• Furling Fern: A Sculptural Design From Construction To Installation 

  Walker-Andrews, Tristan (2022)

  This project follows the production of a large scale public sculpture from initial design to fabrication and installation. With the goal of sustainability, this project primarily utilized recycled steel, salvaged from past ...
• Life Cycle Analysis of Mass Timber Products Use of Crude Oil and Possible End of Life Reduction 

  Moeller, Stefen (2022)

  Mass timber products promise a new form of construction over traditional building materials like reinforced concrete and steel with a variety of advantages including reduced construction time, the benefits of greater ...
• Pilot-Scale Plant Wall for Singer Hall Commons 

  Atkinson, Lucy; Bronkema, Bethany; Tate, Spencer (2022)

  For this engineering design project, a pilot-scale, self-watering plant wall with an interactive audio element was designed and constructed for the purpose of enhancing Singer Hall Commons. An Arduino based system was ...
• Integrated LiDAR Based Cycler Safety System 

  Malcolm, Patterson; Neureiter, Luke (2022)

  This project aimed to produce a working prototype of an onboard rear detection safety system for cyclists. The project goals were outlined as iterative with the main priority being an operational rear-facing detection ...
• Using Support Vector Classifiers to Determine Cancerous Breast Histopathology Images 

  Webb, Owen (2022)

  With breast cancer being a leading type of cancer in women, any help that can be given to support early detection should be applied. Therefore, the goal of this project is to use machine learning to aid a pathologist in ...
• Implementing Model Predictive Control on an Inverted Pendulum 

  Parks, Noah (2022)

  Inverted pendulums are a class of systems of great interest to engineers. Many systems requiring vertical stabilization can be modeled as one. They are a classic example of a nonlinear, unstable system and designing a ...
• Pumped Hydro Storage Systems: Experimentation and Applications 

  Russo, Nate (2022)

  Increasing yearly energy demands, especially in the water sector, has led to a global interest in renewable energy which has now shifted the focus to energy storage. The purpose of this project was to design and build a ...
• Simulating Hand Gestures in Robotic Finger Digits using EMG Classification 

  Blodgett, Nora; Amjad, Suley (2022)

  The applications of electromyography (EMG) are currently at the forefront of many biomedical engineering research endeavors. For instance, current research examines the synthesis of human hand EMG signals with mechanical ...
• Methodology for Estimating Transportation Carbon Emissions in the U.S. Mass Timber Supply Chain and Case Studies 

  Lee, Kyle (2022)

  Composite mass timber materials including Glue-Laminated Timber (Glulam) and Cross- Laminated Timber (CLT) are gaining popularity in the building and construction industry. Although the embodied carbon created by ...
• A Reaction Control System of Thrusters for Model Rocketry 

  Dee, Kevin (2022)

  In rocketry, one of the most basic design requirements is that the rocket flies with stability. In this project, I sought to bring a new method of achieving stable flight to hobby rocketry by designing a reaction control ...
• Testing the Capabilities of a Low-Cost Hyperspectral Camera for Mineralogical Identification 

  Ando, Jordan K. (2022)

  We construct a visible-to-near-infrared hyperspectral camera based on the design from Salazar-Vazquez and Mendez-Vazquez (2020) [1]. Moreover, we conduct preliminary tests of its ability to sample the characteristic ...
• Lensless Diffuser Camera 

  Kavounas, Jane (2022)

  The technology of cameras has improved drastically over the past 100 years. However, has their development gone too far? Traditional cameras now require many resources and a complicated build, especially when it comes to ...
• Reflection 

  Schneider, Ilana (2022)

  What Is Engineering? One component of engineering I wish Swarthmore would’ve prepared me for is the ubiquity of this question. As I began my engineering journey, trying to explain what engineering is proved surprisingly ...
• Imaging Moving Samples with Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy and Variational Autoencoders 

  Hu, Yiyin Yolanda; Olsen, Erik Andrew (2022)

  Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM) is a computational optics imaging technique that alleviates the trade-off between image field-of-view and resolution. While previous research has shown that deep learning algorithms ...
• Design and Modeling of Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Systems 

  Penfold, Brendan (2022)

  In this project computer modeling was used to design a borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) system. This system would store energy in order to heat and cool three dorms on the Swarthmore College campus effectively and ...
• Solar-Powered Art Installation 

  Jeschke, Momi (2022)

  The goal of this project was to build a solar powered machine that would display a changing laser diode light show depending on the amount of fossil fuels the school is currently burning. The machine would use the solar ...
• Micromanaging Traffic Systems With Microcontrollers 

  Jatto, Ehiremen Justin (2022)

  This final report summarizes my work on ‘Micromanaging Traffic Systems With Microcontrollers’ for the spring of 2022. The paper is mostly concerned with detailing the process of developing a traffic model system that ...
• Fourier Optics 

  DEJENE, BIRUH TESFA (2022)

  Fourier analysis is a key tool in physics and engineering in the broadest sense and is particularly used in the field of optics to design and study the properties of advanced imaging systems. For my E90 final project, I ...
• Adaptation of a Viking Boat 

  Rich, Leia; Strachan, Megan (2021)

  This project is focused on the simulation and adaptation of a Viking boat. Using the Danish Viking Museum’s open-source plans from the Gislinge Boat Project, we constructed a two-thirds scale of the boat and adapted the ...
• Software Defined Radar Using Coffee Can Antennas 

  Rubin, George (2021)

  Radar is an electrical system which transmits radio waves (20 kHz to 300 GHz) toward a target region and observes reflections of those waves from objects in that region. Based on the structure of the received signal, ...

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