Media advisory: You might be able to see the next great invention at the 2024 CSU E-Days Showcase

Media interested in attending or speaking to some of the students involved with E-Days can contact Allison Sylte at allison.sylte@colostate.edu. 

What: The E-Days Senior Design Showcase features projects from Colorado State University engineers across all disciplines. The event is free and open to the entire community. 

When: Friday, April 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

Where: The Lory Student Center Plaza and ballrooms. 

Who: This event, which is attended by industry leaders, prospective students and the community at large, features a wide spectrum of innovative projects. Here are some examples: 

  • Sustainable Cookstoves: Environmental and mechanical engineering majors have designed a cookstove to run on multiple alternative fuels to reduce reliance on biomass fuels, like wood and coal, which generate high carbon emissions and contribute to poor air quality.
  • Open Source Insulin: With insulin prices skyrocketing and out of reach of many diabetics, an emergency can be life-threatening. Students across majors, sponsored by our capital venture program, hope to change that. The team is developing reliable emergency products that are shelf and temperature-stable to treat hyperglycemia in diabetic patients when they need it most.
  • Step Up Prosthetics: Prosthetics are typically made for adults, but smaller, kid-sized prosthetics can be difficult to come by and expensive, especially in low-income countries and communities. Mechanical and biomedical engineering students are developing an in-house manufacturing system that will enable communities around the world to custom-build prosthetic feet for children and adolescents. The team is working with Colorado clinics and CSU biomedical and mechanical engineering student Garrison Hayes, who uses a prosthetic leg, to test prototypes.
  • Snowflake Sensing System: An electrical and computer engineering senior design team will be the first to confirm that no two snowflakes are alike. They have created a sensing device that leverages the power of machine learning to study snow, the least understood aspect of the global water cycle. Their system captures crisp images of snowflakes to advance understanding of winter storms.
  • Poudre Canyon Deluge Defenders: The devastating Cameron Peak wildfire in 2020 was followed by extreme flooding, causing fatalities and damage. Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Poudre Canyon Deluge Defenders are working to save lives by enhancing the emergency response capabilities in Larimer County. They are developing models to measure the level of river flow and flooding the existing infrastructure can withstand.
  • Carbon Capture: Removing carbon from the atmosphere is a major global concern to help fight climate change. Sponsored by our capital venture program, the Carbon Capture team is developing a device that can capture carbon directly from the air. The device could lead to storing carbon sustainably or even converting it into valuable byproducts.

For more information about E-Days and to see a full list of projects, visit: https://col.st/RSADw.