CEE

AQUASOL is a project that studies the use of solar energy and other clean energy sources to purify seawater and produce freshwater. This project aims to restore more drinkable and clean freshwater in the future of the Earth. The solar energy supply system and reverse osmosis membrane system will form the main components of the system, and the reverse osmosis purification of seawater will be achieved through pressure difference.

The objective of the FUSION Engineering Project is to design and create a functional autonomous vacuum cleaner. Each team must adhere to certain design specifications set by the Project Directors and will compete with each other at FUSIONCon in May 2023. Each team’s goal is to create a cost-effective robot while maintaining functionality.

The World Health Organization published that more than 884 million people did not have access to safe drinking water in 2017. Unsanitary water can cause different diseases like cholera, dysentery, and polio. The goal of this project is to design and build an affordable, portable, and sustainable water filtration system that can provide clean drinking water for one day for a family of four in developing countries. This team will design a system that uses electric power to operate a pump or similar device to move water from the source to the designed filtration system.

UCI CubeSat is a student design team working on the design and construction of UCI's very first CubeSat satellite. Our mission is to deliver two research payloads to low earth orbit.

Background:

Pipe racks are non-conventional structures that are typically utilized in refineries, chemical, power, and petrochemical plants. The proposed pipe rack for Fluor Corporation was designed to support power cables, pipes, cable trays, an air cooler exchanger, and a platform for air cooler maintenance. According to ASCE 7-16, pipe racks are non-building structures that are similar to buildings. As a result, typical design requirements found in building codes may not apply to this structure.

The purpose of this project is to design a partially buried rectangular cast-in-place reinforced concrete reservoir that takes up to 1.3 million gallons. This reservoir is aimed to supply water to a residential area in Villa Park. The stored water will also aim to be used during a fire emergency or any other natural disasters such as wildfires or earthquakes. Additionally, the reservoir is needed to supply water to the residential areas during times of low flow, when natural flows are inadequate to meet the water demand. 

The National Student Steel Bridge Competition is an inter-collegiate competition held annually by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). The Steel Bridge at UCI team at the University of California, Irvine is among the 17 universities that compete in the Pacific Southwest regional conference located this year at Fullerton, CA. The top three teams this year will proceed to the national competition which will be held at Virginia Tech, Virgina.

1. Project Statement: 

The Multi-Disciplinary Group 3 was tasked with working with Fuscoe Engineering to create a conceptual plan on an existing golf course in North Santa Ana. This involves going through multiple public agencies to acquire proper documentation and understand the channels that must be navigated to ensure a timely project schedule.  

The project involves a student inspired structure. The group of students will collaborate with KPFF on what type of structure they would like to design based on what structural system(s) they would like to learn more about. Project factors chosen by the students include location, appearance, structural use, and its complexity. KPFF will guide the group on how to design the structure and produce structural drawings for the entire project.

The project is approximately 30,000 square feet, 2-story Cafeteria and Conference Center/study space. The site of the building is on UCI campus where it will be built over the Steinhaus Hall. The building will be seismically retrofitted to this location. It will be used by the students as another place to eat and study on the weekdays and on the weekends the upper floor will be used as a conference center for other organizations on campus as well as potential corporations. The floors and roof will consist of concrete filled metal deck slabs spanning the entire floor.

After decades of excessive underground water pumping and unregulated farm watering, the aquifer system in portions of California’s San Joaquin Valley has depleted to upwards of 28 feet in several locations, which have resulted in soil compaction and the degradation of ecosystem diversity. The Montezuma Site Restoration Team will develop a 100 year master plan to replenish 1,000-acre property located in the Sacramento Valley’s Montezuma Hills Site and prepare the property for a self-sustaining closed looped farming complex.

The city of Rosemead is in need of a bridge replacement that will carry Eureka Avenue traffic over State Route 10 (SR-10). When completed, the replacement will span 307’, accommodate for two lanes of traffic in each direction, and provide a 16.5' clearance below the bridge. The team will first termine the bridge type selection and finalize the project with its construction documents.

A²S² is working with Michael Baker International to assist the UCI Department of Environmental Planning and Sustainability in converting a portion of Mjölnir Solutions’ design of a daylit stream in Aldrich Park into a water feature that will act as a water treatment system and a campus amenity. The water feature will improve the surface water quality by treating stormwater runoff and will be able to handle existing and future flood flows. To maintain an aesthetic water depth, the water feature will recirculate recycled water in an absence of a storm.

The main project involves creating an active transportation corridor spanning 10 miles throughout LA County; this corridor will replace a current railroad right-of-way that is underutilized by the county. The corridor is multi-purpose and will serve pedestrians and cyclists alike. The corridor has many uses: it will be used as a link to many Metro & municipal bus lines along the corridor; it will connect the Blue Line, Silver Bus, and future Crenshaw/LAX Line; lastly, it will also provide connections to the Los Angeles River & the Los Angeles River Bike Path.

A 1.58-acre site located on the southeast corner of the intersection of Olympus St. and Piraeus St. in city of Encinitas is will be designed as a park which meets the demands of the community. To begin the park designing there will be a detailed site plan that must contain a dog park, a playground, a basketball court and a restroom.

This project involves installing an Ultraviolet Water Disinfection System in place of the Chlorine Water Disinfection system for the pseudo treatment facility that was adopted from the Michelson Water Reclamation Treatment Facility of Irvine Ranch Water District. The project encompasses a design plan involving the layout, site plan, hydraulic profile, and process flow of the system. Conceptual tests and calculations determine the efficiency and rationality of switching from chlorine to ultraviolet disinfection systems.

J&Co. is tasked to evaluate the trip generation and traffic impact analysis at adjacent intersections for a proposed brewery project in the City of Aliso Viejo. This will be done by surveying pre-existing brewery sites to estimate the trip generation and traffic impact of this project. Another task that the team must complete is developing a design of a modern-roundabout for one of the adjacent intersections.

The current state of the art in treatment of drinking water impacted by emerging contaminants uses technologies such as Reverse Osmosis (RO), Ion Exchange (IX), Granular Activated Carbon (GAC), or media adsorption. Some of these systems are complex in terms of equipment needs and associated operator training and also are quite energy intensive. As such, single use adsorption type of systems are often considered for these type of applicaitons.

A semi-arid city is looking into the feasibility of a water reuse facility that will approximately handle 20MGD. The facility must include a preliminary, primary and secondary treatment. Each treatment system must abide by their respective EPA requirements and regulations. To add to that, since activated sludge will be used as part of the treatment process, the facility must implement a solids-handling facility to treat the sludge used in primary and secondary treatment.

This project involves designing the optimum roadway network and roadway geometric, drainage and pavement design for the forecasted traffic loading and pattern. A site plan previously developed in the fall quarter of Senior Design is used with the goal of designing an optimum street design within the neighborhoods/developments already in place. The project involves creating multiple alternatives for roadway network design and pavement design in order select the optimal design. During the design process, the City of Irvine and AASHTO standards and regulations are to be followed.

Groundwater aquifers are a major resource for drinking water and are more cost effective when compared to imported water. A recent contaminant that has become detected in groundwater aquifers are perfluorooctanesulfonic acids (PFOS), which are known to accumulate and persist in the environment and cause adverse effects on human health when ingested. The scope of this project is to fully design, equip, and operate a groundwater well in the City of Montebello and design a treatment facility PFOS before distributing any pumped water into the water distribution system.

Improvements to the 1-5/Ortega Highway interchange are necessary to alleviate existing and future traffic congestion and delays within the interchange. The reconstruction of the highway interchange will be based on existing highway design manual. To increase the level of service at the interchange. The team will propose 3 or more alternatives with geometric design, cost estimate, land use,environmental constraints and future congestion expectations to the community.

Students will provide engineering, geometric and transportation design services to complete this roadway project that will greatly improve pedestrian safety, bicycle connectivity, and overall vehicular and multimodal operations in the City of Newport Beach. Bayside Drive is a secondary arterial that provides connections for numerous users. The corridor from East Coast Highway to Jamboree Road/Marina Avenue will be the limits of the project that will require pavement rehabilitation.

To address conditions in effectuating the 2017 California state-wide Trash Amendment, which requires all municipalities to reduce water pollution by mitigating trash from entering waterways, the team of students has partnered with Fuscoe Engineering to research and implement artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

The Rancho Mission Viejo Pavilion project is a 1.6 acre site for a joint use facility between the community and the adjacent K-8 school. The team will be tasked with grading the hardscape and softscape surrounding the building and an adjacent parking lot using the California Building Code Chapter 11B accessibility requirements. In addition, they will design the drainage system and complete a Hydrology study. Lastly, they will design the horizontal and vertical layout for other site utilities including Sewer, Domestic Water, and Fire Water.

The Hesperia Lift Station and Pipeline Project, authorized by Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority, is expected to construct a new lift station in a residential neighborhood in Hesperia, California. The goal of this project is to design a station that efficiently directs existing sewer to a highly elevated wastewater plant. A gravity and non-gravity pipeline must be specifically designed in order to properly direct flow. In order to accommodate wastewater flows, two design phases need to be taken into consideration, Phase 1 and Phase 2.

A two-story higher education building with a partial basement. Structural members consisting of steel girders, beams, columns, and connections will be used. Concrete over metal deck will be used for 2nd floor, with slab on grade typical at ground level. The roof framing system will be investigated on an economic and constructability basis. Lateral force resisting system will consist of masonry shear walls. The foundation system utilized dependent on geotechnical and site conditions. 2D and 3D structural analysis will be performed utilizing relevant structural software.

Powater Corporation (MD2) is collaborating with Black & Veatch to design infrastructure and facilities capable of storing hydroelectric energy for the Hoover Dam. These facilities include a Colorado River Intake, Pump Station, Conveyance System, and a Reservoir Outlet Structure. During periods of abundant renewable energy production, the facilities pump water from the Colorado River back to Lake Mead and during periods of high energy demand, power is generated from the stored water in Lake Mead. This power production system is cyclical.

       The goal of the project is to design and manufacture a hand-portable platform that applies hyperspectral 3D photogrammetry for a biomedical purpose. The project integrates the platform with both software and hardware. Specifically, this platform utilizes NVIDIA Jetson TX2 and Raspberry Pi3 as a central controller, connect and control 3 Raspberry Pi0s through hot spot ethernet. Each Raspberry Pi0 connects and controls one LED light ring and one Noir V2 Infrared Camera.