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Students solve real-world problems in senior design classes: UWM engineering students create solution that saves company $840,000 per year

Students working with a person at AAA Sales
Easton Dobson (left) and Colin Haagensen flank Steve Coolidge, general manager of AAA Sales & Engineering on the floor of the company’s Oak Creek plant. Dobson, Haagensen and another student, Ryan O’Day, worked on a project that benefited the company and gave the students real-world experience. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)

UWM industrial engineering students recently developed a way to save a Milwaukee-area company $840,000 annually. 

Last fall, in their senior design class, undergraduates Easton Dobson, Colin Haagensen and Ryan O’Day were charged by Oak Creek-based AAA Sales & Engineering with improving the company’s inventory traceability. Industry mentor Steve Coolidge estimates that the students’ solution will save the company $840,000 annually. More. 

This isn’t the first time that UWM engineering students helped a company solve a problem. Last year, a group of mechanical engineering students created a system that is saving a Saukville specialty steel manufacturer more than $43,000 annually. More.