26 undergraduate students from School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and 12 undergraduate students from the College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (PSU) displayed 12 capstone design projects at the SJTU-PSU Global Capstone Project Showcase from 1 to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 2, at Gao Tian Hall of School of Mechanical Engineering, SJTU. The showcase was attended by instructors both from SJTU and PSU and delegations from multi-nationals, for instance, Tyco, Home Depot, Dresser-Rand, Air Product, Shell, SpeeCo, Timken, etc.

Global Capstone Project showcase features a semester-long effort taken by students both from home universities and universities broad, to form a global student team, to solve problems provided by industry and to mimic operations of multi-national global engineering teams. 

At 8:30am, SJTU Vice President Zhen Huang met with Robert Zhu, President of Tyco Asia; Paul J. Piccolomini, Vice President of Global Tyco Engineering & Global Integration; Martin Trethewey, Professor-in-Charge of MNE Undergraduate Programs, Arthur Glenn Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Michael C. Immel, Director of Corporate Relations and Facilities, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. President Huang first expressed his gratitude to Tyco, who has long been providing scholarship for students, creating intern opportunities to students as well as sponsoring global capstone projects. At the meantime, he stressed the importance of industry and university relationship in today’s universities. He praised the global capstone project as a project that merges students’ textbook knowledge into real-world experience and trains students’ communication capability in cross-cultural workplace.

The 12 projects are: “Automatic Plant Watering System” sponsored by Home Depot with students Luo Zhitong, Lou Zuozheng taught by Huisheng Zhang and Martin Trethewey; “HVAC Filter sensor” sponsored by Home Depot with students Hu Kailun, Xiong Sihan taught by Huisheng Zhang and Martin Trethewey; “EZCare VITALTouch Phone module Redesign” sponsored by Tyco Fire Protection with students He Ran, Kevin Sweer,Lauren Kay Childs, Kathryn Anne Robertson,Xu Rui taught by Na Geng, Li Chen and Martin Trethewey; “Non marking shoe tag” sponsored by Tyco Retail Solutions with students Xie Haoran, Wang Xiaoqin, Morgan Maureen Oster taught by Na Geng, Li Chen and Martin Trethewey; “Portable XR Bearing Assembly Measurement System” sponsored by Timken with students Fang Fang, Lu Chenyu taught by Hua Shao and Martin Trethewey; “Optimal offshore Baseplate Topology” sponsored by Dresser-Rand with students Fang Zhengchao, Shen Lunhuan taught by Xueguan Gao and Martin Trethewey; “Low-Finned Tube Heat Exchanger Study” sponsored by Air Products with students Li Xiaoying, Chen Dongyang taught by Tong Wang and Chris RAHN; “Shell Ecomarathon Urban Concept Aerodynamic and Aesthetic Body Design” sponsored by Shell with students Chen Guang, Sun Nan taught by Tong Wang and Chris RAHN; “Designing Packaging Platforms to Reduce Medication Errors” sponsored by Penn State BRITE Lab with students Zhang Yihua, Scott Wesley Cicero, Angela Nichole Buck, Nora Johanne Nies, Guo Yan taught by Lu Chen, Na Geng and Michael IMMEL; “Implement Jack Assembly Line improvement” sponsored by SpeeCo with students Gao Zhe, Wu Rong, Sarela Herrada De La Flor taught by Lu Chen and Michael IMMEL; “Custom components - batch to cellular manufacturing” sponsored by SpeeCo with students Chu Yueshan, Ding Yu taught by Lu Chen and Michael IMMEL; “Experimental testing of Rubber Materials for Gasket FEA” sponsored by Tyco with students Song Yuanping ,Hao Bohan, Li Yang, Wang Qianru taught by Xueguan Gao.