For my Senior Design project, the capstone project of Johns Hopkins' Mechanical Engineering, my group and I partnered with Allegion to design an automatic door system that is able to retract both the dead bolt and the latch. This would enable someone to open the door if their hands are full or if they are disabled. This project had many requirements for code compliance, use cases, loading cases and fatigue. After a year of developing and testing 6 prototypes we came to our final version which was then sent to Allegion's testing facility where it survived  just under 49,000 cycles before it suffered it's first failure. 

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At the Spring Design Day, the final presentation for Senior Design, we presented our project to a panel of judges from the ASME. At the conclusion of the day we were awarded the Best Project of 2018 award for our work. After the Spring Design day we held several meetings with Allegion where we learned they were picking up the project and assigning it to an engineering design team for further development and filing a patent on the mechanism of the device.