3. Programs Archive

Author Sponsor Dr. Zidian Xie Instructor Professor Ajay Anand Professor Cantay Caliskan Abstract In the digital age, Twitter has emerged as ancentral arena for public health issues, particularly those involv-ing…

A device to evaluate the quality of vibration transmission from a skull plate to the skull.

Author Nicholas Gaitanis Mentor Dr. Michele Cotrufo Abstract Recent works have shown that angular filters — based on distributed Bragg reflectors — can be utilized in holographic head-mounted displays to…

Team Members Mentor Christopher Muir, Chris Pratt, Mike Pomerantz, and Jim Alkins Project Description In recent years, there has been a growing trend in alternative and sustainable modes of transportation…

Team Members Mentors   Sponsor Calvin Uzelmeier Project Manager Christopher Muir   Abstract We were asked by the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC) to create an exhibit for their…

The Houston Astros tasked our team with building a high-speed pitching machine to better understand the coefficient of restitution between a baseball and a bat. With this information, the Astros can optimize their player's bats by changing length, width, design, or density in an effort to maximize player production.

A drill powered cart was designed, manufactured, assembled, and tested in order to develop a mode of transportation that is not reliant on fossil fuels to be driven

Revolutionizing Hand Therapy: Human-operated device empowers patients with spasticity to reclaim hand motion safely. Iterative design process, from motor to human-operated, ensures patient comfort and control. Developed in collaboration with URMC Occupational Therapy, utilizing Siemens NX for CAD and 3D printing for prototyping. Addressing needs, paving the way for future enhancements.

In response to increasing cases of tick-borne diseases, Dr. Adrianna Troyo and Dr. Tim Dye have sought an improved method of tick collection. They have asked us to design a mobile tick-collection device to replace the inefficient and labor-intensive current manual methods, which expose researchers to risk of being parasitized.

The goal of this thesis is to design and build a tunable flying focus experimental setup using adaptive optics. The flying focus technique produces an extended intensity peak which moves at a designed focal velocity independent of the medium group velocity. This requires an optical system that can extend the focal region beyond the Rayleigh length as well as impart sufficient radial group delay to achieve spatiotemporal control. An axiparabola is used to extend the focal region and a deformable mirror imparts a user defined radial group delay to achieve spatiotemporal control. The tunability of this technique will be used to optimize secondary source generation experiments such as laser wakefield acceleration and terahertz generation.

The 3D printing project aims to design, create, and test a polymer printed part that houses a f/5.6, eight element system. After the system was completed, repeatability measurements were done along with testing our procedure on the similar f/8 system.

Current internal bone plate fixation methods waste valuable time alternating between automatic and manual drivers and cause surgeon frustration when relocating the head of the screw. We have developed a combined automatic/manual device for safe, efficient screw driving through all stages of the fixation process.