re: Engineers, what was your Senior Project?

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I could fool all of those PHDs by hiring a dude to be nearby, operating the remote control, during said in-person demonstration.

In fact, I would have a raging hard-on while giving such a presentation.

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Yea this was common at Malls and Festivals back in the 80s. I remember being at Catfish town and this big fancy robot was walking up to people and holding out an arm to shake hands and doing getstures and shite. We finally looked up on a little balcony thing and there was a guy with one of them big arse RC thingies like this :

I graduated with the team that did the autonomous lawnmower. I couldn’t believe they got away with it.

We had to design a subsurface drainage system for a village in Honduras that no one had been to. We had to rely on a Google Earth image for half of the project until LSU set up a trip to the village for some people to actually survey it. I don't think anyone got less than a B because no one knew what was going on. Geaux tigers.

lsu had some hot engineering girls . wish i could marry them

My senior project had a name; Beth.

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Mini-Indy (FSAE) 2002

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Same!!

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that model has since been adopted by LADOTD.

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The DOTD is using undergrad projects?

That explains so much.

Mini-Baja.

The year behind me was tasked with building an RC car. 95% of the teams just bought RC cars, and 3d printed a frame for it

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We had two....each a semester long. Both required around a 30 minute presentation in front of industry experts, teachers, and the dean. I was under the impression that giving presentations for senior design was part of an engineering college's accreditation

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Yes. We designed in the fall, built/tested in the spring. Presented at the end of both semesters. Could have faked a lot of it and no one would have been the wiser is what I meant in my first post. No one came and checked our prototype was doing what we said. Although we did provide data from our testing. We could have made it up though looking back.

Our project was a wind turbine. We proved through research that Baton Rouge didnt have enough wind. We then hooked Solar Panels up to a pump and measured the output of power over several days to see if it matched our research. Very little design in my opinion. We didn't invent anything or something crazy like that. I got an A for plugging solar panels into a pump (didnt design the panels, pump, controller or anything like that). Fairly certain our documentation, notebooks, and reasoning got us the grade. I mean that is designing the best system for the job. We got the most output for the budget. We just didnt come up with some spectacular new prototype or anything. I'm saying that's the part that's not important. The process is.