2021-22 Project Portfolio
The Senior Design Capstone provides an opportunity for industry and academic sponsors to engage and utilize the minds of some of the brightest students on campus. Read more about what the students are working on in the 2021-22 academic year.
Care Bridge International
Claims Intelligence Platform
Project Type: Machine Learning
Care Bridge International is developing enhancements to its AI-powered claims intelligence platform to improve predictive medical forecasting for catastrophic workers’ compensation injuries. The project focuses on refining machine learning models for physical therapy, mental health services, and treating providers, using a large claims database, predictive analytics, and cloud-based technologies to improve claim outcomes, reduce costs, and modernize the insurance industry.
City of Lincoln & Nebraska Housing Developers Association
Renter and Landlord Community Education Tool
Project Type: Web Dev
The City of Lincoln and Nebraska Housing Developers Association seek to develop a centralized digital platform for renter and landlord education programs, replacing paper-based systems with an online environment for enrollment, training, certification tracking, reporting, and public engagement. The project aims to improve housing stability, reduce eviction rates, streamline operations, and provide scalable educational tools for tenants, landlords, and community organizations across Nebraska.
Civic Nebraska
Election Protection Program
Project Type: Mobile App
Civic Nebraska is seeking the development of a centralized digital election observation platform that allows trained volunteers to collect and submit polling place accessibility, voter issue, and election data in real time through a mobile or web-based application. The project goal is to replace inefficient paper-based reporting systems with an interactive statewide polling database that improves election transparency, streamlines data collection, supports accessibility monitoring, and helps election officials and advocacy groups better identify and address voting issues across Nebraska.
Connections Homes
Youth Matching Tool
Project Type: Web Dev
Connections Homes is seeking the development of an automated matching portal that helps connect young adults aging out of foster care with certified mentoring families based on weighted criteria such as proximity, personality, interests, needs, and lifestyle compatibility. The system would replace a manual matching process by using a cloud-based database and customizable ranking system to help relationship managers identify stronger long-term mentor matches more efficiently while improving collaboration, visibility, and support for vulnerable youth.
DMSi
Reman Mobile App
Project Type: Mobile App
DMSi is seeking the development of a mobile application to streamline and digitize remanufacturing workflows within lumber and building materials warehouses and yards. The app will allow users to create, manage, edit, and complete reman work orders in real time using mobile devices, eliminating paper-based processes and improving operational efficiency, productivity, and customer profitability through modern mobile technologies including React Native, GraphQL, Golang, and REST APIs.
Freeman Preparation Program
Freeman Preparation Program App and Institution Integration
Project Type: Web Dev/Mobile App
Freeman Preparation Program is seeking the development of a mobile and web-based application designed to help patients psychologically prepare for surgery through interactive educational, audio, and video content. The platform aims to improve patient comfort, reduce anxiety, support better surgical outcomes, and eventually integrate securely with hospitals and medical institutions through HIPAA-compliant features that allow providers to monitor patient participation, training progress, and recovery-related data.
Jackson Family Foundation
Funding Partner Interactive Map
Project Type: GIS/Data Analytics
Jackson Family Foundation is seeking the development of a real-time visualization mapping tool that integrates with its grantmaking database to display funding partners and projects geographically by strategy area, grant amount, and region. The platform would help the foundation identify gaps, prevent overlap in funding efforts, improve strategic decision-making, and encourage collaboration among organizations by providing an interactive, searchable map with filtering and data visualization capabilities.
Nebraska Game and Parks
Field App for Fisheries Field Sampling
Project Type: Progressive Web App
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Fisheries Division is seeking the development of a tablet-based field application for collecting fisheries and water quality sampling data under challenging outdoor conditions. The project focuses on replacing an outdated legacy system with a modern, OS-independent application that supports offline data collection, QR code scanning, custom field workflows, real-time database synchronization, and secure server integration to improve fisheries research, conservation management, and statewide aquatic resource decision-making.
Nebraska Indian Community College
Course Scheduler
Project Type: Web Dev
Nebraska Indian Community College is seeking the development of an automated course scheduling platform compatible with the Empower student information system to streamline academic scheduling, faculty assignments, classroom management, and virtual classroom coordination. The system would replace multiple manual processes by automating course rotations, faculty availability matching, enrollment analysis, schedule updates, and integration with Cisco VTC systems to improve efficiency, communication, and student services across multiple campuses and learning modalities.
Nebraska Water Center
Vadose Zone Database & User Interface
Project Type: Web Dev/GIS
The Nebraska Water Center is seeking enhancements to its existing Vadose Zone groundwater monitoring database and ArcGIS mapping platform to improve public accessibility, data visualization, and integration with related environmental data systems. The project focuses on modernizing the database interface, improving GIS-based data delivery, supporting anonymized groundwater monitoring records, and helping researchers, agencies, and citizens better analyze groundwater contamination risks and long-term water quality trends across Nebraska.
UNL Concussion and Vestibular Evaluation Lab
Husker Concussion Mobile App
Project Type: Mobile App
The UNL CAVE Laboratory is seeking continued development of a mobile and web-based concussion rehabilitation platform that helps student athletes complete vestibular-visual therapy exercises remotely following sports-related concussions. The project focuses on improving communication between clinician and athlete applications, adding real-time monitoring, customizable therapy adjustments, enhanced security and privacy controls, progress tracking, notifications, and interactive sport-focused rehabilitation features to improve recovery outcomes and accessibility of concussion care.
UNL Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory
Livestock Data Analytics
Project Type: Web Dev/Data Analytics
Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory is seeking the development of a cloud-based livestock data management and IoT analytics platform designed to improve decision-making in beef production systems. The project aims to integrate ranch management data, animal performance records, sensor technologies, and real-time IoT monitoring into a centralized web-based system that supports analytics, visualization, and operational decision-making for livestock management, sustainability, and precision agriculture research.
UNL Holland Computing Center
Enhancing RNA Nanostructures Science Gateway
Project Type: Web Dev/Workflow
The UNL Holland Computing Center is seeking enhancements to the RNAMake science gateway platform, a web-based system that enables researchers to design and analyze RNA nanostructures without requiring command-line expertise. The project focuses on improving user experience, adding interactive visualization and configuration tools, integrating additional RNA design applications, and expanding access to high-performance computing resources to support broader use of RNA nanotechnology research tools within the scientific community.
UNL School of Natural Resources
StreamNet
Project Type: Web Dev
The UNL School of Natural Resources is developing StreamNet, a real-time environmental monitoring platform designed to collect, process, and visualize water quality data from streams and lakes across Nebraska. The project focuses on integrating multiple sensor data streams into a publicly accessible web dashboard that provides interactive visualizations, real-time nutrient monitoring, and decision-support tools to help researchers, landowners, and environmental managers better understand and improve water quality management.
UNL SoC-Bohn
Matching and Grouping of Interests for Capstone
Project Type: Web Dev
The UNL School of Computing is seeking the development of MAGIC, an automated student-to-project matching system designed to streamline the Senior Design team assignment process. The project focuses on replacing a time-consuming manual spreadsheet process with a configurable database-driven application that analyzes student project preferences, leadership interests, academic data, and team composition criteria to generate optimized team assignments, improve fairness and efficiency, and potentially incorporate machine learning and analytics for future matching enhancements.
UNL SoC-Bourke
Project 046
Project Type: Gaming
Dr. Chris Bourke and the Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts are collaborating on the development of “Project 046,” a narrative-driven psychological horror 3D video game built in Unity using C#. The interdisciplinary project combines computer science students focused on technical game development with Emerging Media Arts students responsible for storytelling, animation, modeling, sound design, and creative direction to create an immersive, interactive gaming experience while fostering long-term collaboration between the two programs.
UNL SoC - Falkinburg-Daniel
Falcon O-Scope
Project Type: Mobile App
The Falcon O-Scope project seeks to develop a cross-platform iOS and Android mobile application that combines dual-channel function generator and oscilloscope capabilities into a single engineering test tool for students and faculty. The application will allow users to generate and analyze audio-range waveforms, simulate standard oscilloscope controls, and potentially add spectrum analyzer functionality, providing engineering students with an accessible, low-cost mobile testing solution for embedded systems and electronics coursework.
UNL SoC - Falkinburg-Palmer
Husker Stem VR
Project Type: Virtual Reality
The Husker STEM VR project seeks to develop an Oculus Quest virtual reality application designed to support STEM outreach and recruitment for UNL’s Computer Science and Engineering department. The immersive experience will feature a virtual Memorial Stadium environment with interactive engineering-themed activities such as robotics, drones, circuit-building challenges, scavenger hunts, and campus exploration to engage prospective students and encourage interest in STEM education at UNL.
UNL SoC - Koopmann-Samal
LA Program Management Tool
Project Type: Web Dev
The UNL CSE Learning Assistant Program is seeking continued development of LA ProMT, a management platform designed to automate and streamline recruitment, evaluations, scheduling, disciplinary tracking, analytics, and availability management for undergraduate Learning Assistants supporting high-enrollment computer science courses. The project focuses on replacing disconnected manual systems with an integrated web-based platform that improves program administration, communication, student support, and operational efficiency as the Learning Assistant Program continues to expand.
UNL SoC - Vuran
ONELINK - A Link To Rule All Radios
Project Type: Internet of Things
UNL and the City of Lincoln are seeking development of a web-based management and cloud integration platform for the OneLNK experimental wireless research network, a city-wide Smart Gigabit Communities testbed deployed across rooftops, traffic intersections, and agricultural fields. The project focuses on creating remote access tools, APIs, cloud computing integration, and machine learning capabilities that will allow researchers to interact with industry-grade wireless infrastructure and support next-generation wireless communication research and experimentation.
UNL SoC - Yao
A New pyP3DB
Project Type: Web Dev/Data Analytics
The UNL Integrated Digital Omics Lab is seeking the redesign and modernization of the P3DB bioinformatics platform into a generalized Python-based framework capable of hosting and managing multiple types of protein post-translational modification data across numerous species. The project focuses on improving database flexibility, security, automated data management, scientific visualization, and scalable web architecture while supporting future biological research and long-term expansion of the widely used scientific resource.
UNL Testing Ag Performance Solutions
Streamlining TAPS Data
Project Type: Web Dev/Data Analytics
The UNL TAPS Program is seeking the development of an automated data management and visualization system to streamline agricultural competition data collection, reporting, and analysis. The project focuses on replacing manual spreadsheet processes with a centralized database and web-based solution that automatically distributes participant decisions, supports interactive visualizations, and enables long-term searchable access to historical agricultural performance and management data.
UNMC College of Nursing
VR AG Safety
Project Type: Virtual Reality
The UNMC College of Nursing is seeking expansion of its immersive virtual reality agricultural safety training platform by adding ATV and electrical safety scenarios to the existing “Rollover Ranch” VR experience. The project aims to educate youth, farmers, and agricultural communities about farm safety hazards through engaging Oculus Quest-based simulations that can be distributed to Nebraska schools and agricultural education programs to help reduce injuries and fatalities in agriculture.
Werner Enterprises
Messaging and Current Load React App Modules
Project Type: Web Dev
Werner Enterprises is seeking development of modular React and Ionic-based applications that improve communication and operational visibility for truck drivers and internal staff. The project focuses on building mobile-friendly messaging and load management tools that integrate driver communication channels, load assignments, mapping technologies, and logistics information into a unified platform designed to improve usability, performance, and operational efficiency across Werner’s transportation systems.