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Originally Posted by Knufire

Not FRC specifically, but it's quite common for competition teams to be a senior design project at Rose-Hulman. I'm working on the Shell EcoMarathon competition as mine, and I know that there at least two other groups (Formula SAE, ASME Human Powered Vehicle) doing the same. Here, funding comes from the team budget, and the "client" for the senior design project is typically the faculty adviser of the competition team.

For FRC specific stuff, there is the classic 254/968 gearbox that was a Cal Poly Pomona senior design project.

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/27018
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28709


To help answer the question, what facet of mechanical engineering are you aiming towards focusing this project in? Mechatronics, statics/structural engineering, control theory, materials, etc are all fields that would be applicable since Mechanical Engineering is so broad.

Yeah, similarly the Baja team sponsored a senior design project here. They designed a shifting gearbox for their car. I know at other universities, project team work is commonly used as senior design credit. So it's definitely something you should able to do, although I don't know that most FRC teams would be able to find the money to fund it.