure whose wind and snow analysis caught a racking collapse before it was ever built.
- Industry
- Industrial refrigeration
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-404
- Year
- 2017
BorgWarner
Penn State
- Title
3-D Printed Rocket
- Description
- A SolidWorks class final project that flew the highest in the class, and left time to help classmates with theirs.
- Industry
- Education
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-702
- Year
- 2016
- Title
Drill to Vacuum Conversion
- Description
- A class project that turned a power drill into a vacuum by designing the whole flow path, and picked up twice as much as the next team.
- Industry
- Consumer products
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-701
- Year
- 2015
- Title
UAV-Mounted Meteorological Data Acquisition
- Description
- A senior capstone replacing single-use weather balloon instruments with a recoverable sensor package on a quadcopter.
- Industry
- Atmospheric research
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-703
- Year
- 2016
Personal
- Title
Aquaponic Farm Filter and Solar Charger, Eswatini
- Description
- New solids-separating filters for a small aquaponic farm's systems, built from hardware store parts, plus a more efficient solar charging setup.
- Industry
- Small-scale agriculture
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-901
- Year
- 2017
No photo
- Title
Winch-Driven Lifting Boom
- Description
- Redesigning a working, one-off utility vehicle hoist into a drawing package that outside fabricators could quote.
- Industry
- Small-scale agriculture and grounds equipment
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-903
- Year
- 2025
