2017

Thank you to sponsor National Instruments! This product will miniaturize three-phase inverters and increase efficiency, operability, and application versatility using FPGAs. A recent challenge set out by Google and IEEE called The Little Box Challenge points out that “inverters are too big” and “Making them smaller would enable more solar-powered...

Thank you to sponsor Tensentric! One challenge that laparoscopic surgeons face today is a lack of adequate training procedures for minimally invasive surgery. Simple training simulators exist today to help a surgeon improve their dexterity and overall skill with the various tools they use. For example, a surgeon might practice...

Thank you to sponsors Plexus and professors Frank Barnes & Kim Frey! Congestive heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart does not pump blood as well as it should, leading to further health problems. Once manifested, it becomes difficult for persons with heart failure to manage this...

The Future Weeders of America team. The Power House team with instructor Andrew Femrite. Thank you to our sponsor, Professor Al Gasiewski! Currently, the two approaches to weeding are far short of ideal for the average user. One method involves arduously going through a yard, finding the individual weeds, and...

Thank you to our sponsor, Distinguished Professor Zoya Popovic! Modern microwave ovens provide a quick method of heating food. However, they have several drawbacks. First, food tends to be heated unevenly. Due to the distribution of fields within the oven, certain areas of the food are heated more than others,...

Thank you to our sponsor, the RoboSub Club! In previous years the University of Colorado Boulder RoboSub team has discovered many problems in its electronic design including wire management, power delivery, and excessive CPU overhead. In addition the team has had limited vehicle control in previous years. The goal of...

Thank you to sponsor Tait Towers! The current challenges with hologram technology are image quality and machine environment. Images are often distorted and have few, or even only one, viewing angle(s). Some technologies simply use mirrors to produce the image, which are hard to control. Another issue is noise and...

Thank you to sponsor Inovonics! The current options for seniors that are at risk for life-threatening events, such as heart attack or seizure, are very limited. Those options, such as hospice care, visiting nurses, and nursing homes, are often expensive and impractical. Technology based solutions have long been discussed, but...

Thank you to our sponsor, the CU RoboSub Club! There are a variety of obstacles the CU RoboSub team will encounter during the 2017 RoboSub Competition, an International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. Of these obstacles, the final three are worth the most amount of points and are the most difficult...

Thank you to our sponsors, Professor Al Gasiewski and the Center for Environmental Technology (CET)! Power companies currently rely on both fossil fuel generators and solar panels to fuel power grids, but seek to reduce overall reliance on fossil fuels. Power grids that are fueled by photovoltaic sources at high...