The University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Engineering’s 2026 Senior Design Showcase, Nebraska’s premier undergraduate engineering student design event, is 1:30 to 4 p.m. April 24 in Kiewit Hall, 1700 Vine St. in Lincoln.
The event highlights new and innovative projects from 96 teams of graduating seniors from across the college. The projects reflect real-world professional challenges and collaborations or sponsorships with industry partners and other organizations to develop products and devices that could have immediate impact.
The showcase is free and open to the public.
The projects on display include:
- A muscle-based control system attached to both biceps that allow users to control the intended motion in a maze-style game and serve as a foundation for developing technology to control a wheelchair through muscle flexion.
- A program that uses virtual reality to allow middle and high school students to explore potential careers.
- A device that picks, orients and prepares onions for cutting during the manufacturing process for McCain Foods, one of the world’s largest producers of frozen onion rings, with a large-scale plant in Grand Island, Nebraska.
- A whiteboard-drawing robot for classrooms to allow instructors to include cleaner, more consistent diagrams in their classroom presentations.
- An autonomous lawn-watering robot system that defines the area to be watered, then calculates the path for the robot to most effectively water that defined space.
- A pair of devices designed for a NASA Micro-G NExT Challenge that allows astronauts easier access to tools and the ability to better secure the tools while working outside a vehicle.
- A collaboration with the University of Nebraska Medical Center to develop a minimally invasive method for early prediction of pressure injuries, such as bedsores, in patients or clients in hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
Team members will demonstrate and discuss their projects. Booths will be on multiple levels of Kiewit Hall.
The Senior Design Showcase website provides short descriptions of the projects and links to university parking and campus maps.
For more information, contact Karl Vogel at 402-472-0451 or kvogel2@unl.edu.
