Project Number | Project Name | Advisor(s) | Short Description | Team Lead | Email | Safety Officer | Email | Document Mngr | Email | Purchasing Mngr | Email | Project Family | Notes |
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| MAE0131 | FSAE Electric Racecar | Mark Walter | As part of the UC Irvine Racecar Engineering team, students design, build, test, and compete in various race car competitions such as FSAE West, Baja SAE, FSAE Electric, and UCI Energy Invitational. | Mark McCorkle | mmccorkl@uci.edu | Junjie (Jay) Huang | junjih1@uci.edu | Chris Chen | chencl2@uci.edu | Yihan Wang | yihanw4@uci.edu | Anteater Racing | Vazgen Frnzyan is Project manager and should be on all emails vfrnzyan@uci.edu |
| MAE0163 | FSAE Racecar | Mark Walter | As part of the UC Irvine Racecar Engineering team, students design, build, test, and compete in various race car competitions such as FSAE West, Baja SAE, FSAE Electric, and UCI Energy Invitational. | George Bishara | gbishara@uci.edu | DeQuan Zhong | dequanz@uci.edu | Yihan Wang | yihanw4@uci.edu | Anteater Racing | Vazgen Frnzyan is Project manager and should be on all emails vfrnzyan@uci.edu | ||
| MAE0164 | BAJA SAE Racecar | Mark Walter | As part of the UC Irvine Racecar Engineering team, students design, build, test, and compete in various race car competitions such as FSAE West, Baja SAE, FSAE Electric, and UCI Energy Invitational. | Andres Olmedo | olmedoa@uci.edu | Lewis Liao | lliao2@uci.edu | Elaine Soriano | ersorian@uci.edu | Yihan Wang | yihanw4@uci.edu | Anteater Racing | Vazgen Frnzyan is Project manager and should be on all emails vfrnzyan@uci.edu |
| MAE0132 | Automate Fastener Alignment for Heat Treatment | Terry Wang | The objective of this project is to design and develop a system or product that will automate the alignment/placement of fasteners between 120mm and 180mm onto a moving line. The rate of fastener placement must also be controlled to prevent uneven heating and unnecessary bending of the parts. | Alexander Ayala | ayalaad1@uci.edu | Luis Avalos | leavalos@uci.edu | Yamile Cornejo Meyer | ycornejo@uci.edu | Angel Ravelo | agravelo@uci.edu | Product Design and Development | |
| MAE0161 | Drone Tethering | Terry Wang | To redesign a battery-powered drone to achieve unlimited flight time by using a tether as both a stability mechanism and a power source (for commercial use) | Tristine Nubla | tnubla@uci.edu | Francisco Ibarra | francii@uci.edu | Tommy Ta | tyta@uci.edu | Matthew Wong | matthlw1@uci.edu | Product Design and Development | |
| MAE0162 | Solar Tracking | Terry Wang | Design and develop a solar mounting system for portable solar panels. The mounting system will have the ability to automatically reorient itself so that the solar panels can receive maximum energy from the sun. | Jong Min Jung | jongmj@uci.edu | Christopher Rocha | clrocha@uci.edu | Ryan Carter | carterrm@uci.edu | Carlos Ayala | ayalace@uci.edu | Product Design and Development | |
| MAE0134 | Advanced Energy Community | Jack Brouwer | Create and build a renewable energy conversion system that will improve the energy efficiency and sustainability, reduce pollutant emissions, and eliminate energy grid reliance of data centers using fuel cells, clean renewable energy, and energy storage technologies; static and dynamic tests of system components are included. | Yanchen Wu | yanchew@uci.edu | Alex Xu | axxu@uci.edu | Justin Casper | casperj@uci.edu | Abdulaziz Albarakah | aalbarak@uci.edu | Design and Development | Please CC casperj@uci.edu and aalbarak@uci.edu in every email, thanks! |
| MAE0136 | Solar Car | Jack Brouwer | The team will be designing and building a solar car to compete in the 2018 American Solar Challenge. The American Solar Challenge is an endurance race covering nearly 2000 miles in 4 days. The design of the car must conform to the ASC rules and will include mechanical and electrical systems design. | Brandon Larson, Stacey Agustin, Yulissa Lemus | bclarson@uci.edu, agustins@uci.edu, ylemusre@uci.edu | David Kincade | dkincade@uci.edu | Stacey Agustin | agustins@uci.edu | Brandon Larson | bclarson@uci.edu | Brandon Larson is Project Manager Stacey Agustin is Mechanical Lead Yulissa Lemus is Electrical Lead | |
| MAE0137 | UCI CanSat | Roger Rangel | Design, build and test a simulated space probe to carry a delicate payload and survive launch, deployment, descent, and landing, collecting and processing aerodynamic data along the way. Competition to take place in early summer. | Emiko Soroka, An B. Nguyen, Allan Shtofenmakher | esoroka@uci.edu, abnguye2@uci.edu, ashtofen@uci.edu, cansatuci@gmail.com | Emiko Soroka | esoroka@uci.edu | Allan Shtofenmakher | ashtofen@uci.edu | An B. Nguyen | abnguye2@uci.edu | Design Competition | Our website is sites.google.com/a/uci.edu/cansat. Inquiries about the project should be emailed to cansatuci@gmail.com. |
| MAE0142 | Advanced Combustion Technology | Derek Dunn-Rankin | Advanced Combustion Technology focuses on the design of a methane hydrate efficiency analysis prototype for research applications of potential energy resources. | Robinson Ramos | ramosre@uci.edu | ramosre@uci.edu | |||||||
| MAE0143 | Modular CubeSat | Kenneth Mease | The Modular CubeSat project’s goal is to design, build, and launch a modular phone based CubeSat. | Ben Sorensen | sorenseb@uci.edu | Benjamin Sorensen | sorenseb@uci.edu | Siddharth Baranwal | sbaranwa@uci.edu | Benjamin Sorensen | sorenseb@uci.edu | N/A | |
| MAE0145 | M-freewheel | Yun Wang | Students will design and machine a frictionless flywheel using magnet bearing and vacuum enclosure. | Zhuowei Zhang | zhuoweiz@uci.edu | zhuoweiz@uci.edu | |||||||
| MAE0146 | Flapping MAV | Haithem E. Taha | The project’s objective is to design, fabricate, and fly a micro air vehicle capable of hovering. The vehicle has to be less than 15 cm in length, width, and height. | Jeffrey Staton | jstaton@uci.edu | Lisheng Wang | lishenw1@uci.edu | Bao Pham | bgpham@uci.edu | Yizhou Pan | yizhoup1@uci.edu | ||
| MAE0147 | AIAA Design Build Fly | Robert Liebeck | The UC Irvine Design/Build/Fly team is a senior design project which designs, manufactures, and competes electric remote-control airplanes in the annual international Design/Build/Fly competition, allowing students to validate analytic studies through practical application and gain real-world aircraft design experience. | Kevin Sadeghian, Ryan Razo, Ryan Luu | rnluu@uci.edu | Ryan Razo | rrazo@uci.edu | Kevin Sadeghian | rnluu@uci.edu | Ryan Luu | rnluu@uci.edu | N/A | Please include: rrazo@uci.edu, rnluu@uci.edu, and ksadeghi@uci.edu on every email |
| MAE0148 | AFRL High Heat Flux Test Bed | John LaRue | The objective of this project is to design, develop, and fabricate a testbed capable of producing and dissipating high heat fluxes/loads. | Matthew Hastings | hastingm@uci.edu | Kohsuke Hirano | kthirano@uci.edu | Matthew Hastings | hastingm@uci.edu | Trevor Morgan | tamorgan@uci.edu | ||
| MAE0149 | Cargo Plane | John LaRue | This project is meant to design a heavy lift RC airplane that follows the guidelines of the SAE Aero West Regular class competition rules. | Tyler Gorman | tgorman@uci.edu | Christian Rayfield | crayfiel@uci.edu | Brandon Ialenti | bialenti@uci.edu | Tyler Gorman | tgorman@uci.edu | N/A | |
| MAE0152 | Fuel Cell Battery | Yun Wang | The purpose of the project is to design and fabricate a self-sustaining cycle using the following main components; fuel cell, solar panel, and electrolyzer. | Reagan E Yap Chenming Cui | reyap@uci.edu, chenminc@uci.edu | Vanessa Audrey | vaudrey@uci.edu | Daniel Jesus Ovalles | dovalles@uci.edu | Yihan Wang | yihanw4@uci.edu | ||
| MAE0153 | HyperXite (Hyper Loop) | Roger Rangel | HyperXite’s goal is to create a prototype Hyperloop pod that is set to revolutionize the landscape of transportation. The Hyperloop will provide unprecedented travel times between major cities through the most efficient transit system ever proposed. Since building a scaleable Hyperloop pod requires various multidisciplinary skillsets, the entire HyperXite team incorporates over 30 mechanical, aerospace, civil, electrical, and computer undergraduate engineering students who all have area-specific skills ranging from simulation to manufacturing and design. The team placed 4th at the previous Hyperloop Competition held by SpaceX, and intends to compete at the next upcoming competition this Summer (2018). | Chanceleir Schilling | cbschill@uci.edu | Andrew Tec | atec@uci.edu | Adora Tadros | aatadros@uci.edu | Chanceleir Schilling | cbschill@uci.edu | Andrew Tec is Team Captain and should be included in all emails. Email: atec@uci.edu | |
| MAE0154 | Solar Airplane | Yun Wang | Solar Airplane is designing and producing a continuously, autonomously-flying solar-powered UAV that will charge during the day and discharge at night, while supporting a one kilogram, generalized technological payload. | Miran Govind | mgovind@uci.edu | Parth Desai & Bismarck Chiang | prdesai1@uci.edu; bismarcc@uci.edu | ||||||
| MAE0156 | Rescue Robotics | Ian Harris, Jeff Krichmar, J. Michael McCarthy | Design and implementation of autonomous ground and aerial vehicles capable of finding natural disaster victims and reporting back their pictures and global position. | Farah Arabi | farabi@uci.edu | Vicki Au | vickia@uci.edu | Tracy Ogata | tyogata@uci.edu | Joseph Gonzales | josepdg1@uci.edu | ||
| MAE0157 | UCI Rocket Project | Kenneth Mease | The main goal for this project is to launch a liquid fueled rocket to an altitude of 45,000 feet on May 5th, 2018. In order to get there we will be having several tests of components of our rocket. Some notable tests will be a hydrostatic test on our fuel tanks in November, a static test fire of our engine in late December, and a complete systems test in early March. In the process of accomplishing this, we hope to give every member on the team real world engineering experience that will benefit his or her academic and professional lives. | Stephen Moes | smoes@uci.edu | Khanh Pham | khanhhp1@uci.edu | Stephen Moes | smoes@uci.edu | Brian Vu | bdvu1@uci.edu | ||
| MAE0158 | UAV Forge | Haithem E. Taha | UAV Forge is an interdisplinary engineering project that strives to help students gain hands-on experiences with creating an unmanned aerial vehicles dedicated to autonomous remote surveillance. Originally for a 2011 DARPA competition of the same name, UAV Forge aimed to design, build, code, and fly an autonomous VTOL-capable (vertical take-off and landing) drone for tactical deployment by military operators. The project now purses a new competition called AUVSI SUAS, a student competition hosted by AUVSI. The competition tasks include creating an UAV with obstacle avoidance, air delivery, and object detection functionalities. Please contact Professor Taha or email the Project Leads at uavforge.uci.sdp@gmail.com for more information. | Ariel Louie Kristen Okano Che-Wei (Willy) Chang | louieaj@uci.edu, okanok@uci.edu, chewec2@uci.edu, uavforge.uci.sdp@gmail.com | Kyle Krumrei | kkrumrei@uci.edu | Kenzo Spaulding | kdspauld@uci.edu | Gabriel Mendez | mendezge@uci.edu | Project Lead's email: uavforge.uci.sdp@gmail.com | |
| MAE0159 | Spacecraft Thermal Systems | Khalid Rafique, Martha Mecartney, John LaRue | The Variable Emissivity Radiator being researched and designed at UCI provides control to lower the outer surface emissivity during sunlight exposure, and increase it again to dissipate internal heat, all while using minimal power and no moving components. | Calvin Belcher | cbelcher@uci.edu | Tiffany Gu | gut1@uci.edu | William Jo | wjo1@uci.edu | Patrick James Myers | pjmyers@uci.edu | NiO Team Lead is Jasmin Guerrero (jasminvg@uci.edu) Tungsten Team Lead is Bijan Gharib (bgharib@uci.edu) | |
| MAE0165 | VTOL First Responder | Ken Mease | The goal of this project is to build an RC tilt-wing aircraft which can carry a defibrillator or first aid kit for emergency response. Combining the speed advantage of a fixed wing in longer range and the operational utility of vertical flight, this aircraft will be in great use for an event such as the Vegas shooting that just happened and anywhere that an ambulance is not quick enough. As for the basic requirements of the design, it will have to take off vertically and be able to carry 3 lb of payload with a range of 10 miles. Moreover, analyzing the performance of the wing in constant propwash during the hover to cruise transition in CFD would be another area of the research. | Zihao Zou | zzou1@uci.edu | Yi Hsu | yhsu6@uci.edu | Nuo Tian | nuot@uci.edu | Robert Ai | robertai0811@gmail.com | ||
| MAE0170 | Proprioception Trainer | David Reinkensmeyer | Develop a safe device and software for helping people to retrain their finger proprioception at home after stroke | Allison Hobbick | ahobbick@uci.edu | Luis Avalos | leavalos@uci.edu | Nicholas Hunt | huntnr@uci.edu | Yamile Cornejo | ycornejo@uci.edu | Rehab Robotics | Please include: duongdv@uci.edu and hair@uci.edu on all emails |
| MAE0171 | Force Reflecting Hand Controller | David Reinkensmeyer | Force Reflecting Hand controller (FRHC) is a device that JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) made in 1980. Its purpose is connect human operator with objectives through a handgrip and mechanical links. The mechanical links has plurality of rotary joints that provide at least three rotational degrees of freedom and three translational degrees of freedom. Furthermore, a cable and pulley assembly is connected to a corresponding motor to transmit forces from machine back to handgrip which provides force feedback to human operator. Thereof, FRHC is a six-degree of freedom haptic device which provides force feedback for its operator and allows human to control objectives precisely. | Hongyu Wang | hongyuw5@uci.edu | Jingyi Yang | jingyiy5@uci.edu | Boya Sun | boyas@uci.edu | Chenxi Ji | chenxij@uci.edu | Rehab Robotics | Siddharth Baranwal is Hardware Lead |
| MAE0172 | Interactive Humanoid Robot | David Reinkensmeyer | Develop a humanoid robot with interactive features. The robot will comprise of a fully developed arm, torso, and head based improvements made to the InMoov robot design. Interactive features will be added with the use of a Kinect Camera in order to recognize gesture actions, as well as voice recognition technology to be able to respond to limited voice commands. | Kyle Del Campo | delcampk@uci.edu | Yixia Chen | yixiac@uci.edu | Kyle Del Campo | delcampk@uci.edu | Tony Moc | tmoc@uci.edu | Rehab Robotics | |
| MAE0173 | MPOWRD Wheelchair | David Reinkensmeyer | Marlayna Montenegro | mvmonten@uci.edu | Michael Chavez | micharc1@uci.edu | Nick Talebi | talebin@uci.edu | Marlayna Montenegro | mvmonten@uci.edu | Rehab Robotics | Co-Lead: Nick Talebi | |
| MAE0174 | E-thermosensor | Yun Wang | Study the priciple of thermocouples and then manufacture a thermocouple. Then we will narrow down the diamter of it and try to replace the material with the graphene. Therefore, we can improve the accuracy and shorten the time response of the thermocouple. Moreover, we will apply bluetooth technology on the thermocouple so that we manufacture an e-thermosensor which allow user to monitor one point temperature and predict the temperature gradient for a surface. | WeiShun Lin | weishunl@uci.edu | Abdullah Mahmoud A Dada | amdada@uci.edu | Matthew Thanh Cao | mtcao@uci.edu | Tingrui Chen | tingruic@uci.edu | ||
| MAE0175 | Survivor Detection and Location Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (SDL UAV) | Ian Harris | SDL UAV's project goal is to combine multidisciplinary skillsets from electrical and mechanical engineering to engineer a drone capable of detecing survivors buried beneath debris following natural disasters. Our drone will have autonomous capability, while being low cost and easy to assemble. Microwave Doppler technology will be used to detect survivors chest displacements through various mediums. | Andrew Nicholas Tran | andrent2@uci.edu | Justyn Elliott | Justyne@uci.edu | Andrew Tran | Andrent2@uci.edu | Scott Yamamoto | sayamamo@uci.edu | ||
| MAE0176 | Advanced Combustion Hot Air balloon | Derek Dunn-Rankin | To build and design a test rig to allow proper measurements of combustion efficiency for a hot air balloon burner using an emission analyzer. | Nick Auwaijan | nauwaija@uci.edu | Adrian Velasco | ajvelas1@uci.edu | Leo Salgado | lssalgad@uci.edu | Alec Carruthers | carrutha@uci.edu | Advanced Combustion |