Project Year: 2014-2015

2014-2015

Fault Tolerant Localization in Autonomous Driving

June 29, 2016 by

Project Introduction Many companies today are working on autonomous driving technology. Several players like BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Tesla have some promising results. But with so many people working on it, why don’t our cars fully drive themselves yet? One of the reasons is that there are many technical challenges to overcome. The challenge that our… Read More »

Machine Learning, Wearable Computing, and Alzheimer’s Disease

June 27, 2016 by

Project Description In the US, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the only disease in the top six for which the affected population is growing, and it is the single most expensive disease. One reason is that nursing home costs average over $6,750/month and often continue for 5-20 years. Thus, there is a significant need for technology… Read More »

Numa

A Low-Power System for the Developing World

June 22, 2016 by

Affordable Energy In collaboration with Lawrence-Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), we are developing a low cost iron-salt battery for our Master of Engineering capstone project. We’ve named the battery “Numa,” a combination of the Swahili words for light (nuru) and iron (chuma). Numa would charge cell phones and provide lighting, both of which are essential to… Read More »

Oscillating Wind Powered Device

June 16, 2016 by

Project Description The oscillating wind power project was the brainchild of our industry advisor, Tom Flynn, president of the TSF Group of Marin County. The idea for a non-turbine based wind power device was born from the failure of a group of wealthy Marin landowners to bring traditional wind power devices to Marin. While their… Read More »

Big Data for Manufacturing

How Data Analytics Can Improve Manufacturing

June 3, 2016 by

What We Do The amount of energy used in manufacturing operations today is massive. For instance, did you know that the amount of energy used to manufacture an laptop is equivalent to the amount of energy used by 50 U.S. families over the course of a year? Or that the amount of energy required to… Read More »

Tensegrity

A Soft Robot

July 22, 2015 by

Project Description Recently there has been growing interesting in the field of soft robotics, which features robots that are flexible yet robust. A Tensegrity robot is a form of soft robot that is comprised of a series of rods under compressional load joined together by cables under tensional load; through proper actuation of those cable it… Read More »

Cardiac Regeneration

Injectable Hydrogel

July 22, 2015 by

Project Description Around 20% of people who suffer a heart attack will progress to heart failure within five years due to the damage inflicted to the cardiac tissue. The cardiac regeneration therapy project was focused on preventing the onset of heart failure by further developing an injectable hydrogel with Dr. Kevin Healy, Department of Bioengineering… Read More »

A Novel Device for Organ Preservation

Cryopreservation

July 21, 2015 by

Project Description Long-term preservation of biological organs using cryopreservation (sub-zero temperature preservation) techniques could revolutionize organ transplantation. Currently the average preservation time of kidneys, livers, and hearts are 72, 8, and 6 hours, respectively. Increasing this time will allow for the transplantation of vital organs to thousands of individuals that need help, and also slow the… Read More »

NoScope

A powerful tool for microscopy

April 16, 2015 by

Project Description NoScope is an inexpensive and powerful lensless imaging system capable of producing 2D and 3D images of microscopic objects. The simplicity and robustness of this lensless system has significant benefits, including a lower price and increased portability. By leveraging light field and tomographic algorithms, the system consolidates images of an object, taken from multiple angles,… Read More »

Prosper

Peer-to-Peer Lending