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Previous ASME Award Winner

Recent Departmental Runner Up Awards

Capstone Design Projects

Flight Testing Fixture

2002-2003 - Winter

Team: 7

Team Members

Heman Au
Annette Castillo
Brian Cioffi
Quan Dong

Cell Phone Shock Tester

2002-2003 - Winter

Team: 8

Team Members

Brandon Fennema
Chris Fidler
Jason Hamada
Simon Hui

Torque Transducer Calibrator

2002-2003 - Winter

Team: 9

Team Members

Chris Cook
John Donnelly
Michael Mauldin
Kevin McCoy
Raina Taitano

Acoustic Measurement Device, sponsor Navy Marine Mammal Program

2003-2004 - Spring

Team: 1

Team Members

Brandon Braga
Robert Hughes
Jeff Smith
Doug Spence

Robotic Arm

2003-2004 - Spring

Team: 2

Team Members

Cory Nagel
Daisy Novy
Jon Orr
Danny Beck

Skateboard Router

2003-2004 - Spring

Team: 3

Team Members

Elia Fehme
Dan Smith
Kyle Kleinschmidt
Dave Wiens

Liquid Silica Dispenser

2003-2004 - Spring

Team: 4

Team Members

Aaron Davis
Chris Cobb
Justin Searcy
Lane Carlson

Bicycle Rolling Resistance

2003-2004 - Winter

Team: 8

Team Members

Tim Johnson
Tim Lindfelt
Jeffrey Lyo
Eric Price
Ross Stensrud

Convection Loop for Chaotic Flow

2003-2004 - Winter

Team: 7

Team Members

Donna Choi
Daniel Guzman
Erik Danielson
Jing Hu
Danny Lok

Controlled Free Weight System

2003-2004 - Winter

Team: 6

Team Members

Chris Kwanzen Hu
Scott Vernon Wong
Eiki Wai-Chi Or
Jason Robert Korniski
Harry Rafy Arsene

Transmission for Unmanned Ground Vehicle

2003-2004 - Winter

Team: 5

Team Members

William Hui
Fernando Martinez
Brian Parisi
Rosa Sandoval
Byron Tierney

Rollercoaster Track Testing Robot

2003-2004 - Winter

Team: 4

Team Members

Aaron Bell
Ian Cadieux
Ben Graham
Ken Wu

Nanospray Ionization

2003-2004 - Winter

Team: 3

Team Members

Sherry Chaumpluke
Debby Grunewald
Soren Harrison
Phuong Tran

Flying Reagent Dispenser

2003-2004 - Winter

Team: 2

Team Members

J. Armando Chavez
Won Tae Joe
James Chung
Chris Schmidt
Satoshi Kuwahara

Bead Bonding

2003-2004 - Winter

Team: 1

Team Members

Matt Mycroft
Stephanie Hoffman
Joann Luu
Adam Kimmerly

Classroom Table Extension

2003-2004 - Spring

Team: 9

Team Members

Joey Ho
Mary Le
Michael Yang
Sundana Chung

Tactile Navigation Interface

2003-2004 - Spring

Team: 8

Team Members

Laura Chao
Alice Duong
Gustavo Garcia

Yachtbot

2003-2004 - Spring

Team: 7

Team Members

Wayne Husband
Nicolas Padagas
Eric Mellers
Rebecca Denson
Joe Kilcoyne

Microscope Positioner

2003-2004 - Spring

Team: 6

Team Members

Thomas Scholl
Jeffrey Heil
David Hauser
Mike Di Lauro

Gas Turbine Fuel Mixer

2003-2004 - Spring

Team: 5

Team Members

Luca Brammer
James Gregg
Tuan Ong
Danielle Robles

Baseball Fielding Machine

2020-2021 - Winter

Team: 1

Team Members

Tyler Collins
Nicolas Compton
Dain Lee
Don Lee

A remote-controlled baseball fielding machine capable of launching balls up to 70 mph and aiming up/down/right/left at various trajectories.
Picture of the baseball fielding machine on the field.

Wheelchair Accessible Tesla Project

2020-2021 - Spring

Team: 3

Team Members

Sarah Litto
Ricardo Gonzalez
Candice Mallari
Haobo Huang
Aron Tran

Contact Team
Our project is to develop a plan to modify a Tesla to be wheelchair accessible.
CAD of Wheelchair Accessible Power Ramp

Spar Mooring for Ocean Turbulence Measurements

2020-2021 - Winter

Team: 10

Team Members

Eliran Q. Lenard
Ayesha Riaz
Horim Yu
Erik Zamarripa

Geno Pawlak and the EFD Lab are conducting a research study seeking to quantify the hydrodynamic mechanisms in kelp forests. The spar mooring for ocean turbulence measurements was a design solution for securely housing the acoustic doppler velocimeters that record flow data during deployments.
Team 10 with 1 of 5 spar segments and image of probe holding fixture

Intraoperative Tissue Biomechanics Sensor

2020-2021 - Winter

Team: 14

Team Members

Tejas Choudhary
Ryan Fimbres
John Junio
Archana Penumudi

Contact Team
Intraoperative, handheld devices designed to provide real time values of stress and strain within nerve tissue.
Image of Stress Device and Strain Devic3e

Dermal Cooling Vest

2020-2021 - Winter

Team: 13

Team Members

Joshua Choi
Tyler Compo
Edgar Favila
Vladimir Melnik
Jocelyne A. Perdomo Kú

Contact Team
Improper thermoregulation can be seen in field workers who perform physical activity in hot and/or humid environments. Medical patients can also experience it as a symptom or side effect of the treatment of certain diseases. In these cases, cooling vests can be used to remove excess heat from the skin which assists in thermoregulation. Our sponsor, Dr. José R. Suárez, proposes a novel cooling vest that utilizes thermoelectric cooling devices (Peltier devices).
This image depicts the final cooling vest. Both the inner cooling vest with circulating tubing and outer insulation vest can be seen.

Cohu Peripheral Pickup

2020-2021 - Winter

Team: 8

Team Members

Christian Powell
Jordan Steele
Kyle Gore
Aaron Lao

Contact Team
The purpose of this project is to design a peripheral seal solution for our sponsor, Cohu, to implement into their existing semiconductor testing machines. Cohu is an industry leader in equipment and services for back-end semiconductor manufacturing. It is necessary to research a variety of seal candidates in attempts to move the pickup mechanism for their pick and place handler to the periphery of the semiconductor chips their products handle in order to improve the efficiency of the handler.
A 3D rendering of our pick and place machine.

Reconfigurable 3D Magnetic Control System

2020-2021 - Winter

Team: 5

Team Members

Tanner Hanson
Jae Hyeog (John) Lee
Joseph Martin
Everbrook Zhou

Contact Team
Researchers have made significant progress on magnetic soft robots. One of the difficulties lies in the remote manipulation of the micro particle embedded in the soft matrix. 3D Helmholtz coils with controllable magnetic fields have already been demonstrated. In the Cai Research Group, researchers regularly adjust the working space so detachable electromagnets are needed. This system allows researchers to control a 3D magnetic field density vector that will be applied to a working space.
Reconfigurable 3D Magnetic Control System

Ultrasound Transducer Guide for Dental Imaging

2020-2021 - Winter

Team: 16

Team Members

Ariel Ubaldo
Nicolas Kumkom
Steven Luyapan
Sung Bum Lee

Contact Team
The ultrasound transducer guidance system was designed to aid the process of scanning the oral cavity while collecting necessary position data for 3D image reconstruction. The manually operated device has a patient position their head on a chin rest while the operator manipulates the transducer. An axial encoder and a linear encoder gather the position data of the transducer tip during the ultrasound scanning process which will be used by our sponsor to reconstruct 3D images of the oral cavity.
A front view and a 3/4 view of the ultrasound transducer guidance system for dental imaging fixed to a table top.

MRI Safe Hybrid-Fluid Actuator

2020-2021 - Winter

Team: 9

Team Members

Alexander Luke
Chi-Chung Wang (Johnson)
Hoi Man Lam (Kevin)
Jared Walker

Contact Team
The design and manufacture of a hybrid air-water actuator system, which provides mechanical power transmission over a distance and enables usage of electric motors in robot-assisted intraoperative CT & MRI surgeries.
A pair of hybrid-fluid actuators can be used to transmit motion over a distance, enabling the development of MRI safe robot-assisted surgical systems.

Mice Vapor Control

2020-2021 - Winter

Team: 21

Team Members

Claire Stone
Quiana Stodder
Victoria Thai
Kaifan Yue

Contact Team
The Hnasko Lab aims to investigate the effects of opioid addiction using mice. This project sought to design an airtight and automated study chamber that allows mice to voluntarily intake drug vapor and enables the researchers to send behavioral cues using LEDs, speakers, and food pellets.
Mice Vapor Control Project Image