Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

Archives: Capstone Projects

[Blue Goji] Building a Scaled-Down Omni-Directional Treadmill

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Team: Adrian Neoh (ME), Ben Lowe (ME), Bo Peng (ME), David Xiao (ME), Olivier Masse (ME), Morgan LaMarca (ME), Adeen Bilal (ME), Efe Yavuz (ME), Victor Detavernier (ME), Aryan Nainy-Nejad (ME) Advisor(s): Gabriel Gomes Walking rehabilitation is a necessary treatment in over 70% of patients suffering from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and stroke. Blue Goji’s team is… Read More »

Waves to Water: Extracting Drinking Water from the Ocean for Coastal Communities and Disaster Relief

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Team: Rita Chen (ME), Michael Kotur (ME), Danny Ma (ME), Ian Miller (ME) Advisor(s): Reza Alam (ME), Michael Kelly (ME) Coastal communities affected by natural disasters lack affordable and reliable access to drinking water. We aim to create a portable device that captures wave energy to drive seawater desalination and provide freshwater to communities without… Read More »

Lunar Kinetic Energy Transmission

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Team: Vu Vuong (ME), Scott Ziegler (ME), Gary Li (ME) Advisor(s): Van Carey For the project brief, our team would like to address not only the general audience but also the professional people with space background knowledge (subject matter experts, engineering students). We want our audience to know how large the potential market on the… Read More »

ROAR+FLOW

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Team: Peilin Zhao (CEE), C.K. Wolfe (ME), Yashwanth Venapally (CEE) Advisor(s): Allen Yang Testing autonomous vehicles in high-risk situations is a difficult and expensive process. Small-scale testing provides opportunities to safely and inexpensively test algorithms in real-world conditions before implementing them on full-scale vehicles. Our team is developing and testing algorithms to control experimental cars… Read More »

Heating and Cooling Pad for Therapeutic Treatment

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Team: Celeste Castillo (ME), Zachary Christiansen (ME), Jakob Kraiger (BioE) Advisor(s): Van Carey Contrast therapy, the repeated application of alternating heating and cooling cycles to the skin, is effective in increasing blood flow, reducing muscle stiffness, increasing muscle elasticity, and relieving pain. However, despite its proven effectiveness, current contrast therapy is still mostly achieved with… Read More »

No Salt, No Problem: Genetic Algorithms for Cost-Optimization of Solar Desalination Plants

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Team: Martina Dwek (ME), Megan Dyer (IEOR), Coleman Thompson (CEE), Vaitea Bahri (CEE), Valentina Dai (CEE) Advisor(s): Gabriel Gomes By 2025 nearly 1.8 billion people are projected to live with absolute water scarcity, adding to the large portions of the world’s population already suffering from water access problems. Sponsored by Optony, a clean energy consultancy,… Read More »

[Move2Play] Blowing Bigger Bubles to Get Kids Moving

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Team: Katie Henshaw (ME), Matthew Mesman (ME), Julie Yu (ME) Advisor(s): Jack Miller [Move2Play], Brenden McMorrow [Move2Play], Tarek Zodhi (ME) Kids spend on average 7.5 hours a day watching a screen. This unprecedented amount of screentime can lead to a range of health issues including increased obesity, decreased academic performance and decreased mental health outcomes.… Read More »

Addressing the Plastic Waste Problem Using Programmable Enzymatic Degradation: Market and Application Analysis

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Team: Gwenlyn Angel Cabiltes (MSE), Jonathan Chow (MSE) Advisor(s): Aaron Hall (MSE), Ting Xu (MSE) The world faces a severe plastic waste problem: Nearly 80% of plastic products end up in landfills or the environment. Biodegradable plastics like polylactic acid (PLA) are a promising solution but face extensive difficulties degrading and composting in most facilities.… Read More »

MEDiRoller: Revolutionizing Low-Cost Vaccine and Drug Delivery in Low-Resource Communities

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Team: Diego Espinoza (BioE) Advisor(s): Phillip B. Messersmith (BioE/MSE), Katerina Malollari (ME), & Kelsey DeFrates (BioE) Each year, millions die from vaccine-preventable illnesses, an inequality largely fueled by technical challenges surrounding the administration of vaccines with hypodermic needles. MEDiRoller, an automated microneedle device, revolutionizes vaccine and drug delivery through the elimination of trained medical personnel… Read More »

Radioactive Material Handling Mechanism

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Creating a safer laboratory environment for radiological workers by designing safer Radioactive Material Handling Mechanism (RaMHaM) containers used in non-destructive neutron beamline tomographic imaging research. Team: Jay Lin collaborating with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory Advisor: Peter Hosemann (NE) Los Alamos National Lab needs a container to transport radioactive spent fuel rodlets from… Read More »