Thank you for joining the 2021 Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering and Computing Showcase. We are excited for you to experience our students' innovative Capstone Design projects presented in a virtual, interactive format by graduating seniors in Computer Science and Electrical, Industrial and Systems, Integrated and Mechanical Engineering.
Welcome Room:
Dean Chell Roberts and Mayor Todd Gloria
We are honored to announce that USD alumnus and Mayor of San Diego, Todd Gloria, will be giving the welcome remarks to kick off the event. Be sure to join the Welcome Room streamed live via YouTube at 2:30 p.m. as Dean Chell Roberts introduces our distinguished guest. Guests are encouraged to return to the landing page to navigate the team presentations immediately following the welcome.
Navigating the Event
With nearly 40 Capstone Design projects to visit, we have divided the presentations into five navigational team Zoom links based on project categories. The main rooms for each project category Zoom link will be hosted by Capstone Design instructors and staff to help guide you through the event. You will be able to navigate to private breakout rooms where you can interact with the project teams of your choice. The team rooms officially open at 2:40 p.m. following the welcome by Mayor Gloria, and runs until 4:00 p.m. PDT. All buttons below and throughout this landing page will switch from the placeholder event link to the live Zoom link on the morning of the event.
Quick Links
Select the options below to join the welcome room and team presentations by project category throughout the event:
Locating Team Presentations
Choose as many teams as you like to visit over the course of the event. Simply use the team listings below to select which team you wish to join. Next, click on the associated project category Zoom link button. Upon entering that main room, the faculty or staff member will assign you to your team of choice and you are on your way! You have the opportunity to move from one breakout room to another within a given main room. When you wish to visit a different project category Zoom link, leave the Zoom session you are in, return to this landing page, select and click on the next project category Zoom link of your choice, and you are free to interact with the teams in that new space. When in doubt, ask our hosts — we are here to make this a memorable experience for all of our participants and attendees!
Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Projects
Electrical, Integrated and Mechanical Engineering Projects
Hosted by Senior Design Faculty Venkat Shastri, PhD, Jeff Teza
Team Name: Discrete Solar
Team Members: Brendan Burke, Marley Collins, Dennis Helmer, Cade Kirschman, George Skalecki, Sabrina Smith, Javier Vasquez
Instructor: Venkat Shastri, PhD
Team Name: How About Now
Team Members: Arrion Archie, Devin Devlin, Brandon Micale, Jacqueline Puga, Adaly Solis
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Team Name: Prometheus Energy
Team Members: Bryce Fledderman, Douglas Holland, Bolang Li, Jiaye (Jarvis) Lu, Yibing Ouyang
Instructor: Venkat Shastri, PhD
Team Name: Search & Rescue
Team Members: Omar Almuaili, Benjamin Foote, Chase Minehan, Scott Spinali
Instructor: Venkat Shastri, PhD
Team Name: Second Wind
Team Members: Kendric Clagett, Trevor Denney, Kevin Gillies, Suraya Marzuki, Brady O'Neill, Alice Zorn
Instructor: Venkat Shastri, PhD
Team Members:
Brendan Burke, Marley Collins, Dennis Helmer, Cade Kirschman, George Skalecki, Sabrina Smith, Javier Vasquez
Instructor:
Venkat Shastri, PhD
Project Description:
We want to create a modular solar panel system that is able to move freely in order to fit a desired contour and maximize solar efficiency. By connecting small, individual solar cells, this system will be able to fit many forms and move dependent on the sun’s location. This panel will be designed to modularly conform to virtually every geometry. The system will be able move in response to the sun in order to reach its peak solar efficiency at all times. We have just begun the research process for this potential company.
Team Members:
Arrion Archie, Devin Devlin, Brandon Micale, Jacqueline Puga, Adaly Solis
Instructor:
Gordon Hoople, PhD
Project Description:
How Bout Now (HBN) is committed towards creating a communal digital space that values transparency and community. HBN will be the only platform to facilitate healthy connections as a means to speak out against violence and hatred.
Team Members:
Bryce Fledderman, Douglas Holland, Bolang Li, Jiaye (Jarvis) Lu, Yibing Ouyang
Instructor:
Venkat Shastri, PhD
Project Description:
A converter that can take the variable voltage of capacitors and output a consistent steam of energy, unlocking the potential of energy storage systems using capacitors.
Team Members:
Omar Almuaili, Benjamin Foote, Chase Minehan, Scott Spinali
Instructor:
Venkat Shastri, PhD
Project Description:
The idea is to create a peripheral device that aims to help in the recovery/rescue of people who have gone overboard from a boat. This device will track the vital signs of the overboard person, as well as their GPS location, and transmit that information back to the vessel they were aboard. This information could then also be transmitted to the local coastguard to aid in the search and rescue. The GPS location will help physically locate the person, while the transmission of vital signs can help reduce the risk to the rescuers who put their lives on the line to save the overboard person. This is because knowing if the person is alive or not changes the nature of the search from a rescue, to a recovery which removes the risks and pressures associated with the urgency of saving the life.
Team Members:
Kendric Clagett, Trevor Denney, Kevin Gillies, Suraya Marzuki, Brady O'Neill, Alice Zorn
Instructor:
Venkat Shastri, PhD
Project Description:
Upcycle retired wind turbine blades to replace polyethene products. Polyethene is used in place of fiberglass due to high manufacturing costs. Fiberglass, however, is far stronger, even after being pulverized to its mat state. My goal is to partner with companies like Yeti, Igloo, and pelican who manufacture in the US and require a hard, lightweight, insulative material for their products. This is great initial way to start a company recycling fiberglass due to minimal costs. As larger blades get recycled there is enough surface area to produce flat lumber material, house siding, roofing and flooring and retain the desired structural properties of the woven fiberglass. Modern blades are over 120 yards long (larger than a football field) with massive amounts of usable material. There are many other products made of fiberglass that are finding their way to landfills and other potential candidates for similar use. Etc; circuit boards and boats.
Interdisciplinary Industry-Sponsored Projects
Electrical, Integrated and Mechanical Engineering Projects
Hosted by Senior Design Faculty Gordon Hoople, PhD
Team Name: Eye C
Team Members: Donovan Duvall, Joshua Glasser, Lucia Olarra, Sonny Patel, Ryan Snyder, Daniella Walter
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Sponsor: Eye C Corp.
Team Name: Glaukos
Team Members: Alyssa Beamish, Logan Brown, Samuel Ferguson, Max Saenz, CJ Stokes, Andriana Tziouvaras
Instructor: Ming Huang, PhD
Sponsors: Glaukos
Team Name: Helicoid
Team Members: Destin Altman, Alec Dachs, Matias Galati, Arsen Iskakov, Connor McDermott, Eric Nacht
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Sponsor: Helicoid
Team Name: JPL
Team Members: Lena Belvin, Tyler Burch, Brandon Dalporto, Alex Ramirez, Ben Schierman, Lihao Zhang
Instructor: Venkat Shastri, PhD
Sponsor: JPL
Team Name: MiPlus Solar
Team Members: Gabrielle Bartolome, Chris Farrand, Adam May, Jacob Michel, Victor Reyes
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Sponsor: MiPlus Solar Inc.
Team Name: Qualcomm 1
Team Members: Haley Guastaferro, Perry Nesbet, Gabriel Pellot, Ruiwen Wang, Chadmond Wu, Jose Zamudio
Instructor: Venkat Shastri, PhD
Sponsor: Qualcomm Inc.
Team Members: Donovan Duvall, Joshua Glasser, Lucia Olarra, Sonny Patel, Ryan Snyder, Daniella Walter
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Sponsor: Eye C Corp.
Project Description:
Our proposal and objective of the project is to combine the gold-standard way of measuring IOP and cornea thickness with a handheld, affordable, and easy to use device.
Team Name: Glaukos
Team Members: Alyssa Beamish, Logan Brown, Samuel Ferguson, Max Saenz, CJ Stokes, Andriana Tziouvaras
Instructor: Ming Huang, PhD
Sponsor: Glaukos
Project Description:
In the design of various medical devices and drug delivery systems, Glaukos often tests hundreds or thousands of units using engineers and technicians. This necessary, but time consuming tasks prevent these employee from focusing on work that require human skill and knowledge, while this repetitive testing could be automated with the proper design of a test system.The purpose of this project is to develop an Injector / Inserter testing system which can accept a wide range of Glaukos products and test them in a repeatable and controlled manner.
Team Members: Destin Altman, Alec Dachs, Matias Galati, Arsen Iskakov, Connor McDermott, Eric Nacht
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Sponsor: Helicoid
Project Description:
Our group is designing a carbon fiber battery housing integrated into an EV chassis with Carvajal Motors. We are performing stress and thermal analysis on the design to present to Helicoid Industries. Helicoid will then implement their new carbon fiber technology to our design. The goal of our design is to reduce the weight by 90% compared to traditional battery housings.
Team Members: Lena Belvin, Tyler Burch, Brandon Dalporto, Alex Ramirez, Ben Schierman, Lihao Zhang
Instructor: Venkat Shastri, PhD
Sponsor: JPL
Team Members: Gabrielle Bartolome, Chris Farrand, Adam May, Jacob Michel, Victor Reyes
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Sponsor: MiPlus Solar Inc.
Project Description:
The goal of this project is to develop a custom solution for the MiPlus Integrated Solar Battery to convert DC-AC power out of the Solar Battery and control the power flow both in and out of the Solar Battery.
Team Members: Haley Guastaferro, Perry Nesbet, Gabriel Pellot, Ruiwen Wang, Chadmond Wu, Jose Zamudio
Instructor: Venkat Shastri, PhD
Sponsor: Qualcomm Inc.
Project Description:
To enable FPGA prototyping expertise by utilizing End-of-Life Qualcomm hardware designs to build a development kit. The Development Kit will be created utilizing two tracks – a “Prototyping Software Focus”, and a “Prototyping Design Focus.” The end goal of the Development Kit will be to enable the student to implement real designs on HW. Tools will be set up, RTL will be provided, and the student will be able to emulate designs using a complete Prototyping flow from beginning to end.
Competition, Community and Research Projects
Electrical, Integrated and Mechanical Engineering Projects
Hosted by Senior Design Faculty Ming Huang, PhD
Team Name: Baja SAE
Team Members: Chad Bear, Byron Cohea, Kyle Davis, Cole Fontana, Davian Konja, Mychael Meier, Coel Miller, Austin Milne, Ariel Shasha, Jacob VanMalden, Ignacio Peon Zapata
Instructor: Ming Huang, PhD
Team Name: Clear Blue Sea #1
Team Members: Joseph Becerra, Harrison Mello, Jonas Petelo, Jonathan Saiz, Matthew Walravens
Instructor: Ming Huang, PhD
Team Name: Clear Blue Sea #2
Team Members: Danna Alamer, Halle Kyler, Nicole Reyes, Andrew Roehr, Cameron Worthington-Wilmer
Instructor: Ming Huang, PhD
Team Name: Ocean Discovery Institute
Team Members: Michael Casinelli, Gabriel DePaolo, Nick Goodwin, Vanessa Hernandez Jimenez, Ivana Jeremic, Regina Palero Aleman
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Sponsor: Clarity Design, Inc.
Team Name: Uganda
Team Members: Diane Castellanos, Mireya Roberto
Instructor: Ming Huang, PhD, Frank Jacobitz, PhD
Team Name: Waste for Life
Team Members: Jill Bauer, Morgan Cooper, Maeve Leininger, Michael Mulvey, Francisca Vargas Ziramba
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Sponsor: VentureWell
Team Members: Chad Bear, Byron Cohea, Kyle Davis, Cole Fontana, Davian Konja, Mychael Meier, Coel Miller, Austin Milne, Ariel Shasha, Jacob VanMalden, Ignacio Peon Zapata
Instructor: Ming Huang, PhD
Project Description:
The 2020 Baja team's goal is to reconstruct a vehicle capable of competing in the SAE series. An all-terrain, sporting vehicle whose driver is contained within the structure of the vehicle. The vehicle should aspire to market-leading performance in terms of speed, handling, ride, and ruggedness over rough terrain and off-road conditions. The team must also generate financial support for our project while managing educational priorities. Performance will be measured by success in the static and dynamic events.
Team Members: Joseph Becerra, Harrison Mello, Jonas Petelo, Jonathan Saiz, Matthew Walravens
Instructor: Ming Huang, PhD
Project Description:
Clear Blue Sea and the team from University of San Diego intend to eliminate plastic out of oceans, rivers, harbors, and waterways with the use of FRED (Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris), a robot designed to harvest plastic pollution. Our team is specifically tasked with designing, building, and testing a water-resistant enclosure that houses and safeguards FRED's electrical components.
Team Members: Danna Alamer, Halle Kyler, Nicole Reyes, Andrew Roehr, Cameron Worthington-Wilmer
Instructor: Ming Huang, PhD
Project Description:
Clear Blue Sea faces the problem that their Floating Robot for Eliminating Debris (FRED) has a unique design that cannot be accommodated by commercial boat trailers. This project addresses that issue by tasking our team to design a trailer that can safely transport and launch their new open sourced version of the robot, FREDDIY. This trailer design will also be open sourced so the design must be reliable, easily replicable, and affordable.
Team Members: Michael Casinelli, Gabriel DePaolo, Nick Goodwin, Vanessa Hernandez Jimenez, Ivana Jeremic, Regina Palero Aleman
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Sponsor: Clarity Design, Inc.
Project Description:
The purpose of our project this year is to create an engaging week-long curriculum for middle school children in order to introduce them to the basics of coding, the Arduino program, and how to successfully build a programmable water-tight aquatic vessel.
Team Members: Diane Castellanos, Mireya Roberto
Instructor: Ming Huang, PhD, Frank Jacobitz, PhD
Project Description:
With the goal of assisting individuals who lack access to clean water in rural Ugandan communities, our team's goal is to construct a user-centered device to filter biological contaminants out of water using xylem filtration.
Team Members: Jill Bauer, Morgan Cooper, Maeve Leininger, Michael Mulvey, Francisca Vargas Ziramba
Instructor: Gordon Hoople, PhD
Sponsor: VentureWell
Project Description:
Waste for Life (WFL) is a not for profit organization founded and managed by Professor Caroline Baillie and partner Eric Feinblatt. The team have worked since 2006 to support communities to develop an income stream by manufacturing composite material products (fibre reinforced plastic) from the garbage they collect. There are currently two programs being planned with marginalized communities in Tijuana and which will each be the focus of capstone design projects.
Computer Science Projects
Hosted by Senior Design Faculty Charles Pateros, PhD and Jay Kunin, PhD
Team Name: Cubic
Team Members: Jake Heimburger, Natalie Malmgren, Miles Maloney, Andrew Plaza, Rachel Valdez
Instructor: Charles Pateros, PhD
Sponsor: Cubic
Team Name: Georgia Tech Research Institute
Team Members: Henry Berger, Brenton Kearney, Irina Nadong, Sean Rhoads
Instructor: Jay Kunin, PhD
Sponsor: Georgia Tech Research Institute
Team Name: Maker
Team Members: Christopher McIver, Stephen McNeela, Anthony Piglovski, Scott Spinali
Instructor: Charles Pateros, PhD
Team Name: Pixelated
Team Members: Bree Humphrey, Abdulqader Koshak, Noelle Tuchscherer, Omri Or
Instructor: Charles, Pateros, PhD
Team Name: Qualcomm 2
Team Members: Shaydon Bodemar, Nico Dennis, Ava Gerami, Emma Lara, Vladimir Pinchuck
Instructor: Charles Pateros, PhD
Sponsor: Qualcomm
Team Name: Seeloved1
Team Members: Rosalyn Arvizu, Andrew Bennett, Tanya Keval, Andres Rivera
Instructor: Jay Kunin, PhD
Team Name: Sunshine Box
Team Members: Caesar Garcia, Benjamin Stephen, Christine Turpen
Instructor: Jay Kunin, PhD
Team Name: The Brink SBDC
Team Members: Nadeen Abdulkarim, Caden Keese, Jordan Ross, Gretta Von Tobel
Instructor: Jay Kunin, PhD
Team Name: Top Mobile Vision
Team Members: Mohammed Aljaroudi, Khaled Aloumi, Tatiana Barbone, Faisal Binateeq
Instructor: Charles Pateros, PhD
Sponsor: Top Mobile Vision
Team Members: Jake Heimburger, Natalie Malmgren, Miles Maloney, Andrew Plaza, Rachel Valdez
Instructor: Charles Pateros, PhD
Sponsor: Cubic
Project Description:
Cubic Transportation Systems, as a leading integrator of payment and information solutions for intelligent travel, is driving the next generation of fare payment systems around the world. In an effort to provide a fully accessible system for all travelers and to ensure the best customer experience for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) patrons, we are looking to implement a comprehensive solution that aims to improve patron interaction with our systems.
In this project, we are looking to evaluate, design, and implement a concept that uses state-of-the-art Human Machine Interface (HMI) methods on our patron facing devices to increase usability and customer experience within the transportation network. Some examples of these technologies include Gesture Recognition, Augmented Reality and Virtual Avatars, and Natural Language Processing.
Team Members: Henry Berger, Brenton Kearney, Irina Nadong, Sean Rhoads
Instructor: Jay Kunin, PhD
Sponsor: Georgia Tech Research Institute
Project Description:
The purpose of this project is to develop meaningful tools and automation in support of Naval Warfare Command’s Shore and Expeditionary Integration Program Office (PMW-790) mission. Specifically, this senior project will support development efforts to provide automated deployment and configurationof the “Dev Environment as Code” in an AGILE software development environment.
Team Members: Christopher McIver, Stephen McNeela, Anthony Piglovski, Scott Spinali
Instructor: Charles Pateros, PhD
Team Members: Bree Humphrey, Abdulqader Koshak, Noelle Tuchscherer, Omri Or
Instructor: Charles, Pateros, PhD
Project Description:
Project Pixelated is making a 2D retro arcade inspired video game using the Unity Game Engine and the C# programming language.
Team Members: Shaydon Bodemar, Nico Dennis, Ava Gerami, Emma Lara, Vladimir Pinchuck
Instructor: Charles Pateros, PhD
Sponsor: Qualcomm
Project Description:
The purpose of this project is to develop a forecasting model for EDA license usage.
Team Members: Rosalyn Arvizu, Andrew Bennett, Tanya Keval, Andres Rivera
Instructor: Jay Kunin, PhD
Project Description:
Seeloved1 is a real-time video conferencing app for medical patients to visit with loved ones and advocates, with a focus on simplicity. This application strives to connect people via video conferencing who have historically run into challenges with technology, accessibility, and software compatibility.
Team Members: Caesar Garcia, Benjamin Stephen, Christine Turpen
Instructor: Jay Kunin, PhD
Project Description:
The Sunshine Box is a portable charging station that charges cell phones using solar power. It is currently set out to be used in third world countries where there is limited access to electricity. For this project we are tasked with developing a web application that helps administrators, agents, and consumers of the Sunshine Box use the box with ease and track data from the box such as monetary transactions, etc.
Team Members: Nadeen Abdulkarim, Caden Keese, Jordan Ross, Gretta Von Tobel
Instructor: Jay Kunin, PhD
Project Description:
The Brink is part of the San Diego & Imperial Small Business Development Center Network, which is funded in part by the US Small Business Administration. SBDCs are a national program that serves small businesses (for-profit enterprises with < 500 employees). The Brink SBDC is a specialty center focused on innovation, one of only a handful of its kind in the country. The Brink SBDC at USD provides training and one-to-one consulting to business clients running or starting growth-oriented, innovation-based companies, resulting in economic growth and prosperity for the region while attaining the penta-bottom line (profit, people, planet, peace, prosperity).
Team Members: Mohammed Aljaroudi, Khaled Aloumi, Tatiana Barbone, Faisal Binateeq
Instructor: Charles Pateros, PhD
Sponsor: Top Mobile Vision
Project Description:
The purpose of this project is to develop a software solution for the waste and recycling industry. Waste collection programs across the country collect millions of tons of trash and recycling from residential and commercial customers. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the collected material is contaminated—either trash materials in the recycling, or recycling in the trash. In partnership with Top Mobile Vision, this project will integrate with existing cloud-enabled video hardware systems installed on a trash and recycling truck to extract visual images of the content of each bin as it is collected.
Industrial and Systems Engineering Projects
Hosted by Faculty Bradley Chase, PhD, Odesma Dalrymple, PhD, Uche Eziyi, PhD, Marissa Forbes, PhD, Jae Kim, PhD and Lenny Perry, PhD
Team Name: FedEx JBKA - Improve the PM Process of the JBKA FedEx Facility
Team Members: Melissa Arana, Mae Al Shanafey, Mohammed Alsinan, Mshari Alnasrallah, Cameron Marshall
Instructor: Bradley Chase, PhD
Team Name: FedEx SDMA Process Layout Improvement
Team Members: Mubarak Alameri, Samaher Alblaihess, Mohammad Alhemidan, Abdulaziz Alsaqabi, Fatima Alshatti
Instructor: Bradley Chase, PhD
Team Name: Developing Water Quality Indices and an Interactive Data Visualization Platform for the Tijuana River Estuary
Team Members: Mohammad AlSumaan AlAjmi, Maryam AlKhaleefa, Abdulrahman Almudhaf, Hussah Hasan
Instructor: Marissa Forbes, PhD
Team Name: General Atomics - Manual Testing Equipment Capacity Planning
Team Members: Christopher Colandene, Anais Crespo Pena, Justin Daus, and Jeremiah Moya
Instructor: Bradley Chase, PhD
Team Name: General Atomics - Simulation
Team Members: Ayodeji Bandele, Simaran Chauhan, Kayla Constantino, Roy Emmanuel Medina
Instructor: Jae D. Kim, PhD
Team Name: Imaging Healthcare Specialist
Team Members: Nowaf Albussaili, Ahmed Almudhi, Khaled Burhamah, Gabriel Tai
Instructor: Uche Eziyi, PhD
Team Name: Jerome's Furniture
Team Members: Fawaz Al-Boaigan, Ghazi Al Sabah, Abdullah Alrayes, Fawaz Alsudais, Abdulrahman Althonayan
Instructor: Jae D. Kim, PhD
Team Name: Palomar Technologies - Inventory Shortages
Team Members: Mohammed Abuzaid, Samael Alblaihess, Jacob Karadsheh, Savannah Vogler
Instructor: Lenny Perry, PhD
Team Name: Palomar Technologies - Production Line
Team Members: Ghazi Al Sabah, Fahad Alwogayan, Adam Evertsson, Reijer den Dulk
Instructor: Lenny Perry, PhD
Team Name: The Binational Tijuana River Watershed: Water Quality Monitoring Systems Mapping Database
Team Members: Haya Abouseoud, Eric Leon Estrada, Brandon, Ryczek, Phil Weston
Instructor: Odesma Dalrymple, PhD