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Illustration of immunization process (steps 1-6)

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Faculty Led

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

January 18, 2023 by

Illustration of immunization process (steps 1-6)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

March 23, 2021 by

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 »

Adapting Humanoid Robots to Aid First Responders

November 15, 2020 by

Adapting Humanoid Robots to Aid First RespondersTeam: Jamie Chen (ME), Sonny Li (ME), David Tondreau (ME), Mengyue Wang (ME) Advisor: Koushil Sreenath (ME) Disaster relief demands both speed and adaptability to complex terrain; however, modern robots, which offer the potential to aid first responders, are currently specialized either for speed (wheeled robots) or for adaptability (legged robots). Our team is working… Read More »

Breathing Facade: A Sustainable and Affordable Cooling and Dehumidification Solution for Public Schools in the Tropics

November 15, 2020 by

Breathing Facade: A Sustainable and Affordable Cooling and Dehumidification Solution for Public Schools in the TropicsTeam: Satomi Angelika Murayama (Fritsch) (ME), Hazelynn Khoo (ME), Meijun Liu (CEE) Advisor: Hayden Taylor (ME) Today, public schools in tropical countries such as Singapore do not have typical cooling and dehumidification systems, like AC, installed in classrooms. The Berkeley Breathing Facade team is tackling this issue with a new way to cool down the… Read More »

Precision Freezing 3D Bioprinter for Large Scale Tissue Engineering

November 15, 2020 by

Precision Freezing 3D Bioprinter for Large Scale Tissue EngineeringTeam: Alex Wolcott (BIOE), Martin Banet-Rivet (ME), Pablo Amo (ME), Ruobin Liu (ME) Advisors: Boris Rubinsky (ME), Gideon Ukpai (ME) The organ shortage for transplants is a growing problem all over the world. Bioprinting could be a solution to this however current attempts at 3-D printing biological materials are encumbered by the slow rate of… Read More »

Optical Communication in Unmanned Vehicles to Revolutionize Underwater Wireless Networking

November 15, 2020 by

Optical Communication in Unmanned Vehicles to Revolutionize Underwater Wireless NetworkingTeam: Ann Chia (MSE), Anthony Yan (ME), Eric Stern (ME), Liam Doran (ME) Advisors: Reza Alam (ME), Alexandre Immas (ME) With current technology, even planets that are light years away had been mapped out with higher resolution than most of the seafloor on Earth. Limited by low bandwidth underwater communication, sonar is the traditional approach… Read More »

Creating a Stable Supply of Rare Elements for Medical and Industrial Applications Using a Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor

November 15, 2020 by

Creating a Stable Supply of Rare Elements for Medical and Industrial Applications Using a Molten Salt Nuclear ReactorTeam: Stu Burgess (ME), Mubasheer Chombakkadath (NE), Yong Mok Kim (NE), Juhi Nandwani (NE), Richy Rocha (NE), Tatiana Siaraferas (NE), Madeleine Waller (NE) Advisor: Massimiliano Fratoni (NE) Nuclear fission creates many rare elements that are not normally found in nature and are discarded in traditional reactor fuels. These rare elements are useful for many industrial… Read More »

The Future of Hauling – Autonomous Cargo Transporter

November 15, 2020 by

The Future of Hauling - Autonomous Cargo TransporterTeam: Guanqun Huang (ME), Mingguang Zhou (ME), Muireann Spain (ME), Nathan Srinivasan (ME), Wei Hu (ME) Advisors: Francesco Borrelli (ME), Xu Shen (ME) Reducing the amount of human error with repetitive tasks that may involve heavy loads can allow an improvement in operating efficiency and human safety, since humans are prone to injury and are… Read More »

Using Wildfire Simulations as Predictors for Economical Risk Management

November 15, 2020 by

Using Wildfire Simulations as Predictors for Economical Risk ManagementTeam: Jeremiah Hamlin (ME), Mikio LaCapra (ME), Carlos Nunez (IEOR) Advisor: Tarek I. Zohdi (ME) Wildfires have become an annual destructive force with the 2018 California wildfires witnessing the tragic loss of life and $3.5 billion in damages, which unraveled communities and motivated new outlooks to safety and liability. Our solution harnesses the novel firefighting… Read More »

Evaluation of Novel, Less-Invasive Hip Implants

November 15, 2020 by

Evaluation of Novel, Less-Invasive Hip ImplantsTeam: Wenqi Fan (MSE), Moriah Garcia (BIOE), Bianca Riello (BIOE), Jeremy Wan (BIOE) Advisor: Grace O’Connell (ME) Over 370,000 total hip arthroplasties are performed annually with 70,000 revision surgeries being performed each year. Surgeons at UCSF VA Medical Center Department of Orthopedic Surgery who perform these procedures daily believe that it is worth investigating the… Read More »
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