CASMART 5th Design Challenge

THE 5th DESIGN CHALLENGE WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SHAPE MEMORY AND SUPERELASTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SMST)
May 16 – 20, 2022 (The Westin Carlsbad Hotel, San Diego, CA)

CASMART STUDENT DESIGN CHALLENGES are held biennial as part of the SMST conference where students are tasked with designing “The material” or designing “with the material” using shape memory alloy (SMA) technology. Students have the opportunity to showcase their creativity by applying engineering theories and design principles, and leveraging CASMART and SMST members’ experience to address SMA design challenges in aeronautics, astronautics, medical industry, energy, and else.

5th Design Challenge Guidelines

Teams:

  1. Team “SMArt Clamp” (Saarland University, Germany): Joshua Mayer, Tom Weiskircher, Yannik Goergen (Advisors: Dominik Scholtes, Dr.-Ing. Paul Motzki). – (Hardware Winner)
  2. Team “NiTiMore Temperature” (Georgia Institute of Technolog): Alexa Brammer, Patrick Bravo, Katherine Cauffiel, Ryan Peacock (Advisors: Nathaniel Lies, Dr. Aaron Stebner)
  3. Team “SMArtians” (IIT Madras, India): Aayush Raghuraman, Aayush Rath, Aditya Ravindran, Rishab Sharma, Kartik Deepak Ruikar (Advisor: Sivakumar M. Srinivasan)
  4. Team “Nitinauts” (Georgia Institute of Technology): Phoebe Ellison, Heeyong Huang, Austin Love, Ethan Ray (Advisors: Tyler Knapp, Dr. Aaron Stebner) – (Material Winner)