Projects
Instructions
The following list of project proposals have been submitted by a variety industry, education, and research sponsors. You will have the opportunity to vote on your top three choices in the CATME Team Maker survey. The instructors will then pair a project to a team of 3 to 5 students based on the survey data. Please take note of the following guidelines:
- Be sure to note any additional requirements like sponsor location, communication needs (language, timezone), ability to travel to the sponsor's location for meetings or work, etc. Do not select projects that have requirements you can't meet.
- Many of these projects could provide leads towards internship and employment opportunities.
- All questions you have about the projects (clarity, more info, etc) should be asked on Smartsite: Q & A (Piazza) so that everyone in the class can benefit from the answers.
- There are 46 proposals, but only about 30 projects will be selected.
Project Proposal List
- 3D Printing Micro-UAVs Cyber-Human-Physical Systems Lab, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: dynamics, control, software, materials, mechanical design ID: KM32
- Adapitve Target for Jumping Studies Nike, Portland, OR, USA Relevant Skills: biomechanics, controls, microcontroller, sensing, design ID: CNA7
- Automated Device for Orienting a Cutting Tool Perpendicular to a Specimen Surface Hill Engineering, LLC, Rancho Cordova, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design ID: WHA2
- Automated Native Plant Plug Planting UCD Arboretum, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, agriculture ID: FUA7
- Automatic Board Feeder for Custom Saw/drill Station Micro-Vu Corporation, Windsor, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design ID: FMA5
- Biodesiel Sclerosis Treatment Postworks, Alameda, CA, USA Relevant Skills: thermodynamics, combustion, experimental design, instrumentation, chemistry ID: APB9
- Bus Jack Caddy Unitrans, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design ID: WUB1
- CNC Cardboard Laser Cutter University of California MAE Department, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, mechatronics, software ID: MMC3
- Crimping device for refitting broken shovel heads Torema Products, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, manufacturing, sustainability ID: FTC1
- Deep Submersible Pan and Tilt Device Schilling Robotics, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, robotics ID: SSD7
- Design of a Grape "Roomba": A Robotic Device For Reducing Winery Water Use Deparment of Viticulture and Enology, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, robotics, software ID: BBD1
- Design of a Water Table University of California Davis, MAE Department, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: fluids, instrumentation, software, robotics ID: LMD2
- Design of Additively Manufactured (AM) Embedded Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring Lawrence Livermore National Laboaratory, Livermore, CA, USA Relevant Skills: instrumentation ID: LLD5
- Design of an Autonomous Lawn Mower University of California MAE Department, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, robotics, software ID: MMA8
- Floating Toilets: To Boldy "Go" Where Noone has Been Able to Go Before Wetlands Work!, Phnom Phen, Cambodia Relevant Skills: product design, sanitation, fluid mechanics, appropriate technology, manufacturing ID: CWH0
- GUI or APP for Data Fitting of Constitutive Models Lawrence Livermore National Laboaratory, Livermore, CA, USA Relevant Skills: software, modeling, data, materials, python, matlab ID: LLG6
- Human-powered Zoetrope for Simulating Sensation of Hemiplegic Walking Third Space Art Collective, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, biomechanics ID: NTH7
- Improving Dry Bean Field Breeding Paul Gepts' Lab, UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design ID: PUI8
- Instrumentation to Measure Equine Tail Pull Force Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, software ID: MDL2
- Instrumented Bicycle For Crash Reconstruction InSciTech, Mountain View, CA, USA Relevant Skills: instrumentation, measurement, software, dynamics ID: JII6
- Laparoscopic Field Hydraulic Surgery Table Department of Veterinary Medicine and Epidemiology, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, hydraulics ID: DDL5
- Large Animal Venipuncture Training Models Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: materials, fluids, anatomy ID: MDL9
- Line Launcher Dillon Engineering, Rancho Cordova, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, dynamics ID: MBD3
- Low Cost DIY Powered Wheelchair WHIM Unlimited, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, robotics, ergonomics ID: HWO8
- Mobile Microscope Stand for Wheelchair Bound Students UCD Microscope Services, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, vibrations/dynamics, ergonomics ID: DUM0
- Modeling and evaluation of alternative energy scenarios for a Zero Net Energy UC Davis campus UC Davis Facilities Management Energy Conservation Office, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: heat transfer, modeling ID: MUM9
- Net Zero Building Modeling Western Cooling Efficiency Center, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: heat transfer, modeling, software ID: WWN8
- Northern California Solar Regatta SMUD's Energy and Technology Center, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, nautical engineering, solar energy ID: SSS5
- Optimal Mountain Bike Rim Design Felt Bicycles, Irvine, CA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, strength of materials, finite element analysis, composites ID: CFO6
- Pond Algae Removal UCD Arboretum, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, microcontroller, fluids, boats, environmental ID: FUP6
- Portable Pasture Fencing Pie Ranch, Pescadero, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design ID: LPM7
- Power Measurment Device Davis Energy Group, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: instrumentation, measurement, software, electronics ID: SDE0
- Pressure Sensor Design Development Lawrence Livermore National Laboaratory, Livermore, CA, USA Relevant Skills: instrumentation ID: LLP3
- Pyrotechnic Actuator Installation Robot Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, robotics, software ID: GSP6
- Recycler's Transporation Cart D-Lab, Cali, Columbia Relevant Skills: mechanical design, appropirate technology ID: EDR4
- Renewably Powered Ergonomic Fruit Picker and Transporter Cloverleaf Farm, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, argriculture, vehicle design ID: TCR8
- Repurposing discarded 5 gallon vegetable oil jugs into nursery pots Torema Products, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, manufacturing, sustainability ID: FTR2
- Robotic Scarecrow UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, robotics, software ID: LUR1
- Save the Bees through Engineering Dept. Entomology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, instrumentation ID: MDA2
- Second Endoscopic Arm (forceps) for Second Point Independent Maneuvering during Endoscopic Dissection UCD Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, mechanisms, kinematics, dynamics ID: SUE5
- Self-tending Chicken Coop Postworks, Alameda, CA, USA Relevant Skills: structural, sensing, automation ID: APS1
- Solar Compost Sterilizer Postworks, Alameda, CA, USA Relevant Skills: controls, HVAC, solar, heat transfer, biology ID: APS3
- SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Challenge Hyperloop Pod Team at UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design ID: VMU7
- Sporting Equipment Inertia Measurement Device ICUEMOTION, San Francisco, CA, USA Relevant Skills: dynamics, machine design, software, instrumentation ID: GIS8
- Theft Proof Water Irrigation Solar Panels KickStart International, Nairobi, Kenya Relevant Skills: mechanical design ID: SKT2
- Urban Greehouse Office Shed Postworks, Alameda, CA, USA Relevant Skills: structural design, solar heating, ventilation ID: APU6
- Wheelchair Adapation for Physical Education Participation Da Vinci Charter Academy, Jr. High, Davis, CA, USA Relevant Skills: mechanical design, dynamics ID: MDW7