2018-2019

Design Build Fly is an annual international competition hosted by AIAA and Cessna/Raytheon. The goal is to design and build a plane that abides by the year's rules while also performing the best at the competition. The competition will take place in Tucson, Arizona in mid-April. This year the theme of the competition is to build a carrier based aircraft. Some specific requirements are that the wing of the aircraft must be able to fold and unfold remotely, carry a radome, and carry a minimum of 4 stores and be able to drop them remotely. 

The Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) has identified two aging pump stations (PS), Westside (WS) and Seal Beach (SB),  within the Los Alamitos and Seal Beach area. With the increasing sewage flow and odor complaints, the frequency for maintenance of the Westside PS has also increased. In collaboration with Conveyance Bros Inc, OCSD will be replacing the two PS with a new station that is to be built adjacent to the existing Seal Beach PS.

Project Description: 

The FAB 4 and RK Engineering will collaborate to study trip generation rates, queuing and vacuum/parking area counts at various express car washes locations in Orange County. With the gathered data, The FAB 4 will design and prepare a conceptual site plan for new express car wash in Santa Ana. Factors in consideration included project size, zoning, queuing/parking demand. Finally a Traffic Impact Study (TIS) will be prepared to evaluate the impacts of the project.  

Structural Vision in conjunction with Michael Baker International and the University of California, Irvine present the preliminary design of the East Peltason Pedestrian Bridge. Using steel trusses and lightweight concrete decking supported by concrete decking, the 88-foot pedestrian bridge will connect the existing UC Irvine campus to a new hypothetical development across the Math and Science Technology Building (MSTB) in addition to a new parking structure next to MSTB.

Pure Vision is working along with engineers at HDR, to design a lift station in the city of Hesperia in order to divert flow to the regional wastewater treatment plant. This project will benefit the residents of Hesperia. The lift station will be located in the middle of a residential area and will be surrounded by tall walls with an odor control system favorable to the residents in the community. This system will receive 1 MGD of wastewater from the new local neighborhood that will be diverted to the regional wastewater facility.

Pure Vision is working along with engineers at HDR, to design a lift station in the city of Hesperia in order to divert flow to the regional wastewater treatment plant. This project will benefit the residents of Hesperia. The lift station will be located in the middle of a residential area and will be surrounded by tall walls with an odor control system favorable to the residents in the community. This system will receive 1 MGD of wastewater from the new local neighborhood that will be diverted to the regional wastewater facility.

The Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) has identified two aging pump stations (PS), Westside (WS) and Seal Beach (SB),  within the Los Alamitos and Seal Beach area. With the increasing sewage flow and odor complaints, the frequency for maintenance of the Westside PS has also increased. In collaboration with Conveyance Bros Inc, OCSD will be replacing the two PS with a new station that is to be built adjacent to the existing Seal Beach PS.

The Modesto Area 2 Stormwater to Sanitary Sewer Cross Connection Removal Project is will remove three sanitary sewer to storm drain cross connections, which are illegal connections of storm drain inlets to the sanitary sewer system installed to relieve flooding. The project will infiltrate stormwater and recharge groundwater and reduce the surcharging of sewer lines, reduce the number of Sanitary Sewer Overflows, improve water quality for Dry Creek, and the Lower Tuolumne River.

Brandow & Johnston, a structural engineering firm, has tasked our group with designing a five-story mid-rise office building. Our goal for this project is to design the most cost-effective building while also maintaining the architects’ original vision for this space. Our first task was to determine the loading that the building will endure. Next, we developed a floor plan that abided by the constraints of the architectural plans. Finally, we created a RAM model to visualize our design.

A three story custom home is designed per architectural plans. The floor plan includes a basement level (below grade), a main level (grade), and an upper level. The gravity and lateral systems are designed to carry dead and live loads, as well as withstand wind and seismic activity. The retaining walls of the basement were design for lateral/pressure forces and surcharge forces.

The purpose of the project is to develop and implement the synchronization timing along Von Karman Avenue / Tustin Ranch Road with our main client as the City of Irvine and our consultant as Iteris, Inc. The corridor spans from Walnut Ave down to Intersect and includes 10 actuated intersections. Before and after studies will be conducted during the PM peak to compare the travel times. After modeling the network on Synchro 10, the team experimented with different cycle lengths and offsets to produce multiple alternatives.

Project Description

Our team will be collaborating with:

           James Bucknam, PJHM Architects

           Brett Kaufman, VCA Structural

           Professor MJ, UCI Faculty Mentor

The purpose of the project is to design a building structure that incorporates an optimum environment for energy generation. Our design incorporates the solar updraft concept, which uses air movements to rotate turbines and generate energy. By optimizing the surface area of the structure, the sun is then used to heat the air causing it to move upward at an increasing velocity, therefore turning the turbines and generating energy. The structure will act as a multifunction facility, consisting of wind turbines for energy generation and occupiable space  (i.e.

The Californian economy is heavily dependent upon
agriculture, which provides about $82 billion per year,
as well as 760,000 total jobs. Much of this industry is
dependent on the humble honeybee. Currently,
farmers must maintain hundreds of hives, making
maintenance an incredibly difficult task. BeeAware
aims to help farmers by offering an automated health
monitoring system. An autonomous vehicle will fly
from hive to hive using computer vision, taking
measurements of the sound emanating from each hive,

The Californian economy is heavily dependent upon
agriculture, which provides about $82 billion per year,
as well as 760,000 total jobs. Much of this industry is
dependent on the humble honeybee. Currently,
farmers must maintain hundreds of hives, making
maintenance an incredibly difficult task. BeeAware
aims to help farmers by offering an automated health
monitoring system. An autonomous vehicle will fly
from hive to hive using computer vision, taking
measurements of the sound emanating from each hive,

We are Team Just Say Yes.

Members:

Alberto Barbosa, Stanley Chen, Harry Duong, Phillip Lai

Our device reads a character through a camera. By convolutional neural networks it predicts a character with some confidence level then once that confidence reaches a threshold the device outputs the character onto a Braille display.

<p>We are team Just Say Yes.</p>

<p>This image to Braille converter takes in an input character from a video stream via camera. Through a convolutional neural network it predicts the character with a confidence level. It then sends that character onto the Braille display if the confidence level is high enough.</p>

Team members: Alberto Barbosa, Stanley Chen, Harry Duong, Phillip Lai

Project Description: AlphaTech Engineering is working with LIN Consulting, Inc. to improve accessibility to Mustang Fields in Yorba Linda, CA. AlphaTech Engineering will conceptualize and design a left turn access and pedestrian crossing route to Mustang Fields for northbound traveling traffic. The feasibility of traffic signals and other alternatives will  be ranked, and the best alternative will be chosen. The project will consist of environmental documentation, alternative analysis, traffic modeling, roadway design, and preperation of plan sheets.

Our project is used to measure the radiation pattern of millimeter wave. It consists of a structure that supports an antenna, and another one that supports a motor and a rotating aluminum arm where a receiving open-ended waveguide is mounted. A Raspberry pi is used to communicate to a motor and at the same time control a network analyzer to take measurements while the analyzer scan an open-ended waveguide over a semicircle above the antenna at a specific distance.

To meet the demands of wastewater treatment for a semi-arid city, the construction of a new water reuse plant is needed.  As the population of the city increase, the water usage per capita increases. For this project, it is estimated that the water reuse plant will need to process 20 million gallons of wastewater per day coming from industrial, commercial, recreational, and domestic sources. The treated effluent leaving must be in accordance to the California Code of Regulations, Title 22, to be used as recycled water.

The goal of this infrastructure project is to store “hydroelectric energy” during periods of abundant renewable energy production by pumping from the Colorado River to Lake Mead. During periods of high energy demands, power will be generated from this water storage.  The pumping cycle would require the construction of new facilities including a Colorado River Intake, Pump Station, Conveyance System (either pipeline or tunnel), and a Reservoir Outlet Structure. Capital costs are estimated to be in the range of $5B to $10B.

The scope of this project is to develop a vacant lot into a residential community with the first time home buyer in mind. The site plan is located off the intersection of Lake Forest and Ridge Forest Dr. in between a residential community and shopping center. The site is a vacant 6 acre lot with a pad size of 3 acres with no no existing infrastructure except for a single storm drain. Stantec will utilize the space for first time home buyers.

The National Steel Bridge competition is a collegiate competition held annually by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). The Steel Bridge team at the University of California, Irvine is among the 18 universities that compete in Pacific Southwest regional conference. The top three teams will proceed to the national competition, which will take place at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale this year.

Project Description:

The FAB 4 and RK Engineering will collaborate to study trip generation rates, queuing and vacuum/parking area counts at various express car washes locations in Orange County. With the gathered data, The FAB 4 will design and prepare a conceptual site plan for a new express car wash in Santa Ana. Factors in consideration included project size, zoning, queuing/parking demand. Finally, a Traffic Impact Study (TIS) will be prepared to evaluate the impacts of the project.  

Since the boom of the smart device era, worldwide demand for smartphones and laptops has increased significantly, from less than a billion in 2010 to over 2.5 billion in 2018. Along with the soar of smart device usage comes the demand for semiconductors and microchips, an essential component for smartphones, computers, and laptops. Every day, microchip manufacturers test about ten thousand chips to select only the functional ones to install into the smart device. Better methods for testing chips are needed.

This is an MAE188 Project

 Concrete Canoe is a student-led interdisciplinary project, in which students design, construct, and race a canoe made out of a special lightweight concrete. UC  Irvine’s Team displays, presents, and races in the canoe against 19 other schools at the annual Pacific Southwest conference. The team’s performance is judged on factors such as the design paper, presentation, final aesthetics product, mix design, and race time.

The purpose of the project is to design a storm drain system for a community in the Planning Area One (PA1) site in Irvine, California. The system will be designed to withstand a 25-year storm event and will discharge into existing drainage networks around the PA1 site area. The team is tasked with conducting a hydrologic study of the area to determine the existing conditions of the site. Through these studies and the current hydrologic conditions, the peak flow and volume runoff will be determined in order to alleviate runoff from future development.

Project Description:
With 12.7 million people affected worldwide, corneal blindness ranks third in the causes of blindness. Although surgical treatment such as corneal transplantation exists, the lack of matching quality donor tissue for replacement limits its impact on public health worldwide.

Project Description:
Bacterial infections and contamination is a serious problem worldwide. Methods to detect bacteria are currently expensive time exhaustive due to the fact that the current methods require culturing samples for 24 hours and costly PCR approaches needed to detect bacterial populations.