2014 Engineering Design Showcase

500+ engineering students participate in 2014 Design Showcase

The College of Engineering at UC Davis presented its fourth annual Engineering Design Showcase on June 5, 2014, at the Pavilion on the university campus. The event featured 117 teams and more than 500 students. More than 100 industry representatives from 67 companies participated as judges, an incredible demonstration of industry support for our college.

The 2014 Engineering Design Showcase was made possible by the generous support of lead sponsor Chevron, with additional support from Aerojet, Agilent Technologies, Banks Integration Group, Biorad, Boeing, Robert Frankenberg (UC Davis ’92, UCSF  ’01), Northrup Grumman, Schlumberger, SMUD, and Union Pacific.

Photos from the event are available on the College of Engineering’s Flickr pages:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ucdaviscoe/sets/72157644634846017/

Videos

The following videos feature a few examples of students and projects featured in the 2014 Engineering Design Showcase.

Strawberry Robot Team: http://youtu.be/JEPbCn02o-4
The project designed, built, and tested a harvest-aid robotic vehicle that will increase the efficiency of human workers by transporting strawberry flats from the field harvesters to the furrow ends quickly and safely.

Sepsis Support for Google Glass: http://youtu.be/i9mwqxiWysI
This team used Google Glass technology to provide clinical data and intelligent decision support to doctors in cases of sepsis so they can provide informed, quality care that can potentially save lives.

MALL-E: http://youtu.be/rloCGs7dZJQ
This team was tasked with using robotic technology to measure and plot the magnetic field within the beam deflector of the Crocker Nuclear Lab’s particle accelerator.

CORe (Cadaver Organ Retrieval) Biopsy Device: http://youtu.be/Hwp22azxFVc
The CORe device is a minimally-invasive biopsy device that consistently samples layers of tissue in a cadaver in order to assist in the information provided by virtual autopsy.

Wounded Veteran Mobile Dog Kennel Team: http://youtu.be/2mbkD6n4wJ
To allow the health professionals at the VA to focus on patient-centric care, this team was engaged to design, build, and test a prototype dog kennel for use by wounded veterans’ companion dogs.

Fungi Finder Team: http://youtu.be/6DJ_th3O3T4
An Android application for mycologists to use in the field to record their findings.

Biodegradable Esophageal Stent: http://youtu.be/9VIFOgTfqCw ##
This team designed a biodegradable stent for children with swallowing problems.

(Videos produced by Conner Frey ’16, Maria Ines Vargas-Perez ’17, Michelle Tran ’14, and Watson Lu ’14. Except ##, produced by Isabel Fischer of UC Davis News Service)

Sandia Award

The recipient of the 2014 Sandia Engineering Design Award was the team of George Correa, Richard Huber, Asun Oka, and Kaylee Thatcher, students in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. The students won the Sandia Award for their project “Feasibility Study on the Commercial Production of Anti-Sarin Pharmaceutical in Rice Cells.” The team’s adviser was Prof. Karen McDonald.

The Sandia Engineering Design Award, sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, recognizes outstanding innovation in engineering design in a project that contributes to the national security of the United States, either defense, natural resources, or economy. Entries are judged on the basis of a written report and an oral poster presentation at the Engineering Design Showcase.

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