MAE

The Long Range Drone is project 12 of the Fall 2023 MAE 151A/B Mechanical Engineering design projects. In this project, the team is expected to design a fixed-wing aircraft-like drone that is capable of maximizing flight distance and/or flight duration given a limited battery capacity with the current technology. In addition to designing a drone, the team is expected to develop a launcher that is capable of providing an initial boost to help the drone reach an optimal initial height using an elastic band releasing system. Once launched, the drone will transition to a gliding phase, minimizing the usage of battery while sustaining leveled flight.

Mission Statement: Team 11B, Solar Airplane, seeks to create an RC solar airplane powered entirely from solar panels and battery power mounted on the aircraft for the purpose of demonstrating the efficacy of solar panels on extending flight duration.

In an effort to increase accessibility in the classroom, we were tasked with redesigning the tablet arm desktops in UCI’s lecture halls. These desks, currently small and non-adjustable, lack consideration for left-handed individuals and students of various sizes. Our redesign features an armrest with three levels, allowing 3.5” of height adjustment and 4” of  depth adjustment. This flexibility, along with a fold-out desktop that provides 50% more surface area than the current design, should improve the classroom experience  for students of all proportions and handedness, allowing them to focus completely on learning.

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The F-1 DragMaestros project group is working in conjunction with the Anteater Formula Racing Team to design, test, and integrate a drag reduction system on the rear wing of the vehicle to improve race times and overall performance. Through a detailed design process and project management, the team will determine the best method for changing the position of the rear wing airfoils to reduce the drag coefficient while balancing the lift coefficient. Actuation of the drag reduction system (DRS) will be controlled by the driver. This two-quarter project will develop a working 3-D printed scaled prototype by the end of the Winter Quarter of 2024 and plans to integrate a full-size manufactured system by the end of the Spring Quarter of 2024. 

A ureteroscope is a thin, flexible tube inserted into the ureter to access and remove kidney stones. At the moment, the surgical procedure for ureteroscopy is one that is laborious and does not remove enough kidney stones leading to repeat procedures for patients. We are remaking a ureteroscope with a larger diameter of 4.667mm with the goal of maximizing the aspiration channel, the channel where the kidney stones are suctioned out from, to achieve more stone removal. Our next goals will be to also have a non-clogging device, minimize all possible components to maximize aspiration channel even further and redesign the tip to allow the laser to access all stones more easily. 

The FUSION Engineering Project is a student-run engineering project that is managed by the club organization FUSION (Filipino Undergraduate Scientists-Engineers In an Organized Network). The year long project for the '23-24 school year is a Mobile Gesture-Controlled Robotic Arm. This mobile robot will have an attached arm that has the capability of grabbing, storing, and placing objects, as well as allowing for lateral movement. Both the robot’s movement and function of the arm are to be controlled wirelessly through hand gestures.There are 5 separate teams that are working to engineer their own individual robot that will be judged at a yearly conference hosted by FUSION (FUSIONCon). 

UAV Forge constitutes a multidisciplinary engineering design team with a specific focus on the comprehensive development cycle of autonomous aerial vehicles, encompassing design, manufacturing, programming, and rigorous testing. The paramount objective of this design endeavor is to adhere to the stipulated constraints, thereby enabling active participation in the SUAS 2024-2025 competition season.

Spanning several years, UCI Cargo Plane is a well-renowned project at the University of California, Irvine. This project provides a great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to learn the fundamentals of aircraft design, as it brings together the foundations of aerospace engineering and combines it with hands-on manufacturing experience. In our specific case, members of the UCI Cargo Plane team will learn how to design a plane that carries metal weights.

Many engineering students go through college without getting proper hands-on experience in the field. Therefore, we aim to give undergraduates the knowledge and experience to design, manufacture, and test their own bicycles. The club is applying knowledge from the classroom such as materials, mechanical stress, and CAD to a real-world industry application. Students who are currently participating often find direct correlations to the classroom when talking about manufacturing techniques.

UAV Forge constitutes a multidisciplinary engineering design team with a specific focus on the comprehensive development cycle of autonomous aerial vehicles, encompassing design, manufacturing, programming, and rigorous testing. The paramount objective of this design endeavor is to adhere to the stipulated constraints, thereby enabling active participation in the SUAS 2023-2024 competition season.

ASME hosts an endurance race that runs for 2.5 hours with many obstacles such as tight turns, uneven terrain, and inclines. HPVC at UCI will design and manufacture a recumbent, tadpole bike with a sufficient rollover protection system to keep the driver safe in case of an accident during the endurance race. The bike consists of 5 major systems: braking system, drive system, steering system, rollover protection system, and electrical system. The team has been split into three subteams: statics which consists of the bike frame, rollover protection system and seat; dynamics which consists of steering, braking, and driving; electrical which consists of the battery, electrical box and electric motor. Overall, the team aims to produce a bike that is ergonomic, safe, and easy to handle. 

While we are a senior design project, we also make sure to recruit underclassmen so they have hands-on experience and are prepared to succeed in their engineering careers. 

The CubeSat team at UCI is a student-led undergraduate interdisciplinary research and design project with the goal of launching a 2U nanosatellite, AntSat 01, into orbit to test a UCI research payload. The satellite operates with six main engineering subsystems: Avionics, Communications, Structures, Power, Developer Operations, and Systems. They all work to house STMS's (Spacecraft Thermal Management Systems) research payload within the 2U nanosatellite.

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Project Description: 

UAV Forge is a multidisciplinary engineering design team focusing on designing, manufacturing, programming, and testing autonomous aerial vehicles. The design aims to fulfill the constraints that allow the team to participate in the AUVSI SUAS 2023 competition season.

Background: 

The Beach Cleaning Robot Project is an undergraduate student lead project that aims to design and manufacture a trash-collecting robot to support coastal cleanup efforts. The goal for this team is to produce a remote-controlled, scalable prototype that can collect trash the size of plastic water bottles and snack bags/containers. 

Goal and Objectives:

• Finalize a list of requirements and constraints for our design 

• Create a concept that meets all requirements and attributes

Background:

An automated volleyball passing machine that will simulate the pass a libero might give, collect the setter's set into a net, then send through the passing machine again. The ideal passing component would be able to add backspin to the ball as one might see with a real pass. The person using the machine will then set the ball into a hoop with a rectangular net behind it to account for error. The volleyballs will be collected into a central location under the net and returned to the passing machine.

Welcome to our website, where we present our latest project aimed at designing, building, and testing a highly efficient solar cooker that uses only energy from the sun. Our objective is to create a cooker that works on sunny days, regardless of the angle of the sun, and that is inexpensive, compact, and lightweight. We believe that cooking with solar energy can be a sustainable and affordable solution in areas where fuel sources are limited, and that's why we focused on using easy-to-find materials and designing a cooker that is easy to assemble and disassemble. Our ultimate goal is to create a prototype that can cook something within a reasonable amount of time, making it a practical solution for people in need. We invite you to learn more about our project and follow our progress as we work towards creating a better future through sustainable cooking solutions.

Tired of walking across campus or waiting for the Starships to deliver your food? This all terrain vehicle is designed to deliver food across Aldrich Park to hungry UCI Anteaters! Since Starships are not meant to go offroad, they must travel around Aldrich Park to get to their destination. The Zot Bot team plans to achieve fast and reliable food deliveries with its vehicle's ability to drive through Aldrich Park and traverse any hills, holes, and other obstacles that it may face. Through research, design, and testing, the team looks to manufacture a Zot Bot not only rugged enough to withstand the Aldrich Park terrain, but also stable enough to preserve your food.

Description:

A fixture will be designed to withstand the ammonia atmosphere of a nitriding process in an oven of 1000℉ and must be able to support the weight of four shafts. The fixture must hold three splined shafts and one quill shaft in the oven such that minimal stress occurs in the shaft during the thermal cycle to 1000℉ that can result in permanent deflection. This will require modeling of stresses in the fixture at temperature with the strength reduction associated with >1000℉ appropriate margin.  

Technical Details:

Background:

The pirpose of this project is to design a fully functioning solar cooker with a portable, efficient, easy-to-use option for food preparation under non-ideal conditions. In addition, we hope to understand companies' design, engineering, and manufacturing processes to sell products from this project. Finally, the knowledge obtained from this project will provide insight into how industries organize projects for engineers to complete under specific guidelines. 

Goals And Objectives:

Background

“The SUAS competition is designed to foster interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), stimulate interest in UAS technologies and careers, and to engage students in a challenging mission. The competition requires students to design, integrate, report on, and demonstrate a UAS capable of autonomous flight and navigation, remote sensing via onboard payload sensors, and execution of a specific set of tasks. The competition has been held annually since 2002.

Summary

Background

Archytas Automation aims to create educational robot kits that could be utilized in a classroom setting for teaching as well as competition; additionally, Archytas is hoping to expand their robot arms into other commercial settings to ease the labor of various tasks. Their gripper end effector is tasked with the ability to grip and move a large range of objects with varying shapes, sizes, and payloads.  Current issues with the gripper include the housing of the motor and its wiring, its limiting functionality, and difficulty to assemble. 

Our team will design, build, and test a robot arm.

A key function of our Robot Arm design is the implementation of a proxy arm to control and program the arms motion. The goal is to create an intuitive user interface that can quickly repurpose the arm for the task at hand.

Our inspiration for this proxy arm is from a youtube video demonstrating the control and programming of a robot arm. In this video a button is pressed to begin recording the proxy arms motion. It can be controlled in real time or the motion recorded for playback. Unfortunately the video has since been made private.

Background

Our Small Scale Wind Turbine project aims to provide a sustainable and cost-effective solution for individuals, organizations, and communities looking to generate their own electricity. In this project, we focus on designing and building a compact, lightweight, and durable small-scale wind turbine that can generate a minimum of 10 watts of electricity in low wind speed conditions,  while being able to withstand wind speeds up to 18 m/s. The wind turbine must fit into a 50cm x 50cm x 50cm box without its mounting assembly and have a total cost of less than $300. The goal is to create a wind turbine that is both efficient and accessible, providing a reliable source of energy for those in need. Through careful design and rigorous testing, our Small Scale Wind Turbine program aims to create a high-quality and cost-effective solution for renewable energy  generation.

Background 

"Robot for Executing Physics-Inspired Path Planner" is a capstone design project. The project team will design and build a self-contained and self-sufficient robot capable of tracking a preplanned collision-free path in a 2D environment containing circular obstacles with a maximum error of 10% at any point.

Unique Background of Project Team Members