School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Sustainable Product Lifecycle Design Lab

Sample Course Projects

ME 574: Kinect CSG CAD
Basic CAD operations through Microsoft Kinect. Hand gestures are used to (a) create simple sketches, (b) extrude sketches and (c) translate/rotate primitives. The primitive data is automatically fed to OpenSCAD to create the resultant 3D shape.

Sample screen shots


Kinect+C++SkeletonDemo+OpenSCAD
Kinect as parameter input and menu selection

Kinect+C#+SharpGL+OpenSCAD
Kinect used to obtain primitive parameters

ME 502: Sustainable designs
All the design (a) follow the structured design process, (b) conduct life-cycle/sustainability assessment of the completed designs and (c) are created for our community partners in the Washington State.

Drip irrigation and harvesting mechanism for potatoes

Wind resistant high tunnel hoop design for crop production


  • Portable kitchen for farmers
  • Storm water/Green roof system
  • Underwater cleanup ROV Project

ME 316: Baja Car Suspension Test System - Spring 2012

ME 316: Device to clean water bodies - Fall 2011

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