Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

Project Type: Faculty Led

Faculty Led

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 »

Adapting Humanoid Robots to Aid First Responders

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Team: 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

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Team: 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

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Team: 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 »

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

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Team: 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

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Team: 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

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Team: 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

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Team: 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 »