Surgeons use electrosurgical pencils in the operating room, but the smoke generated by this operation is hazardous. The students on this team will redesign and prototype Stryker’s smoke evacuating surgical pencil with the goal of making it so easy to use that surgeons fight for it, while make surgeries safer and more precise.

Constellation moves tens of thousands of nuclear fuel bundles every year, which requires a cross-trained staff of operators performing a series of challenging tasks with varying expertise. Students on the Constellation team will create a model that evaluates data from 50,000 completed fuel moves to optimize future performance and enhance operator training.

Sweet Ride is a busy coffee shop in the casino food court with a million dollars of annual sales, but the physical space is difficult to work in. Students on the MotorCity team will analyze and optimize the space and operations at Sweet Ride to improve customer service and the bottom line.

Estimates suggest that billing errors may cost patients and the healthcare system anywhere from $10 - $20 billion annually. Students on the IHA team will integrate AI techniques to develop a tool that assists auditors in identifying improperly billed patient services, assigning proper billing codes, and predicting such errors to prevent recurrence.

To maintain cost competitiveness when moving production on a popular product from Asia to the US, Reverie needs to increase the automation of the assembly and packaging process. Students on this team will evaluate the design of the EZ-Lift™ Universal Foundation, develop an approach to automate the assembly, and perform the business case analysis to support moving the manufacturing location to the US.