Team

Sponsor

Dr. Ping Liu, a professor of Nanoengineering and Director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UCSD is the sponsor for this capstone project. He is currently Lead of the Liu Research group at UCSD and is conducting research regarding to lithium batteries and solid electrolytes.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Professor Liu for his tireless support and guidance on this project. He was patient and eager to meet the team every step along the way.

Thank you to John Jaeun Holoubek, an UCSD PhD student, for his help on conductivity sensor and lab access. He also met the team and answered the team questions of the project's requirements.

Thank you to Professor Jerry Tustaniwskyj of UCSD, instructor of MAE 156A and 156B, for his help and advice on the project including material selection for the black box, single-board selection, suggestion on the function of info input code. The team also wishes to thank his TA, Gaoweiang (Darren) Dong, for giving suggestions on the team website.

Thank you to Professor Jason Hein of the University of British Columbia (Vancouver campus), email, for his time and expertise in advising the research and design development processes. Also, thank you to his student research team, particularly Parisa Shiri and Veronica Lai.

Thank you to Gregory Specht, Development Engineer-Supervisor at UCSD, for his advice on temperature sensor and RGB sensor selections.

Thank you to Christopher J. Cassidy, Development Engineer at UCSD, for his help on the black box fabrication.

Thank you to Ian Richardson, Development Engineer 2 at UCSD, for his advice on the website.

Thank you to Edward (Ed) Pogue, Associated Development Engineer-Supervisor at UCSD, for his suggestion on the pump.

Thank you Jason Luk’ s Tech (Jason Lu) for his help in part of the Python code used in the system.

Thank you to McKinley Souder for his expertise in Python and moral support.