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Design and Feasibility Study of Personal Ornithopters

Abel, Imoleayo (2014)

While personal jet packs may not be practical, an electromechanically-assisted set of wings may be. No modern heavier-than-air craft flaps its wings; conversely, no bird, bat or insects relies upon fixed wings. Bio-mimicry ...

Design and Implementation of a Four-Panel Solar Array on the Lamb-Miller Field House Roof

Branco-Lo, Isabelle (2018)

A four panel solar array was designed and implemented to offset the power of the Clothier Field Stadium and the Clothier Baseball Field scoreboards as well as all of the coaches' office lights in the Lamb-Miller Field ...

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 ...

The Design of a Wind Tunnel Testing System for Model Airborne Wind Energy Systems

Millette, Quentin (2020)

In the last decades there has been rapid growth of renewable energy technologies in lout of societies increased energy demand. Among these technologies, wind generators are among the most widely used type of energy ...

Design of an Atraumatic Laparoscopic Grasper

Emery, Christine (2016)

In this E90, I propose a novel laparoscopic grasper design that is intended to reduce the risk of inadvertent tissue damage during surgery. The small, V-shaped jaws of traditional laparoscopic graspers apply high and uneven ...

Design, Construction, and Testing of an Electrodynamic Uniaxial Bench-Scale Shake Table

Wu, Sizhao (Bill) (2015)

A bench-scale shake table was designed and constructed for the Swarthmore College Engineering Department. The frame of the shake table was made of Unistrut. It's powered by a motor with a complete built-in servo control ...

Designing a Ceramic Printhead for a RepRap 3-D Printer

Arnone, Luke (2014)

Building on an open-source RepRap 3D printer platform, an extruder for porcelain clay paste is developed and tested. Using a syringe-based, air pressure-driven extruder, objects are fabricated at a 3.3 mm resolution and ...

Designing A Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Vehicle: To compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon

Verhasselt, Eric (2013)

The goal of this project is to design and build an environmentally beneficial prototype of a vehicle that operates efficiently on hydrogen fuel cells. The vehicle will be constructed to the specifications set forth so that ...

Designing a Microprocessor on an FPGA

Emmons, Kira (2020)

The goal of this project is to create a Verilog model of a microprocessor and to then run it on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). This project is building off of the final project from E25: Computer Architecture, ...

Designing a Wearable Wireless Bioimpedance Circuit

Huchra, Harry (2018)

I worked with Professor Maggie Delano to design and prototype a wearable bioimpedance monitor to help patients at risk for congestive heart failure (CHF) monitor their condition. According to the CDC over 5.7 million ...

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 ...

Development and Analysis of Phosphorescent and Translucent Concrete: A study fabricating and testing the applications of an optical fiber matrix and phosphorescent strontium aluminate powder additive to a cementitious mixture

Bednar, Ross; Merritt, Sam (2018)

Samples of white portland cement were prepared using various methods and employing one of two non-traditional admixtures. Three samples were made containing rare-earth doped strontium aluminate. The first was mixed in ...

Eldridge Commons Aquaponics System

Xiao, Terrence (2020)

The primary subject explored by this project was aquaponics. Aquaponics’ potential as a form of sustainable agriculture largely stems from its efficient nutrient cycling, but the same ecological properties make aquaponics ...

Electromyography Analysis and Recognition for Human Device Interface

Nahmias, David (2014)

The desire to control and manipulate computers and human device interfaces (HDI) in more natural ways has been sought after for some time. This Engineering 090 project looks use hand movements and motions to control an ...

Embedded Sensor Prototype for Monitoring Water Flow

Borris, Mercer; Brakeman, Sara (2016)

In high-rise apartment buildings, there are many pipes as part of the supply and drainage system for potable water. Leaks in these pipes result in a waste of usable water and money, especially when they are internal. In ...

Embedded Video and Image Processing using ARM based FPGA

Sullivan, Danielle; Bailey, Eliza (2014)

To meet the demands of the real-time video and image processing (VIP) applications, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is considered as one of the ideal system architectures for implementation. It is because the customizable ...

Emissions Free Transportation for Swarthmore College

Jensen, Erik; Lee, Tony (2015)

Transportation and electricity sectors account for over 67% of Swarthmore College's greenhouse gas emissions in 2013. As the College explores ways to reduce its carbon footprint, this project examines how photovoltaics and ...

Energy from Switchgrass: Bio-Mass Conversion Analysis

Prymak, Eugene (2013)

A model is presented for the production of switchgrass and its conversion to bio-oil using fast pyrolysis. Switchgrass is a leading energy crop because of its high biomass yield in a variety of soil conditions. For ...

Exploration of Multi-Objective, Piecewise Benefit Function Linear Program Solution Algorithms

Friske, Spencer (2016)

Given life's scarcity of resources, decision-making is an omnipresent component of both society and the human experience. Individually, we routinely face choices that range from mundane to life changing. As a society, we ...

Fluorescence Microscopy Computational Model

Asiedu, Kwame (2018)

Fluorescence microscopy is an extremely useful biological tool used to detect specific molecules within a specimen. Fluorescence microscopy is widely used for the purpose of cancer detection. When trying to locate cancerous ...

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