Senior Design

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...

Thank you to our sponsor HGST, a Western Digital company! HGST, a Western Digital company, is currently creating a baseboard called Mt. Madonna that will control many hard drives. Today HGST does not have an I/O module with the correct inputs and outputs to control, power, and test the Mt...

Thank you to our sponsors, Assistant Professor Jae-Woong Jeong and Mentor Graphics! Nowadays, a wide spectrum of wearable electronic devices aim to provide useful feedback regarding patients’ health conditions. However, the existing electronic packages are often rigid and non-stretchable, whereas the human body is soft, curvilinear and elastic. Therefore, currently...

Thank you to our sponsor, Associate Professor Melinda Piket-May! In 2015 there were more than 350,000 out­-of­-hospital cardiac arrests in the United States, and less than half of them occurred near bystanders[1]. If bystanders are around, and able to call for help and provide early CPR, the survival rate of...

Thank you to our sponsors, Professor Al Gasiewski and the Center for Environmental Technology (CET)! Modern day satellite communication is heavily limited by the bottleneck in bandwidth from space to ground stations. The amount of useful science many satellites can perform is limited by the amount of downlink bandwidth they...