• A Life Cycle Assessment of Biodiesel Produced from Waste Vegetable Oil 

  Camacho, Kayla (2019)

  Biofuels have received considerable attention as a more sustainable solution for heating applications. Used vegetable oil, normally considered a waste product, has been suggested as a possible candidate. Herein we perform ...
• Design and Implementation of Dockless Bike-Sharing Service for Swarthmore College 

  Lee, Hyong Hark (2019)

  Dockless bike-sharing services are burgeoning in popularity because of its ubiquitous access, convenience, and lower costs compared to docked bike-sharing schemes, yet it retains the flaw that pierces all commercial ...
• Swat’s Hot Spots: Using Thermal Heat Sensors to Monitor the Use of Spaces at Swarthmore 

  Thompson, Hannah; Hilburn, Rachel (2019)

  There have been many successful installations in the recent past of sensor based projects to assess and communicate the availability of different spaces. One example of this is the growing use of ultrasonic sensors and ...
• Prototyping a Wearable Bioimpedance Spectroscopy Monitoring System 

  Wang, Ke (Will); Gu, Jerry (2019)

  Continuous body composition analysis provides valuable information to better monitor and manage the well-being of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), a chronic disease that primarily affects people of old age. ...
• Live RSSI Mapping System 

  Nguyen, Timothy; Shah, Neeraj (2019)

  For our final engineering project, we wanted to explore a quality assurance problem related to networking. We successfully built a heat-map that intuitively displays the strength of wireless signals. The project has two ...
• Parking Lot Storage for Sample Tube Collection by a Fetch Rover 

  Studier, Greta (2019)

  I worked remotely for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for my semester-long senior engineering design project, designing a parking lot storage solution for sample tubes on a fetch rover as part of JPL’s Mars Sample ...
• Optimizing Optode Layout for Small-scale Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) 

  Kim, Hyeongmin; Meyers-Lee, Gabriel (2019)

  Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) uses electromagnetic radiation in the infrared and near infrared spectrum to image the blood flow and metabolic activity of the brain in real-time. Multiple light sources and ...
• A low-cost myoelectric robotic hand prosthetic 

  Hernandez, Jesus; Luciano, Nicholas (2019)

  Robotics is revolutionizing the effectiveness and capabilities of limb prostheses. They vary widely in their level of sophistication, with the myoelectric kind at the highest level. These prostheses use EMG signals to ...
• Building and Calibrating a Geiger Meter and Mapping Radiation 

  Gilchrist, Will; Wesley, Rachel (2019)

  Radiation commonly refers to the photons or subatomic particles that are expelled from atomic nuclei during decay or fission. It is an unavoidable fact of daily life; the body is bombarded with radiation every minute. ...
• Identifying the Presence of Biomarkers Using Compressed Sensing and Deep Learning 

  Bahmane, Mariam (2019)

  This E90 project aims to identify and select the four most representative frequencies that identify the presence of biomarkers in biological tissues. Compressed sensing and deep learning were used as systematic processes ...
• Wearable Tech Device for the Administration of Light Emitting Diode Therapy 

  Miller, Julius (2019)

  A custom-made wearable electronics jacket prototype was assembled that incorporated an interconnected array of LEDs to administer therapeutic effects for individuals who could not have access to a traditional clinic to ...
• Autonomously Learning Walking Policy Using Deep Neural Networks 

  Vik, Christian (2019)

  Training agents to learn policies on complex problems has been computationally too expensive for a long time. Even after the advent of the neural network, the computational requirements exceeded the abilities of our ...
• Incorporating Gray Infrastructure into the GreenPhilly Research Group’s StormWISE Model 

  Watson, Brendan (2019)

  The StormWISE model was created to evaluate optimal stormwater management strategies at the watershed level. The model solves for optimal green infrastructure implementation based on a desired annual CSO reduction level. ...
• Comparative Analysis of 3D Printed Propellers 

  Andrews, Dyami (2019)

  This project aims to design and test 3D printed propellers for drone applications. Through a self-developed iterative design process utilising MIT’s QMIL program, this project hope to increase the power transmission ...
• Subway Carriage Density Awareness System 

  Nerurkar, Arijit; Wilson, Taylor (2019)

  The purpose of this project was to design a person counter to track people in the carriage of a subway train, and relay this information to commuters via wireless communication. Major accomplishments include use of IR ...
• Developing a Calf Volume Measurement System for a Wearable Bio-impedance Spectroscopy Device 

  Kemal, Abdul (2019)

  Bioimpedance spectroscopy is a measurement system that allows us to measure how small painless current is impeded as it flows through body tissue, enabling us to gather information on the composition of fluids. It can ...
• 3D Imaging of Transparent Biological Specimens with Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy 

  Veron Ferreira, Francisco (2019)

  Imaging biological samples comes with a unique set of challenges. One of those challenges is accounting for the thickness of the samples, requiring us to use three-dimensional imaging techniques. Due to their low refractive ...
• Controller Design for Complex Path Following of the TurtleBot 

  Xu, David (2018)

  This project aims to design and implement a controller for the TurtleBot, available in the Swarthmore Robotics Lab, in order to enable the robot to move smoothly along complicated curved paths. A Smith Predictor, a ...
• Self-Driving Campus Vehicle 

  Powell, Josh; Higashi, Yosuke; Ho, Matt (2018)

  We added self-driving capabilities to Emily Kan and Danielle Miller's go-kart from their 2006 E90 project, further modified by Michael Chen and Chris Grasberger in 2017. We were able to achieve our main project goals ...
• General Case Automated Control of Window Shades With Sample Applications 

  Yu, Tiffany; Perez-Putnam, Gabriel (2018)

  This project aims to automate the control of window shades through a unit comprised of a microcontroller, a motor, sensors and necessary connections. The unit's general function is controlled by a program that adjusts ...

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