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Lights flashed, buzzers rang听and attendees watched with rapt attention at the home of 麻豆影院 basketball 鈥� but with 143 teams in attendance, this was no basketball game.

Welcome to the first ever CU 麻豆影院 College of Engineering and Applied Science college-wide Engineering Projects Expo, where hundreds of seniors and graduate students shared their inventions, software听and solutions to real-world problems.

鈥淚t was a really exciting day, coming together with everyone to celebrate awesomeness,鈥� said mechanical engineering senior Gage Froelich.

Projects at the April 27听event ranged from consumer-oriented devices like new mobile apps and high-tech retractable running boards for pickup trucks, to aerospace industry projects creating sensors for future space missions, to Denver Water-sponsored teams designing proposals for a planned expansion of Gross Reservoir and Dam in the mountains west of the Mile High City.

鈥淭oday was a lot of fun. I got to demo my augmented reality project to a lot of people using Microsoft鈥檚 HoloLens AR system, which most people outside 麻豆影院 probably won鈥檛 see for 10 years,鈥� said computer science senior Tarah Peltz.

The expo is the culmination of senior design, a required capstone course where students spend months designing, redesigning, building听and testing a new product or device.

Each of the engineering majors structure the course a little bit differently. Some are team projects and others are solo. Many have sponsoring businesses or labs, but not all. The course itself can be one semester or two. What ties them all together is how they compel students to apply with they have been learning over their college careers and push themselves to grow further as young professionals.

In previous years, each major held their own, independent expo. 2018 is the first time students from across the college have come together for a joint event.

Held on the concourse of Coors Event Center, projects stretched around the entire arena. Students discussed their work with hundreds of peers, parents, businesses representatives听and members of the general public.

The entire event is a chance for people to experience how students like Technology, Arts听and Media (TAM) senior Cassandra Goodby have channeled their passion, enthusiasm听and hundreds of hours of work into creating something new.

鈥淚鈥檓 really into data visualization. I made an interactive website showcasing data visualization of the taxonomy of beers. People passing by stop because it鈥檚 about beer, and then I can talk with them about everything else,鈥� Goodby said.

While the spring semester is nearly over, some will continue to have a life after graduation. Mechanical engineering senior Jordon Thoning鈥檚 team project, sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories and called the Space Deliver Safety Device, is heading up -- way up.

鈥淪andia also sponsored identical projects at eight or nine other universities,鈥� Thoning said. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e going to send them all up on a sounding rocket and see which one works the best to continue developing.鈥�