WHET Lab
College of Engineering Unit: 
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Project Team Member(s): 
Saif Aljeelani, Nicholas Traylor and Nikolo Vo
Project ID: 
MIME.109
Project Description: 

The OSU Marine Mammal Institute's (MMI) Whale Habitat, Ecology, and Telemetry (WHET) Lab utilizes a fully-implantable satellite tag to track and monitor the movement, feeding, and dive activity of large whale species in the Pacific Ocean. Sponsor Ladd Irvine, a Senior Faculty Research Assistant at the WHET Lab, enlisted the help of capstone team MIME 109 with the ultimate goal of developing a more robust housing for the tags. To this end, the team was tasked with conducting static failure tests on the existing package and quantifying the tag’s failure points in the form of an updated computer model. The results of these tests were used to develop a solid model prototype for the new tag housing, which will be additively manufactured as one single piece using Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS). The advancement of the whale satellite tag with a more robust housing directly benefits researchers at the MMI/WHET Lab by allowing more extensive periods of data collection and streamlining the tag housing design/development process.
 

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Industry Sponsor(s): 
  • OSU Marine Mammal Institute

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