Projects by Topic
A casual classification to help students with finding previous projects of interest
Safety
ClearVis
Andrew Boskovich, Nick D’Apuzzo, Nametso Matenge, Ryan McLoughlin, Thuso Supang, Maddy Trevisan
rida
Adrien Beaufils, Miles Dougherty, Bonnie Jiang, Aniketh Visai
DOGGO
Ying Cai, Feiqi Gu, Zenon Lewyckyj, Yuheng Xie
Night Time Safety
Laura Murphy, David Santos Llave, Marina Engstrom
InnerPower
Rajesh Anand, Xinyue Cheng, Benjamin Eu, Zhiyi Ma
Hugsy (Seatbelts)
Ashwin Ramesh, Jolene Ng, Jong man Park and Shubham Fialoke
EscapeSafe! (Fire Safety)
Tom Betrus, Joseph Duggan, Dylan Kane, Robert Squiers
Clip-Lock (bike lock)
Joseph Chou, Harrison Clark, Ian Nieh, Tyler Partridge
SAFETY RACK (Bike Safety)
Charlie Arentzen, Ra´ıssa Barros de Carvalho, Aria Collopy,
Jayden Stewart
NovaLock (bike lock)
Carissa Le, Carli Oster, Andrew Schulte, Murat Sumer
Sweet Seat (safe seating)
Shih-Hsuan Chou, Chan Woo Kim, Matt Konieczny, Matt Nielsen, Naoaki Saeki, WeiqinXie
X - Tension (Urban Indian household Safety)
Shih-Hsuan Chou, Chan Woo Kim, Matt Konieczny, Matt Nielsen, Naoaki Saeki, WeiqinXie
Slide and Drive-Seatbelt Assist
Andy Olson, Dan Smodic, Anthony Mansoor, and Monica Lichty
Laundra-Lock
Andry Supian, Kyle McDonald, Piyush Soni, and Zach Patterson
"Awarator" Water Temperature Indicator for Kitchen Faucets
Cristina Bozintan, Bart Frischknecht, Yung Keong (James) Teo and Tosin Yusuf
Design of a Helmet
Chia-Yuan Chang, Chih-Hsiang Ho and San-Yi Chang
Safe Portable Baby Crib
Greg Braziunas, Rob Demsick and Grant Weber
Universal Design
UNTAPPED WAVES (Auditory)
Jordan Case, Elvhin Encarnacion, Anna Hardig
SomatoCup (Visual Impairment)
MuHua Cheng, Shan He, Lu Huang, Jacklyn Kinsler
CastRocket
Gabe Aptekar, Amy Liu, Neil Syal, Eamon Whalen
Galeni (Essential Tremor)
Jessy Cheng, Evan Cole, Michael Deininger, Elise Machiele, Sean Stalhandske
MICHI Mouse (computer mouse for people with hand disability)
Baomin Hong, Ran Lin, Philip Morgan, and Saumil Wagle
Up, Up and Away: A New Walker Design
Rohan Agarwal, Shira Bennett, Nancy Lai, and Andy Raina
Sole Mate Electronic Mobility: Aid for the Elderly Population with Degenerated Visual Acuity
Lihang Nong, Matthew Robertson, Raghavendra Chivukula,
and Mondi Tabaku
The IshVar Controller (hand control for automatic transmissions)
Dayo Adebayo, Ali Khanzadi, and Alexander Thompson
BumbleBee, the Cell Phone Designed for Senior Citizens
Gregory Bastin, Tasos Charalambides, Kathleen Ku, and Paul Winter
The T-Bins:Tri-Bin Trash Trolley (trash disposal for physically challenged)
Sue Dean, Aki Motoyama, Kevin Ng and Marie Wolbert
Lift Assist: standing up made easy for the elderly
Subin George, Haydon Hung, Amit Kaushik and Rohit Khattar
eSTEP: eSpecially Tailored Elevated PLatform
Ross Gladwin, Jen Krohn and Nicole Sajewski
Handle System to Aid the Ingress/Egress of Elderly Passengers from Sport Utility Vehicles
Darcy Borlas, Eric Stahmer, Evan Fulford and Jesse Moore
Recycling/Solid Waste Reduction
Worm World
Catherine Budd , Joseph Henrichs , Alyssa Spickermann , Devin Wenger, Hannah Wyderko
The Nova Elite
Kakale Poloko, Kefilwe Kentshitswe, Jennifer Rhau, Bryan Nzerem, Subhojit Kundu
ROMU
Vineet Gosrani, Avia Matossian, Erica Pinto, Vicky Wang
Robin
Naja Edwards, Israel Gutierrez, Megan Lacerenza, Gerardo Longoria, Matthew Pirone
ShareBe (Plastic Waste in Ann Arbor)
Annika Norden, Juan Neme, Victoria Girard, Yushu Zhang
Sort(it) (Recycling)
Aaron Christensen, Xiao Bin Pan, Sukrut Prabhu, Jianli Zheng
CompostABLE
Chris Chiaravalli, Eva Koester, Xinhui Hu, & Sarah Rogers
WasteMeNot (Food Waste)
Yitong Chen, Christian Stevenson, Varghese Vadakumcherry
TRASHBASH (Paper Towels)
A. Balasubramaniam, H.J. Yam, J.H Chuah, N. Patel
The “I Am Not Plastic” Bag: Your World in a Bag
Patty Liao, Prasanth Madathil, Maddy Pick, and Bo Zhu
Paper Snaps (Zinc Toxicity: Replace paper clips, pins)
Yashar Ganjeh, Kenneth Arnold, and Ma Yuan
Space Efficient Trash and Recycling Solution
Neil Bochenek, Bryan Bolger, Bill Guglielmo, and Allison Schafer
Water Conservation
Sherpa
Shruti Soni, Patrick Brautigan, Abhishek Ramanathan, Han Lee
ezDroplet- Water Utilization Awareness
Maya Combs-Hurtado, Tim Fairley, Nirmal Patel, Shannon Power
Zoi Shower Water Meter
Noureen Dharani, Matthew Herbers, Prashant Iyer, Cody O’Sullivan
g r a y & g r e e n (recycle water)
C. Gandolfo, T. Islam, A. Santiago, J. Zhu
Bluevalve (Shower Valve)
Clover Aguayo, Dave Dale, Vimal Mathew, Vineet Raichur
Nirmal (wash clothes, low resource setting)
Ilias Anagnostopoulos-Politis, Carrie Funk, Siddharth Kale, Anu Martikainen, Giannis Papazoglou
Let it Rain, Rain Barrels
Tim Fries, Karen Hall, Kelly Johnson, Evan Sippel, and Deokkyun Yoon
Rain Train
Joe DiDia, Laura Emig, Kris Schilling, and Michael Wellman
Gardening/Farming
Common Grounds(nutrient measurement and mixing)
James Buquet, Peter Crist, Andrew Farron, Nicolas Hung, Alexander Ludlow
The Home Gardener (Tight Spaces)
Caitlin Barta, Steven Dean, Eric Gu, Balakrishnan Subramanian
Water Irrigation Pump
Prachi Jain, Woojin Lee, Sara Mulvaney, Sujata Syamal,
and Chen-yin Yeh
Housing/Shelter
Rubbuild Haiti (post disaster)
Sergio Escudero, Vaishu Ilankamban, Katherine Liu, Misha Muqaddam
Portable Pop-up Living Module
Aaron Black, Sheila Ramamurthy, Ariel Sundel and Robert Walsh
Vehicles
ADD
Kunal Haria, Nishant Kumar, Maggie Steele, Jingyi Yang
Spill No Mo
Jacob Fratzke, Lauren Kettle, Kevin Waterman, Kevin Wylie
Slide & Tilt(truck Loading)
Troy Grantham, Justin Hart, Qin Li, Vince Viggato, Mark Wottreng
The Ice-Breaker (car surface ice removal)
Chee Wee Lee, Yaqi Huang, Ivan Manuel Gunawan, Yung-Hao Kung, Qiongyu Lou, Ziwei Xie
Motor City Mopeds: Chimera
David Ameche, Jon Dekam, Dietrich Kurzenhauser, Andrew Meyer
"Safe Spot" Vehicle Detection System
Rory Dow, Yiqun Liang, Yufan Liao, Nanda Gopalan Venkata Ramanan
HotSpot (Parking)
Yu-Ting Chiu, Ben Park, Ankit Srivastava, Siqi Wei
Trunk Organizer
Peter Curran, Don Tappan, Joe Mazur, and Mike Cluskey
Dynamically-Self-Inflating Tire System
Michael Alexander, Anthony Brieschke, Jonathan Quijano, and Lau Yip
Re-design of Manual Seat Adjustment for Low-end Vehicles
Bhumika Lathia and Freda Yawson
Driver's Dream Cup Holder
Nick Magnuski, Sophia Reyes, Steve Strine, and Marcy Urbance
Parking Elevator
Takeshi Mizukami and Kotaro Higashihara
Engine Hoist
Lara Sherefkin and Alice Jakobsen
Energy
powerWalk (portable energy source)
Evan Anderson, Julie Jackson, Drew Schneir, Jay Yadav
Energy in Motion | Clutch Phone Case
Nick Hunsanger, David Kanarek, Sam Kapor, Teresa Tombelli, Brian Zhang
Easy Breezy: Cheap Wind Power
Andrew Brehm, Anna Brieland-Schoultz, Nathan Macpherson, Nolan Orfield, and Aadi Pappu
Eco-Spin (bike motion powered USB outlet)
Joseph Cha, Ryan Ollie, Kent Utama, and Paul Von Hertsenberg
Go Green Neighborhood! (Board Game for Children : early education)
Akshat Jain, Patrick Shamsuddoha, Soo W. Jo, and Soodeh Montazeri
PlayGen
Madhav Goel, Rui Mu, Karan Patel, and Po-Chi Wu
Mshoe: Harnessing the Power of You
Paul Davidson, Steven Hoffenson, Rahul Nevatia,
and Vikramjit Scoggins
M-WIND: a wind power generator
Trevor Campbell, Nolan Sandberg, Nick Schoeps and Chris Worrel
EcoASIST (interactive Vehicle Display System)
Anupam Garge, Matt Niedzwiecki, Harshit Sarin and Tahira Reid
Solar Hydrogen Production
Amanda Christiana, Thomas Horan and Katie Kerfoot
Hydrogen Storage and Distribution
Amanda Gore, Jeongwoo Han and Tom Lau
Smart Web Energy Control System (SWECS) Actuators
Aakash Patel, Sharath Kumar and Young Chul Song
Ambient Energy Monitor
Josh Ravich and Erin MacDonald
RBS: Regenerative Braking System for Bicycles
Michael Resciniti, Adi Peshkess and Peter Leonard
Physical fitness/Well-being/Recreation
The Good Life
Emma Dodoo, Manahil Hashmi, Justin Leeds, Patricia Nalule, Olesego Sejabodile, Abraham Ssesanga, Adeline Steffen
Imprve (Backpack Tech)
Abhishek Gowrishankar, Nour Arafat, Simonne Dubois
Sit-N-Be-Fit (Chair exercise)
Travis Compo, Alexander Davis, Drew Imhof, Paul Lee
HydrationMotivation (drink more water)
Melissa Greene, Niyati Gupta, Chad Wilson
biCyclops (toys encouraging exercise, reduce battery consumption)
Robb DeKleine, Carol Girata, Leyla Menchola, and Janani Sundar
The Active Mat
Aysu Berk, Rohit Bhapkar, Rahul Daswani, and Abhijit Khare
The Eco-Core Snowboard
Tom Santoro, Chris Grant, and Curtis Franklin
The Pirate's Pyramid: a multimedia classroom unit to promote healthy eating and exercise for children
Tanna Alford, Yu-Chun Lin, Nattavut Napaporn and Sarun Virojanakuth
Roller Coaster's Initial Dropoff & Trough
Lisa Chutorash, David Nay and Kirsten Thomas
Bench Press Passive Spotter Device
Darren Keese, Chad Goldstein and Brian Rhodes
Leisure
Cocktail Cube
Sean Meyer, Joseph Tenbroek, Joseph Fratzke, Samir Shah
The Perfect Pour (Cocktail Mixer)
Adam Carriere, Spencer Munz, Patrick Titas, and Jimmy Wobith
Shadow Speakers (wireless motion activated speaker system)
Onye Ahanotu, Nader Jawad, and Devin Min
A Beverage Bottle
Jermaine Bridges, Erica Schmidt and Anupa Shah
Can Opener
Robert Bartz, Alex Hsu and Bendy Lin
Healthcare
Lucero
Michael Fisher , Agizeneza Marie Merci , Joel Musoke, Jen Nwuli , Mylan Phelps
The BruchnakDecontaminator3000TM
Peter Bruchnak, Matthew Cusumano, Mitchel Huang, Tony Blair Nasasira, Tumwine Rodgers, Kai Schiefer, Joshua Tumuhairwe
Clean-X
Sandra Adong, Melissa Brei, Samantha Bremmer, Jacqueline Niyonsaba, Carson Van Skiver
Living Lamp
Emily Douglas, Makenzie O’Connor, Kurt VonEhr, Priti Singh
ResponsiPill
Zena Abulhab, Makenzie Arent, Grace Burleson, Amy Chew, Samarth Mendke
SoundMate
Xinying Han, Zhongdi Liu, Anna O’Neill, Robert Spiess
Shower Shield
Sharilyn Hufford, Matthew Holden, Gerardo Santana, Connor Boschert
MedDispense
Marco Campos, Melody Ku, Daniel Lee, Hari Sriram, Miguel Vidal
"DMD" (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy) Crawler
Namwoo Kang, Saniya, Kyle Happy, andDemetri Golematis
Medternal (early detection of pregnancy complications)
Alex Gardner, Amir Sabet Sarestani Alparslan Emrah Bayrak, and Vaibhav Jaguste
Remote Flight Doctor
Anna McGowan, Evan Torkos, and Joe Yancey
Home Slice Solutions: Lift Assist
Amanda Heath, Mike Long, Molly O'Malley and Danius Silkaitis
cycle2STEP (rehabilitation for wheelchair users by using hands and legs)
Pramod Prahbu, Thomas Reeve, Eric Schlichting and Rebecca Stoloff
Human Patient Simulator (Jaw Movement)
Panit Arkayamas and Matt Zimmer
Personal Electronics
Count-Me-In
Jeremy Chen, Christopher Cho, Michelle Chung
IROS: Smart Pager
Eli Davis, Erica Dombro, Jacob Saphier, Lauren Sklarsky
Wolverine Sports Pro Headphones
Max Korovesis, Brian Chuang, Kent Walters
GENKIJI: The world is your gym
Robert Alexander, Nancy Douyon, Devin Kerr, Ajay Patel, and Lisa Rogers
Heart Rate Monitor
Seda Demiroz and Sarah Buckius
Comfort / Convenience
DeskBuddy
Abby Chapin, Jamie Clauson, Taboka Gazangeni, Rahul Khambete, Nametso Manyepedza, Evan Sobetski
Light-O
Sam Aidala, Zoe Espinosa, Joseph Komperda, Bongwefela Modise, Setso Ntsoma, Fikayo Olutomiwa
When Seating is Fleeting
Ryan Dekryger, Kaden Kar, Tim Kellner, James Nykamp
Magic Mocha
Aditya Auradker, Derrick Ndyamuhaki, Miranda Howe, Regan Bullister, Zachary Wein
the pod
Jade Beauregard, Zachary Boehm, Gabriel Cabrera-Petrone, Girish Sivakanthan
Space-X(XL)
Justin Hallead, Ki Yun Lee, Christina Puder, Noah Rick
Quick Change Bike Handlebars
Taylor Pfershy, Jesse Velleu, Emily Borst, Ilka Rodriguez
LightUp (lighting)
Deniz Camus, Geor Ge Chang, Mingjie Chen, Meng Qu
M Clear SS01: Redesign of Snow Shovel
Daniel Chen, Yanxin Pan, Anusha Sinha, Hengjing Wang
SmartVent (individual room temp control)
Victor Braciszewski, Jimmy Butler,Fan-Ning (Cindy) Cheng, Greg Caputo, Mary Molepske
Drizzle Pill (rain poncho)
Sierra George, Haley Hendricks, Mark Severance, Rachel Li, Matt Chiu, Yen-Chun Lin
Thermogenix (portable hot water)
Chen-Fang Hsieh, Chin-Jui (Morgan) Chen, Daniel Lehrman, Lena Schneewind, Nelson Jenkins
Evolve (extension corded wall outlet)
Dan Dueweke, Cole Witte, Karthik Shivaram, Sabarish Raghupathy
HF 3000 Heel-Actuated Bass Drum Pedal
David Carr, Chris Chan, Travis Dehne, and Yundi Lin
SWAG: Shoulder Wearable Athletic Gear
Kevin Leach, Lee Legis, Daniel Gold, Naren Mital, and Robert Hepworth
Toasty Toes: Next Generation Ski Boot Warmer
Pulkit Agrawal, Gyu Jin Ahn, Luree Brown, and Alex Burnap (Comfeet)
Bicura: Designing An Ergonomic Computer Mouse
Katie Bevier, Hohit Mehendale, Cy Abdelnour, and Curtis Sawdon
Solar Clothes Dryer
Ankit Dhingra, Asha D'Cunha, and Mai Truong
CoolRunning: Winter Running Shoe Design
Kim Freiburger, Tejkaran Gill, Elliott Manzon, and Michael Swift
JustA Light
Arianna Rivera, Jimmy Hwang, Rushabh Gandhi, and Vedant Agarwal
Modular Outlet Extender(M.O.E.)
Scott Biales, Matt Case, Brian Kaminski, and David Schwarz
Redesign of Drinking Water Fountain
Mobeen Shaukat, Rafael Ramos, Adrien Yee, and Yi Ren
Expak: Design for modularized portable chair-backpack combination
Michael Alexander, Anthony Brieschke, Jonathan Quijano, and Lau Yip
Kangaroo Karriage: baby stroller
Shawn Erving, Michael Prichard, Paul Tyll and Melaina Vasko
The Monduke: an ergonomic, one-handed computer input device
Kyle Klanow, Marisa Liepa, Erling Norheim and Jeffrey Waegelin
The Notebook Companion: mobile computer transportation and workstation
Anitha Rajeshwari, Rajeshwar Pandravada and Prasad Venkiteswaran
Design of Craftsman Tool
Hans Henrik Buus, Lars Wulff Rude and Arni Pall Einarsson
The Traveler's Toothbrush
Adebisi Adewunmi, Deanna McGrath and Adam Ouimet
Wall Clock with an Adhesive Hanger
Ilkin Hossoy and Kristi Schmidt
Storage
Task$
Hughes Davis, Sharvin Savardekar, Mandappa Biddanda, Sanmit Shah
MUSt: Multi Utility Storage System
Varun Gudiseva, Julien Meaud, Mohan Pathalapati and Aditya Rajderkar
PromoShelf: Revolutionizing the Shopping Experience
Rahul Bagdia, James Forehand, Kyle Harris, Melissa Hennrick and Weichengto Tirtakusumo
Multimedia Storage Rack
Zhijun Li
Financial
Bankr (Finance: Savings)
Justin Lee, Xucong Zhan, Ling Zhong
Food/Food Security
Bag-a-telles!
Avant Mehta, Kruthi Raju, Kartik Saxena, Grace Shao
Potluck
Nadim Bari, Alyssa Blunt, Kaylla Cantilina, Jonah Drane
VeggieFresh
Thomas Barlow Lisa Lavergne, Chris Lezama, Vincent Qiu
Easy Carry (Grocery Shopping)
Niharika Ved, Sanjana Rajagopalan, Eun Young Chun, Sally Lin
ColdFish – Vortex Onboard Refrigeration System
Akshat Gattani, Andre Siagian, Aseem Patil, Vijeta Belandor
Aros (Spice Dispenser)
Beverly Chou, Rohan Malpani, Adam Rosekelly, Matthew Vedrin
Market Cart
Josh Bultema, Matt Bunker, and Szymon Sambor
Cookiez (kitchen tools, shopping)
Kristen Hansen, Jihye Kim, Bill Phillips, and Adithya Varadarajan
Comfort-Cook
Eric Lee, Sookyung Cho, Won Hee Kim, and Pat Connor
Suvidha Micro-Packaging Station
Nikhil Chopra, Aman Khan, and Karan Goyal
The FantastiCart: Collapsible Grocery Cart
Kyle Klanow, Marisa Liepa, Erling Norheim and Jeffrey Waegelin