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Our product is a remote controlled automated swing sized for a full-grown adult that gives the user a pleasant swinging motion. It was designed specifically for Jacob, a local teenager with physical and mental disabilities

Jacob Hogan, Sabrina Johnson, Sabrina Kim, Danielle Lawhorn, Ellenor Smethurst, and Michael Zimmerman

Styrofoam is extremely difficult to recycle due to its low density. Our product will allow homeowners an easy method to densify Styrofoam waste to make it more easily recyclable.

Colin Boice, John Lathrop, Anthony Moscato, Matt Walters, Jeffrey Wong, and Dmitriy Yarunin

Recycling is crucial to lowering global emissions and reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. Our project recycles plastics based on resin ID codes, a government mandated label on plastics that is currently not being taken advantage of in recycling centers.

Kelly Ebner, Matthew Fletcher, Maggie Hathway, Jacqueline Kerlin, Anthony Mahshigian, and Ali Morsy

This product will take a daily water sample for famers and researchers to track the nitrogen levels in the water, and will cut down on having to pay a diver to collect samples.

Walter Joy, John Iannuzzi, Max Scott, Chris Spiess, and Jeremy Sweer

This headset is designed to simulate glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts, and retinopathy. Doctor’s using this device seek to educate their patients of the potential effects of their future possible condition without proper care and mitigation.

Abdurrahman Afeefy, Charles Akinmade, Samuel Owolabi, and Thomas Steele

The product collects, filters, and enhances household greywater to optimal contaminant and nutrient levels appropriate for residential hydroponic gardening. From the convenience of a bathroom vanity, the user will have a nutrient-rich water source that can be used to grow plants and food, promoting a sustainable environment.

Omer Bowman, Aditya Gupta, Antonio Karides, Nguyen Nguyen, Shankar Seharaseyon, and Andrew Shannon

The VDU will provide a COVID safe environment for in-person class within educational trailers. The system will increase airflow, filter, sanitize, and monitor the air with reactive capabilities.

Kian Memarzadeh, Griffith Speis, Ian Edmundson, Tommy Jurgens, and Sheanan Warner

The Elderly Stand Assist Device is a portable device that fits in many chairs and helps the user stand from a seated position. This device is designed to aid those who struggle to stand independently.

Salman Bhatti, Matthew Davis, Michael Elby,
Mordy Goldberger, and Daniel Kirchner

Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease affects millions of Americans and people worldwide by diminishing their ability to complete simple daily tasks; this includes being able to write legibly over a long duration. Our team’s design aims to eliminate most of the unwanted tremor during the writing process and allow patients more independence in writing.
 

Emily Kopp, Jordan Mwebaze, Diego Principe, Isaac Schlotterbeck, Sara Serrano, and Yelena Stuherck

This Human Powered washing machine requires no electrical input to operate. By pushing onto a set of pedals, customers can wash clothes 5 times faster, with less required energy than hand washing.

Elizabeth Childs, Vsevolod Zhuravskiy, Matthew O’Connell, Alec Hall, and Daven Patel

Aims to remove the label and adhesive from recyclable bottles of various sizes. Eventually aims to sort the bottles and labels in different containers for eventual removal.

Joseph Ables, Nikita Dobkin, Ramez Kazartsav, Fares Kazartsev, Aaron Mendelsohn, and Marissa Pasquinelli

Users can control the SuperStair using our dual handle design to assist them in going up and down stairs, whilst transporting items within our removable container. The system is supported through a drivetrain with a worm gear and 10-20 beam.

Anthony Ferrara, Dustin Hartnett, Nina Horne, Victoria Marella, and John Ognisty

The Walk n’ Ride allows for users to have a supported walking experience, and when necessary, the ability to ride the device like a scooter. With its two-form feature, this product will enhance the user’s mobility, independence, and livelihood.

Stephen Cha, Anthony Chin, Benjamin Krohn, Wesley Nicholson, and Eugene Park

The diamondback crate is an artifact preservation device designed to ensure safe transportation of archeological artifacts. Our system utilizes damping for the artifact package and thermal insulation to ensure a safe and stable environment.

Fernando Argaez, Mohamed Bangura, Scott Hanna, Danyal Malik, Paul Nyirinkindi, and Andreas Osiander

The wearable hand disease simulator fits to a large range of adult hand sizes, and replicates the joint restricting effects of arthritis at adjustable levels of severity for use in accessible design studies. The assembly uses flexible strips along the finger with clamps that apply frictional resistance as they move, and is designed to be used in conjunction with disposable fingers cots that can be stacked to also simulate the tactile desensitization of peripheral neuropathy.

Spencer Adams, Lance Einfeld, Jamie Lawless, Zac Luc, Nathan Purnell, and Okubay Reda

Our product assists our client with cooking in his kitchen, despite a rare disability that limits him to only using his feet to perform daily tasks. Nik's Assistive Kitchen Device is catered to his needs, can raise to various heights, and is mobile, all to allow him to reach needed items and make meals in his kitchen.

Alexander Fowler, Lucy Hamilton, Mason Long, Saheli Patel, Zachary Weilminster, and Joshua Wood

Supersonic Hydroponics is an attachable device that serves as an autonomous water quality management system for existing hydroponics setups. The device removes the hassle of constantly monitoring plants by utilizing sensors, pumps, and a Raspberry Pi to ensure plants are always receiving the optimal nutrients they need.

Marcus Antomattei, Emma Cooley, Anthony Jones, Mike Mullee, Francis Sowande, and Quinn Wandalowski

Maximizing the efficiency and social utility of urban farming demands modern solutions that decrease labor and increase food production. To reach these goals, we have designed an autonomous system that can traverse rooftop farms with minimal user input, carrying equipment to manage individual crops.

Andrew Bentz, Nabeyat Getachew, Sam Giedzinski, Caleb McCoy, John Powell, and Blake Smith

As a result of rising sea levels and coastal overpopulation, housing availability has become a growing global concern. Our high-stability floating foundation, offering a customizable footprint with integrated utilities, will improve housing accessibility and promote sustainable practices.

Ben Eckley, Drew Lepre, Tim McIntyre, Robbie Nawrocki, Eric Tidd, and Bethany Wheeler

We designed a shelter that can be easily expanded/collapsed and mass-produced at a cheap cost for the people in Southeast Asia’s rural area, who often experience natural disasters like typhoons and floods. Our shelter consists of scissor lifts that allow users to easily expand and collapse the structure, water collection and purification system, bunk bed, and modularity.

Carl Allen, Isaac Carlson, Paul Davis, Yejin Moon, Zack Rufty, and Andrew Welch

Because of how niche the hobby is, ultralight backpackers can’t always find mass-market ultralight gear that is optimized for the performance they want to achieve, and the wide array of outdoor conditions and terrains they might experience; this requires them to DIY-build their gear out of existing products, which can be inefficient and expensive. Among the major categories of ultralight backpacking gear, this problem is most apparent with water filtration systems and sleeping pads.

Damian DeCandia, Reece Jones, Jared Kanik, William Menjivar, Nikolaus Meyer, and Phoebe Wong

In order to test the usability of products for people with visual impairments, a device is needed to simulate those impairments in healthy subjects. Our device simulates the effects of glaucoma, cataracts, and diabetic retinopathy at varying severities in healthy subjects by using interchangeable lenses and a wearable goggle frame.

George Drewyer, John Freal, Peter Kuffel, Cole Mckenney, Jacob Saxon, and Joseph Weir

Revolutionizing the plastics recycling industry by developing a more effective and concise product for metropolitan areas with camera vision and material spectroscopy technology.

Ryan Bandy, Anshul Bharati, Zachary Spencer, Huan Wu, David Young, and Karl Zhao

The Potty Pal is an assistive device that is designed to help users with limited mobility transition from a standing position to a seated position when using the bathroom.

Yesica Arias, Rachel Moskowitz, Marina Pietri, Priscila Rubio, Cole Schneider, and John Uncangco

Our device will lift heavy trash into the user’s existing trashcan and allow the user to drive the trashcan to the curb using a remote control carrier. The device will allow the user to separate the trashcan from the carrier to meet county collection guidelines by dropping the trash can off at the curb.

Wyatt Ahern, Wyatt Element, Caroline Griffin, Andre Leonor, Lance Morris, and Sahaj Shah

The cup counteracts undesired hand tremors from the user during operation. An inner receptacle swings in a gyroscope, secured to an outer shell which the user holds.

David Brown

Our product puts a sock on a user's foot eliminating the need for the user to bend over or pull up the sock. The autonomous device uses tracks, motors, and linear actuators to easily slide the sock onto the user’s foot.

Manuel Bascolo, Kathleen DeLeonibus, Chavin DeSilva, Robert Eby, Eric Riley, and Brendan Ziegler

Our autonomous oyster shucking system partially automates the oyster shucking process. Using a combination of conveyor belts and programmable arms, our system shucks the oyster and severs the muscle holding the two shells together.

James Busey, Nicholas Embrey, Bobir Nasafi, David Nehf, Yuri Marsov, and Matthew Mason

The Help Your-Shelf uses scissor lift technology to achieve horizontal movement out of the cabinet and over potential obstacles like microwaves or refrigerators while a winch lowers the items to a reachable level for the user. The Help Your-Shelf features a hinged door which allows it to maintain the functionality and aesthetics of a normal cabinet when fully retracted.

Bradley Evans, William Mann, Dylan Mariano, Kyle Mummey, Eric Patel, and James Vouzikia, Jr.

Through the use of auscultation and percussion, our device will detect diseases that typically require identification via a manual percussion test. To do this, our device will perform a remote percussion examination using a pneumatic cylinder within a medical kiosk.

Kelly Caulfield, Dimitri Fotopoulos, Luca Greco, Kasia Kane, Jeffrey Klepper, and Arjun Mahal

Existing recycling machines struggle to detect dark plastics causing millions of pounds of desirable plastic to end up in the landfill each year. The Dark Plastic Sorting Machine will reduce waste plastic through a unique object recognition system designed to increase both sustainability and profit.

Rylan Flint, Jared Kaplan, Nathan Rex, Charles Shearman, Thomas Sorteberg, and Anthony Tavarez

Cilantrobot harvests herbs from A-Frame vertical hydroponic systems. Our product automates one of the few remaining manual tasks in hydroponic farming, to reduce our customers' labor costs.

Jacob Croker, Peter Mnev, Wilson Orlando, Dhananjay Naranayan, Ryan Utz, and Ze'ev Yehuda

This semester, Hot Rod Engineering partnered with Volunteers for Medical Engineers (VME) to design and fabricate a hand crank tricycle for children with lower limb deficiencies. This project improves upon previous VME designs to standardize the manufacturing of these tricycles and make them adjustable.

Heather Ailinger, Patrick Brogan, Angelo DeLuca, Yoni Ferneau, Abigail Meyer, and Zachary McDonough

Our product is an electronically actuated support bar that assists people in wheelchairs while putting on their pants. The bar allows them to lean over and put their pants over their ankles and then uses underarm supports to lift the user out of their wheelchair so the pants can be hoisted to their waist.

Parker Bagshaw, Ryan Brewer, Zachary Chase, Ryan DeBello, Brandon Fayne, and Nathan Scott

Oyster farmers in Taiwan replace their oyster raft’s Styrofoam buoys every year. To prevent this material from going to waste, our Styrofoam Buoy Recycler takes old, degraded buoys and recycles them back into a usable buoy.

Kahlil Alexander, Erik Blautzik, Kush Kharod, Collin Kobel, Andrew Reggettz, and Will Washburn

Our tool is designed to assist physical therapy treatment for facial paralysis, specifically focused on Bell's Palsy. Our lightweight tool provides suction massage treatment with varying suction heads and widely customizable massage settings.

Adam Ahmed, Stephen Bray, Jeremy Brown, Joel Lee, and Evan Michaels

Our project gives football players a way to practice catching and throwing without the need of another person. The product uses a net to catch the ball, actuators to load it, and a pneumatic system to propel it downfield.

Nicholas Harris, Nathaniel Owens, Amy Trembly, and Keegan Wolf

An automatic electromechanical door opener that unlocks, opens, closes, and locks a door completely hands-free. The mechanism is operated via Bluetooth activation by a smartphone or similar Bluetooth capable device.

Triston Eirich, Joshua Smith. Devin Williams, and Wayde Yeager