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SCOPE Summit 2017

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Welcome Message 4 ___________________________________________________________________

Modul'air 5 Aerodyne ___________________________________________________________________

Robotic Pick and Place 6 Amazon Robotics ___________________________________________________________________

Creating a Novel Biopsy Device 7 Auris ___________________________________________________________________

Robust Distributed Wireless Data Network for Blue Origin 8 Blue Origin ___________________________________________________________________

Endoscopic Mucosal Resection Device 9 Boston Scientific ___________________________________________________________________

SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids 10 Dassault Systemes SolidWorks ___________________________________________________________________

Autonomous Tool Changer 11 Draper Laboratories ___________________________________________________________________

Investigating the Future of Blockchain Technologies 12 Fidelity Labs, Inc. ___________________________________________________________________

Expanding Toby's T1D Tale: Using Design to Engage Youth in T1D Education 13

Insulet ___________________________________________________________________

The Joy of Food in the Golden Years 14 Mitsubishi Electric ___________________________________________________________________

Additive Magnetic Material and Process Technology for RF Applications 15 Raytheon ___________________________________________________________________

Wearable Technology in Industrial Environments 16 Rockwell Automation ___________________________________________________________________

Improving Transportation Safety Through Data-driven Technologies 17 Santos Family Foundation ___________________________________________________________________

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Welcome from the Director of SCOPE

Olin College of Engineering, established in 1997, has pioneered an engineering program designed to educate and inspire extraordinary engineering innovators who can solve the world's complex future challenges. To do this, we start with the right raw materials: talented students who crave big challenges and who want to change the world. We add enterprising, inspiring faculty dedicated to undergraduate teaching and shaking up engineering education and place it all on a campus engineered for creative interaction. Next, we create a curriculum and culture in which students learn engineering by tackling actual engineering problems. At Olin, students dive right in from day one to a program that's demanding, multi-disciplinary, rigorous, collaborative, and fun. The Senior Capstone Program in Engineering (SCOPE) is a unique industry-college collaboration and a culminating experience of an Olin student's education. Over the course of a full academic year, seniors work in multi-disciplinary teams to provide innovative solutions to a company's real-world problems. Notably, sponsors retain full rights to all intellectual property developed by the team. We invite you to visit our campus and interact with our students to learn more about this year’s SCOPE projects, which represent a large array of topics. The thirteen projects range from improving roadway safety through making intersection data accessible to various stakeholders, to improving spacecraft reuse by developing wireless instrumentation communication protocols, to developing a low-cost, portable air quality monitoring instrument. We hope you enjoy this year’s SCOPE Summit!

Alisha Sarang-Sieminski

SCOPE Leadership Team:

Alisha Sarang-Sieminski Director of SCOPE

Associate Professor of Bioengineering

Ruth Levine Director of Business Development

Jessica McCarthy SCOPE Program Manager

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Aerodyne

Modul’air

Aerodyne designs and manufactures top-of-the-line scientific

instrumentation to measure the physical and chemical properties of air

pollution. In an effort to aid the gathering of higher spatial resolution

data in expanded environments, Aerodyne has created ARISense: a

low-cost integrated air quality (AQ) sensor system for use in distributed

AQ monitoring networks. The Aerodyne SCOPE team focused on

expanding the applications of ARISense, creating Modul'air, a more

modular, miniaturized system that diversifies use-cases beyond fixed-

site stationary networks. The Aerodyne SCOPE team used Autodesk

applications to design their prototypes to ensure reliable mechanical

systems that will improve the versatility and reliability of ARISense

applications. The team has completed fabrication, calibration, and

testing such that the new prototype can be distributed to researchers

around the world.

Faculty Advisor: Scott Hersey

Team Members: Riley Chapman

Yun-Hsin Chen

Juanita Desouza

Kyle Flores

Pratool Gadtaula

This project was generously supported by Autodesk.

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Amazon Robotics

Robotic Pick and Place

Amazon Robotics is a subsidiary company of Amazon that specializes

in manufacturing lead technology for future fulfillment centers.

Currently, when Amazon orders are placed, minimizing delivery time to

customers is critical. Due to rapid growth, Amazon is planning to

expand by creating new fulfillment centers all across the US. To support

an exponential expansion rate, Amazon seeks to find more efficient

ways to deliver products to customers. Amazon Robotics is looking to

increase the throughput of fulfillment centers by augmenting their

existing capabilities with robotic assistive systems. To help perform the

“pick and place” of ordered items into shippable containers, our SCOPE

team has designed, built, and demonstrated an advanced pick and

place robotic system that can move objects from storage to shipment to

end-customer more efficiently.

Faculty Advisor: Dave Barrett

Team Members: Michael Bocamazo

Mafalda Borges

Harris Davidson

Anders Johnson

Abigail Rodrigues

Mindy Tieu

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Auris Surgical Robotics

Creating a Novel Biopsy Device

The Auris SCOPE team developed a novel endoscopic lateral biopsy

instrument to acquire potentially malignant tissue. The goal of this

instrument is to increase the success rate of biopsies--which are used

to diagnose cancer--and therefore to improve patient outcomes. Many

lesions occur in locations that are difficult, or even impossible, to reach

with conventional biopsy tools, which often leads to use of other

methods that pose a greater risk to the patient. The instrument

developed by the Auris SCOPE team is a small endoluminal side-firing

device. The instrument should increase the yield rate of biopsies,

which will allow for safer and more reliable cancer detection. The team

developed an instrument that is compatible with the Auris robotic

system--used to conduct safe and accurate procedures--and has

shown preliminary success in rigorous on-site testing at Auris.

Faculty Advisor: Alisha Sarang-Sieminski

Team Members: Devynn Diggins

Margaret Lidrbauch

Duncan Michael

Joshua Sapers

Kevin Suzuki

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Blue Origin

Robust Distributed Wireless Data Network for Blue Origin

Blue Origin LLC is developing technologies to enable human access to

space at dramatically lower cost and increased reliability. The present

focus is on reusable launch vehicles that utilize rocket-powered Vertical

Take-off and Vertical Landing technology. Blue Origin collects data dur-

ing flight using a Data Acquisition System (DAS) to guide the develop-

ment of reusable systems. Like most avionics components, it is critical

to minimize the size, weight and power of the DAS. However, it is also

paramount that sensors can easily be removed, changed or added as

necessary. In order to minimize size and weight while improving recon-

figurability, the Blue Origin Avionics team wanted the SCOPE team to

investigate the feasibility of developing wireless sensor nodes for use in

the DAS. This year, the SCOPE team researched wireless protocols,

made recommendations to Blue Origin, and physically implemented

and tested the most promising system.

Faculty Advisor: Brad Minch

Team Members: Dimitar Dimitrov

Zoher Ghadyali

Lindsey Vanderlyn

Christopher Wallace

Radmer van der Heyde

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Boston Scientific

Endoscopic Mucosal Resection Device

Boston Scientific’s (BSC’s) mission is to transform lives through

innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients around

the world. BSC continues to develop endoscopic devices used by

physicians worldwide to treat patients with a variety of conditions. For

example, endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) is a minimally invasive

treatment option used to remove potentially cancerous tissues from the

upper gastrointestinal tract. BSC’s Captivator™ EMR Device is

designed for ligation-assisted EMR. In this procedure, a protruding

lesion is pulled into the device using suction, a band is deployed at the

base of the lesion, and the lesion is cauterized. The goal of the Boston

Scientific SCOPE project was to explore alternate designs for mounting

an EMR cap to an endoscope. This year, the team gained a thorough

understanding of the EMR procedure and the current Captivator™

design, went through an open-ended ideation process to envision new

designs, and prototyped and iterated on those designs to finally make

recommendations to BSC.

Faculty Advisor: Christopher Lee

Team Members: Gregory Coleman

Eleanor Funkhouser

Nagy Hakim

Toni Saylor

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Dassault Systemes SolidWorks

SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids

Historically, the tools of engineering and design, such as computer-aided

design, or CAD, have only been accessible to professionals. Dassault’s

SOLIDWORKS team is creating a suite of apps, Apps for kids, to appeal

to a younger demographic. Last year, the Olin SCOPE team helped

develop one of the first apps in this suite, Capture It. Now,

SOLIDWORKS also offers Shape It, Style It, Mech It, Show It, and Print

It. These apps allow young users to acquire, create, design, manipulate,

and print an array of 2D and 3D images and objects. The current suite of

apps are very accessible to kids. This year, Dassault challenged the

SCOPE team with developing a new app in the suite, Spark It. Spark It

aims to engage children in learning about the fundamentals of electricity

with electrical circuits. This is a particularly challenging task as

movement of electrons is invisible to the naked eye. This year’s SCOPE

team worked on the user experience design and development of an

application that will spark an interest in electrical engineering topics from

an early age. This application will provide young innovators with the

appropriate tools to accelerate their learning and creativity.

Faculty Advisor: Ben Hill

Team Members: Casey Alvarado

Alison Berkowitz

Ian Hill

Filippos Lymperopoulos

Shrinidhi Thirumalai

Jay Woo

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Draper Laboratories

Autonomous Tool Changer

Draper is a not-for-profit engineering research and development

company that creates innovative solutions for customers in government

and commercial sectors. As part of their current research in

autonomous mobile manipulation, Draper is developing a system to

enable a robotic arm to work with human tools in human environments.

Through Olin’s SCOPE program, Olin students worked for Draper on

developing an autonomous tool changer for the robotic arm; they

developed the code, built the apparatus, and tested the tool changer on

a robot arm to perform simple mechanical tasks.

Faculty Advisor: Drew Bennett

Team Members: Lindsey Andrade

Claire Beery

Halley Pollock-Muskin

Raagini Rameshwar

Bill Warner

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Fidelity Labs, Inc.

Investigating the Future of Blockchain Technologies

Fidelity Labs is the research and development arm of Fidelity

Investments, focused on exploring emerging technologies, new

methodologies and businesses that could help Fidelity better serve its

customers. These include blockchain technologies and digital ledgers

where the data is stored on computers across the world. The Fidelity

Labs SCOPE team is focused on making decentralized blockchain data

more accessible .

Faculty Advisor: Oliver Steele

Team Members: Nitya Dhanushkodi

Dakota Nelson

Siddharth Singal

Griffin Tschurwald

Sarah Walters

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Insulet

Expanding Toby's T1D Tale: Using Design to Engage Youth in T1D Education

Insulet is the maker of Omnipod, a wearable insulin delivery system for

people who insist life comes first. The company’s recently released

iPad app, Toby’s T1D Tale, is designed to educate newly diagnosed

children with type 1 diabetes as well as their friends, family members,

and caregivers about diabetes and diabetes management. The goal of

the 2016-2017 Insulet SCOPE project was to employ a user-oriented

design methodology to improve the user experience of the application

through new features and gamification.

Faculty Advisor: Amon Millner

Team Members: Bonnie Ishiguro

Megan McCauley

Charles Mouton

Haley Pelletier

Meghan Tighe

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Mitsubishi Electric

The Joy of Food in the Golden Years

The Center for Future Innovation of Mitsubishi Electric is responsible

for envisioning the technology of the future to drive its development.

This group uses a human-centered design process, similar to the

approach widely used at Olin. Mitsubishi Electric asked their SCOPE

team to participate in designing the future by exploring the

intersections of older adults, the joy of food, and technology, from a

human-centered design perspective in an American context. Through

extensive user interviews the team developed a deep understanding of

the relationship between older adults and the joy of food. Relying

heavily on the analysis of these findings, the team explored several

concepts, and ultimately developed a concept prototype that

Mitsubishi Electric will move forward with.

Faculty Advisor: Lynn Andrea Stein

Team Members: John Greene

Susan Grimshaw

Jennifer Wei

Jiaying Wei

Hannah Wilk

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Raytheon

Additive Magnetic Material and Process Technology for RF Applications

Raytheon uses integrated circuit technologies in RF applications, many

of which require extremely small footprints. A large portion of an

integrated circuits' performance is achieved through the use of passive

elements which can also be quite large. The use of ferromagnetic inks

is a promising area of opportunity for decreasing the area occupied by

these elements. The 2016-17 Raytheon team identified magnetic

materials and additive manufacturing processes that Raytheon could

integrate into existing microwave board circuitry.

Faculty Advisor: Rebecca Christianson

Team Members: Tatiana Anthony

Emily Engel

Madeleine Fort

Sophia Li

Jennifer Vaccaro

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Rockwell Automation

Wearable Technology in Industrial Environments

As today's skilled manufacturing workforce approaches retirement age,

Rockwell Automation’s customers face the uncertain prospect of

recruiting and working with next-generation employees. For the 2016-

2017 academic year, the Rockwell Automation SCOPE team explored

how new technologies can be incorporated in the factory of the

future to help tomorrow's operators and maintainers be safer, smarter,

and more efficient on the job.

Faculty Advisor: Alexandra Coso Strong

Team Members: Dennis Chen

Logan Davis

Subhash Gubba

ByumHo Jang

Huanzhen Zhu

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Santos Family Foundation

Improving Transportation Safety Through Data-driven Technologies

The Santos Family Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to

improving transportation safety. In the third year of the SCOPE

partnership, the team sought to create open-source tools that process

videos showing road intersections and generate traffic safety reports.

These reports detail interactions between vehicles, pedestrians, and

cyclists, which traffic engineers and advocacy groups can use to have

direct impact on infrastructure changes in their communities. The group

also developed novel solutions for capturing footage, as well as moving

data-processing into the cloud for higher efficiency, scalability, and

usability. These open-source tools were presented to interested groups

and used in real-world scenarios. These developments further the

mission of the Santos Family Foundation, beginning the process of

making intersections safer for all road users.

Faculty Advisor: Allen Downey

Team Members: Deniz Celik

Ryan Louie

Jacob Riedel

Philip Seger

Sawyer Vaughan

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Thank you!

Olin College thanks our 2016-17 SCOPE sponsors. Their support

of the SCOPE program represents a significant contribution to the

advancement of the College's mission and the development of a

successful and challenging program for our students.

Aerodyne/Autodesk

Amazon Robotics

Auris Surgical Robotics

Blue Origin

Boston Scientific

Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks

Draper Laboratories

Fidelity Labs, Inc.

Insulet

Mitsubishi Electric

Raytheon

Rockwell Automation

Santos Family Foundation

A special thank you to Aramark for sponsoring today’s campus-wide lunch.

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SCOPE Summit 2017

Schedule of Events

9:30 am – 10:00 am Continental Breakfast and Registration Milas Hall Lobby and Gallery

10:00 am – 10:15 am Welcome from Olin Leadership Norden Auditorium, Milas Hall

10:15 am – 11:15 am Rocket Talks by SCOPE Teams 1 - 7 Teams will present in alphabetical order Norden Auditorium, Milas Hall

11:15 am – 11:30 am Break

11:30 am – 12:20 pm Rocket Talks by SCOPE Teams 8 - 13 Teams will present in alphabetical order Norden Auditorium, Milas Hall

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Campus Center

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Poster Session Tent in the Oval Rain location: Academic Center, 1st floor

2:30pm – 3:30 pm Reception Tent in the Oval Rain location: Campus Center, 1st floor