Team:

Nima is graduating from University of California San Diego with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Since childhood, he’s been playing around with Lego bricks and enjoyed building and tinkering with them, which lead to his decision to study mechanical engineering. At UCSD he's been an active member of the Flow Control and Coordinated Robotics lab, lead by Dr. Tom Bewley. He's been involved in various projects and contests such the development of a Holonomic robot that utilizes SLAM data to navigate, design of a motorcycle cooling engine that uses both liquid and air cooling, various signal processing projects using MATLAB, and more.  His passion for design and development has led him to the next stage of his academic career, pursuing a Masters of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on Engineering Design at the University of Southern California. His dream is to develop products that will make people’s daily lives easier and more fun!

Jinfeng is currently pursuing a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering degree at UC San Diego. He has a passion for product development and hopes to able to transform ideas into true engineer marvels on a larger scale. Combined with his engineering skills, Jinfeng also has great artistic talent, giving him a keen eye for both engineering and design. He was a member of the winning team for the Winter 2012 MAE156A Robot Contest, aiding his team with his skills in fabricating high quality components and improving performance for their turntable robot. Jinfeng has been an asset in researching and utilizing his skills by corresponding with engineers from outside companies in order to obtain parts and materials to support designs. 

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Emmanuel is graduating from UC San Diego with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. The senior design course for the M.A.E. department, MAE 156, has been a great experience, allowing students to able to apply technical knowledge in solving various real-life problems. He was a key member of the winning team for the Winter 2012 MAE156A Robot Contest, instrumental in the design and programming of the robot turntable. For the baby tray team in MAE156B, he has been a CAD specialist, using SolidWorks to bring concepts and ideas of the team into reality. The experience gleaned from working on the baby tray has piqued his interest in pursuing a career in industrial design and product development. Other passions in his life include the sport of badminton and his Christian faith. During his time in college, he was a first-string member on UCSD's badminton club team and a core leader at his Christian fellowship, Origins. The future path remains unclear for Emmanuel, but for the time being, he will be staying in San Diego as a staff member of Origins and looking for new projects to work on.

Ebrahim now finds himself working at Nokia Inc. located in the Rancho Bernardo area of San Diego as a mechanical engineer, being a part of true product development and helping to create products that will reach millions of consumers nationwide. 

Phone: (619) 840-6519

Fax: (619) 881-8360

Karen is the project sponsor who lives a very busy life, balancing the ability to practice law, providing services as an adjunct business/law professor at the UC San Diego Extension, and most importantly, being a mother to several young children. The company, Prodigi Kids, was founded by Karen Kart in an effort to bring fun, innovative, and effective baby and infant care products to the market. It was through personal parenting experience and going through numerous ineffective feeding products which has brought her to recognize the need in the market for better baby feeding products. 

For the company's first product, Karen decided to market an innovative device which will keep baby trays and plates affixed to a restaurant table edge or surface. The need for this was evident when trying to keep their own children’s food on the table in the plate, and not all over restaurant floors.

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Further acknowledgement for the creation and success of this project include: 

Dr. Nathan Delson

Made this experience possible, brought all the people and ideas together, created this awesome team

Chris Cassidy, Tom Chalfant, and Isaiah Freerksen

Provided valuable design guidance and helped print numerous prototypes with the UCSD 3D printer

Mike Morris & Yoshio Tsuruta

Helped get prototypes printed over the weekends and always had helpful advice

Ursula Cohen (EuroStyle)

Showed what a successful industrial designer looks like and gave design feedback

Charles Curbbun & Tracy Manning (DD Studio)

Took the time to give really good design insight, confirmed hunches, and inspired us all

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