Posts categorized 1. Current Year Programs

Introduction Prostate cancer is ranked the second most commonly diagnosed cancers among men worldwide, while being named the fifth most common cancer deaths. Robot assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) exists as…

We designed an ML-Driven Wirelessly Controlled Robot which uses machine learning to detect objects of a given class and automatically navigate towards the closest one within its camera view. The robot is able to detect over 80 different classes of objects, and can also be controlled via three modes: Physical Joystick, ML Object Detection, and Web‑Based Virtual Joystick.

Team Members Yunji Kim – B.S. Audio and Music Engineering ‘25Zian (Alan) Wang – B.S. Audio and Music Engineering ‘25Haochen (Glenn) Xiong – B.S. Audio and Music Engineering ‘25Samuel Yang…

An electrically assisted human powered vehicle (e-HPV) was designed by a team of ME seniors, and the capability of this vehicle was evaluated in the ASME’s e-HPVC competition against other colleges that were designed to accomplish the same goal at UNC Charlotte.

This is a leaf-blower powered hovercraft designed by Team Crocodile. It will race against Team Alligator on Design Day.

A Cassegrain telescope is a type of telescope that uses two reflective mirrors to form an image, like the Hubble Space Telescope. Our project was to assemble and test a current table-top Cassegrain telescope and based on those findings, design, manufacture, simulate and test our newly designed telescope.

This project redesigns MicroEra Power’s THERMAplus system into a compact, modular thermal energy storage unit that improves installation efficiency, reduces pressure losses, and enhances maintainability. The system enables off-peak energy storage and flexible heat delivery using a single reversible heat pump across multiple operating modes.

Parallel jaw grippers for the Sawyer Robotic Manipulator lack the degrees of freedom to replicate the motion and flexibility of a human wrist. This project focuses on combining a 6 degree of freedom (DOF) wrist joint using a “Stewart Strut” platform and a parallel gripper.

Hi! We’re the Plastic Recycling and Fabrication team and out project is to make a small scale recycling system tailored to UR needs.

The Houston Astros need a way to measure the moment of inertia (MOI) of baseball bats—a key factor in swing feel and performance. Current tools only measure weight and length, missing critical data that affects player consistency and injury risk. There is no portable, accurate, or non-destructive MOI measurement device on the market. Our system fills this gap, giving the Astros a tool to optimize bat selection across players. 

Cadmium selenide nanoplatelets (a two-dimensional variant of the quantum dot) are increasingly used in optical devices due to their bright and tunable emission characteristics.

However, to use these colloidal particles in practical photonic devices, the direct patterning of micron-scale features remains a grand-challenge.

Using thin-film fabrication and UV lithography tools inside the URnano cleanroom, we have been able to direct-write nanoplatelet patterns inside Fabry-Perot cavities with features as small as one micron, and show strong light-matter coupling with greater Rabi splitting than typically seen in this geometry due to stronger lateral electric field confinement.

The capability to create arbitrary patterns in nanoplatelet films will enable the fabrication of chiral meta-structures which opens up the possibility to observe and study chiral strong light-matter coupling and exciton-polariton photo-physics.