UTDesign Team Earns 2022 ASME Award for Recycling Device

A UTDesign Senior Capstone Program team from The University of Texas at Dallas placed second at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) national Student Manufacturing Design Competition for its small-scale device to recycle 3D-printed material.

The honor marked the eighth consecutive year that a UTDesign team has won an award at the ASME competition. Team member Micah Eckstein BS’22 presented the project at the event in June at Purdue University. The students designed the device for sponsor UT Southwestern Medical Center.

“The UTDesign process was a great learning opportunity,” Eckstein said. “It gave us a good chance to apply all the theoretical things we had learned in our courses and gave us a glimpse of what real-world engineering looks like. The project was an internship in its own right, while the class provided us with many job skills that I feel will be very useful throughout my career.”

The team of mechanical engineering students also included Jeremy Bennett BS’22, Aaron Foreman BS’22, Kavish Srivastav BS’22 and Nathaniel Fritsch BS’22.

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