APD Project Reports

These reports were produced by students attending the course Analytical Product Design, as part of their coursework. They are made available here for the inspiration of other students. However, they represent copyrighted material and this source must be provided if they are used in other project work. A proper citation would be: Authors' names, Project title, Project number, Analytical Product Design Course (Instructor: P.Y. Papalambros), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, copyright.

2007

APD-2007-01 The Active Mat Aysu Berk, Rohit Bhapkar, Rahul Daswani, and Abhijit Khare [slideshow]
APD-2007-02 Rain Train Joe DiDia, Laura Emig, Kris Schilling, and Michael Wellman
APD-2007-03 Sustainable Modular Furniture Vazir Fatehi, Chooyon Rosa Han, Kwang Min Kim, Casey Stiehl, and Vincent Tong
APD-2007-04 Modular Outlet Extender(M.O.E) Scott Biales, Matt Case, Brian Kaminski, and David Schwarz [slideshow]
APD-2007-05 Redesign of Drinking Water Fountain Mobeen Shaukat, Rafael Ramos, Adrien Yee, and Yi Ren
APD-2007-06 BumbleBee, the Cell Phone Designed for Senior Citizens Gregory Bastin, Tasos Charalambides, Kathleen Ku, and Paul Winter
APD-2007-07 Suvidha Micro-Packaging Station Nikhil Chopra, Aman Khan, and Karan Goyal [slideshow]
APD-2007-08 Mshoe: Harnessing the Power of You Paul Davidson, Steven Hoffenson, Rahul Nevatia, and Vikramjit Scoggins [slideshow]

2006

APD-2006-01 M-WIND: a wind power generator Trevor Campbell, Nolan Sandberg, Nick Schoeps and Chris Worrel [slideshow]
APD-2006-02 The Eco-Core Snowboard Tom Santoro, Chris Grant, and Curtis Franklin [slideshow]
APD-2006-03 Home Slice Solutions: Lift Assist Amanda Heath, Mike Long, Molly O'Malley and Danius Silkaitis [slideshow]
APD-2006-04 The T-Bins:Tri-Bin Trash Trolley Sue Dean, Aki Motoyama, Kevin Ng and Marie Wolbert [slideshow]
APD-2006-05 Bike Security Systems Smee Anwar, Diane Peters and Esra Suel [slideshow]
APD-2006-06 cycle2STEP Pramod Prahbu, Thomas Reeve, Eric Schlichting and Rebecca Stoloff [slideshow]
APD-2006-07 Dynamically-Self-Inflating Tire System Michael Alexander, Anthony Brieschke, Jonathan Quijano, and Lau Yip [slideshow]
APD-2006-08 Expak: Design for modularized portable chair-backpack combination Kranthi Ganapuram, Ram Vijayagopal and Zhengfei Zhang [slideshow]
APD-2006-09 Eco-ASIST: Interactive Vehicle Display Design Anupam Garge, Matt Niedzwiecki, Harshit Sarin and Tahira Reid [slideshow]
APD-2006-10 The FantastiCart: Collapsible Grocery Cart Kyle Klanow, Marisa Liepa, Erling Norheim and Jeffrey Waegelin [slideshow]

2005

APD-2005-01 Kangaroo Karriage: baby stroller Shawn Erving, Michael Prichard, Paul Tyll and Melaina Vasko
APD-2005-02 The Monduke: an ergonomic, one-handed computer input device Michael Bauerly, Joshua Danker, Jarod Kelly and Nelson Woo
APD-2005-03 The Notebook Companion: mobile computer transportation and workstation Anitha Rajeshwari, Rajeshwar Pandravada and Prasad Venkiteswaran
APD-2005-04 Wind powered lifting device Amy Kopin, Vineet Maheshwar, Kyle Marsh and Diana Moldovan
APD-2005-05 Portable Pop-up Living Module Aaron Black, Sheila Ramamurthy, Ariel Sundel and Robert Walsh
APD-2005-06 Lift Assist: standing up made easy for the elderly Jaw Movement; Subin George, Haydon Hung, Amit Kaushik and Rohit Khattar
APD-2005-07 The Bent Voyage: a collapsible recumbent bicycle Daniel Lutz, Timo MacGuidwin and Erin Smith
APD-2005-08 Translucence: pure water on demand for families in Thailand Tanna Alford, Yu-Chun Lin, Nattavut Napaporn and Sarun Virojanakuth
APD-2005-09 MUSt: Multi Utility Storage System Varun Gudiseva, Julien Meaud, Mohan Pathalapati and Aditya Rajderkar
APD-2005-10 The Pirate's Pyramid: a multimedia classroom unit to promote healthy eating and exercise for children Jing Guo, Stephanie Huang and Marc Zawislak

2004

APD-2004-01 Solar Hydrogen Production Amanda Christiana, Thomas Horan and Katie Kerfoot
APD-2004-02 Hydrogen Storage and Distribution Amanda Gore, Jeongwoo Han and Tom Lau
APD-2004-03 Smart Web Energy Control System (SWECS) Actuators Aakash Patel, Sharath Kumar and Young Chul Song
APD-2004-04 PromoShelf: Revolutionizing the Shopping Experience Rahul Bagdia, James Forehand, Kyle Harris, Melissa Hennrick and Weichengto Tirtakusumo
APD-2004-05 Driver's Dream Cup Holder Nick Magnuski, Sophia Reyes, Steve Strine, and Marcy Urbance
APD-2004-06 eSTEP: eSpecially Tailored Elevated PLatform Ross Gladwin, Jen Krohn and Nicole Sajewski
APD-2004-07 Re-design of manual seat adjustment mechanisms for low-end vehicles Bhumika Lathia and Freda Yawson
APD-2004-08 Handle System to Aid the Ingress/Egress of Elderly Passengers from Sport Utility Vehicles Darcy Borlas, Eric Stahmer, Evan Fulford and Jesse Moore
APD-2004-09 "Awarator" Water Temperature Indicator for kitchen faucets Cristina Bozintan, Bart Frischknecht, Yung Keong (James) Teo and Tosin Yusuf
APD-2004-10 Ambient Energy Monitor Josh Ravich and Erin MacDonald
APD-2004-11 Design of Craftsman Tool Hans Henrik Buus, Lars Wulff Rude and Arni Pall Einarsson

2003

APD-2003-01 The Traveler's Toothbrush Adebisi Adewunmi, Deanna McGrath and Adam Ouimet
APD-2003-02 Design of a Roller Coaster's Initial Dropoff & Trough Lisa Chutorash, David Nay and Kirsten Thomas
APD-2003-03 Design of a Parking Elevator Takeshi Mizukami and Kotaro Higashihara
APD-2003-04 RBS: Regenerative Braking System for Bicycles Michael Resciniti, Adi Peshkess and Peter Leonard
APD-2003-05 Design of a Helmet Chia-Yuan Chang, Chih-Hsiang Ho and San-Yi Chang
APD-2003-06 Human Patient Simulator Jaw Movement, Panit Arkayamas and Matt Zimmer
APD-2003-07 Design of a Multimedia Storage Rack Zhijun Li
APD-2003-08 Design of a Heart Rate Monitor Seda Demiroz and Sarah Buckius
APD-2003-09 Design of an Engine Hoist Lara Sherefkin and Alice Jakobsen
APD-2003-10 Design of a Wall Clock with an Adhesive Hanger Ilkin Hossoy and Kristi Schmidt
APD-2003-11 Optimal Design of a Beverage Bottle Jermaine Bridges, Erica Schmidt and Anupa Shah
APD-2003-12 Design of a Safe Portable Baby Crib Greg Braziunas, Rob Demsick and Grant Weber
APD-2003-13 Can Opener Optimization Robert Bartz, Alex Hsu and Bendy Lin
APD-2003-14 Design of a Hub-less Caster Doug Constantine, Dongkyun Lee and José Rico
APD-2003-15 Analytical Product Development of a Bench Press Passive Spotter Device Darren Keese, Chad Goldstein and Brian Rhodes