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Nut Butter Mixing
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Nut Butter Mixing

Nut Butter Mixing
A senior Penn State Altoona Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology project presentation by students Matthew Geiner, McCaffrey Musachia, and Leah Myers.

The project will mix the peanut butter that the Organic Snack Company receives in the original bucket to allow quicker and complete mixing.

This project is sponsored by Organic Snack Company.

Packing Machine Conveyor Guarding System
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Packing Machine Conveyor Guarding System

Packing Machine Conveyor Guarding System
A senior Penn State Altoona Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology project presentation by student Elizabeth Brunelli.

The design and implementation of an electromechanical conveyor safety guarding system and working with engineers on associated parallel projects in order to standardize the plant and maximize safety.

This project is sponsored by North American Hoganas.

Surveillance Balloon Package
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Surveillance Balloon Package

Surveillance Balloon Package
A senior Penn State Altoona Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology project presentation by students Alexander Cairns, Lucas Fox, and Liam Steward.

The goal of this project is to use commercial-off-the-shelf materials to design and construct a surveillance package that completes various tasks. The package must autonomously drop ribbons at specific altitudes above ground level, record temperature, and pressure readings, record images at a specific rate, and transmit all of the recorded data to a ground station.

Continuously Rotating Detonation Engine
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Continuously Rotating Detonation Engine

Continuously Rotating Detonation Engine
A senior Penn State Altoona Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology project presentation by students Joshua Hollingshead and Makayla Ianuzzi.

The purpose of this project is to build a rocket engine that generates thrust through the continuous detonation of gaseous propellants. The engine will serve as a test article at the Advanced Combustion & Energetics Laboratory at Penn State Altoona.