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Project Year: 2019-20

2019-20

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 »

[UCSF] A Novel Implant for Regulating Excessive Eye Pressure in Glaucoma Patients

November 15, 2020 by

A Novel Implant for Regulating Excessive Eye Pressure in Glaucoma PatientsTeam: Charit Mehta (ME), Aishwarya Pamula (BIOE), Sheila Sharifzad (BIOE) Advisors: Ying Han (UCSF), Syed Hossainy (BIOE), Dorian Liepmann (ME) Glaucoma is the second highest cause of blindness worldwide. Affecting over 65 million people, glaucoma is a disease that causes excessive fluid buildup within the eye. Over time, increased pressure inside the eye damages 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 »

[Ocuelar] Smart eye-drop bottle to monitor medication habits of glaucoma patients

November 15, 2020 by

Smart eye-drop bottle to monitor medication habits of glaucoma patientsTeam: Kian Talaei (IEOR), Ryan Zolyomi (ME), Fang-Jhen Su (BIOE), Tianyi Xing (IEOR) Advisors: Scott Lee (UC Berkeley School of Public Health), Taiki Nishihara (Ocuelar), Tarek Zohdi (ME) More than 75 million people worldwide suffer from glaucoma--the leading cause of irreversible blindness. The majority of these patients lack a proper and consistent medication routine, a… 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 »

Inflatable Modular Floating Solar Array to Meet the Global Energy Demand

November 15, 2020 by

Inflatable Modular Floating Solar Array to Meet the Global Energy DemandTeam: Gina Myers (BIOE), Arthur Labarre (CEE), Weiheng (Jarvis) Lu (IEOR), Priyaj Mehta (ME), Ronggen Chen (ME) Advisor: Tarek Zohdi (ME) Improved photovoltaic technology is essential to meet growing global energy demands. Floating solar offers numerous advantages over land-based, including increased efficiency via cooling, reduced evaporation and algal growth, and the financial and ecological benefits… Read More »
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