M2.01 Automated Pneumatic Press
Sponsor: Center for High Performance Systems (CHiPS) Lab
Student Team: Owen Coyne, Adalberto Lozano
Project Advisor(s): Mr. Abhimanyu Sharotry
Faculty Instructor: Dr. Bahram Asiabanpour
The Lighthouse of West Texas supports manufacturing career opportunities for individuals with visual impairments. Its current pneumatic press system is manually operated by blind workers, creating concerns related to both productivity and operator safety. Our team was tasked with improving the efficiency of this process while reducing risk to the operator. Our proposed solution is to automate the press operation while retaining operators in an end-of-process quality assurance role.
M2.02 3-Axis Composite Filament Winder
Sponsor: Ingram School of Engineering (ISoE)
Student Team: Sandy Hernandes, Hunter Kelly, Everest Sweet
Project Advisor(s): Dr. Jitendra Tate
Faculty Instructor: Dr. Bahram Asiabanpour
A 3-Axis Composite Filament Winder (CFW) is an CNC machine which can fabricate axisymmetric parts using the controlled impregnation and deposition of continuous filaments called tow with resin.
MFGE Team 2 focuses on using already available parts from retired 3D printers to produce a cheap and reliable machine for use in education, research, and student organizations.
M2.03 VR & Digitization Experience
Sponsor: Ingram Hall Makerspace (IHM)
Student Team: Tyler Babin & Roberto Rios
Project Advisor(s): Mr. Abhimanyu Sharotry
Faculty Instructor: Dr. Bahram Asiabanpour
An augmented reality tutorial on the Haas VF 2YT CNC machine. This tutorial has narrated videos guiding the user through basic machine operation. The users can practice on the actual machine, on the practice control panel, or just by using an online picture of the control panel.
M2.04 Anylogic Simulation
Sponsor: Ingram Hall Makerspace (IHM)
Student Team: Noah Richardson, Junior Segura-Ontiveros
Project Advisor(s): Mr. Abhimanyu Sharotry
Faculty Instructor: Dr. Bahram Asiabanpour
The Ingram Hall Makerspace is a dynamic environment with unpredictable changes in student usage. Using Anylogic a hybrid discrete event and agent based modeling software we are simulating the unpredictable student usage. Using the simulation we are reporting the outputs to the Makerspace Administration to justify their choices in new budget and resource allocation.
M2.05 Digital Twin Foundations for the Ingram Makerspace
Sponsor: Ingram Hall Makerspace (IHM)
Student Team: Luke Frederick , Will West
Project Advisor(s): Mr. Abhimanyu Sharotry
Faculty Instructor: Dr. Bahram Asiabanpour
This project establishes a foundational digital twin system for the Ingram Hall Makerspace at Texas State University, where manual equipment currently lacks any real-time operational monitoring. Using an Arduino Opta PLC with acoustic and electrical sensors mounted on a drill press, the system tracks machine usage and automatically detects misuse such as overfeeding through a cross-sensor anomaly detection algorithm. Data is displayed on a live Shop Floor Viewer dashboard, and the low-cost, non-invasive design serves as a scalable framework for future expansion to additional makerspace machines.