Our senior design project is an International Capston Design Project in which we hope to harness micro-meso scale energy using piezoelectric and triboelectric materials. This week we mainly focused on learning about the two technologies, how they work and what the benefits are of both. We discussed with our advisor on what the application would be before we started designing a prototype. The goal of our project is to design a section of flooring that has piezoelectic or triboelectric materials in it that will harvest waste energy from human steps. The waste energy will then be used to power electronics.

After our advisor had told us this we began to sketch prototype and discuss how our team will make this happen.