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Alice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Description: Squishy robots are rapidly deployable mobile sensing robots for disaster rescue, remote monitoring and space exploration. Our emergent technologies are at the fusion of robotics, mobile sensing, machine learning, big data fusion and smart IoT (Internet of Things). Our first target market was the HazMat and CBRNE (Chemical, biological...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Squishy robots are rapidly deployable mobile sensing robots for disaster rescue, remote monitoring and space exploration. Our emergent technologies are at the fusion of robotics, mobile sensing, machine learning, big data fusion and smart IoT (Internet of Things). This semester we will focus on smart sensor robots for early detection...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Project #1. theDesignExchange.org: (1) theDesignExchange: We are in the process of designing and developing the DesignExchange, an interactive web portal for the design and design strategy community. The DesignExchange aims to meet three needs: consolidate and organize the many design and design research methods used, develop a community of practitioners...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAlice Agogino - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This research project originated from a longstanding relationship between the Pinoleville Pomo Nation from Northern California and an interdisciplinary research group from UC Berkeley. After conversations with the Tribal Council and researchers’ participation in tribal gatherings, issues around well-being, and education were identified as areas of common interest. One...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We are seeking motivated students to contribute to the design, fabrication, and testing of wave energy converters (WECs) for autonomous sailboat drones. The goal is to develop compact, efficient systems that harvest wave energy to extend mission endurance. Students will gain hands-on experience in mechanical design, marine engineering, prototyping...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project develops swarm of autonomous sailboat drones powered by a hybrid renewable energy system that integrates wind propulsion, wave energy harvesting, and solar power generation. The vessels are designed for long-duration, self-sustained operation at sea, enabling continuous environmental monitoring without reliance on external charging infrastructure. The platform...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We have a few experimental research projects in the area of fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, aerospace engineering, and ocean engineering. These are serious research projects that potentially can be done by undergraduate students. By serious it means that there is a potential for publication or presenting your results in national and...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesReza Alam - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Two positions available: 1) Design and fabrication, 2) Modeling and Controller Design Field Oriented Control (FOC) is an advanced commutation and current control technique that allows Brushless DC (BLDC) motors to run more efficiently, with a higher power factor, with smoother motion (less torque ripple), and with no compromise in...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesGeorge Anwar - Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Automate a traditional Indonesian 3D shadow stick puppet to play a traditional Gamelan (an Indonesian percussion instrument...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmin Jazaeri - Director of Instructional Support, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will design experiments that can be controlled remotely through the internet...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesSimo Makiharju - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Gas-liquid flows play an important role in the environment, and in many transportation, biological and industrial processes. The FLOW lab is presently studying 1) structures of gas jets in water, 2) gas entertainment by plunging water jets, 3) air-water flows for frictional drag reduction, and 4) forces on...
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